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

see also: heartburn
xps

btw I have it on good authority from matt groening himself that ralph is actually referring to becoming a NASA space probe sent to explore and survey Mars, the fourth planet in our solar system. it is unclear, however, if Ralph was referring to the first or second iteration of the probe.

dyao the guy who told you he'd pay you two cents a post if you started a thread that generated a lot of posts? I don't know how to tell you this man but he was pulling your chain

xpost this thread is making me want to drink until I'm convinced I'm Harriet Tubman

i will admit that i've got to be biased towards the world i've been living in since i was ten years old but i genuinely believe that the way ralph says "i'm" points to option a

shit aerosmith how else am I supposed to monetize cultural criticism in the age of new media. next thing I know you're gonna tell me I'm not really getting a book deal out of my hipster viking tumblr.

surely there is more stress on I'm than one would expect in the dyao interpretation. One would expect all the stress to fall on viking

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 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!

sleep is where it's ralph's time to shine

is there a way i can block myself from viewing this thread

ralph's time to shine

restore strongo's mod powers imo

Although the literalist interpretation never occurred to me before all this, I don't necessarily think it's a "wrong" interpretation, it's just so much of a less funny interpretation that it makes me sad that that's what people have been going around thinking for years and years. Like their world must feel dreary and sepiatoned while mine is technicolor + dolby.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, April 26, 2010 2:06 PM (Yesterday)

god this is so depressingly wrong, like i don't want to live in a world where adolescent synonyms for "badass" are cooler than actually becoming a viking in your dreams, or actively voicing your desire to sleep so you can be a viking

havent read the thread so i'm sure by this 400 post mark we've started with the picture bombs and euthanasia calls, but i just wanted to say that

can't wait til the murders start....

theres something totally grating about the EVERYONE WHO INTERPRETS IT AS 'A' IS A TOTAL MORON perspective. what is w/ so many otherwise-sensible ppl getting wrapped up in it?

especially since it seems much more likely 2 me that it was written w/ a slightly different meaning -- viking doesn't mean 'excels,' its more like ... vikings were explorers, sailors, adventurers, etc. at least in the received understanding, and in sleep, ralph isnt 'excelling' he's a viking, which means he both literally dreams about being a viking but also implies a level of success/exploration/leadership that he doesnt have in the real world -- i think the 'viking' is specifically chosen to indicate that hes more hero/less zero in his dreams -- like, they wouldnt have said "sleep! thats where i'm a goldfish!"

meaning, i interpreted it as a reaction to his 'irl' failure -- well, at least in sleep im a viking! -- the writers were obviously calling on this as a reaction to his set-up for failing. so i get why ppl are saying 'excels,' although i think its more like 'explores' -- imo both answers are opposite sides of the same coin & thats why its super aggravating reading ppl act all self-righteous about this shit WHINEY & HI DERE & KEV & etc

I think that's completely right, and the answer would still be B and not A...

that is 100% the correct interpretation imo

I'm a little more mad about the super nintendo chalmers thing.

so i get why ppl are saying 'excels,' although i think its more like 'explores' -

yeah but you are not arguing that ralph is saying he "explores at sleep" you are just arguing about him being something else in his sleep. as k3v said you aren't really bridging anything here.

B.
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:25 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

any interpretation that has ralph truly grasping what a viking is/does is wacky to me

i am arguing that he explores sleep, absolutely -- that it implies he is a viking at sleeping as well as literally being a viking. i think the writers intentionally built ambiguity into it, so no, not b. both

why would ralph not know what a viking is? thats not exactly an obscure bit of history

pretty clear that Ralph is a cipher

So, what this thread really needs to explore is the issue of who would win in a fair fight: Ralph Wiggum or a napkin dispenser?

btw lol @ this being the one meaningless dumb argument where ppl like to climb up and say "gee fellas it really sucks that you just can't respect people's opinions and consider the other side"

deej are you familiar with the character of ralph?

You guys this thread is killing me. This is like .00000000000125 steps away from those dudes that post 35 page long Simpsons "episode guides".

deej is attempting to make the a. people look good by coming up w/ an even worse answer

ffs it is patently clear that the reason this argument is so popular is that it allows people to argue, for fun, with absolutely nothing at stake. it's really not so surprising that we're all going round and round on it.

this isn't like a us politics thread or some iltmi bullshit where *feelings might be hurt*

not nothing at stake! i would hate to see ralph co-opted by rightwingers.

lol

btw I just got a call that I'm getting a book deal out of this thread so nyah nyah

http://www.partyprosrental.com/tn_easyStriker9.jpg

right wingers pretty much ruined Groundskeeper Willy's "surrender-monkeys" for me.

GO TO THE FUCK YOU SONS OF PICHES!!1!1!!!

deej is attempting to make the a. people look good by coming up w/ an even worse answer

― iatee, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no. in context, "A" makes a fair amount of sense -- the word 'viking' certainly leads u to believe he might have meant that he is an explorer/on the frontier/cutting edge of sleep. i think the choice of 'the viking' was intentional & suggests that the 'real answer' is ambiguity -- that we're not entirely supposed to understand ralph's meaning

cad is otm tho it's not like we have anything better to do on a Tuesday night

deej, you realize that like EVERYONE you are calling out by name for being disappointing are not taking this argument nearly as seriously as you seem to be, right

please don't devalue the efforts of usenet simpsons recapper weirdos, if those things didn't exist there would have been nothing to do in seventh grade computer lab but search encarta for swears

i don't think this would be a 95 page thread if Ralph said "yay, sleep, where I'm a hedgehog" or "yay sleep where I'm a Geisha"...

deej is attempting to make the a. people look good by coming up w/ an even worse answer

― iatee, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:36 PM (2 minutes ago)

"it is super disappointing that people are having mutually-understood fun, I really expected better of you guys" *shakes head*

wooster

okay let's not go there, Mr Begging-To-Be-Banned

tbh I don't even know why it's a zing

if those things didn't exist there would have been nothing to do in seventh grade computer lab but search encarta for swears

crackin up at this