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

In a deleted scene Clancy had taken Ralph to see Erik The Viking but upon realising Ralph was too young for its PG-13 rating they instead saw Uncle Buck. To avoid upsetting Ralph, Clancy convinces Ralph that they are actually watching the former and a few years later Ralph still belives Vikings to be feckless deadbeat cigar chompers from Chicago who you shouldn't really let look after your kids.

Mrs Hoover has clearly left the students watching The History Channel's 'Vikings' while she is absent from the class

WTF? “ralph means that sleep is an area in which he excels”? Who the fuck thinks this shit?

I have never seen this thread before. You people are insane.

i've been an "exceller" since age 13 and i'll be an "exceller" til the day i die

I'm an ex-exceller. Now I think the dream reading is right, but the excel reading was just how it struck my ear when I was really young, and went unchallenged long enough to stick.

My guess as to how this happens is that, given the preceding dialogue, one might anticipate that Ralph will say something to the effect that sleep is an area in which he excels. So when some people hear the line, they start from this anticipated meaning and apply that to what he says, rather than starting from the words and drawing the literal meaning from them.

y'all are bending my wookiee

My guess as to how this happens is that, given the preceding dialogue, one might anticipate that Ralph will say something to the effect that sleep is an area in which he excels. So when some people hear the line, they start from this anticipated meaning and apply that to what he says, rather than starting from the words and drawing the literal meaning from them.

This is partly why the 'dream' interpretation seems much funnier to me: it is more unexpected.

so is he good at sleep?

just the most idiotic fuckin debate

should the fact that this was a decade ago and i thought it was last year make me happy or sad

i miss dayo

yep

me too

Not a dayo goes by...

straight from the horse's mouth:

Yes, again, it's the simplest answer - Ralph dreams of being a Viking.

— Josh Weinstein (@Joshstrangehill) December 21, 2020

THANK YOU

So he dreams of being excellent at something huh

lol Dan I'm imagining you slamming the table in victory

ilx, where the author is dead, except for simpsons joke arguments!

Now this, this was trolling

the author is not dead, he's just asleep, which is where he is a viking

I was in the room when it was pitched and laughed because I thought it meant he was great at sleeping

— Mike Scully (@scullymike) December 21, 2020

!!!

laughed because I thought it meant he was great at sleeping

before taking this at face value remember, we are dealing here with someone who was the class clown.

Simple: Ralph dreams he's a Viking. Ralph was never written with the ability to understand a complex & obscure metaphor like saying he is a Viking at something, meaning he is great at it. If I knew Scully had misunderstood a joke like that, I would have fired him instantly.

— David Mirkin (@DaveMirkin) December 21, 2020

straight from the horse's mouth:

Wow, ha, I guess that's also now canon! Do you remember who pitched it? Maybe they could say for sure. I think we may have been out of the room writing a script at the time so I have zero authority to weigh in on this, it's just my opinion.

wow settled after all these years

xp you left out where he mentioned mirkin who then posted the tweet i posted just above you

my point was him saying "I was not in the room and my opinion literally means nothing" indicates either that he was not the horse, or that the horsethor is dead

THANK YOU

Let's flog it some more anyway

did we never get this sorted

I mean, even the idea that Ralph would use the word "where" to mean "the discipline in which" is baffling enough, even before we get onto "being a Viking means being good at"

i try to remember this thread whenever ppl seem (to me) to be going to rather extreme lengths to misunderstand the obvious thrust of simple statements on ilxor.com
it doesnt help but i try, god help me but i do

Ha

I mean, even the idea that Ralph would use the word "where" to mean "the discipline in which" is baffling enough, even before we get onto "being a Viking means being good at"

his legs don't know how to be as long as yours

if i taught dialectics i wd use this debate to explain dialectics

the mid-tier joke is sublated by and/or into the high-tier joke: the "misunderstanding" (so-called) enlarges and enriches the "intention" (so-called)

sleep is where im the aufhebung

hi, Super Nintendo Sinkah

the mid-tier joke is sublated by and/or into the high-tier joke

last 40 years of critical theory tbh

my main takeaway from that twitter thread is that many people are really bad at understanding any kind of joke

by my reading a lot of people in that thread are not familiar with US idioms or pop culture of 50-70 years ago, even if English is their first language

There's been some confusion in this scene in Homer Vs The 18th Amendment.

Banner: "You're out there somewhere, Beer Baron. And I'll find you."

Homer (distant): "No, you won't!"

Banner: "Yes, I will!"

Homer: "Won't!"

I believe Homer says won't, but some people hear d'oh.

— I Call The Big One Bitey🏳️‍🌈🔞 (@Chalm_Skinn) December 21, 2020

People thinking Homer whispers "d'oh" to Rex Banner instead of "won't" is another baffling one. Why would he respond to a guy saying he'll catch him by saying "no you won't" but then say "d'oh" in response to him saying "yes I will"?

Weinstein is yet to confirm my privately-held conviction that Hans Moleman wasn't really saying "boo-urns", he was just trying to gain favour with a powerful man at a vulnerable moment

NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what twilight zone shit is this where there's another disputed Simpsons scene

theyre all disputed now

haha yeah

"Some people put forward the theory that the monorail episode was an homage to The Music Man but I have always thought it was a musical tribute to Mussolini's ascent to power; which one is correct?"

Sideshow Mel was meant to represent the British Beehive of the 19th century