20 Ingenious Jokes and References From ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘South Park,’ ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Futurama’

We don’t have to fully understand these to share them with you, right?
20 Ingenious Jokes and References From ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘South Park,’ ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Futurama’

In this relay race of intelligent joke understanding, we’d be the middle runner who accepts the baton from these cartoons and then immediately hands them to you. We wouldn’t be able to run with it, but we know that you can, you knowledgable little wit comprehender, you. 

Math and ancient references were never our strong suits, which is probably why our chosen profession involves finding jokes, typing them onto pictures and displaying them for you fine folks. We’ll get on the hunt for more while you smarty-pantses get a chuckle out of these.

Impossible Beer Bottles

BEER COMES IN IMPOSSIBLE BOTTLES. E The Route of All Evil KLEIN'S Klein's Beer has that name because it comes in a Klein bottle- a shape which has no inside or outside (and can only really exist in a four-dimensional space). CRACKED.COM

Brevity Is... Wit

Brevity is... Wit. WELCOME FINALISTS BREVITY IS... WIT CRACKED COM Levels... Too many levels. In season 3, epi- sode 2, Mr. Lisa Goes To Washington, the 'Welcome Finalists' sign is sponsored by Reading Digest, and it reads, Brevity is... wit. It's a jab at how Readers Digest edits articles in a way that removes their nu- ance, and fundamentally changes their meaning. To get this one, you'd need a rough working knowledge of Shakespeare to know that it's a contraction of the apho- rism, brevity is the soul of wit, which Ро- lonius uses in Hamlet. By shortening it, they've literally

Damien Thorn

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Damien Thorn is a homage to The Omen. Не shares the name of the character in the 1976 horror movie. His theme song is a parody of the movie S theme song, Ave Satani, and his mother is called a real dog. In the film, the Antichrist's mother is a jackal. CRACKED.COM

Ancient Greece

(n a recent episode of Family Guy, the family dog defends bimself for stealing a wheel of cheese. A defense attorney wants to excuse Brian's crimes be

Spanish Easter Eggs

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park That strange alphabet. DiOsMiOhAnMoToDoHoKeNnYbAsToRdOsFqUtWgPfVzGuXcBoZrQi In Chickenlover and Ike's Wee Wee, there's a strange scrambled alphabet framing the classroom chalkboard. The first part, Dios Mio han matado ha Kenny, Bastardos is Spanish, and translates to the famous line, Oh my God they killed Kenny, bastards! CRACKED.COM

Objectivism

Objectivism at daycare. IS A IS A FUTI CRACKED COM Maggie's daycare is an opportuni- ty to break out the objectivism jokes. While Marge is rehearsing for A Streetcar Named Desire, Maggie is left at the Ayn Rand School For Tots, where a poster reads, A is A. This is a reference to Ayn Rand, and her philosophy of Objectivism.

Cygnus X-1

CYGNUS X-1 ISN'T SPACE LAS VEGAS. FUTURAMA The prisoner of Benda WHAT HAPPENS IN CYGNUS X-1 STAYS IN CYGNUS X-1 The caption at the start of the episode isn't just a shout-out to the city of vice-Cygnus X-1 is a black hole, so it's physically impossible for anything not to stay there. CRACKED.COM

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20 Ingenious Jokes and References From ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘South Park,’ ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Futurama’

Math Jokes

THE MULTIPLEX SURE HAS A LOT OF SCREENS LOEW'S .PLEX NOW SHOWING: THE 2007 CLASSIC CHARLIE'S ANGELS III THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE'S GOLD No (aleph-null) is the smallest infinite number (yes, some infinite numbers are bigger than others), implying that Loew's No-plex has an infinite amount of screens. CRACKED.COM

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The blink-and-youill-miss-it James Bond reference. EMERGENCY Schedule Doctor Disombower Kenny Chumsky Practice golf swing Petrocco All Empl Colon surgery Vorma must wa Rectal surgery Turdiman K Bond No before S In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, there's a board in the doctor's ward with a schedule that features a Doctor No, and under his duties it states Kill Bond. CRACKED.COM

The Name Futurama

THE VERY TITLE OF FUTURAMA IS A NERDY EASTER EGG. Futurama was General Motors' futuristic exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. In that same fair, the public got an early taste of television-a technology largely developed by Philo T. Farnsworth. CRACKED.COM

Let’s Fighting Love

In the South Park song Let's Fighting Love, the lyric mistaken for kickassu is actually kenka suru, Japanese for quarrelling or squabbling. The rest of the Japanese lyrics are either admitting to how stupid the song is or talking about the singer's genitals. (Perhaps foreshadowing for the public nudity incident later in Good Times With Weapons, .. the episode the song is from?) CRACKED.COM

Grampa Simpson

Grandpa's measurements. GRACKED COM In season 6, episode 18, A Star is Burns, Abe Simpson yells, The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it. You might think this is complete gibberish, but a rod is actually an old English measurement that can equal anywhere from 9 to 28 feet. A hogshead is an old unit of mea- surement for liquids that equals about 79 old wine-gallons.

Nazi Jokes

In the Family Guy episode German Guy, Chris meets a German named Franz Gutentag (German for good day) who turns out to be whose CRACKED.COM a Nazi

Hitler Conspiracy Theory

Proving a conspiracy theory? ADOLF CRACKED COM In the classic episode, Bart vs. Aus- tralia, before ticking off all of Aus- tralia, Bart randomly prank calls ran- dom numbers. One of the numbers he calls is in Buenos Aires, Argenti- na, where an elderly Adolf Hitler at- tempts to answer. This is a reference to the conspiracy theory that Hitler survived WWII and escaped to Ar- gentina, where he lived until 1962.

The Prisoner of Benda

FUTURAMA CREATED A NEW MATH THEOREM. - Enj - fx . S of 2. Vr. - In) reur mothers the VT TOTAL - - The I حساء - THE new BY ! with GS - TE وسط - AMBITRARY per Weight MADE - - ... I - .. where - - a.f. The Prisoner of Benda Not happy with just sneaking in math references, Futurama writer Ken Keeler took it to the next level, and formulated a completely new theorem to solve the plot of an episode. CRACKED.COM

Mr. Burns

Ahoy Hoy. CRACKED.COM Mr. Burns' chosen phone greeting of ahoy hoy seems like just a funny little character choice, but this is actually the original phone greeting suggested by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the 1800s. Ahoy, had been around for at least 100 years longer than hello. It too was a greeting (a nautical one) derived from the Dutch hoi, meaning hello. Graham Bell felt so strongly about ahoy that he used it for the rest of his life.

’70s Retro

In Futurama, '70s retro is still in. STUDIO 123' 123 SIUDIO Futurama's Studio 12 21 3ª, where Bender goes to dance so he can burn off the doomsday device powering him, is Studio 54. 12 x 21 x 33 = 54. CRACKED.COM

19th Nutjob

According to Family Guy, a 19th-century nutjob was right about Jesus' lineage. Stewie went to the other side and met Jesus, who is Chinese. His last

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