Who What Now posted:

Aw goddamnit I thought I counted right!

Who What Now posted:

Aw goddamnit I thought I counted right!

Who What Now posted:

Aw goddamnit I thought I counted right!

lo carb Lo Pan posted:

"I just want you to do one thing for me. Snipe. Page 500."

lo carb Lo Pan posted:

"I just want you to do one thing for me. Snipe. Page 500."

Who What Now posted:

Aw goddamnit I thought I counted right!

RobrtDwnsySyndrome posted:

RobrtDwnsySyndrome posted:

Lobok posted:

loving hilarious. This is all so much better than if it had worked properly.

ikanreed posted:

What episode is the barney getting kicked out of Moe's from?

quote:

While visiting a cave at Carl's Dad's Caverns, Homer meddles with a very fragile stalactite, with the result that the whole family ends up in a hidden cavern below the main tour—with Homer stuck in a narrow hole, half in and half out of the cavern. To pass the time while Marge and Bart try to find a way out, Lisa begins to tell a story.

Lisa tells how, the week before, she had been out for a walk when a bighorn sheep inexplicably attacked her. She ran to the nearest shelter, Mr. Burns' house. The animal bursts in, and she and Burns wind up hiding in the attic. There, Lisa finds a photo of Burns as an employee at Moe's, and he tells her the origins of it.

Burns explains that he and Rich Texan were once involved in a scavenger hunt, the winner of which would get all the possessions of the loser. Burns was unable to find the last item on the list — a picture of himself with a smiling child. Every child was terrified of him and Milhouse called him the "boogeyman's grandfather". The Texan won, and Burns explains that he had to earn his fortune all over again by starting at the bottom; but to work his way up to the bottom, he would have to work at Moe's Tavern. While there, he found a hidden letter to be read upon Moe's death, which led to Moe's story of a hidden treasure.

Apparently, the summer before Edna Krabappel was to begin teaching, she and Moe met and fell in love, albeit without her knowing he owned a bar (she hates bar owners). Moe tossed Homer, Barney (who somehow got back inside the tavern), Lenny and Carl out of his tavern before closing it, and when they confronted him about it later he threatened to out the one of them who is gay (unidentified) if they ruined things for him and Edna. Moe then wanted to leave Springfield with her but had no money. He then discovered that Snake (before he became a jailbird, Snake used to be a polite idealistic archaeologist) had discovered a large batch of Mayan coins he was going to donate to the museum. Moe ended up stealing them, embittering Snake and leading him to take revenge against convenience store owners. He was then about to leave town with Edna, but when she went into the school to explain that she was quitting, she saw Bart, who explained to her that he had all-summer detention, and felt he was a lost cause because no one believed in him. Edna declared that the next year, when she was to teach fourth grade, she would help him to succeed, and explained this to Moe, who reacted crazily. It turns out, however, that Bart was actually just distracting Edna while he and Nelson were stealing microscopes and other classroom equipment.

Rather than spending the stolen coins, Moe used them to play his and Edna's song on his jukebox repeatedly. After reading Moe's story, Burns opened the jukebox, took the coins and gave them to the Texan to buy back his possessions, but the Texan demanded that Burns produce a picture of himself with a smiling child before he could get the power plant back (The Texan, he explained, has obsessive-compulsive disorder, thus feeling the need to complete the scavenger hunt). Burns ends his story, explaining to Lisa that he cannot get the plant back.

Just then, the sheep bursts into the attic. Burns gets hurt defending Lisa; however, it turns out that it does not want to kill them — in ITS story (which lasts but a few seconds) it explains that it found Lisa's pearl necklace and was merely trying to return it. Lisa, in gratitude to Burns for his attempted rescue, takes a photo of the two together with her smiling, allowing him to get the plant back from the Texan. This exits to the cave scene.

Just then, Homer breaks free of his trap due to bats chewing on his leg, and suddenly reveals that he had an ulterior motive for bringing the family to the caves. He tells a story, explaining that while in the woods (hiding from babysitting duty), he saw the Texan hide the gold coins in the cave, and brought the family so they could search for the gold to pay for an operation for Bart (the need for which was unknown to Bart, who is now shocked by this... but Homer says that story will have to wait to be heard). Just then, the Texan shows up, and the gold is found — just in time for Moe, Burns and Snake (who also brings his little son) to also appear, and they enter a Mexican standoff. Marge grabs the bag and threatens to drop it down a deep pit if they do not end their standoff. When she discovers the depth of their greed, she drops it — and instantly, everyone realizes how greedy they had been, and go out to volunteer as a way of atoning for their sins, while Burns promises to catch up with them after climbing down to get the gold.

Suddenly, it is revealed that the whole episode has all been a story by Bart (potentially explaining apparent continuity errors), being told to Seymour Skinner as an explanation for why he did not have time to study for a test. The principal finds this ridiculous, but then he looks out the window and sees Edna making out with Moe outside of the school, revealing that Bart was telling the truth. When Moe asks Edna why she forgives him for lying to her, she explains that, at this point, all she really wants is a man with a healthy libido. Unfortunately, it appears Moe cannot even fulfill this very simple requirement, and the Texan obsessively shoots his guns and notes "Moe can't catch a break!"

CodfishCartographer posted:

The one where he shows up behind Moe again? Based on the art style, one of the bad ones.

e: apparently it's from "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Season 17 Episode 13

RobrtDwnsySyndrome posted:

e.pilot posted:

did we do anything for page 138?

e: we did not, missed opportunity

ikanreed posted:

Oh god, I'm sorry to have poisoned this page with newsimp summary just because I wanted to find the surrounding stuff on frinkiac.

Budzilla posted:

Season 17 was released in 2005 so at the half way point of the show. Jesus Christ.

Budzilla posted:

Season 17 was released in 2005 so at the half way point of the show. Jesus Christ.

ultrafilter posted:

The halfway point of the show so far.

ikanreed posted:

And here's the thing, that sight gag is pretty good the way the meme shows it.

But the dialogue in the show is awful and hamhandedly beats you with the joke's premise.

CodfishCartographer posted:

Honestly there are still decent jokes even in newer episodes, the problem is they're so few and far between and everything else just ranged from bland to outright offensive that they get buried. And no, they're not good enough to make it worth digging for them.

Johnny Aztec posted:

You dig far enough in the poo poo, and you'll find a peanut

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super sweet best pal posted:

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1293170400906682368

super sweet best pal posted:

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1293170400906682368

CodfishCartographer posted: