History ComicallyMissingThePoint / TheSimpsons

--> '''Burns:''' All right, Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Schindler.\\
'''Spielbergo:''' But, Schindler es bueno! Burns es diablo!\\
'''Burns:''' Oh, pish tosh! Oskar Schindler and I are like two peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made [artillery] shells for the Nazis - ''but mine worked, dammit!''

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?]]", Homer asks the Orphanage where his half-brother Herbert might be. The director tells him that such data is confidential but says that Detroit is a good place to look for him. Homer keeps asking and missing the obvious hints, even bribing the director. The director has to say "He's in Detroit" point-blankly for Homer to get it.
** As an added bonus, the orphanage director says he, too, has a long-lost twin brother he'd give up anything to find. Homer knows this twin's location (the twin is obviously Dr. Hibbert), but says nothing, likely because he never makes the connection.

** Kinda counts as a double example seeing as how he not only misses the point (teachers making out) but also misses the more obvious mispronunciation of Krabappel.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E11TheDohcialNetwork The D'oh-cial Network]]", Grandpa looks at Homer and says disparagingly "I've created an alcoholic hippo." Instead of realising Grandpa is insulting him, Homer gets upset that he never got to see the hippo, to the point that when Grandpa tells him "''You're'' the hippo!" he asks "Are you just saying that because you don't want me to see the hippo?"

* Homer's famous explanation of the difference between jealousy and envy[[note]]"I'm not jealous, I'm envious. Jealousy is when you worry someone will take what you have. Envy is wanting what someone else has. What I feel is envy."[[/note]] is this in context - Lisa is warning him ''not'' to be jealous, but Homer ignores her warning about his negative feelings in favour of being pedantic about what those feelings are. It's an unusual example in that Homer pulls this off by being uncharacteristically ''smart'' rather than his usual ignorance.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree And Maggie Makes Three]]", a {{Flashback}} shows that when Marge got pregnant with Maggie, practically everyone congratulated Homer, and he interpreted all of it to be kudos for landing his dream job at the bowling alley... up to and including Moe's "Hey Homer! Way to get Marge pregnant!" When he gets home, he observes that Marge's friends are throwing her a party, where they're '''showering''' her with '''baby'''-sized gifts, which he casually shrugs off. At that point, Maude Flanders congratulates Homer on his new job, prompting him to say "New job? '''''MARGE IS PREGNANT?!'''''" and run to the bedroom in a panic.
* Similarly, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E10HomersNightOut Homer's Night Out]]", while coming home from work people keep greeting him and doing hula dances. He isn't aware that the picture of him dancing with a woman has circulated (despite there being a copy of the picture right behind Apu), and just figures that they're on drugs.
* When Homer has to explain to Bart why he got sloppy drunk at a party in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", he tells his son that he hopes Bart hasn't lost any respect for him. Bart wryly points out [[StealthInsult he has as much respect for him now as he ever did, or ever will]]. Homer completely takes that at face value.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E2AStreetcarNamedMarge A Streetcar Named Marge]]", after Marge delivers the last line of ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' ("I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.") the cast breaks into a musical number about how "You can always depend on the kindness of strangers..."
* During the gay parade, Marge hears Patty and Smithers, hidden each in their [[{{Irony}} own closets]], proclaiming that they're gay and proud of it. Marge then asks, "Wouldn't it be nice if that man and that woman got together [romantically]?"

* "I loved ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. Scared the hell out of me!" - Homer to Creator/MelBrooks in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E17HomerVsPattyAndSelma Homer vs. Patty and Selma]]".
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", after almost 5 hours of being stomped on the foot, being referred to as Homer Thompson, the new name the witness protection agents have chosen for the Simpsons as they elude Sideshow Bob [[spoiler:to no avail]], all Homer can say to one of the agents is, "I think he's talking to you."

* Similarly, when Marge asks Homer why he hasn't left for work:
-->'''Homer:''' They said that if I come in late one more time I'm fired. I can't take that chance!

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E18SeparateVocations Separate Vocations]]":
--> '''Homer''': Oh, we always have one good kid and one lousy kid. Why can't both our kids be good?
--> '''Marge''': We have three kids, Homer.
--> '''Homer''': Marge, the dog doesn't count as a kid.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt Mom and Pop Art]]", when a flood hit Springfield Ned builds [[TheArk an ark]] and takes on two of every animal... but only males because he doesn't want any hanky-panky going on. (But he got anyway) INeedADrink.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E12BartCarny Bart Carny]]", Chief Wiggum gives some rather obvious hints that Homer could get off the hook by bribing him, going as far as to ask for "[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre A Mr Bribe, wink wink]]". Homer does [[ComicallyMissingThePoint what he does best.]] Bart is also there and tries to point out the obvious, but [[NotNowKiddo Homer tells him to be quiet]].
** It happens again in the episode mentioned above when Chief Wiggum makes it clear that he won't help him for not bribing him but sarcastically tells him to wait for "Officer Like-I-give-a-damn". Guess what Homer does?
** In the same episode when the Carnie is explaining to Homer that his game booth is rigged, Homer takes that as a challange and takes out money for the game.
* Another Homer example - searching for his half-brother Herbert in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?]]", Homer asks the Orphanage where he might be. The director tells him that such data is confidential but says that Detroit is a good place to look for him. Homer keeps asking and missing the obvious hints, even bribing the director. The director has to say "He's in Detroit" point-blankly for Homer to get it.

'''Marge:''' C - U - P I wanna C - U [[FunWithAcronyms …oh my god!]]
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E19GradeSchoolConfidential Grade School Confidential]]":
--> '''Lisa:''' I was in the library at the time, but Janey told me Principal Skinner and... what's her name? Bart's teacher?\\
'''Marge:''' Mrs. Krabappel?\\
'''Lisa:''' Yeah, Krabappel. They were naked in the closet together!\\
'''Marge:''' GASP! Oh my goodness!\\
'''Homer:''' Wait a minute... Bart's teacher is named Krabappel? I've been calling her Crandall! Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself!
** Kinda counts as a double example seeing as how he not only misses the point (teachers making out) but also misses the more obvious mispronunciation of Krabappel.
* Mr. Burns got a good one in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star Is Burns]]" when he was trying to get a biopic of himself made:
--> '''Burns:''' All right, Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Schindler.\\
'''Spielbergo:''' But, Schindler es bueno! Burns es diablo!\\
'''Burns:''' Oh, pish tosh! Oskar Schindler and I are like two peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made [artillery] shells for the Nazis - ''but mine worked, dammit!''
* Played with in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E11FearOfFlying Fear of Flying]]". After Homer enters what is clearly a lesbian bar (it's is even called "She-She Lounge" and is filled with stereotypical lesbians):
-->'''Homer''': Wait a minute... there's something bothering me about this place... I know! '''''This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!''''' Enjoy your death trap, ladies.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing Much Apu About Nothing]]" a bear roams the streets. It is caught and Homer immediately demands more protection against bears, even though it was the first time the town ever encountered this problem. After a special "bear patrol" is installed Homer tells Lisa he feels much safer now.
-->'''Homer''': Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.\\
'''Lisa''': That's specious reasoning, Dad.\\
'''Homer''': Thank you, dear.\\
'''Lisa''': By [[FalseCause your logic]], I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.\\
'''Homer''': Oh, how does it work?\\
'''Lisa''': It doesn't work.\\
'''Homer''': Uh-huh.\\
'''Lisa''': It's just a stupid rock.\\
'''Homer''': Uh-huh.\\
'''Lisa''': But I don't see any tigers around, do you?\\
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]\\
'''Homer''': Lisa, I want to buy your rock.\\
[Lisa is about to explain again, but gives up and accepts the money instead]
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E9MayoredToTheMob Mayored to the Mob]]", Homer is convinced that he's killed Mayor Quimby after sending him flying out off a window. When he hears the mayor crying for help and sees him dangling from a window ledge, he exclaims, 'His corpse is climbing the building!'
* And then, of course, there's Homer thinking the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies aren't comedies ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E23TheSpringfieldConnection The Springfield Connection]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Be Not Proud]]"). Though in this case [[DumbassHasAPoint a lot of people might agree]]...

* In Homer's Land of Chocolate fantasy in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E11BurnsVerkaufenDerKraftwerk Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]", he's excited to see a store with chocolate at half price... in a land made entirely out of chocolate.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]", Chief Wiggum, arriving in a kitchen where a waiter lies on the floor after an apparent beating, is shocked that someone's taken a bite out of the giant Rice Krispie square.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E5BartAfterDark Bart After Dark]]", the news reports a terrible oil spill in Alaska. Lisa is clearly horrified at the environmental devastation, but Homer thinks her concerns lie elsewhere:
-->'''Homer''': Don't worry honey, there'll be lots more oil.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E8LisaOnIce Lisa on Ice]]", Lisa, having been informed that she is failing phys ed, has a vision of the future in which she is being sworn in as President of the United States, only for it to suddenly be revealed that she failed phys ed in elementary school. The judge immediately stops the swearing-in and instead sentences her to Monster Island instead. Seeing how upset she is, he quietly reassures her that it's just a name. Cut to her being chased through a jungle by monsters. She says to one of her fellow exiles that the judge promised her it was just a name. He explains that what he meant was that "Monster Island is really a peninsula."
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E17MySisterMySitter My Sister, My Sitter]]" Bart makes a series of prank calls to mess with Lisa, who is babysitting him. She angrily shouts at everyone who showed up (a sandwich delivery guy, Krusty the Klown, and a chauffeur for the ambassador from Ghana, among others) that they had all been tricked, the chauffeur wonders aloud, "Why would the ambassador do such a thing?"
* At the beginning of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E18TrilogyOfError Trilogy of Error]]", Marge calls Homer and the kids downstairs for breakfast. None of them are psyched to learn that she is serving them a healthy European cereal called Mesliux, which looks like some gooey brown slop. Hearing the doorbell ring, Bart knows it's Milhouse and he has big news, allowing him to escape. Homer and Lisa are still stuck there, but Lisa plans to get her and Homer away from the table without hurting Marge's feelings:
-->'''Homer''': Yugh.
-->'''Lisa''': Yuch. [aside to Homer] I'll get us out of this. Say Dad, wanna go see my project for the school science fair?
-->'''Homer''': No, Lisa. But I sure don't want to eat this crappy breakfast.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E21MargeInChains Marge in Chains]]", an epidemic of Osaka flu hits Springfield and a mob of people turn up outside Dr Hibbert's surgery demanding a cure:
--> '''Dr Hibbert''': The only cure is bed-rest. Any medicine I could give you would merely be a placebo.\\
'''Panicking Woman''': Where can we get these placebos!?\\
'''Panicking Man''': Maybe there's some in this truck!\\
(The mob knocks the truck over, revealing that it's transporting a cargo of bees. As the bees swarm and the crowd runs away, one man grabs a bee out of the air and eats it)\\
'''Man''': I'm cured! I mean... ow!

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs the Monorail]]", Homer is conducting a monorail that has gone haywire, and Marge brings a scientist from another town that had a monorail with similar problems to Springfield. She tells Homer over the loudspeaker that she has brought someone who can save the monorail, and Homer asks if it's Batman. But when Marge says "No, he's a scientist!" Homer thinks she's telling him that Batman is a scientist.
* In the imaginatively titled "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E10TheSimpsons138thEpisodeSpectacular The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]" ClipShow, Troy [=McClure=] reads (likely false) fan mail. In it, a fan asks, "What's the deal with Waylon Smithers? ''[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre You know what I mean.]]''" [=McClure=] agrees he knows exactly what they mean, then shows several clips where Waylon fantasizes about his male boss. However, when it cuts back to [=McClure=], he states matter of factly that Waylon is Mr. Burns' assistant, is in his early forties, is unmarried, and currently lives in Springfield.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E12MountainOfMadness Mountain of Madness]]," Homer is the first one to exit the power plant after Mr. Burns plays a prank with the fire alarm (even though when he does, he suddenly treats it like a fun footrace). It's followed by this exchange:
--> '''Homer''': ''(exhausted but excited)'' I think I won, Mr. Burns.\\
'''Mr. Burns''': ''(sinisterly)'' Yes, you won, all right. You've won more than you bargained for.\\
'''Homer''': ''(as cheerfully as ever)'' Woohoo!

* In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E11TheDohcialNetwork The D'oh-cial Network]], Grandpa looks at Homer and says disparagingly "I've created an alcoholic hippo." Instead of realising Grandpa is insulting him, Homer gets upset that he never got to see the hippo, to the point that when Grandpa tells him "''You're'' the hippo!" he asks "Are you just saying that because you don't want me to see the hippo?"

* In one episode, Grandpa looks at Homer and says disparagingly "I've created an alcoholic hippo." Instead of realising Grandpa is insulting him, Homer gets upset that he never got to see the hippo, to the point that when Grandpa tells him "''You're'' the hippo!" he asks "Are you just saying that because you don't want me to see the hippo?"

* In "Marge vs the Monorail", Homer is conducting a monorail that has gone haywire, and Marge brings a scientist from another town that had a monorail with similar problems to Springfield. She tells Homer over the loudspeaker that she has brought someone who can save the monorail, and Homer asks if it's Batman. But when Marge says "No, he's a scientist!" Homer thinks she's telling him that Batman is a scientist.
* In the imaginatively titled "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" ClipShow, Troy [=McClure=] reads (likely false) fan mail. In it, a fan asks, "What's the deal with Waylon Smithers? ''[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre You know what I mean.]]''" [=McClure=] agrees he knows exactly what they mean, then shows several clips where Waylon fantasizes about his male boss. However, when it cuts back to [=McClure=], he states matter of factly that Waylon is Mr. Burns' assistant, is in his early forties, is unmarried, and currently lives in Springfield.
* In "Mountain of Madness," Homer is the first one to exit the power plant after Mr. Burns plays a prank with the fire alarm (even though when he does, he suddenly treats it like a fun footrace). It's followed by this exchange:

'''Mr. Burns'': ''(sinisterly)'' Yes, you won, all right. You've won more than you bargained for.\\

--->'''Homer''': No, Lisa. But I sure don't want to eat this crappy breakfast.

---> '''Marge:''' Homer, the plant called and said if you don't come in tomorrow, don't bother coming in Monday.\\

--->'''Homer:''' They said that if I come in late one more time I'm fired. I can't take that chance!

---> '''Flanders:''' (''quietly'') Homer... you are the worst human being I have '''''ever''''' met. (''walks away'')\\

---> '''Marge:''' Homer, didn't John seem a little "festive" to you?\\

---> '''Marge:''' He's going to need, uh… you know, protection.\\

---> '''Lisa:''' I was in the library at the time, but Janey told me Principal Skinner and... what's her name? Bart's teacher?\\

---> '''Burns:''' All right, Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Schindler.\\

--->'''Homer''': Wait a minute... there's something bothering me about this place... I know! '''''This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!''''' Enjoy your death trap, ladies.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E13TheSeeminglyNeverEndingStory The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]", after Burns comes across Moe's letter.
--->'''Burns''': ''[narrating]'' I steamed the letter open with Moe's cappuccino machine.\\

--->'''Homer''': Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.\\

--->'''Homer''': Yugh.
--->'''Lisa''': Yuch. [aside to Homer] I'll get us out of this. Say Dad, wanna go see my project for the school science fair?

---> '''Dr Hibbert''': The only cure is bed-rest. Any medicine I could give you would merely be a placebo.\\

* When Homer has to explain to Bart why he got sloppy drunk at a party in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", he tell his son that he hopes Bart hasn't lost any respect for him. Bart wryly points out [[StealthInsult he has as much respect for him now as he ever did, or ever will]]. Homer completely takes that at face value.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E2124Minutes 24 Minutes]]", Mr. Burns told Homer to take his contaminated yogurt away from the plant. Homer saw that as a business travel.

* Chief Wiggum, arriving in a kitchen where a waiter lies on the floor after an apparent beating, is shocked that someone's taken a bite out of the giant Rice Krispie square.

* In "Marge in Chains", an epidemic of Osaka flu hits Springfield and a mob of people turn up outside Dr Hibbert's surgery demanding a cure:

* Averted in one episode, which turns what would be Homer missing the point into a bait and switch joke.
Homer is banned from Moes, and looks around for another bar. He eventually wind's up at a lesbian bar. He looks around confused, stating "Their's something bothering me about this bar.....I know! This Lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit. Enjoy your deathtrap ladies." and leaves the bar. A confused lesbian then asks "What was her problem?" turning the joke into comediacly missing the point again.

* Homer is banned from Moes, and looks around for another bar. He eventually wind's up at a lesbian bar. He looks around confused, stating "Their's something bothering me about this bar.....I know! This Lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit. Enjoy your deathtrap ladies."

* When Homer has to explain to Bart why got sloppy drunk at a party in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", he tell his son that he hopes Bart hasn't lost any respect for him. Bart wryly points out [[StealthInsult he has as much respect for him now as he ever did, or ever will]]. Homer completely takes that at face value.

* In "And Maggie Makes Three", a {{Flashback}} shows that when Marge got pregnant with Maggie, practically everyone congratulated Homer, and he interpreted all of it to be kudos for landing his dream job at the bowling alley... up to and including Moe's "Hey Homer! Way to get Marge pregnant!" When he gets home, he observes that Marge's friends are throwing her a party, where they're '''showering''' her with '''baby'''-sized gifts, which he casually shrugs off. At that point, Maude Flanders congratulates Homer on his new job, prompting him to say "New job? '''''MARGE IS PREGNANT?!'''''" and run to the bedroom in a panic.
* Similarly, in "Homer's Night Out", while coming home from work people keep greeting him and doing hula dances. He isn't aware that the picture of him dancing with a woman has circulated (despite there being a copy of the picture right behind Apu), and just figures that they're on drugs.
* When Homer has to explain to Bart why got sloppy drunk at a party, he tell his son that he hopes Bart hasn't lost any respect for him. Bart wryly points out [[StealthInsult he has as much respect for him now as he ever did, or ever will]]. Homer completely takes that at face value.
* In the episode where Marge stars in a musical version of ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', after she delivers the last line ("I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.") the cast breaks into a musical number about how "You can always depend on the kindness of strangers..."

* "Goodbye Adil! I'll send you those Civil Defence plans you wanted!" - Homer to foreign exchange student Adil in "Crepes Of Wrath", who is not just clearly a spy, but is, right in front of him, in the process of ''being deported from the country under espionage charges''.
* "I loved ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. Scared the hell out of me!" - Homer to Creator/MelBrooks in "Homer vs. Patty & Selma".
* In the episode ''Cape Feare'', after almost 5 hours of being stomped on the foot, being referred to as Homer Thompson, the new name the witness protection agents have chosen for the Simpsons as they elude Sideshow Bob [[spoiler:to no avail]], all Homer can say to one of the agents is, "I think he's talking to you."
* In "Last Exit To Springfield", Homer mistook Mr. Burns offer of a bribe as Burns hitting on him. It helped that Mr. Burns was being pretty flamboyant.

* In "Hurricane Neddy", when Ned Flanders [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech viciously lashes out at the Springfielders who did a really lousy job rebuilding his house]], he finishes with Homer:

* And then when a flood hit Springfield Ned builds [[TheArk an ark]] and takes on two of every animal... but only males because he doesn't want any hanky-panky going on. (But he got anyway) INeedADrink.
* In one scene, Chief Wiggum gives some rather obvious hints that Homer could get off the hook by bribing him, going as far as to ask for "[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre A Mr Bribe, wink wink]]". Homer does [[ComicallyMissingThePoint what he does best.]] Bart is also there and tries to point out the obvious, but [[NotNowKiddo Homer tells him to be quiet]].

* Another Homer example - searching for his half-brother Herbert, Homer asks the Orphanage where he might be. The director tells him that such data is confidential but says that Detroit is a good place to look for him. Homer keeps asking and missing the obvious hints, even bribing the director. The director has to say "He's in Detroit" point-blankly for Homer to get it.
* In ''Homer's Phobia'' Homer is blissfully unaware that John is gay. Marge attempts to point out this fact when Homer suggests John and his wife come over for dinner, with Homer ComicallyMissingThePoint until she tells him point blank:

* Also the clerk in the episode "Bart Star" is a subversion: at the end, it's revealed that he only wanted to play a crude joke on Marge:

* In the episode 'Grade School Confidential'

* Mr. Burns got a good one when he was trying to get a biopic of himself made:

* Played with in an early episode, "Fear of Flying". After Homer enters what is clearly a lesbian bar (it's is even called "She-She Lounge" and is filled with stereotypical lesbians):

* In "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", after Burns comes across Moe's letter.

* In "Much Apu About Nothing" a bear roams the streets. It is caught and Homer immediately demands more protection against bears, even though it was the first time the town ever encountered this problem. After a special "bear patrol" is installed Homer tells Lisa he feels much safer now.

* In ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E9MayoredToTheMob Mayored to the Mob]]'', Homer is convinced that he's killed Mayor Quimby after sending him flying out off a window. When he hears the mayor crying for help and sees him dangling from a window ledge, he exclaims, 'His corpse is climbing the building!'
* And then, of course, there's Homer thinking the ''PoliceAcademy'' movies aren't comedies ("The Springfield Connection" and "Marge Be Not Proud"). Though in this case [[DumbassHasAPoint a lot of people might agree]]...
* In the episode featuring an animated [[{{Crossover}} Jack]] [[Series/TwentyFour Bauer]], Mr. Burns told Homer to take his contaminated yogurt away from the plant. Homer saw that as a business travel.
* In Homer's Land of Chocolate fantasy, he's excited to see a store with chocolate at half price... in a land made entirely out of chocolate.

* In the episode "Bart After Dark", the news reports a terrible oil spill in Alaska. Lisa is clearly horrified at the environmental devastation, but Homer thinks her concerns lie elsewhere:

* In one episode, Lisa, having been informed that she is failing phys ed, has a vision of the future in which she is being sworn in as President of the United States, only for it to suddenly be revealed that she failed phys ed in elementary school. The judge immediately stops the swearing-in and instead sentences her to Monster Island instead. Seeing how upset she is, he quietly reassures her that it's just a name. Cut to her being chased through a jungle by monsters. She says to one of her fellow exiles that the judge promised her it was just a name. He explains that what he meant was that "Monster Island is really a peninsula."
* In ''My Sister, My Sitter'' Bart makes a series of prank calls to mess with Lisa, who is babysitting him. She angrily shouts at everyone who showed up (a sandwich delivery guy, Krusty the Klown, and a chauffeur for the ambassador from Ghana, among others) that they had all been tricked, the chauffeur wonders aloud, "Why would the ambassador do such a thing?"
* At the beginning of "Trilogy of Error", Marge calls Homer and the kids downstairs for breakfast. None of them are psyched to learn that she is serving them a healthy European cereal called Mesliux, which looks like some gooey brown slop. Hearing the doorbell ring, Bart knows it's Milhouse and he has big news, allowing him to escape. Homer and Lisa are still stuck there, but Lisa plans to get her and Homer away from the table without hurting Marge's feelings: