Kaitlyn’s Reviews > Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons > Status Update
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Another example:
"We don't have writer's block for other professions. Can't fix your pipes, I have plumber's block. Can't remove your tumor, I have surgeon's block. Can't file your taxes, I have H&R Block."
Its a pun, but its fucking solid. Except he follows it with "Booo, the audience jeers, that's terrible. Where did they come from?"
Overwritten to hell.
— Nov 18, 2025 07:38AM
"We don't have writer's block for other professions. Can't fix your pipes, I have plumber's block. Can't remove your tumor, I have surgeon's block. Can't file your taxes, I have H&R Block."
Its a pun, but its fucking solid. Except he follows it with "Booo, the audience jeers, that's terrible. Where did they come from?"
Overwritten to hell.
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Kaitlyn
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The skin is getting thinner and the jokes are getting decidedly more racist the longer the book goes on.
— Nov 20, 2025 08:08AM
Kaitlyn
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Again: In a list of best and worst episodes, the worst episodes are entirely fabricated titles and plots, getting more and more outlandish. If you think about them for even half a second, you realize the details don't match up and the joke is obvious.
The end of the list is Homer falling for a list of fake worst Krusty episodes.
Mike Reiss thinks we're all idiots.
— Nov 20, 2025 08:04AM
The end of the list is Homer falling for a list of fake worst Krusty episodes.
Mike Reiss thinks we're all idiots.
Kaitlyn
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Sigh. No, Skinner did not use his daughters as lab rats nor raise them in a box. Jesus why is this STILL a thing? Do people just believe everything they hear?
— Nov 19, 2025 05:12AM
Kaitlyn
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The openly conservative dude hates worrying women and often 'forgets' the female characters, including Marge and Lisa? Look. Look at how shocked I am: -_-
— Nov 18, 2025 08:28AM
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There's a late-Simpsons tendency to over-explain the joke.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul." Okay, tongue-in-cheek, but funny! That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap." A little more obvious, but can still work. That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap. I just told." Mangled.
— Nov 18, 2025 05:49AM
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul." Okay, tongue-in-cheek, but funny! That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap." A little more obvious, but can still work. That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap. I just told." Mangled.
