'The Simpsons': 13 Jokes That Sailed Over Our Heads

Whether we were a bit too young to get them at the time, or they were just downright confusing, these 13 jokes from The Simpsons sailed so very high over our heads.
'The Simpsons': 13 Jokes That Sailed Over Our Heads
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'The Simpsons' has been at it for so long nobody remembers when it started. Well, not nobody, but I don't know.

The point is, it's been on forever, and in the jillions of jokes the show's lobbed out, there have been some doozies that sailed over everybody's heads.

Well, not everybody, but most people. Here's a selection of those jokes, which with explanation, are quite good.

Ahoy Hoy.

Ahoy Hoy. CRACKED.COM Mr. Burns' chosen phone greeting of ahoy hoy seems like just a funny little character choice, but this is actually the original phone greeting suggested by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the 1800s. Ahoy, had been around for at least 100 years longer than hello. It too was a greeting (a nautical one) derived from the Dutch hoi, meaning hello. Graham Bell felt so strongly about ahoy that he used it for the rest of his life.

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Martin has heard of this Ray Bradbury character.

Martin has heard of this Ray Bradbury character. THE ELECTION PROCESS /. NOMINATIONS 2.CAMPAIGN ECTION CRACKED.COM Martin might be aware, but we are not. In sea- son 2, episode 19, Lisa's Substitute, Martin Prince is in the running for class president, and delivers the speech, As your president, I would demand a science-fiction library, featuring an ABC of the genre. Asimov, Bester, Clarke! When albino classmate Wendell Borton asks, What about Ray Bradbury? Martin dismissive- ly brushes him off with a quick, I'm aware of his work. Many sci-fi fans and critics consider the first three names listed as classic

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Homer works out the mass of the Higgs Boson.

Homer works out the mass of the Higgs Boson. M(H2)= TT (137) 8 hc 3987 12 + 4365 12 (=4472 12 n(t.) > I CRACKED.COM Homer is so S MR т. In season 10, episode 2, The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace, the equa- tions on Homer's chalkboard features one put together by David Schiminovich, an astronomer at Columbia University. The top line on the board estimates the mass of the Higgs boson (expressed as M(HO) on the board) by combin- ing elemental physics, namely the Planck con- stant, the gravitational constant, and the speed of light. The crazy this is that was

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