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The Subtle IMDb Homage to Homer Simpson Forgetting the Title of ‘Speed’

Homer Simpson is a man of many talents: Downing countless Duff beers at Moe’s Tavern night after night without so much as a hangover. Slacking off at work while never truly losing his job. Dumping so much pig crap into Lake Springfield that the EPA encased the entire town in a glass dome, turning it into essentially a giant snow globe. 

A deep knowledge of movie trivia, however, cannot be counted among these skills, as Simpsons fans — who apparently include the overlords at IMDb — discovered during Season Eight’s “The Springfield Files.”

Sarcastic Songs Everyone Takes Seriously

Irony is the lifeblood of poetry and literature, and we often forget that pop music is just poetry performed by hot people. As a result, we tend to take their work at face value, even when it’s more sarcastic than Daria Morgandorffer at the Goop summit.

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