“So, you never learned cursive?” – Cypress Creek Teacher
“Well, I know ‘hell’ and ‘damn’ and ‘bi-” – Bart Simpson
“Cursive handwriting, script. Do you know the multiplication tables? Long division?” – Cypress Creek Teacher
“I know of them.” – Bart Simpson
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12 responses to “Quote of the Day”
To this day when asked if I can do something I can’t do, or about something I don’t know enough about to answer properly, this is my response. To. This. Day.
Haha, me too.
In Bart’s defence, outside of elementary school you rarely use cursive.
Bullshit! I still use cursive writing, even in a world where everything has to be typed in. You, specifically, might not use cursive anymore, but I still do.
You have my sympathy.
You can take your sympathy and stuff it.
I’m imagining your comment in cursive.
You also have to consider that this episode first aired when cursive was still being taught in the American public school system, so the teacher’s question makes more sense in that regard.
True. A lot of the jokes about that school are now very dated, like the fact that the school is considered “high tech” because they have a website.
Yes I too use the phrase ‘I know of them’ when I don’t really understand. Series 8 and 9 still had so much absolute gold in them. I know it didn’t always come together to make a great episode but there is just so much fans would be missing out on if they skipped these seasons.
I agree that seasons 8 and 9 were good, but they were also the point when the show started to show signs of being gimmicky. For every classic episode, like the Hank Scorpio one or the Frank Grimes episode, there are complete and utter failures and flops, like the musical clip show episode, the 200th one with Steve Martin and U2, and, of course, the Principal Skinner is really Armin Tamzarian (though that episode had a lot of funny moments in it for something that would cause fans to give up on the series. Ditto the Frank Grimes episode and maybe the one where Ned Flanders screams at everyone and goes to the loony bin).
I personally love the Frank Grimes episode. It was very creative at the time and the first time we got to see Homer through the eyes of someone else.
I know that some of he themes of that episode have been hugely overused since (like jerkass Homer) but as an episode it was really funny.
Homer today makes the Homer of that episode seem decent. Nowadays they might as well have Scully and Jean in the bottom corner shouting of the screen shouting “laugh at Homer, he’s doing something crazy. LAUGH PLEEEAASE.”