Out of all the possible scenes in a Simpsons episode, this is one of my all time favourites. The delivery of Homer questioning Moe is pure “champagne comedy”. If you don’t know the scene, it is from the episode “Bart Sells His Soul”.
The sub-story is that Moe’s Tavern is running at a loss so he ‘adds a bunch of crazy crap to the walls’ and creates Uncle Moe’s Family Feed Bag. After that fails, it cuts to this scene of the removalists taking all of the ‘crazy crap’ from the walls …
Moe: Go on, take it all. Get it all out of here.
Barney: You know, Moe, you might want to keep the fire extinguishers.
Moe: Nah. Too many bad memories.
Barney: Well, look at the bright side, Moe: you still got us.
Moe: Yeah. Yeah, you know, that — that actually makes me feel a little better.
Homer: Why? That was the problem in the first place: you were going broke because we were your only customers. Wasn’t that the problem in the first place? That you were going broke? Moe? Moe? Hey, Moe. Oh! You’re thinking about all the money you blew, aren’t you. [Moe nods] What was it? Fifty, sixty thousand dollars? Moe, look: maybe it would help if you went over all the mistakes you made from the beginning. Moe?
Moe: [exasperated] What?!
Homer: Let me get a pen.
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Peter Wells added these pithy words on Aug 13 09 at 4:21 pmHeh.
My all time favourite scene (for the last year or so atleast) has been this:
Burns: Hail, brothers. Coranon Silaria, Ozoo Mahoke.
[everyone answers "Mahoke"]
Now, then, gentlemen, the mayoral campaign is upon us. And if
we hope to defeat this Joe Quimby, we need a candidate with
name recognition and media savvy — a true leader who’ll do
exactly as he’s told.
Barlow: Monty, I’m way ahead of you. If you’ll just open that door
you’ll see the next mayor of Springfield.
[door opens to reveal a water cooler; everyone applauds]
[the cooler bubbles]
Senator: What’d it say?That simple joke has so many layers. I love it to death.
