History NoodleIncident / TheSimpsons

** Chief Wiggum tells a lonely Homer to buy an inflatable woman, but insists on making sure it ''is'' a woman and touches on an incident where he had one that wasn't, but doesn't go any further with details.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E4LargeMarge Large Marge]]", Homer hands Lisa his wedding ring so he won’t get paint on it, only for Lisa to point out his "ring" is a bandage wrapped in foil. Homer sheepishly admits his real ring is inside a turtle.

* In the 200th episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E22TrashOfTheTitans Trash of the Titans]]", when Homer announces his candidacy for sanitation commissioner, the courthouse clerk points out that Homer is in a line for people who have to register as sex offenders. In that line are Patty and Selma, Jimmy the Scumbag [[note]]the telemarketing scammer[[/note]] from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]", Mayor Quimby's nephew from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]" [[note]]the one who was accused of beating up a French waiter when he refused to say "Chowder," but was found innocent when Bart told the court that he saw the waiter trip and fall on himself in such a way that it looked like he was assaulted[[/note]], and Moe Szyslak, who complains that the lines for registering sex offenders are always long. The viewer can understand why Moe, the mayor's nephew, and possibly Jimmy the Scumbag would be sex offenders (Moe's a creeper [or at least that's what he's become in later episodes, especially with the running gag about hitting on Marge], Mayor Quimby and his entire male family members are [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the Kennedys (whose legacy is mired in sex scandals in which no one knows what exactly happened -- or someone knows, but he or she doesn't want to talk about it), and Jimmy the Scumbag is...[[ShapedLikeItself a scumbag]]), but what's the story with Patty and Selma? Why are they in the registered sex offenders line, and why didn't they leave when the clerk revealed what the line is for? Either they did something so bad that it can never be mentioned or -- like Homer in that scene -- they too suck at picking lines.[[note]]The "sex offenses" line regarding Patty and Selma is probably a reference to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family]]" where Patty and Selma lured a TV repairman over to their apartment with the false claim that their TV was broken and then force him to "spend the night" with them during the sequence of Marge leaving Homer after being lied to again about Homer getting rid of his gun.[[/note]]

* Most of the [[CouchGag chalkboard gags]] allude to Bart being in trouble for something while leaving it to the audience's imagination what he actually did or how he was able to do it, making the Noodle Incident a virtually OncePerEpisode occurrence.

* Most of the [[CouchGag chalkboard gags]] allude to Bart being in trouble for something while leaving it to the audience's imagination what he actually did, making the Noodle Incident a virtually OncePerEpisode occurrence.

* Most of the [[CouchGag chalkboard gags]] are these involving Bart, making the Noodle Incident a virtually OncePerEpisode occurrence.

** There's also the matter on how Barney ended up in the tar pit in the first place, who after being rescued by Stampy (right before he rescued Homer) then lights a cigarette and ''[[UpToEleven his whole body catches on fire]]''. His only reply to this is [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction "Ouch!"]]

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E6HelloGutterHelloFadder Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]", after bowling a perfect 300 game, Homer takes out a list of life goals and checks it off, right next to "see [[Music/FleetwoodMac Stevie Nicks]] naked", which has several checks beside it.

* From "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E8HomerSimpsonsInTheKidneyTrouble Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"]]":

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E17BartGetsAnElephant Bart Gets an Elephant]]", after Stampy rescues Homer from the tar pit [[WhatAnIdiot and Bart and Lisa go to hug him]], Bart explains that they're stuck to him. As Marge goes to pry them off of him, she mutters, "This is just like what happened at the caramel factory." Although Homer fantasizes about the food, no further details are given.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E16HomerLovesFlanders Homer Loves Flanders]]" after Kent Brockman says that a cure for "Pigskin Fever" is to take two tickets and go to the football game, a voice quickly says, [[RattlingOffLegal "Warning: tickets not meant to be taken internally".]] This prompts Homer to point to the announcement and declare to Marge and Lisa "See? Because of me, now they have a warning."

** Another episode has him bid the audience goodnight and then remember that he forgot about "The President being arrested for murder". He tries to squeeze it in but runs out of time.

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''' (with a plunger on his head), ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Front"

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', being a [[LongRunners Long-Runner]], has been a rich source of {{Noodle Incident}}s since 1989--oftentimes without even trying.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E24LostOurLisa Lost Our Lisa]]" has Homer and Lisa breaking into the Springfield museum to see the Isis exhibit. Homer asks Lisa to open the window, because apparently, the police have his prints on file [[note]]Though, considering the many times Homer has been arrested for several things such as speeding, driving drunk, buying beer for minors -- despite that Kearney is over 21 and can legally get beer for himself -- and just general disorderly conduct, this probably doesn't count as a Noodle Incident. Also a minor goof: Lisa was arrested on "Lisa the Skeptic" when the entire town was clamoring over the angel skeleton and she was trying to prove that it wasn't an angel, so the police should have her prints on file as well. Then again, the Springfield police are horribly incompetent, and even Chief Wiggum said on part two of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" that they don't arrest children like they do in Texas. Also federal law would require Homer to register his fingerprints as a condition of his employment at the nuclear power plant--though again, this could be written off as negligence on [=SNPP=]'s part.[[/note]].

* The season 11 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture Bart to the Future]]" [[note]]the "look into the future" episode that has Bart as a washed-up musician and Lisa as the first heterosexual female President of the United States[[/note]] had Future Bart tell Future Ralph that he'll get a settlement for either the spider bite at Disney Land or the incident with the oversalted French fries (neither of which are explained any further, though obviously being {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s, they probably don't need to be).

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]" has sometime in the future where Mr. Burns has been cryogenically frozen until there is a cure for ''17 stab wounds in his back.''[[note]]Although the scientists had already cured fifteen of the wounds[[/note]] This begs the question of who stabbed him, although given his reputation, it's anybody's guess.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock New Kid on the Block]]", Marge calls Abigail: one of the kids' past babysitters to watch them while they go out to dinner. Abigail's sister answers instead, saying she takes care of her because something Bart did caused her to have a mental breakdown and is now sitting on a rocking chair with a thousand-yard-stare muttering to herself.

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', being a LongRunner, has been a rich source of {{noodle incident}}s since 1989--oftentimes without even trying.

[-''Go Back to the [[Main/NoodleIncident main page here]], or find examples from other [[NoodleIncident/WesternAnimation western animation here]]''.-]

-->'''Homer''': You're not going to ask me to pose nude, are you?
-->'''Photographer''': Well, yes, unless you have issues about revealing your body.
-->'''Homer''': I don't, but the block association seems to. ''They'' wanted a "traditional" Santa.

--> '''Homer''': (Fumbling with map): North. South. Nuts to that, I'm taking a shortcut.
--> '''Marge''': No, Homer. You'll get lost.
--> '''Homer''': Relax, Marge. With today's cars, you can't get lost. What with the silicon chips and such.
--> ''([[GilliganCut Cut to]] car pulling up to the amusement park parking lot, severely destroyed, with a wagon wheel in place of a tire, a Homecoming banner being dragged behind, a U.S. Army missile sticking out of the chassis, a school traffic sign stuck to the side, and chickens in Marge's hair)''
--> '''Homer''': All right, we're here. Now [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain let us never speak of this shortcut again]].

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E21MontyCantBuyMeLove Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]", when Mr. Burns single handedly captures the Loch Ness Monster during a popularity-increasing scheme:
--> '''Groundskeeper Willie''': That was amazing, Mr. Burns!
--> '''Mr. Burns''': I was a little worried when he swallowed me, but then, well you know the rest.

--> '''Nelson''': Wait till he finds what I left in his bird bath!
--> '''Skinner''': [[BigNo NOOOOOO!!!]]

-->'''Brockman''': Remember millionaire C. Montgomery Burns? The man who [[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns blocked out our sun]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E10BartGetsHitByACar ran over a local boy]], and stole Christmas from 1981 to 1985?

** Selma was also married to Lionel Hutz for a brief period off camera (sometime between her marriages with Sideshow Bob and Troy [=McClure=]) and this was first mentioned when she rejected Homer's idea of marrying Apu Nahasapeemapetilon to avoid him getting deported.
-->'''Homer''': (on the phone) Hello, Selma? Selma my dear, how are you?... Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Listen, shut up for a second. How would you like to marry Apu so he doesn't get deported?
-->'''Selma''': I'd rather eat poison. My name's already Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz [=McClure=]. God knows it's long enough without Nahassapeema-whatever. From now on, I'm only marrying for love... Mmm, possibly once more for money.

--> '''Homer:''' I just want to set the record straight. [[MistakenForProstitute I thought the cop was a prostitute!]]

-->'''Mulder''': Worse than the time we were attacked by the flesh-eating virus?
-->'''Scully''': No, this is much more irritating.

-->'''Bart:''' This better not turn out like Kansas City.
-->'''Homer:''' It won't be like Kansas City!

-->'''Bart:''' (sarcastic) Kansas City?
-->'''Homer:''' (resigned) Kansas City.

-->'''Apu:''' I, too, owe many thanks to Lester and Eliza. This is a great vindication for anybody who was ever taking a bath went to get the paper, fell down and had the door slam behind them and the doorknob break off.

-->'''Homer''': So I told that nurse, 'You can take your free tetanus shot and you can shove it!'
-->'''Bart''': You're the man, Homer! ''[They high-five each other]''
-->'''Homer''': And then--''[[[TooDumbToLive With a suddenly locked jaw]]]'' I--''[mumbles, then uses a fork to open his jaw, sighing with relief]'' Whew! That was a close one!
-->'''Marge''': But what you didn't tell us is the reason ''why'' Lenny bit you.
-->'''Homer''': Well, I really didn't give him any choice; you see--

-->'''Bart''': [[TakeThat Right, coincidence.]]

--> '''Homer''': I'll never wiggle my bare butt in public again.
--> '''Lisa''': I'd like to believe that this time. I really would.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E5SideshowBobRoberts Sideshow Bob Roberts]]", after Sideshow Bob throws Bart out of his limo, Homer is seen being thrown out of a car by [[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie and friends]] and is warned by Moose to "Stay outta Riverdale!" The same episode shows that Bart somehow made an enemy of Creator/DrDemento.

-->'''Homer''': Aww, every time Santa and me get together something bad always happens.

* In the 200th episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E22TrashOfTheTitans Trash of the Titans]]", when Homer announces his candidacy for sanitation commissioner, the courthouse clerk points out that Homer is in a line for people who have to register as sex offenders. In that line are Patty and Selma, Jimmy the Scumbag [[note]]the telemarketing scammer[[/note]] from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]", Mayor Quimby's nephew from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]" [[note]]the one who was accused of beating up a French waiter when he refused to say, "Chowder," but was found innocent when Bart told the court that he saw the waiter trip and fall on himself in such a way that it looked like he was assaulted[[/note]], and Moe Szyslak, who complains that the lines for registering sex offenders are always long. The viewer can understand why Moe, the mayor's nephew, and possibly Jimmy the Scumbag would be sex offenders (Moe's a creeper [or at least that's what he's become in later episodes, especially with the running gag about hitting on Marge], Mayor Quimby and his entire male family members are [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the Kennedys (whose legacy is mired in sex scandals in which no one knows what exactly happened -- or someone knows, but he or she doesn't want to talk about it), and Jimmy the Scumbag is...[[ShapedLikeItself a scumbag]]), but what's the story with Patty and Selma? Why are they in the registered sex offenders line, and why didn't they leave when the clerk revealed what the line is for? Either they did something so bad that it can never be mentioned or -- like Homer in that scene -- they too suck at picking lines.[[note]]The "sex offenses" line regarding Patty and Selma is probably a reference to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family]]" where Patty and Selma lured a TV repairman over to their apartment with the false claim that their TV was broken and then force him to "spend the night" with them during the sequence of Marge leaving Homer after being lied to again about Homer getting rid of his gun.[[/note]]

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E13HomerAndApu Homer and Apu]]", while at a Costco-esque store, a drunk Barney accidentally knocks over a giant Mrs. Maple bottle (which he confuses for a human) which spills everywhere to which he screams, "Oh, I've killed her! It's all happening again!" [[note]]Though that could be a reference to the episode "Rosebud," in which Barney threatened to shoot Homer with a gun, Homer slammed the door in his face, the gun went off, and the last thing we hear is a woman screaming, cop sirens, and Barney muttering, "Uh-oh!"[[/note]]

* In the beginning of season 5 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer The Last Temptation of Homer]]", Homer and his buddies are in a situation where they are trapped in a room with toxic gases coming at them from all sides. We then cut to Mr. Burns' office with Charlie saying, "Well, sir, I won't bore you with the details of our miraculous escape..." It's subverted as we know how the men got in that mess (In fact, they caused it!).

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E2MyMotherTheCarjacker My Mother the Carjacker]]" Homer's mother Mona states that she remembers Homer's friends Carl and Lenny when they were children. She says, Carl, Lenny and another boy named Stevie "were like the Three Musketeers", to which they both reply: "Poor Stevie. They never found his head."

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]" has Homer and The Be-Sharps singing a song about Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Annoyed, Apu then gripes to him, "This is worse than your song about Mr. T!"

-->'''Bart''': You the man, Homer! ''[They high-five each other]''

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E17BartGetsAnElephant Bart Gets an Elephant]]", after Stampy rescues Homer from the tar pit [[WhatAnIdiot and Bart and Lisa go to hug him,]] Bart explains that they're stuck to him. As Marge goes to pry them off of him, she mutters, "This is just like what happened at the caramel factory." Although Homer fantasizes about the food, no further details are given.

* The main plot of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites Realty Bites]]" involves Marge selling the Flanders family a home infamously dubbed "The Murder House." It seems the house was home to the grisly "Jealous Jockey Murders," yet the only details shared were:

** At some point Homer pissed Sideshow Mel off enough he joined in delivering Homer's comeuppance at the end.

* Doubling as BaitAndSwitch, in the second part of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]" after Lisa dismisses the possibility of their family being guilty of attempted murder, Grampa says that one's actions can surprise a person, casually mentioning "I never thought that [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII I could shoot down a German plane,]] but last year I proved myself wrong."

* In season 10's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E2TheWizardOfEvergreenTerrace The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]", Homer has to do research in the Springfield Elementary School library because he was banned from the "'Big people's'" library over some... unpleasantness." In the same episode, after Homer quits his job to become an inventor, Marge, who is uncomfortable with the idea, tries to console herself by saying "Well, I suppose if this doesn't work out you can always go back to the plant." Homer simply responds "Not the way I quit."

* Many of Bart's blackboard punishment lines could be considered Noodle Incidents (like "I will not teach others to fly," "I am not a licensed hairstylist," "Science class should not end in tragedy," "Making Milhouse cry is not a science project," "Organ transplants are best left to the professionals," "The boys' room is not a water park," "I do not have power of attorney over first graders," and "Next time, it could be me on the scaffolding.") since what Bart did to get detention during the opening credits is only implied.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E7EightMisbehavin Eight Misbehavin']]" features a scene that skips ahead nine months to the Simpson Family riding in the car, and they all discuss events that happened during that year. Marge had a short but memorable run as "Sideshow Marge", Bart learned the true meaning of Columbus Day, and winter, while Lisa became the most popular girl in school [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism but blew it by being conceited]].

--> '''Homer''': Relax Marge. With today's cars, you can't get lost. What with the silicon chips and such.

** A subsequently-aired episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' does deal with such a virus, but "The Springfield Files" would have to take place much earlier in the ''X-Files'' timeline, going by a reference Mulder once made to a suspect looking like "Homer Simpson's evil twin."

* We may never know why the Simpson family is [[PersonaNonGrata banned from 47 US states]] (which causes FridgeLogic: If the Simpsons have been banned from nearly all of the U.S., exactly where do they live and where the heck is Springfield? Are we to believe that Springfield is in another English-speaking country [possibly an American territory, like Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands] or do they live in one of the only three states that haven't thrown them out yet?), though, considering the chaos Homer caused in "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" and what happened in "Kill the Alligator and Run" (which is the episode that revealed that the Simpsons have been banned in nearly all of America), it's not much of a surprise.

* The death of Dr. Marvin Monroe. Prior to Troy [=McClure=] saying he was dead in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E10TheSimpsons138thEpisodeSpectacular The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]", the only clue that it had happened was an episode where a place called Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital is seen. (The word "memorial" is added to a place named for a deceased person.) How it happened and when was a mystery. ([[WordOfGod Matt Groening]] claimed that the character was retired because Harry Shearer, his voice actor, strained his throat playing him, and as the character himself had admitted in one episode, his voice became downright annoying.)

* In the episode "Rosebud", Homer mocked Mr. Burns at his birthday party, which involved drawing a frowny face on his butt and {{Mooning}} an audience. It ends badly, and apparently, it's not the first time it's happened.

* In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Bart ends up being punched in the face three times due to identifying himself as Homer and getting blamed for his past indiscretions, which include him apparently writing threatening or otherwise harassing letters to Music/FrankSinatra and stealing golf balls from a local golf course.
* "The Springfield Connection". What ''did'' Hans Moleman do to earn the death penalty, and how did his last meal end up being eaten by Homer? Plus, since he ''was'' apparently on death row, why would Homer be housed with him in the exact same cell?