It is no exaggeration to say that "The Simpsons" is an American drama, mainly because the characters in the play have distinct personalities, creative stories, and more family-oriented values.
The writers of The Simpsons have always been known for writing jokes, and sometimes even die-hard fans miss a few.
Xiaobian sorted out the hidden memes in the 5 plays in the play, how many can you understand?
Apu went to college
In the 1996 episode "Apu Doing Nothing", we learn that Apu, who had been running a supermarket, was an illegal immigrant.
He first came to Springfield with a student visa, went to college at a school, wanted to get a doctorate, but he never submitted a thesis, which became what he is now, the name of the school is "Springfield Town Higher Technical College", as a university, this name is very normal.
But if you connect the first letters of the 4 words in the name of the school, it becomes "shit", which means garbage.
Mr Burns' age
Mr. Montgomery Burns runs the nuclear power plant in Springfield, where Homer, the father of the Simpsons, works as an engineer, but Mr. Burns has a bad personality, stingy, greedy, old-fashioned, selfish, and is the embodiment of evil in the play.
But his age has not been clear, such as the nuclear power plant employee baseball team to play with other companies, he wants to recruit a few professional players into the team, so that he can win, he reported the names of several names of baseball players, such as Anson, Wagner, etc., but his assistant Mr. Smith pointed out that these people have been dead for at least 100 years.
Another piece of evidence of his old age is that every time he answers a phone, he greets him with "Ahoy," but only before the more natural words "hi, hello" become the standard way to answer the phone, because it sounds like "hoi" in Dutch.
Alexander Bell, the "father of the telephone", applied for a telephone patent in the 1970s, that is, between 1870 and 1879, and then took "ahoy" as a word when answering the phone.
Mr Burns' age may always be a mystery!
What exactly does 24601 mean?
The writers of The Simpsons have always loved the melody of the musical, and in the decades that the show has played, musical versions of "Desire Train" and "Planet of the Apes" have appeared, and even the annual Halloween special "Horror Treehouse" will sing a song.
But their favorite musical might be Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, which was highly sung on Broadway.
The protagonist, Jean Valjean, turns out to be a criminal with a prisoner number of "24601", while Maggie, the mother of the Simpsons, was once imprisoned, and the number of her prisoners is her prisoner number, while Bart and Lisa's headmaster were captured in the war and wearing masks, and "24601" became his number.
The most difficult movie meme to understand
In a 1999 episode of The Simpsons called "Tokyo 30 Minutes," the family went to Japan, and Homer didn't want to go.
On the plane, Maggie advises him not to get angry anymore, just travel, not a big deal, and reminds Homer that he loves the movie Rashomon, and Homer's answer is "I don't remember it." ”
Rashomon is a 1950 classic film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa that tells the same story from multiple angles, suggesting that the so-called "truth" may just be a subjective idea of us.
Homer doesn't remember he liked the movie, but Maggie remembers he did, and that's exactly what Rashomon means.
Why can't Mr. Smith sit down
Sometimes the jokes in The Simpsons are buried so subtlely that you can only understand them if you think about them carefully.
We all know that Mr. Smith in the play is a deep cabinet, and he does not admit it himself, but everyone in Springfield Can see that he really likes his boss, Mr. Burns.
In the 1997 episode "My Sister, My Nanny", the adults in the town all go to the party, Lisa acts as a nanny, taking care of her brother Bart and sister Maggie, Bart fools around, hits his own head, faints, and Lisa takes him to the hospital in a small unicycle. When she arrived at the hospital, Lisa saw Mr. Smith and told him that Bart might be seriously injured and could not cut in the line and see the doctor first, but Mr. Smith refused.
From beginning to end, even after Lisa left, Mr. Smith stood talking to her, and looked embarrassed, looking behind his back from time to time, while everyone around him was sitting well.
What does this mean? There may be something stuck in... his... behind.
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