Homer Simpson gets a gun...

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I don't rember if it was from this mentioned episode, or another. but in one show Homer gose to buy a gun and fills out all the paperwork and is all ready to get his gun when the store employee says, "Ok there is a five day waiting period so come back in five days" to wich homer replys with a great line, "But I am angry now."
 
In the episode Homer has to wait 5 days for his gun. What states have waiting period as it might be a way to figure out what state the Simpsons live. :)

On a Family Guy note, Stewie was toting around a nice 1911 the other night with the hammer in SA position. I was impressed with the accuracy of the show until Peter is firing a revolver and you could hear spent shells hitting the floor.
 
The Simpsons episode on Homer buying a firearm, as what is being discussed, was probably the worst episode of the Simpsons I've seen in respect towards the total disregard of responsible firearm control.

It really turned me off to the Simpsons.
 
"I felt a surge of power, like god must feel when he's holding a gun!" Homer Simpson
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Fixed that for you.

There is also the episode where Lisa enacts a gun ban based on Billy the Kid's grave stone. Treehouse of horrors XIII. The gun ban results in outlaw ghosts enslaving the town because they are disarmed.
 
that's a great episode--I love mayor quimby's quote after all the guns in town are rounded up and destroyed: "I hereby declare this town--defenseless"
 
Family Guy is very anti-gun and so is American Dad
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You clearly missed the "American Dad" episode where the daughter played a practical "joke" on the father to get him to support gun control and ended up crippling him. At the end of the show, he was accidentally shot again, recovered, and much to the daughter's horror, learned the "lesson" that "guns cure disease!".
 
Lisa that comments that the world is great and one of the main reasons is the implemented strict gun control. She shows a pro gun control stance in several episodes and is clearly made out to be the intelligent smart one in the family. This implies that her opinion is usualy the most logical. So when she expresses a desire to ban or restrict guns, and gives a logic to support it in many episodes it shows that the writers are likely anti gun.
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In the Simpsons and other similar shows, the characters are caricatures and stereotypes. Lisa is a brainy, musically inclined young girl. And she plays the complete opposite to Bart and Homer. It makes sense that she would be liberal. She's not always right. There have been quite a few episodes where she's shown as a bookish dork with no common sense.

The Simpsons makes fun of everything. It's a great show for poking fun at yourself.

One of my favorites is where they are on the old Mississippi paddle wheel gambling boat. A fight breaks out and everyone draws little pocket derringers and starts shooting, but the little pellets just bounce off everyone.
 
I'd say the writers of the Simpsons are playing to both sides,that way everybody watches and takes what they want from it.

sounds pretty bright to me.

fyi,most of the streets in the Simpsons are named after streets in Porland,Or.
 
fyi,most of the streets in the Simpsons are named after streets in Porland,Or.
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Town layout is Springfield Oregon.

I don't see that episode as pro or anti. I think it's pro-thinking. Like when Homer waves the gun like a reckless idiot, they call him on it.

If the NRA allowed their official symbols to be used, you can bet they had some input to the context associated with it.
 
You clearly missed the "American Dad" episode where the daughter played a practical "joke" on the father to get him to support gun control and ended up crippling him. At the end of the show, he was accidentally shot again, recovered, and much to the daughter's horror, learned the "lesson" that "guns cure disease!".
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Actually if you read my post again I made reference to that very episode and the link takes you to a Wikipedia page that also talks about it.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stannie_Get_Your_Gun
 
The "Simpsons" make fun of absolutely everything. And, hontestly, I think it's pretty easy to make fun of "us" sometimes:D (Only think about the SHTF or TEOTWAWKI threads and how you could parody them) If you take them too serious, they are anti-everything.
 
Gun clerk: "And of course you'll need the bandoleer"

Homer: woo!

GC: "and Silencer"

H: WOO!

GC: "Loudener"

H: WOOOOO!!

GC: "And this attachment is for shooting down police helicopters"

H: (thoughtfully) "Oh, I won't be needing one of those.......Yet"
 
Based on Krusty the Clown's quote, I thought the episode was more pro.

"Hey, yutz! Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the king of England out of your face."
 
One of the main Simpson writers is a Libertarian and extremely pro-gun. See my earlier post in this thread about one of the episodes he wrote. He wrote many of the earlier episodes, and some of the later ones. The rest of the writers and staff are very anti-gun as stated in one of the commentaries. I stopped watching the Simpson's ten years ago because I thought the writers where trying to hard to appeal to a larger audience. The quality of the material started to suffer.
 
“There are three reasons to own a gun. To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face.” ~ Krusty the Clown
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There's also the episode where the aliens say "Your superior intellects are no match for our puny weapons" and enslave everyone.

Town layout is Springfield Oregon.
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(!) I didn't know the mystery had been solved. However, I still plan to make Simpsons jokes while in Springfield NH.
 
Maggie costs $847.63 (according to the most comprehensive Simpsons FAQ, this figure was once given as the amount of money required to raise a baby for one month in the US). It is often (erroneously) mentioned that the register reads 'NRA4EVER', but I think this was only true in one episode.
Too good to be true.
Does anyone know which episode that one episode was?
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In the "138th Episode Spectacular" the joke was they said the register read "NRA4EVER" as one of the "many conservatives messages slipped into the show by Matt Groening."

The joke was, of course, that Groening is actually a liberal and hates guns, so they were making fun by pretending he was a conservative.
 
If the NRA allowed their official symbols to be used, you can bet they had some input to the context associated with it.
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No. The show can use the NRA logo under the provisions of "Fair use." In this case they can claim the use of the logo under the "satire" provision of "fair use."

If you ever see the NRA logo in an editorial cartoon, the same idea applies.

I'm sure the NRA had no input in that show.
 
that's a great episode--I love mayor quimby's quote after all the guns in town are rounded up and destroyed: "I hereby declare this town--defenseless"
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This is the same episode where the bad guys rise from the dead, and terrorize the town. By the end of the show, Lisa is admitting that owning guns is not such a bad idea after all.
 
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