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

jim u may have something there

lol hstencil never forget

whiney is like our older cousin showing us filthy message board threads when we're 13

the more i think about it the more option b absolutism is one of the weirdest awful human behaviors i never woulda learned of had it not been for internet message boards

jesus god why did i bookmark this abortion

a b c winning the devolution of the argument award

i just can't believe this is an argument that has haunted the internet for years and not a 24-post thread on alt.tv.simpsons in 1995

The next thread should be an argument about what Ralph really meant when he said "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

for ralph, "cat food" means "totally awesome"

this thread is not cat food

http://www.richmolnar.com/Sounds/Homer%20-%20You%27re%20all%20nuts.wav

I bent my "Wookie"

lol!

http://c2.api.ning.com/files/*K0CPt1rhrSSvi5mrSpSuDdXRTF4U5C6-Ma1FXvlc38_/wook17.jpg

I love all of you.

also feeling sad I broke this promise:

I am NOT arguing about the Simpsons on the internet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:25 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

But when you say "love"....

like I'm a worse person, now that I've argued about The Simpsons on the Internet, and one day my daughter will find this thread and think that I was a terrible person

yeah but prob cause you didn't understand a simple joke

give it time, ILX will by the end of day have a pejorative adjective ending in "ist" for both supporters of Option A AND Option b.

n/a to make amends you must raise your daughter to be a Viking irl

meaning raise his daughter to be awesome, or to be a literal Viking?

she must be a viking at being a viking

http://www.mtbs.com/bkbz/kidwar/02_bg.jpg

just gonna reaffirm that option B absolutists = pred ship denyers

: D

dear god AaronHZ may be drawn to this thread if you mention the pred ship....

ok i swore i wasn't going to get into this but lol @ the idea that ralph could come up with a fanciful and original metaphor such as "viking" being "something you are good at"

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

ftr I totally don't get this argument, when has ralph ever been aware of the import of anything he says. he's totally the kid you teach solecisms to who'll never question the meaning of it and always use it. someone taught one of the chinese tutors at my last job that saying "I'm really horny!" was a cool & american way of saying "I'm really happy!" and he went around for a week telling people he was really horny before someone broke it to him.

and then afterwards he pooped right before showering....

So we need to assume that someone has already told Ralph that "viking" = "expert"?

not implausible if you know anything at all about the relationship between ralph and chief wiggum

ok fine i mean that is remotely plausible/highly unlikely

the thing here is i don't think ralph generally thinks of himself as being bad at school or specifically as having failed the task, so for me it doesn't really follow that he'd be pleased because he felt he was given another task he excelled at.

i also don't know if this is u&k or not, but part of the joke is that he's still got the worm in his mouth when he calls on miss hoover to tell her he ate his worm, and only then does he eat the worm. it seems for b to be correct the sequence should go: eats worm > realizes he screwed up task > requests new worm > denied worm, given new task > elated at viking capabilities re: new task. however, since he doesn't actually eat the worm until immediately before he says he ate the worm the first three steps are happening almost simultaneously and out of the correct order. there's no space for the "feel bad about failing task" to "feel good about mastery of new task" turnaround.

timeline (minutes and seconds of show):

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder1.jpg

06:19: Ralph: Umm, Miss Hoover?

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder2.jpg

06:21: Hoover: Yes Ralph, what is it?

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder3.jpg

06:22: Ralph: My worm went in my mouth and then I ate it...can I have another one?

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder4.jpg

06:26: Hoover: No Ralph, there aren't any more...[shaking her head] just try to sleep while the other children are learning.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder5.jpg

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder6.jpg

06:31 - 06:34: Ralph: Oh boy...sleep! That's where I'm a viking!

holy shit at this zapuder take down¿¡

i'm not hardcore abt this, btw.

lol i was like why the fuck are these screencaps getting posted but well done sir

ralph looks sad... that's not how i remembered it.

sleeping ralph screencap is a moment where it feels tragic that ilx doesn't do avatars

says the guy who posted screencaps!!!

but Ralph looks sad throughout the whole sequence so he knows he fucked up

i meant for "a" to be correct (self x-post)

can't wait til this thread hits 300 replies

Holy shit this thread is the saddest display of wtfery I've seen here since the salt one.

AND I AM A SIMPSONS FAN. o_0

love all the dudes itt getting sanctimonious w/0 revealing their position

guys i think maybe Ralph is srsly an intelectual pretending to be stupid so he can win milhouse's heart......

hay i revealed mine already!!11!!!

if you think it's "sleep is an area in which he excels" then you clearly misunderstood it when it aired and now have to justify your inability to judge words by the context of the sentence in which they appear. stop being so stubborn.

Its "thats where i am dreaming and thus I can be a viking" ffs it was a simple, unadorned joke and I'm staggered this is even on the table.