25 magnificent moments when Ireland met Springfield…
Radio Bart
1) The name of the boy who fell down the well, Timmy O’Toole is taken from the Irish folktale “Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk”. Thank God that Sting was on hand to save him.
Whacking Day
2) Barry White might not be too impressed with our own St. Patrick after he managed to drive the snakes out of Ireland. Hooray!
3) Then again we all know that whacking day was just an excuse to beat up the Irish but “twas was all in good fun”.
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4) Mr Burns can’t stop laughing after he remembers the crippled Irish man he kept hitting with a bumper car.
Homer Loves Flanders
5) When Homer enters the soup kitchen the local priest has an Irish accent. Who can forget this classic line, “Oh, you poor unfortunate man. Let’s get you our of those clothes immediately. And we’ll do whatever we can about the smell”.
The Day the Violence Died
6)”Itchy runs afoul of an Irishman” while Chester Lampwick plays “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” on the piano.
Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
7) Springfield celebrates St. Patrick’s day in the best way possible.
8) Moe gets into the spirit
9) This classic line from Kent O’Brockman
“All this violence, looting, destruction of property. Is this really what we think of when we think of the Irish?”
10) Moe’s has a “Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply” sign
Bart Star
11) This chalkboard gag
Trash of the Titans
12) Homer acts as ‘the potato man’ in an effort to hang out backstage with U2.
13) U2 are given the perfect Simpsons treatment.
This Little Wiggy
14) Ralph has a Blarney Stone in his backyard and sees a leprechaun who tells him to burn things.
Brawl in the Family
15) Flanders’ Vegas wife asks him to “Irish up the coffee” for her. Flanders gives this genius response,”Oops, watch the swears honeybear. We don’t use the I-word in this house.”
I am Furious (Yellow)
16) Groundskeeper Willie’s arch-nemesis is a drunken Irish poet named Groundskeeper Seamus. He did get this memorable line, “This is your doin’, Willy! I’ll turn your groin to puddin’!”.
Here they are fighting each other for about three minutes.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star
17) Catholic v Protestant Heaven.
Last Exit to Springfield
18) The grumpy leprechaun that stands at one end of Brad Goodman’s “Feeling Bad Rainbow.”
The Great Louse Detective
19) Duffman declares Duff Stout to be”the beer that made Ireland famous”.
‘Scuse me While I Miss the Sky
20) This line from Grandpa, “Last time the meteor shower came we thought the sky was on fire,naturally we blamed the Irish and hanged a few more”.
She Used to Be My Girl
21) Marge uses Shiner Be Gone – Irish Strength
In The Name of the Grandfather
The entire episode is set in Ireland and here’s just some of our favourites.
22) The most Irish pint ever
23) When Irish surnames and IT combine
24) Glen Hansard meets his end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW4kQh4mgKc
Treehouse Of Horror XII
25) “Tis like the singing of the angels themselves”.
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