The Monorail Song was better in the original Greek

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• SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, he was the most culturally relevant homer for almost 2700 years.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be even more fair, Theophania, the ancient Greek woman whose name literally morphed linguistically into Tiffany, is completely forgotten. I’m aware that someone with that name existed, but even as a scholar of Greek Mythology, and The Bronze Age Collapse, I never ran across that particular name before CGPGrey went on a fever dream induced, (not exactly) quest to find the origins of the name Tiffany.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Naming my daughter Theophania now

      Pronounced Tiffany

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now I kinda wonder how long Homer Simpson will be relevant. Will historians note him in a hundred years? Two hundred?

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  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They will assume Skinner is the main charcter after the only remains being fossilized steamed hams edits.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope for future generations, they have to learn about the Simpsons in English class like we had to learn about Shakespeare.

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    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Teacher: Ok class, it’s time for a quiz

      Students: D’ohh!

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the Futurama episode where they go see the Beastie Boys and call it classical music.

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a chance it sticks around longer than most other shows. It’s the first animated show in the US to be (at some points in its life) the biggest show on television. And early seasons definitely influenced a whole generation of sitcoms.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s also run longer than any other fictitious show in television history, other than possibly Dr. Who. Dr. Who certainly beats The Simpsons in time span, but for total seasons, Dr. Who only has 26, while The Simpsons seems to reign supreme at 35 seasons.

      I can only think of a few other shows that outlast The Simpsons, and every single one is a talk show, late night talk show, sketch comedy show, or a game show. None of these fall into the category of fiction, and all but one of these categories are entirely period based topical shows, and it could be argued that the fourth is also a period based topical show.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your assuming the show won’t still be on the air.

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    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’ll be voiced by the head of Hank Azaria in a jar

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  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At this rate he’ll be president in a decade.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, Lisa is more likely. Homer will just be cheering her on from the sidelines. After all she did take over for President Trump, not sure if they specified that it was his second term or not …

      I really fucking hope they’re wrong on this one.

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• MinusPi@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Second most culturally relevant so far

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that other Homer who was in the “No Homers Allowed” club might still make a comeback.

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• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First best homer:

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Disagree.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still disagree. The first homer in sports would have been in cricket. A sport that Americans looked at and said, “the fuck are you on about? We don’t have time to play a game for 8 hours a day for an entire week!” and the then went on to create Baseball, which manages to keep 90% of the terminology, 50% of the gameplay, and less than 8% of the original run time. We compressed an entire week of watching grass grow while the contestants are performing their arcane ritual, into a game and that only last 3 hours, and kept most of the watching grass grow while the players perform their arcane rituals.

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• konalt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The second best homer. Second best homer.

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  • DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ya pup, ya!

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If he was even the original author. Or existed. Or whatever.

  Homeric Question

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