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12 Trivia Tidbits Your Child Refuses to Learn Unless You Pretend They’re An Airplane

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Count musician Elle King among the people who have no time for Rob Schneider. In a teaser TikTok for Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, King accused her comic father of yapping out of his butt — and not the funny way Jim Carrey did it in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

“I disagree with a lot of the things that he says,” King said about her dad’s loudmouth opinions. “You’re talking out of your ass and you’re talking shit about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights. And it’s like, get fucked.”

For the last 35 years, Homer Simpson has been coming up with get-rich-quick schemes that quickly fizzle out by the closing credits, but every now and then, he comes close to a real business breakthrough. One of these days, he’ll finally score his three money.

Back when the entire Simpsons canon sat at roughly 400 episodes, series creator Matt Groening claimed that Homer had held 188 different jobs in his time on the show, though he always returned to Sector 7-G down at the nuclear power plant. As such, Mr. Burns’ declaration of “Don’t Forget, You’re Here Forever” that Homer touchingly turned into a tribute to his youngest child is hilariously off-base, considering how Burns’ most dangerous safety inspector is constantly taking sabbaticals to go into space, or to become a heavyweight boxer, or to voice a divisive character on The Itchy & Scratchy Show before dying on his way back to his home planet.

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