“Embarrassed? What are you talking about?” – Homer Simpson
“Well, there was our trip to the Amish country.” – Marge Simpson
“Oh, yes . . . Hey, look, Marge! They’re still not fighting back! I can be a jerk and no one can stop me!” – Homer Simpson

13 responses to “Quote of the Day”

  1. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    The irritated old man looks pretty funny.

    Like the expressions on the other Simpsons too. Marge looks annoyed but unsurprised, Lisa can’t bear to watch, Maggie just stares, and Bart looks on with enthusiasm.

    1. Sarah J Avatar
      Sarah J

      Yeah, I love that they took the time to give each of them a different, appropriate expression.

  2. Killer Meteor Avatar
    Killer Meteor

    Jerkass Homer begins!

    1. jbwarner86 Avatar

      Yeah, I always thought this was rather foreboding, Homer enjoying deliberately pissing people off. It helps that he immediately gets his comeuppance, though.

    2. Mr. Incognito Avatar
      Mr. Incognito

      Jerkass Homer would rarely have any consequence to his behavior, while as stated before Homer almost immediately gets his comeuppance here; it’s not the same thing here.

      That no one fights him even as he sticks ice cream cones on them is something so foreign and entertaining to him that he takes it to its logical conclusion. Also, Homer seems to hold a certain, almost childlike, fascination and glee about it all…until the donkey kicks him, of course.

      It’s kind of the same concept as something like a (likely American) tourist trying to get a reaction out of a guard at Buckingham Palace.

    3. Bleeding Gums Murphy Avatar
      Bleeding Gums Murphy

      Jerkass Homer is way worse than this Homer or “Lisa on Ice” Homer. You’re ignoring the context.

      1. Killer Meteor Avatar
        Killer Meteor

        Actually, I’m referring to Homer calling himself a jerk, and there being an ass in the same scene!

  3. Sarah J Avatar
    Sarah J

    I love the little detail of the ice cream cone flying out of his hands as he gets kicked away.

    1. Anonymous Avatar
      Anonymous

      And the ones on the donkey fly off too.

      1. Sarah J Avatar
        Sarah J

        Oooh, I didn’t notice that!

  4. Steamed Hams Avatar
    Steamed Hams

    With everyone bringing up Jerkass Homer, I wonder what Charlie & co think about how Brian from Family Guy started out as the ‘voice of reason’ at first, then after that faded away, he started to become more & more of a straw-man chew toy for the writers to relentlessly gnaw on in order to assuage their guilty conscience about MacFarlane’s political leanings.

    1. Cyberwulf Avatar
      Cyberwulf

      I always thought that Brian was made into more of a hypocrite/contrarian to counter accusations that he was MacFarlane’s Mary Sue.

      Of course, since that show is now just a bunch of horrible people being horrible to each other, why should the dog be any different?

      1. Steamed Hams Avatar
        Steamed Hams

        Yeah that too. Prolly directly related.

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