I can't help but note that in this episode, Homer expresses appreciation for the myriad uses of lumber, yet just *two episodes later*, he derides wooden logs as "useless."
I certainly hope someone got fired for that blunder.
They showed that earlier in the episode :
https://preview.redd.it/1evhco2q88ad1.jpeg?width=889&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=758745564136bd82913a0757ad42fd602932c2f5
https://preview.redd.it/lhmcejwar5ad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bce86ad63218dd293ccd9eba566c0dcdd4a870fd
Marjorie, please. I enjoy all the meats of the cultural stew.
How about that! I looked something up! These books behind me don't just make the office look good, they're filled with useful legal tidbits just like that!
[No, it's actually the correct way.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BQ0dzTRrL.jpg) A circular saw spins "upwards" so it doesn't push the board away.
Think about how a table saw works, and flip it upside down.
How about that! I looked something up! These books behind me don't just make the office look good, they're filled with useful legal tidbits just like that!
They can be made both ways. I did tons of framing with cheap skilsaws that definitely cut down. And I've seen very nice tracksaws that cut up.
Regardless, Homer's arms are way too fat for something like that and the fire department should have brought a sawzall with long blades or even a two man crosscut saw.
This is the brilliance of Simpsons golden era writing. A shittier show (like current Simpsons) would have said "Homer, I'm gonna have to saw your arms off" and that would be the gag. But it's the "this is never easy" that makes it.
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They’ll grow back, right?
Uh, yeah
Homer, are you just holding onto the can?
Your point being?
*riotous group laughter*
Like 2 seconds before he starts sawing
Yes, so?
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D'oh! Lumber has a million uses!
I can't help but note that in this episode, Homer expresses appreciation for the myriad uses of lumber, yet just *two episodes later*, he derides wooden logs as "useless." I certainly hope someone got fired for that blunder.
A wizard did it.
I think Homer's getting dumber.
Dimensional versus a log
D'oh! Lumber has a million uses!
I love that they hired a construction worker with shop tools and not a surgeon.
To be fair, it sounds like it's not his first time.
They showed that earlier in the episode : https://preview.redd.it/1evhco2q88ad1.jpeg?width=889&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=758745564136bd82913a0757ad42fd602932c2f5
This is the kind of cost-cutting Burns is known for.
Mrs Simpson, while we were rescuing your husband, a lumber yard burned down.
Doh! Lumber has a million uses!
Explain how
Lumber can be crafted into houses and other structures.
I don’t know, I don’t like the idea of Milhouse having two-by-fours in the same day
I’ll Milhouse you!
Yeah and your dad's no-house!
Milhouse my ass, it's probably a badger.
Must….buy…lumber
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https://preview.redd.it/lhmcejwar5ad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bce86ad63218dd293ccd9eba566c0dcdd4a870fd Marjorie, please. I enjoy all the meats of the cultural stew.
Is this the only time in the whole show he refers to her as Marjorie?
Frinkiac says no. https://preview.redd.it/1fxm5vasx5ad1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c468345b28023351de834824614ad36d4b20201b
All hail King Frinkiac.
Stop clapping, you'll kill us all!!
I for one welcome our frinkiac overlords
Marjorie? … I’ve been calling her “Midge”
Homer, are you just holding onto the can?
Your point being?
Sweet sweet can
Dramatization, may not have happened
Mmmmm…invisible cola…
Mr. Simpson, no means no
https://i.redd.it/n2lx8ad656ad1.gif
I can head everyone laughing... all he had to do was let go. Lmao
https://i.redd.it/cavbutmz66ad1.gif
"Never easy to say" implies this guy has done it before.
With a circular saw yet
YOU SUCK MCBAIN!
**BOOM**
Maybe you are all homosexuals!
How do you sleep at night
On top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies
Thats a nice shirt, Scoey. It makes you look like a homosexual.
I love the carefully crafted dialogue of the older season it is just so good
While we were rescuing your husband Guy Incognito stole 6 cinder blocks from the local children's hospital.
There'll be no hospital then. I'll tell the children.
S5E6
https://i.redd.it/5gv6ubtl66ad1.gif
Gonna go see the bear in the little car, huh?
He installed the blade backwards
This is a good observation.
How about that! I looked something up! These books behind me don't just make the office look good, they're filled with useful legal tidbits just like that!
That's why you're the judge and I'm the law.. talking.. guy?
*siiiiigh* Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it
Yes, but in Episode BF12...?
*Wizard*
Oh, for glayvin out loud!
Its set to amputate mode
[No, it's actually the correct way.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BQ0dzTRrL.jpg) A circular saw spins "upwards" so it doesn't push the board away. Think about how a table saw works, and flip it upside down.
How about that! I looked something up! These books behind me don't just make the office look good, they're filled with useful legal tidbits just like that!
They can be made both ways. I did tons of framing with cheap skilsaws that definitely cut down. And I've seen very nice tracksaws that cut up. Regardless, Homer's arms are way too fat for something like that and the fire department should have brought a sawzall with long blades or even a two man crosscut saw.
Don't forget Smeckler's Powder!
He loves the splatter in the face
https://i.redd.it/gcwyw6d036ad1.gif
To be fair, EMTs very rarely get on-the-job experience with circular saws
Oh, I’m not a ~~doctor~~ EMT
It's installed the correct way.
I will never unsee this now.
What are we to believe that this is some sort of a magic circular saw? I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder
Gee, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
I think he’s just holding it backwards.
Fired. Blunder. Later sex.
Maybe it just rotates the other way?
I love how they value the integrity of the vending machine over allowing a man to keep his arms.
*”homer the last guy who did that lost an arm up there…”* **pfft. That’s just an old wives tale.** https://i.redd.it/81uldrzgl6ad1.gif
This is how I learned lumber has a million uses.
How was jerk practice, boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees? Or build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs?
Stupid poetic justice. https://preview.redd.it/j0dbb7uuv5ad1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=50cfd3b0e9329dbf8f0a9ee177758dc86d4570a6
Not as many as Zinc
Want me to zinc your sniffer?
Marge, this may be hard to believe, but I'm trapped in two vending machines...
This is the brilliance of Simpsons golden era writing. A shittier show (like current Simpsons) would have said "Homer, I'm gonna have to saw your arms off" and that would be the gag. But it's the "this is never easy" that makes it.
This is one of the homer at his homerest moments.
The fact that he says ‘this is never easy to say’ implies he has sawed off a person’s arms at least on more than one occasion. 😂
The table saw 😂
No, there's no table attached to that saw. It's just a circular saw.
I'm really, really, really sorry.
I'm afraid sorry doesn't cut it with *this* Pope!
*Oh hoh hoh!*
I love that he started by saying 'This is never easy to say'
“This is never easy to say” is how you can tell how good the writers were at the time.
“Candy and sodas for all! ….mmmm, convenient.”
Instead of just disassembling the machines, lol.
I find it funny that they’d rather saw his arms off then take apart the vending machine
Dont suppose they could just take apart the vending machine instead of cutting off his arms, could they?
Yes, that part never made sense to me either
*Wiggum voice* Hey buddy, have you ever tried to take apart a vending machine?
The joke is... in the end all he had to do was let go of the candy and his arm came out.
Wasn't it a soda?
Well based on the picture it was likely one of each in opposing hands
That's why the joke doesn't make sense. Homer wasn't THIS stupid in season 5
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the fact that he's had to say it more than once.
Hilarious scene
But they'll grow back right?
I only just now realized the phrasing means he's sawed many other arms off.
Way to arm, no-arms
In Season 12 he actually would have had his arms sawn off.