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‘The Simpsons’ Went to Great Lengths to Animate Homer’s Least Favorite City

One of the most inadvertently problematic episodes of The Simpsons found Homer reluctantly taking his family on a trip to New York City, purely in order to recover his car, which Barney abandoned at the bottom of the World Trade Center. Because of the Twin Towers’ prominent role in the story, “The City of New York vs Homer Simpson” was temporarily pulled from syndication in the wake of the September 11th attacks, thus costing the crab juice industry millions of dollars-worth of free advertising.

John Mulaney Roasts Tech Geeks Who Hired Him to Speak at Conference

Are the tech geeks at Salesforce secretly comedy masochists? 

Last year, they invited Seth Meyers to drop by and rip them a new one. (Even after doing a bunch of research to prepare for the 2023 corporate gig, Meyers confessed he still had “no fucking idea” what Salesforce did.) Those insults felt so good that this year, Salesforce got out the checkbook and paid John Mulaney to inflict another round of Animal House-style punishment.

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