Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?

idaho known for potatoes, "I'm Idaho!" is ralph's comment on the american couch potato

if you dont think theres a subtext of him being an adventurer/explorer in the world of sleep by using 'viking' rather than, i dont know, potato, then you are being willfully ignorant. i said it before -- the way its written obviously indicates this. the idea that its hardline "he just means he is a viking -- theres no way he could also be implying that hes a hero of sleep during sleep" is some literalist objectivist bs

u created the subtext out of thin air

If I was the writer and knew about this, I would probably have killed myself by now, and pinned a note to my chest that read "Gone to where I'm a viking."

realling lolling at the idea that the majority opinion on this indicates that a cryptic ralph wiggum joke has a RIGHT interpretation....this is not physics, guys

yes, his viking dreams are undoubtedly full of adventure, perhaps he feels like a champion during them. this is not the same as the A argument, and if you can't see the difference I don't know what to tell ya.

if you dont think theres a subtext of him being an adventurer/explorer in the world of sleep by using 'viking' rather than, i dont know, potato, then you are being willfully ignorant.

lol

realling lolling at the idea that the majority opinion on this indicates that a cryptic ralph wiggum joke has a RIGHT interpretation....this is not physics, guys

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, May 2, 2010 2:37 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the thing is...it's not cryptic.

this is not the same as the A argument, and if you can't see the difference I don't know what to tell ya.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, May 2, 2010 1:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

then if im actually on your side in this argument, im just really put off by you personally

should Viking immigrants be allowed y/n

in a thousand years of ilx there would not again be a thread as stupid as this

Is that the sound of a gauntlet hitting the floor?

think we should settle this on the basketball court, deej. my assholishness vs your condescension. should be an epic battle.

I'm a furniture!

I'm a computer

stop all the downloadin

lol, it's like the writers of this week's episode saw this thread

what happened on it?

Ralph said, "I'm a furniture," and at the end it turned out that England was watching Springfield as a reality show on TV and Queen Elizabeth said, "I will miss that Ralph boy, he reminds me a bit of my own boy," and Prince Charles walked in holding a cat and said, "Oh mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food."

I'm a computer

stop all the downloadin

― going non-native (dyao), Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:21 PM Bookmark

never will get tired of this one honestly

i'm a mac. i'm a champion at computing.

Yeah, I think deej has defended A but only to the extent that his interpretation incorporates both A and B. So it is incorrect to claim that he's always been on A's side.

yeah deej seems more confused about the difference between the 2 options than anything else tbh

and maybe that's where we can all find some middle ground.

til next time, take care of yourselves. and each other.

i get where they are different, i just think ppl's maginot lines are ignoring the obvious overlap

Prince Charles walked in holding a cat and said, "Oh mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food."

This is the most painful thing, when a new Simpsons ep bites a very beloved old SImpsons joke. The last time I watched it, they redid the "island was actually a peninsula" joke, and then I think we might have broken up, me & "The Simpsons."

god they actually do that now? how depressing.

I don't get it, a human centipede?

(Cattle Grind prods the thread with a stick. It remains inert. He wanders off, still holding the stick. He likes the stick very much.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMxQ7dFtk9U&feature=related

^^^ very possibly primed me to be a "viking at sleep" viewer when the Simpsons episode came around.

i seriously made a disgusted "tch" sound out loud seeing this thread title again

but that is an item of interest!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxvqhjEJJA

And were you a viking out there in the cold hard world?

he was a viking about not posting to ILX

its realy sad, he was a viking

http://theophilusmonk.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/receive.jpg

overlooked Modern Radio gems: http://www.modern-radio.com/board/t.php?id=23080&r=499

shane shiner
6/04/07 11:46 AM He wouldn't have said that's WHERE. He would say I am a viking at that or that's what i'm a viking at.

GRAMMARPLEASE

Adster
6/04/07 12:02 PM You may be trying to impart too much logic into the argument. The way I interpret it, the kid likes to go to sleep. He'll willingly do so at command. I guess I can't understand what's so baffling about saying one is a Viking at something they enjoy to do. I'm not saying it's a commonly-heard phrase by any means, nor do I even claim to understand what the exact "meaning" of it is (if it has "meaning" at all). It's a silly expression.

brilly
6/05/07 5:15 AM my friend's 2 yr old brother once said "there's bees in my poop" and lo and behold he had a diaper rash.

Roaratorio
6/05/07 5:16 AM brilly posted this on Jun 05th, 2007 at 10:15:59 am
my friend's 2 yr old brother once said "there's bees in my poop" and lo and behold he had a diaper rash.

That just meant he was bad at pooping.

so, this here is apparently a 'thing' too (albeit not to the same extent as the viking):

When Hank asks Homer if he's ever seen a guy say goodbye to a shoe, does homer say "hehe yes once" because

a. he's seen a guy previously in his life say goodbye to a shoe and is reminiscing

or

b. he's thinking about the time hank said goodbye to a shoe and is thinking about that?

a or b? ILX, you decide.

LOL I never thought about that one like that before (like b, I mean). Both work. But again - gah why must everyone overthink the lols?

no! we must come up with unlikely alternate explanations for every joke and ruin them ALL with interminable arguments.

*kills self*

a. but not interesting enough to argue about...I think I thought about this on my own before while watching the episode, which was recently cause I'm powering through the first 10 seasons. homer's response isn't the joke and was prob an afterthought for the writer. classic episode...top 5 for me.

The show's writers did not worry too much about perfecting Scorpio's lines because they knew Brooks would rewrite or ad lib new ones.[4] Entire parts of Scorpio's dialogue, such as his hammock speech, are Brooks's lines and not the writers'. Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks's new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines in the next take.[7] Josh Weinstein said Homer's reactions are exactly like someone talking to Albert Brooks.[4]

Hah. Yes I could totally see "you ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe?" being an adlib, as well as castellanatas response!

On the DVD of season um... 1 or 2, the one where Marge falls for Jaques the bowling instructor, there is a whole outtake section where Brooks and Julie Kaver are doing what sounds very much like an extended adlib of the seduction scene where she's fainted. There is someone giggling in the background and everything. Brooks is a hoot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1355405/Daniel-Agger-shows-tattoos.html

amazing post i stumbled across on a TV Without Pity forum:

Practically everyone on the Simpsons has a catch phrase, which was highlighted at the end of one episode where all of the characters appeared and said their's. Then, everyone looks at Lisa, who hasn't said anything, she frowns then mutters, "if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room." Here's the debate I had with someone else once: Is that her catch phrase, or is the point that she doesn't have one? I thought it was the latter, my debatee thought it was the former. Opinions?

like, this person makes the people on the wrong side of the viking debate seem like rocket scientists.

the wrong side of the viking debate

Which is the wrong side again?

like, this person makes the people on the wrong side of the viking debate seem like rocket scientists.

but, they're right?

oh i misread the last part, i guess by "this person" i mean the one being described, not the one who wrote the post.