Simpsons Once You Go to the Vatican You Cant Go Back Again

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I love that one.
The episode with Liam Neeson as a priest was great for two gags. First, Homer says that Catholics have the best parts of the world, Boston, Latin America, Spain and the better parts of Ireland Then the priest goes on to say that if he doesn't convert Bart, he'll be the worst priest ever, "well apart from, you know" <looks embarrassed for a second>.
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Once you go Vatican, you can't go back again.
When I read the title the episode where Bart sold his soul popped into mind instantly.
Got to be Homer getting everyone to laugh while Grimey's body is lowered into the ground.
Its hard to get darker than old Grimey, or Homer's desire for a T-Shirt in essence killing Maud. But as a recurring theme, I'd place two things.
1 - Burns always wins - He's like freaking Apocalypse. He wasn't even suffering when the town was domed.

2 - Homer vs. Bart - By this I mean, even with Bart's antics and the show's premise, Homer seems to be the worst father imaginable. Just by my off-the-top-of-my-head screen count, Homer has Bart beat by the hundreds, and yet he still seeks 'revenge'. They used to balance it off a lot better either by Bart deserving it, or by Homer making it up somehow. Like Marge said in the Movie, it gets harder to answer why we bother.
I remember an interview with some of the writers a few years ago. In it, they admit knowing that Homer has been directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of at least twenty people by that point, and basically warn people to stay away.
Maude Springs to mind, as does Harold Grimes. What other specific people has Homer killed?

Mark <--- Homer as the Blob last year doesn't count
I think he killed James Bond twice. Once in the Casino episode where he dealt him the "rules for draw and stud poker" card, and once in the Frank Scorpio episode.
Wasn't that 'Mr Bont' in the Scorpio episode?
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There were the 3 coworkers who were on fire while Homer was day dreaming of being a clown. And in the same episode I think he killed that "Hamburgler" type character.
When Bart is Krusty's personal assistant, he calls the poor insomniac kid while he's at school, telling him he "need[s his] fingerprints on a candlestick" and not to "worry, because everything's going to be alright." I recall this as being a reference to one of the Berkowitz murders, but I may be wrong. Still very dark, whatever the case.
I'm pretty sure that they say Bond. It reairs on my CW Affiliate so I'll check.
Apprently it's Bont, though they called him "Bond" during his first appearance.
Can you believe someone made a James Bont webpage?

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Assuming this is the same character, I guess this only counts as one death. He must have escaped the first time.
I love the bit where the child in the audience is weeping, "Stop! Stop! He's already dead!"
I've always had a hard time watching the episode where Marge accidentally cuts off Homer's thumb.

Then there was the episode where Mr. Burns was having a flashback to when he was a young boy and kept hitting a maintenance worker with a bumper car. It causes him to laugh for almost the entire day. "Now, what was I laughing about?... Oh, yes, that crippled Irishman!" Then he starts all over again!

Then there was the flashback where we see Barney studying the night before the SATs and Homer brings him a case of beer and turns him into an alcoholic. As someone who has had several family members waste whole decades of their life stymied by alcoholism, I find that scene especially dark & depressing. Homer may not have killed Barney but he certainly ruined much of his life.
Interesting. The line does sound dubbed as Bont but the subtitles still say Bond. Then again though the holders of the estate and the rights to Bond have been known as the lawsuit types. I remember reading they once sued a bar in London because it had 007 written on the archway above the entry. Turned out it was the street number.
I think the darkest Simpson moment was when OJ found it he wasn't going to make any money off of Nicole's murder and that Fred Goldman was entitled to the profits.
"What dat carazy honkey goan be makin' de money? Shit I killed those foo' crackas for nutn! Dis is nutsen!"
from the simpsons movie
Todd: I wish Mr. Simpson was my daddy
Ned: I wish you didn't have the Devil's curly hair

ned has really been pegged lately as a much darker charater, i think he's absorbing homer's evil
^I think some of that has to do with him being such a steadfast Christian character. I think that the show's current writers have a strong bias against Christianity because they feel it should be lumped in with all of the other right wing "evils" that have befallen the U.S. during the Bush administration. Ned has made some pretty strong political statements that I can't recall him ever approaching during the Clinton administration. (In general, I think that the show's political commentary has gotten a lot more pointed during the Bush administration. It used to be a subtle pinprick that would gradually penetrate into your brain. Now, they feel the need to bash it in with a sledge hammer.)Dear god, did they actually do that? When?

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There's a recent one where Lisa tells Bart not to tell the police that he had killed Martin by pushing him off a cliff because she's an accomplice to the murder (because she wasn't able to save him). Funny thing is that Wiggum wonders if Martin's shirt will fit Ralph after a cougar coughs it up. I don't remember if he lives though, but I'm guessing he does.
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I thought it was a reference to the board game Clue .
Wait... (Hamster wheel in brain slowly starts turning.) O.J. Simpson! Now I get it.
I am so smart!
I am so smart!
S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T!