Difference between revisions of "List of chalkboard gags"

(This is written for 3 lines. The remaining lines are all "ditto" quotation marks.)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "Bart Gets Hit by a Car".)

(This is written in blackletter.)

(Bart makes the chalk squeak as he writes this.)

(This is written only once, and then trails off downwards.)

(This was a response to controversy created in New Orleans from a song in the previous episode "A Streetcar Named Marge".)

(Each line becomes less legible and more scrawled.)

(The first four lines are arranged in paragraph format. The following three lines are arranged in the shape of a funnel. The final fully completed line and the line Bart is in the middle of writing is arranged in paragraph format again.)

(This was the 100th episode aired.)

(This is a repeat of of the gag from "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", although all the words are arranged in a single line.)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "Bart Gets Famous".)

("This" refers to the episode being a clip show.)

(This is actually the couch gag for this episode.)

(This is written once in blood with a paintbrush.)

(This was changed to "butt.butt" in later airings, since butt.com was revealed to be a real website. However, "butt.com" still appears in syndication.)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "Marge in Chains", although the words are arranged across two lines.)

(The hieroglyphics are "eye", "well", "knot", "D+", and "face", and the "D+" and "face" hieroglyph is read together.)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily".)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "King-Size Homer".)

(This episode aired two days before the 2000 United States presidential election.)

(Bart then destroys the chalkboard with an axe and runs out the school laughing.)

(This is a repeat of the gag from "Marge vs. the Monorail", aside from the live-action aspect.)

(The classroom is flipped upside down.)

("I do not speak French")

(This sentence is written in a medieval writing style, with the initial "T" being the most ornate.)

Additionally, during the couch gag:
I will not bring the chalkboard home

(The chalkboard Bart is writing on has taken the place of the couch in the Simpsons' living room.)

(This was the first episode to air in HD.)

("I am not French")

(This episode first aired on the same date as the series finale of Lost.)

(This sentence is written all over the walls.)

(This was a response to Kristen Schaal's name being misspelled as "Kristen Schall" in the closing credits of the previous episode, "Homer Scissorhands".)

(Bart is wearing a white shirt and white pants.)

(The opening sequence for this episode was not included in the original broadcast in order to make room to broadcast The Longest Daycare.)

(Bart writes this with a black marker on a whiteboard.)

(The blackboard then falls apart as Bart turns to run out of the classroom.)

(Bart then turns and sees a maniacally-grinning Stephen King, who has been writing the same sentence all over the classroom walls with a pencil.)

(Marcia Wallace, the voice actor for Edna Krabappel, passed away nine days before this episode aired.)

(This also appears in a flashback scene in "Diary Queen".)

(Bart writes this on a digital whiteboard with his finger.)

(This was the first episode to air after the 2016 presidential election, which Donald Trump won, a result predicted in "Bart to the Future".)

(Bart writes this as a fish.)

(Bart then flips over the blackboard, and "April Fool" is written on it.)

(Marge continues writing where Bart left off as he runs out of the classroom.)

(This was the first episode to air after several areas of the United States began declaring a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

(Bart writes this while Mrs. Krabappel reads a book.)

(Milhouse writes this while Bart escapes through the window.)

(Lisa then proceeds to get out of school with her bike.)

(The opening sequence for this episode was not included in the original broadcast because of timing constraints.)

(Ths is written once.)

(The words "survive the school year" are dripping with blood.)

Marge writes:
I will not have any more children

Mud is not one of the four food groups

I will not eat things for money

Funny noises are not funny

I will not sell school property

I will not charge admission to the bathroom

(The fifth line ends at the word "commercial" and trails off.)