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36 Random Bits of ‘Simpsons’ Trivia to Wash Down With A Cool Glass of Turnip Juice

October 09, 2024

In a world full of lame facts, it’s easy to see why Bart gets so many F’s. He’s bored out of his mind! The ever-apathetic Ms. Krabappel didn’t help much when it came to grabbing his attention, but he’s sure to retain these gripping facts and proudly regurgitate them on a test.

Now that we think about it, he probably won’t be given a test on himself, his family and his many Sprinfieldian neighbors. But hey, learning is learning, and that’s all that matters here.

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The Simpsons Movie (Yet Again)

CRACKED.COM The Simpsons Movie Over 320 characters make cameo appearances. The film dug deep into the show's multi-decade run to not only feature as many side characters as possible, but give 98 of them speaking roles! — Source: Screen Rant

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So Maude Flanders wasn’t killed off for story purposes?!

CRACKED Pettiness killed Maude Flanders! Maggie Roswell voiced Maude from 1990-1999, but only made $1,500 to $2,000 per episode - which didn't even cover her travel. She asked for $6,000 and was killed off (by a t-shirt cannon, no less.) THE SIMPSONS — LA Times / Youtube

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George Meyer

GeoRGE Meyer HAS CREDIT AS A PRODUCER, creative CONSULTANT, WRITER, OR Story eDITOR ON A STAGGERING 350 erisodes of tHe SIMPSONS, IF you HAVE AFAVORITE simpsons Line OR MOMENT SPRING It WAS OBABLY WRITTEN By GeoRGe, MOE'S! CRACKED.COM http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/meveroo html — Source: 23 Amazing People Who Were Screwed Out of History Books

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Flanders

WEIRD WORLD In Springfield, Oregon, they put up what's known as Ned Flanders Crossing. It's a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that features a pretty big sign with Ned Flanders cheerfully saying Hi-diddly-ho Neighborinos! CRACKED.COM — Source: KGW.com

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Elizabeth Taylor was the voice of Maggie's first word Matt Groening said, We did 24 takes, but they were always too sexual. CRACKED.COM — Source: New York Daily News

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More like Maggie the genius.

More like Maggie the genius. M S CRACKED.COM Foreshadowing all the math to come in this episode. Back in 1990, The Simpsons' second episode ever, Bart the Genius, opens with Maggie stacking alphabet blocks to form EMCSQU. Without any letters or equal sign, this is the closest Maggie could get to form the fa- mous equation E = mc2. — ZME Science

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The Simpsons

Dog/Human Relationships That Need Therapy Bart Simpson & & Santa's Little Helper While it's a loving bond, whenever the two get together it's just trouble and destructive behavior. CRACKED.COM

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The Bart T-Shirt Ban

GRACKED DOWN WITH HOMEWORK BART SIMPSON T-SHIRTS WERE BANNED IN SCHOOLS. In April 1990, U.S. schools banned Bart shirts, thinking his attitude made him a bad role model. But the shirts were a hit, and Matt Groening thought the ban was silly. — 20th Television
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Bart

Matt Groening first thought of Bart in high school In high school, he wrote a book about a kid named Bart Simpson whose father Homer would get mad at him. CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian

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Nancy Cartwright

Bart Simpson has roots in the real world. CRACKEDCO Nancy Cartwright's most notable role by far is Bart Simpson. But a few years earlier, she got a tiny little part in 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie, where she's very appropriately banished to a cartoon universe.

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Marge Simpson has huge hair because she was originally going to be secretly a rabbit. Matt Groening had planned to reveal that Marge was hiding rabbit ears - like the ones characters in his comic book Life In Hell had-at the conclusion of the series. GRACKED.COM — 26 Origins Of Characters' Signature Traits

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The Simpsons

The Arabic version of The Simpsons was almost a completely different show. RUCK The beer-swilling, bacon-loving lout that is Homer Simpson turned into a juice drinking, halal abiding man named Omar Shamshoon. The Arabic dub also cut strong religious references and scenes featuring Moe's Tavern. The end result left audiences confused as a lot was lost in translation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Number of Jobs held by Homer Simpson: 188 in the first 400 episodes CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Homer Simpson Gene

The Homer Simpson gene is making your brain not think good. The RGS14 gene serves some social functions but mostly shuts off the CA2 region of the brain, but full function can return to the brain when it's deleted. Scientists informally dubbed it the Homer Simpson gene, because not only does Homer have a limited intellect, but also because it's caused by an errant crayon stuck in his brain. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Homer Simpson Gene Shuts Down Part Of The Brain

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Laurel and Hardy

CRACKED.COM The Simpsons D'oh! comes from a Laurel and Hardy actor. Homer Simpson's voice actor Dan Castellaneta based the now-iconic uttering on Jimmy Finlayson , but shortened it from d'oooohhhhh for pacing. — Source: Flavorwire

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Homer

Homer Simpson works at the nuclear power plant. And he nearly was also Krusty the Clown. Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally planned for it to b

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The Simpsons Movie claims to be filmed on location in Springfield. JULIE ANSELL GREGG BERGER MAURICE LAMARCHE RICK POLIZZI FILMED ON LOCATION IN SPRINGFIELD, Kodak Prints by DELUXE® DE DOLBY dts Film Stock IN SELECTED THEATRES Approved A . follows the city's name, as a nod to the undeterminded state of the city. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons: Season 10, episode 23, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo Marge: Come on, Homer. Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon. Homer: That's not how

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Ed Sheeran

COMEDY NERD Completing a celebrity rite of passage, Ed Sheeran cameo'd on The Simpsons. It was in a 2018 episode, Haw-Haw Land, and he played Brendan, a musician that Lisa soon falls for. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Cool Celebrity Sitcom Cameos We Totally Forgot About

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The Series Finale

A writer and producer for The Simpsons wants the show to end the same as it began. Al Jean said he would like the final episode to end with the arrival of the Christmas pag- eant from the first scene of the pilot episode Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, making the whole series a continuous loop. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — AV Club

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Matt Groening

Matt Groening removed his name from one episode DEVELOPED By JAMES L. BROOKS Sam Simon Groening was so upset with The Critic crossover inclusion in A Star is Burns that his name doesn't appear in the opening credits. CRACKED.COM — Source: CBR

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Russ Cargill

The Simpsons Movie Russ Cargill was originally supposed to be Hank Scorpio. Producers claim that idea was only taken seriously for about a week, but still hired Hank Scorpio's voice actor, Albert Brooks, to voice Cargill. CRACKED.COM — Screen Rant

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Easter Eggs The Simpsons There's an entire McBain film (think Rambo meets Beverly Hills Cop) playing in the background of The Simpsons episodes through the years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Farmville

CRACKED.COM YARD WORK SIMULATOR The Simpsons made a FarmVille joke years before Farm Ville. Wouldn't it be silly if people pretended to tend to plants in a computer? The Simpsons thought so in 1998, a full decade before the real thing. — Source

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Dr. Julius Hibbert

COMEDY NERD The Simpsons Dr. Julius Hibbert was originally going to be Julia. The female doctor character was named after Julia Hibbert - who (as Julia Sweeney) went on to create the It's Pat character for SNL. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons’ Color

The characters' yellow was designed to be eye-catching An animator showed the color to Matt Groening who approved because when you're flicking through channels with your remote control, and a flash of yellow goes by, you'll know you're watching The Simpsons. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Facts About The Simpsons (In Case You Run Out Of Episodes To Watch)

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THE SIMPSONS Chris Latta CRAGKED.COM FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE The voice of Lost the job two major after three characters on episodes the hottest new because he was animation on reportedly hard TV. to work with. — Source

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THE SIMPSONS The City of New York VS. Homer Simpson CRACKED.COM Originally aired in 1997, Fox took it out of rotation for several years following 9/11, since the World Trade Towers feature pretty prominently in the episode. They say New York City is the 6th Simpson! Anyway, the episode is still slightly edited when it runs almost 20 years later. — Source: YouTube

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The Critic THE SIMPSONS CRACKED.COM The suits at FOX pressured them into this sponsored content cameo, in the hopes of juicing The Critic's viewership. Matt Groening was so cheesed, he took his name out of the credits. — Source

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Edmund, the parody character of Edward Cullen in The Simpsons Tweenlight segment from Treehouse of Horror XXI, was voiced by Daniel Radcliffe credited as 'Daniel Ratfink' CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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THE SIMPSONS Julian Assange CRACKED.COM Possibly the :00 most top-secret cameo of all time, since even the producers didn't know where Assange was recording his lines. — Source

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CRACKED THE SIMPSONS NED FLANDERS Not all that devout, and kind of a jerk in pilot, he quickly became religion obsessed, and a kind-at-all-costs pushover. Не was deliberately changed to satirize the growing influence of Christianity in politics. — Source

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CRACKED COM The Simpsons nearly got cancelled before it aired. YUMMYDONUES After the first viewing of the pilot episode, One Enchanted Evening, both the writers and the network executives were displeased. The writing wasn't great, but it was the animation that really turned them off. Luckily, the next episode, Bart the Genius, was better and saved the series from an early death. — Source: 24 Pop Culture Iconic Things (That Bombed Initially)

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Pamela Hayden as Milhouse Van Houten

Characters that weren't supposed to last SPRINGFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Milhouse Van Houten on The Simpsons Milhouse was created for a Matt Groening pitch for NBC that didn't get picked up, and then used for a Simpsons-themed Butterfinger commercial. The character was then added to the cartoon's pilot episode and, well, everything came up Milhouse. CRACKED.COM — 20th Television
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DAVIDLETTERMAN did recurring couch gags Not many couch gags took place outside the Simpsons living room, but the Letterman set was the host for two of them. The second was a tribute to the retiring talk show host, with a title card that read, We'll miss you, Dave. — Hollywood Reporter

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Paul and Linda McCartney

CRACKED COM IN THE ePISODe OF THE SIMPSONS WHeRe LISA Becomes A veGeTARIAN AND meets PAUL MCCARtdey, МАуве I'M AMAZeD PLAYS over THE CLOSING SCREDITS. THE SIMPSONS STAFF RemixeD IT to INCLUDe A BACKWARDS TRACK OF MCCARTNEY READING A Recipe FOR LENTIL SOUP. нат — Source

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