D'oh!Įven though D'oh isn't written on Simpsons scripts-"annoyed grunt" has always been how it appears on paper-it's listed in Webster's Millennium Dictionary of English and the Oxford English Dictionary as "Used to comment on a foolish or stupid action, especially one’s own." Initially, Dan Castellaneta said "Doooooooo" as Homer to mimic actor James Finlayson in the Laurel & Hardy movies. Krabappel that the slightly less fictitious "embiggen" is a "perfectly cromulent" word.Ĭromulent is now listed in Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, and its listing says that cromulent is an adjective meaning "fine" or "acceptable." 4. Cohen came up with the word for the season seven episode "Lisa the Iconoclast," where Ms. Cohen, who would go on to co-develop Futurama with Matt Groening. CromulentĬromulent is a word created by Simpsons writer David X.
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Some examples of its post- Simpsons use are the 2002 Marvel Comics limited series The Craptacular B-Sides, a Howard Stern contest where contestants weigh the waste they generated after stuffing their faces for 24 hours, and an " Annual Holiday Craptacular" that benefits the San Francisco Food Bank. Unmoved by Homer's weak Christmas lights, Bart offers that the display looks "craptacular" in season nine's "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace." The word was likely used prior to the episode's December 1997 airing, but it became a popular way to say that something or someone was " spectacularly crappy" after the show's use of it. Kellogg's states that in this case, chocotastic means "Chocolate flavour filling in a frosted pastry," 198 calories at a time. Years later, stores in the UK and Australia started stocking "Frosted Chocotastic" Pop Tarts.
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Strangely enough, when Homer asks how to speed up the weight gain process, he's told to substitute bread for Pop Tarts. Nick informed him of the three "neglected" food groups: the Whipped Group, the Congealed group, and the Chocotastic! (Emphasis Nick's.) The Hollywood Upstairs Medical College that educated Dr.
Nick Riviera to help him reach that unhealthy goal.
In the season seven episode "King-Size Homer," Homer tries to gain enough weight to tip scales at more than 300 pounds, which will get his big posterior on work disability. Here are 10 words that the show has made famous, either by inventing them or re-purposing them to make us laugh, think, and then laugh again. After hundreds of episodes-and with no end in sight- The Simpsons has changed the way we talk to one another.
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