“They were no longer little girls, they were Little Women.”

I never read the book but I still believe that’s how it ended

Wait, it isn't? TIL..

He truly was, My Friend Flicka

It truly was a Shawshank redemption

I grew up thinking A Streetcar Named Desire was a musical

I immediately insisted my parents rent the movie for me and was incredibly disappointed. Haven't watched it since

It’s not?

It is very much a depressing straight play (non musical) The joke for the simpsons is that it's a terrible choice to make a musical out of

"New Orleans" is a banger of a song, though.

Pissed off an entire city, that one

I believe it was the first time, but by God they've worked hard on pissing off the rest too.

I will not defame New Orleans I will not defame...

Are you saying Stella really doesn't fly around like a ghost in the regular play?

I believe that's supposed to represent her descent into madness...

Worse than Planet of the Apes?

No, that was brilliant.

Can I play the piano anymore? Of course you can. Well I couldn't before.

I hate every ape I see From chimpan-a to chimpanzee

The movie or the planet?

Yeah it’d be as daft as making a musical out of something like ‘The Colour Purple’…. Uh… oh.

It should be…’Stella! Can’t you hear me yell-a, you’re putting me through hell-a’ is s-tier musical theatre

No, it's a streetcar

As a kid, I was so frustrated that every Borders I went into seemed to not have that album in stock. I don’t recall when it finally dawned on me that it wasn’t actually a thing, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve brought it up in 30 years, because I felt like such a moron.

Borders was a cool store in my hometown in the middle of nowhere. Before we were old enough to drive we would ride our bikes there or get dropped off and hangout looking at CDs, books, or hanging in the coffee area. They had musicians play, author signings, a great magazine collection. It was a fun safe place to hang out at as teenagers The movie theater was right across the way in that mall and you would get dropped off at borders, then go see a movie, then hang out at borders until you got picked up. If you saw other groups of kids from school you would stand around and chat. Good times.

Same with Planet of the Apes

That sleeping nude in an oxygen tent gives one sexual powers.

That’s a half truth

lee carvallo

This one shocked me, I was certain Lee Carvallo was a real boring golfer from the 90s

He’s not?? Man not having grown up in the golden age era I really can’t tell sometimes what’s a reference and what isn’t

Right? A full half of the random knowledge inside my head is from this show and now I'm questioning everything I know

I think they were making fun of Lee Travino. A golfer who used to do La Victoria salsa commercials.

TIL

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Japan calling Santa “The Annual Gift Man”.

He lives on the moon.

Zzzaaap! Zzzap! Zzzzzap!

And him living on the moon

I thought embiggen was a perfectly cromulent word.

I think the dictionary people actually added it as a real word years later, same with embiggens lol

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

I thought Mel Zetz was an old-timey, real comedian that the writers put into the script as one of their obscure pop culture references like Rory Calhoun

...He's not real? Well. TIL.

I only looked that up recently. I'm 40.

Am 40 also. TIL…

I thought a garage was called a car hole.

The "garage?" Hey fellas, the "garage." Well oo la-di-da Mr. French man!

Well what do you call it?

A car hole!

Thats some nice exclamation point use. Could almost go with 2 of the bastards, but it definitely has 1.

It's where I store my cube

You finally moved it, eh?

Not car hold?

I always heard car hole

That Erin Brockovich was a prostitute with a heart of gold.

I thought several shows were musicals that actually aren’t.

I hate every ape that I seeeeeeee

IIRC, some of the creative team said that they had been in the process of actually turning it into a real musical, but after Hartman's death, they didn't have the heart to go through with it.

from chimpan-aaa to chimpanzee

From chimpan A to chimpan Z...

From chimpan-a to chimpanzee

And I thought paint your wagon was being parodied as a musical having not heard of it haha

I was shocked to learn they don’t sing ‘Guys and dolls, we’re just a crazy bunch of guys and dolls’. Can’t remember the name of the play but I was shocked

As a youth I once got to play Nathan Detroit and was disappointed about this omission.

It's funny though, nowadays every dumb movie is getting a musical.

But secretly, and never mentioned in the ads so as to trick audiences into seeing them

I honestly thought the jacuzzi suit was a real thing. And if you put a marshmallow in hot chocolate it will soak it up and you can eat it with a knife and fork

A whole generation of kids was disappointed by the marshmallow thing.

It's a real shame that neither of those things exist.

Not sure if it was made specifically for the show, but I genuinely thought Spinal Tap was a real band.

goodnight Springton, there will be no encore

You should watch the movie Spinal Tap.

And oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge…

11

I mean they do play the instruments and write their own songs. And they’ve toured! I love the story where the guys in Oasis went to see them and they opened for themselves as A Mighty Wind and Noel had to inform Liam they weren’t actually a real band. Liam said “I’m not havin’ that!” and stormed out.

Liam probably just didn't want to sit through bluegrass music for an hour to get to Rock n Roll. There is no way Liam hasn't seen This is Spinal Tap. Anyone who's in a band has seen it.

In fairness I don't think Liam knows his in a band half the time.

Damn man, never seen This is Spinal Tap? Get on that immediately.

Never seen it. I will get on to that today :) Edit: I just watched it. I was absolutely hilarious.

It’s so good, and Harry Shearer is a main cast member!

Me too.  One day, I realized I never heard any of their songs on the radio.

Oldies stations (when that meant the 70s, not the 90s 🙄) would play their stuff some times. Mostly Big Bottom.

Yeah same lol. I also didn't know KISS was a real band until I was like 20

Well, TIL. I genuinely still thought this

Like Bart my 1st concert was Spinal Tap

They straddle reality. They are known to play shows. They performed Big Bottom with 16 bass players. https://youtu.be/iN42uzNFVmQ?si=8k0MrXc7QCmZQ1f9

That you had to be gay or a big fat party animal in order to have a Hawaiian shirt.

You don't seem like a big fat party animal to me.

Well, you don't want to look stupid. Just take the muumuu

I was raised Pentecostal, and The Simpsons were one of the few secular pieces of media I could watch. No non-Christian music especially. And for, idk, ten years, I thought Michael Jackson was a large bald white man.

There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids like the boogeyman, or Michael Jackson.

I don't mean to alarm you but there may be a Boogeyman or boogymen in this sub!

If there's no such thing as a soul, why don't you sell me yours?

Any time, chummmmmm...p

Why The Simpsons, of all shows? That's surprising.

I honestly have no idea. A lot of kids at my church weren’t allowed to watch it. My parents, for whatever reason, chose to dig their heels in with R-rated films, secular music, I wasn’t allowed to date until I moved out, no public school, intense surveillance, but they loved the Simpsons I guess lol.

Guilty pleasure for them maybe? That's kinda wild but whatever, good for you!

Maybe they hoped Ned would be a good influence on you. Have you seen his punk metal band?

Michael Jackson was never on the show. Nope, never happened.

There ain't no Stark Raving Dad and there never was!

I thought he was yellow too, but I was about 3 when that episode aired! Mom showed me an LP record at a record store and explained that people were not yellow.

It’s pronounced nuclear

I've spent too many decades pronouncing this wrong. There's no fixing it.

I've been calling it Krandall. Ohhhh why didn't anybody tell me!

James Taylor was a former president

He's not as laid back as people think.

I'm gonna play for you, and you're going to float there and like it!

🎶🎵Sweet dreams and flying machines in p… flying safely through the air🎵🎶

Wait, the toilet thing isnt real?

Not exactly. It's a real effect, but it only happens in substantially larger bodies of water, like a whirlpool in the ocean, or even in a Typhoon

Australian toilets don't swirl...the water goes straight down the sides of the bowl. They are differently designed to the US toilets.

I’d have called them chazwozzers

For years I believed that the cash register in the intro read NRA4EVR

That the Lindbergh baby was never found

Wait it was?

Yes, sadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping

Oh.

I thought Lee Carvalho was a real golfer

I just learned this right now!

Bees try to have sex with birds. As is my understanding.

Until not lot ago, I thought Jay Sherman was a real person. I have never watched The Critic and I only found out of its existence by reading Mike Reiss' book.

If you’re interested in watching it, it’s on Tubi for free.

Take that, Guernica!

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You mean there's a better way?

It’s whisper quiet!

Thanks to the Lisa the Vegetarian episode, I used to believe that hot dogs were made of bird heads https://preview.redd.it/bt21ybd9qeoc1.png?width=411&format=png&auto=webp&s=2fac069d95c0c750489efabc631f3a5171474f7e

You're not as wrong as you think.

Er well technically everything but the head looks like

I thought that the majority of America ran on nuclear power, thanks to this show. I also thought nuclear power meant that you were harnessing energy from radioactive elements somehow. It was only recently that I found out nuclear power has something to do with steam on a turbine or something.

I think that racing stripe is pretty sharp

I mean, you aren’t wrong. They do harness energy from nuclear elements. By (usually, not all reactors do this but most do) using the radioactivity to heat water into steam to drive steam turbines. Pretty much all electricity is generated using steam turning a turbine, except for wind (which is wind turning a turbine), hydro (which is water turning a turbine), and solar. Even coal and gas are used to boil water in to steam to turn steam turbines. The difference is, nuclear is actually far cleaner than coal or gas.

I think all commercial-scale electricity generation uses turbines except for photovoltaic solar.

I’m pretty sure that’s right, I just don’t like to make solid declarative statements because someone will always come along and be like “achtuallyyyyyyy” 🤣

The Simpsons really set back the public acceptance of nuclear energy

Ever hear of chernobyl? Fukushima? Three mile island??

Your bravery and quick thinking have turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island.

It's so stupid that nuclear power is basically just futuristic steam engines.

That’s in season one when Smithers was still black but they’re not as fun to rewatch

I genuinely thought that the Guys and Dolls song in the episode with Mark Hamill was from the actual musical. Then I saw a production of it and I was waiting for the song throughout the entire show only to realize that it was a joke song.

Same! Mark Hamill even says “This song isn’t even in the show!” but I guess my child brain didn’t quite catch that part.

Still a little disappointed that "Luke Be a Jedi" aren't the actual words to "Luck Be a Lady".

The Coriolis effect is real, it is why we have hurricanes in the northern hemisphere and cyclones in the southern hemisphere. Wind storms do actually rotate in a different direction in the southern hemisphere. Toilets and drains however are not affected by this, they are more affected by which direction the water is poured into them. Mark Rober explained it beautifully in a recent [video](https://youtu.be/M7-h3FO-KKo?si=oV3XWESvZaQvWzJo). The explanation is around 12mins in.

I thought Earl Warren used to be a stripper.

Now who’s being naive?

Monster island is actually a peninsula

That there was no cane in Citizen Kane.

I thought salieri was a girl. Please don't judge me

One guy with a high-school education could be the sole provider for a family of five.

Okay Grimey

Sure, I've been to space. Haven't you?

Don’t ask me how the economy works

My dad did it, technically. 6 kids ( two were twins). But... He became an electrician through a high school program that gave him all the training (back in the 50s). Couldn't do it today.

Marge had lots of jobs, cop, pretzel salesman, professional gambler

SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS

There was a time that wasn’t far fetched.

Scotchtoberfest!

There's no such thing as Scotchtoberfest!

You used me, Skinner!

That James Taylor was a former president. (I'm Australian)

I thought Fabergé eggs were edible

Abe Lincoln sold poisoned milk to school children.

For years I didn't understand Conan was in on the joke, and thought he was a jerk for being meant to Bart. Obviously I now know he was a writer, but I held that hate for a long time lol.

Did you...think Bart was real?

That being over 300lbs meant you were so fat you were disabled.  Big for sure but it is not unheard of for athletes to be that weight, although having lots of muscle is different to carrying lots of fat!

Thanks to the Simpsons, I thought in the movie "What ever happened to Baby Jane", Bette Davis shoved a wheel chair bound Joan Crawford down a flight of steps.

I thought whacking day was a real thing in the US and I was VERY upset about it 😡

Homer puts on a pair of glasses he finds in a public bathroom, and with newfound super-smartness, proclaims the following: “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” Someone offscreen promptly tries to corrects him: “That’s a right triangle, you idiot!” Basically, if you have a right triangle, then there is a nifty equation involving the lengths of the triangle’s sides. Remember that c is the length of the “hypotenuse”, and a and b represent the lengths of the “legs”. With this language, we can write the Theorem in one nice sentence, a sentence that sounds vaguely similar to Homer’s proclamation: “The sum of the squares of the leg lengths of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of its hypotenuse.” Of course, as it seems Homer was trying to recite this Theorem, we now know that there are other errors in his statement besides missing the right triangle part. For one thing, the Pythagorean Theorem doesn’t deal with square roots of side lengths, it deals with their squares. For another, the Theorem doesn’t say that we can sum the squares of any two sides; we have to sum the squares of the legs to have anything fabulous happen.

So the cops knew internal affairs was setting them up?

that line is a reference to the wizard of oz when the scarecrow gets his brain! except i don't think the writers of the movie knew it was incorrect haha

I believed SO much of the fake facts from the show. I had terrible acne as a teenager in the early 90s and knew a ton about skin…but trusted the show so blindly that I actually considered “epidermis means your hair” a rare miss in terms of facts.

V8 juice isn’t one eighth gasoline

I thought A Streetcar Named Desire was really a musical for the longest time

That it is pronounced "learned", not "learned".

Fun fact I was playing a trivia game with my family before and one of the questions was what part of the body does the condition of Epidermolysis affect, and I was certain it was the scalp because of Nelson. When we found out it was skin I was like but Nelson said it was your hair and my family questioned why I was getting my factual knowledge from Nelson Muntz

your family: ha-haa!

Driving around in the rain is a better substitute for washing your car.

Ted Koppel IS a robot

I hadn't watched Spinal Tap yet so I thought it was a real band they were parodying. Reversely, I thought The Critic was a character made from The Simpsons.

That turnip juice is less superior then lemonade

Hey fatty, I got a movie for ya…”A Fridge Too Far!”

Hansen's disease is named after that horrible cream soda

I still dont know who or what Spock/Leonard Nimoy is.


I thought Lee Carvello was a real golfer

That you can always find East by staring directly at the sun (not really but can you imagine lmao)

That the “get out of my office!” guy from The Simpsons actually was Matt Groening. Like in, how he looked, knew the taking shots and firing on the camera wasn’t real.

That there's maybe $40 worth of steel in a car.

I thought George HW Bush hadn’t run for a second term.

I thought that *intricacies* was pronounced *in-TRIC-acies*, the way Homer says it in Cape Feare

Not at all a simpsons thing, but when I was a kid I heard Bugs Bunny say fatigued, and he pronounced it fat-i-gyood. Thought that was what it was for a few weeks/months.

You’re not alone. Daffy Duck is the reason nearly everyone mispronounces “despicable.”

Yeah, I believed the toilet water thing for a long time.

The water spins the other way across the equator

I know the Coriolis Effect doesn't change toilets, but Tobias saying "The fixtures, they're all draining clockwise!" is how I remember which hemisphere spins which way.

I asked a doctor if my dad was "Hypohemic" once.

That any dishwashing detergent can banish dirt to the land of wind and ghosts.

I grew up thinking Bleeding Gums Murphy and Dr. Marvin Monroe were popular