I’m obligated to add this comment to all posts regarding candy corn: Candy corn by itself is worse than useless, but combine it with dry roasted peanuts and it becomes sublime.

There’s also Billy Connolly.

I was born in ‘85 as well, and that about nails it. The end of serendipity, as it was called once.

It’s the notion that authorial intent is irrelevant to analysing a work.

Simpsons and MST3k were the perfect shows for people growing up in the cable era. I was born in ‘85 but grew up seeing repeats of shows from the 50s thru the 80s. Thanks to there being many cable channels trying to cheaply fill air time, it meant that even less popular or obscure movies and shows would often get…

It took me an embarrassingly long time for me to learn who Joey Heatherton was, and thus why Principal Skinner’s army unit would be moved to shoot him when he tried to get her to put some pants on at a USO show in Vietnam.

Yeah, it really doesn’t make any sense.

It literally never occurred to me that was an allusion to people wearing towels on their heads.

My late father mentioned the Mohs Opera in a conversation we had while he was suffering from dementia. I thought his brain was off for a little drive as he described the thing. I had no idea he was speaking verbatim about such a thing. Thank you.

Have you ever tried to talk about a movie with someone who only deploys in-universe logic? It’s the worst.

It wasn’t just 80s/90s pop culture that did it.

These jokes are all great at creating conversation, but IMHO, the most thoroughly satisfying aspect of the show has ALWAYS been the “printed” jokes: names on shops, for example.

Wait until they hear about Buzz Aldrin’s real life phobia of Ruffles

I was actually thinking about this just the other day when I rewatched “It’s a Wonderful Life”, in the scene when there is a ‘run’ on the ol’ Building and Loan. I imagine there’s a point where generations of people stop having a concept of a bank or other financial institution storing your physical money.

Who answers a phone?

I still don’t get the one in the episode where they flashback to when Maggie was born and Marge thanks the person that works the newsstand:

The real takeaway here is that when it comes to jokes, delivery is more important than writing. Find the right rhythm for a punchline and anything sounds funny. Or more to the point, if it SOUNDS like a joke, SOMEONE will laugh.

Came here to say this, I’m from New England and JAX are my go to!

JAX. They’re probably regional but they’re delicious. I like the fact that they’re not all one uniform size so if you pick and choose the smaller ones every once in a while you can make yourself believe that the calories are inconsequential.