One Ham, No Hams. Steamed Clams? Steamed Hams!
Oh my god, PLEASE tell me this isn’t AI-generated.
I love this meme. I will forever love this meme in all its formats.
Edit: dude who uploaded this has an explicit “no AI” policy on his channel. A+ work.
Edit again: LIKE 70% OF HIS VIDS ARE ABOUT THIS MEME OH MY GODDDDDD
A Simpsons Follow-Up
So remember a few days ago when I posted a Simpsons line that’s frequently in my head? Another one is from that episode where Apu stopped working at the Kwik-E-Mart and he and the Simpsons sang the “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?” song and Homer screws up the rhyme.
“Apu: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Marge: Their floors are sticky-mart
Lisa: They made dad sicky-mart
Bart: Let’s hurl a bricky-mart
Homer: The Kwik-E-Mart is real – DOH!”
Homer’s line is another one that is in my head quite often.
Anyway.
Collect n’ Display
My dad collects stuff.
He always has.
Christmas ornaments, VHS tapes, DVD sets, Happy Meal toys, you name it.
So it’s no surprise that when seasons of The Simpsons started to come out on DVD way back in *looks up release date of the first season and gets lost on Wikipedia for two hours* 2001, he started to collect them season by season. Then we got to Season 6 and the DVD box looked like this:
Yes, that is a 3D plastic Homer head. I think it had a super flimsy clear sleeve to make it more DVD-box-shaped, but I don’t remember what happened to that.
Anyway, I remember thinking that people might be upset at the sudden structural change to the DVD box. When I read the little insert inside that had a blurb from Matt Groening, he actually mentioned that they sold “regular” versions of the case (where it was just your traditional DVD box shape and material) for people who were “obsessive about that sort of thing” (not a direct quote, but it was something like that). Which is hilarious.
Anyway, here’s a whole video on the controversy surrounding this unique box.
Fun times.
Simp
This is a very interesting analysis of how and why The Simpsons, which actually died somewhere around season 9 or 10, is still so relevant to us through the way we’ve memed the hell out of it.
(Steamed Hams discussion starts at 8:06.)
Seriously, if you enjoy the way the internet seems to just latch on to certain things and make them into Things™, you’ll like this.
Steamed Hams
I love the internet. I love when the internet takes a thing and makes a meme out of it.
Example: the “steamed hams” scene from an old episode of The Simpsons (“22 Short Films about Springfield,” 1996). Observe the original clip:
And memed…
“Steamed Hams but There’s a Different Animator Every 13 Seconds”
“Steamed Hams but Chalmers is Obsessively Investigative”
And this freaking masterpiece of the internet, “Steamed Hams Inc.” Seriously, it’s so good. Watch it. It will change your life. I love the creativity of humans.
Huh.
Hahaha, what in the actual shit.
Name an underrated Simpsons character.
My answer: Milhouse.
I still say “everything’s comin’ up Milhouse!” in my head sometimes when something works out nicely.
Itty bitty blog
Haha, I went to see The Simpsons Movie today, and it was totally hilarious. I loved when Homer had the Bible out and he was flipping through it, saying, “this book has no answers!” I’m not going to spoil anything else for those of you who are going to see it but haven’t yet.
I loved it.
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