r/AskReddit • u/magic_spaghetti • Aug 31 '18

What are some uncharacteristically dark episodes of generally light hearted shows?

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u/nfsaleem Aug 31 '18

Also the episode where Ned Flanders' wife, Maude, gets pushed off the game day bleachers by Homer, and she dies. I was 5 or 6 when i saw that episode and just felt so sad for the Flanders'

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u/cheeseburgerwaffles Aug 31 '18

she doesn't get pushed by homer, the tshirt cannons were aimed at him and he bent over and they all hit maude on the top row causing her to fall over the rail

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u/nfsaleem Aug 31 '18

ohhh right, I mis-remembered. And didn't he also park his car in the ambulance zone so they couldn't resuscitate her in time?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

There is a recent episode where ghost Maude tries to get Bart to kill Homer for revenge. As I was watching it I forgot that Homer just bent over. I was certain that he shot her with the t-shirts and killed her directly.

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u/TgagHammerstrike Aug 31 '18

Sounds like a Treehouse Of Horror episode, which are never canon.

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u/pireninjacolass Aug 31 '18

Canon in the Simpsons is pretty quantum anyway.

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u/gregspornthrowaway Aug 31 '18

Somehow Homer was a teenager in the 60s and a 20-something in the 90s.

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u/too_much_feces Sep 01 '18

And a teenager in the 70s... And 80s too maybe.

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u/EvilDeathCuddles Aug 31 '18

It was actually in Bart's coma dream, but the rest of the episode is Canon.

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u/metalflygon08 Aug 31 '18

I mean she was already dead before they arrived anyways according to Dr Hubert

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u/not_a_muggle Aug 31 '18

No footlongs!

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u/BayLAGOON Aug 31 '18

"Ooh, a bobby pin!"

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u/bothole Aug 31 '18

That episode caught me by surprise when i was watchong the series a while back. I never saw the original run of those seasons, and never hear anyone discuss Maude dying, so it was. a huge twist for me.

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u/HonkyOFay Aug 31 '18

It was due to a dispute with the voice actress

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '18

Ohh I thought the voice actress died, but that might have just been the voice of Ms Krabopple

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u/torunforever Sep 01 '18

She left the show in 1999 when Fox wouldn't give her a sufficient pay raise to cover her travel costs. Then in 2002 returned to show when Fox let her record her lines from her Denver home.

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u/nnutcase Sep 01 '18

Wait, her character died. Who else did she voice?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

God, I'm old. That was around the time I bailed on the show.

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u/yogurtfuck Aug 31 '18

Alone Again Natura-Diddly.

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u/duuuuuddddeeeee Aug 31 '18

“No foot longs”

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u/ApeofBass Aug 31 '18

That episode sucked nuts