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'''Suzanne''' is a witch who lives in a {{Gingerbread House}}.  
  
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''[[D'oh]]'' (represented in the shows script as "annoyed-grunt") is [[Homer Simpson]]'s famous catchphrase. It is used when Homer hurts himself, finds out something to his embarrassment or chagrin, is outsmarted, or undergoes or anticipates misfortune.  
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After [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] were thrown into the [[Deep Dark Woods]], they found their way to the Gingerbread House. At first, Lisa wanted to look up the house in her copy of ''[[Grimms' Fairy Tales]]'', but the offer of free candy from Suzanne was enough for her and Bart to enter the house. Soon, the two of them were chained up, with Bart being force fed sweets and Lisa being made to clean the house. Meanwhile, [[Homer]] returned home without the kids, and [[Marge]] made him go and look for them.
  
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When [[Dan Castellaneta]],Homer's voice actor, was first asked to voice the exclamation, he rendered it as a drawn out "doooh", inspired by Jimmy Finlayson, the moustached Scottish actor who appeared in many Laurel and Hardy films. Finlayson coined the term as a minced oath to stand for the word "Damn!" The show's creator [[Matt Groening]] felt that it would better suit the timing of animation if it were spoken faster so Castellaneta shortened it to "D'oh!"  
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While Bart was eating, Lisa pointed out that Suzanne was only fattening him up so she could eat him, but Bart didn't care. As Bart and Lisa spoke, Suzanne entered the room again and told them to stop chattering and told Lisa to get back to sweeping as the house was filthy. Bart asked why she cared as it wasn't like she had a boyfriend. Suzanne became defensive and said that she did have a boyfriend called George. When she looked at her cauldron, she gave George the surname of "Cauldron". Bart and Lisa laughed at Suzanne because they assumed she was making her boyfriend up...
  
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It was first heard on a Tracey Ullman Show short entitled "[[Punching Bag]]", which aired  on November 27, 1988. When Bart and Lisa try to hide a punching bag with his face on it, and it knocks him out. Homer's reaction is "D'oh!" The next occasion it was heard was in the first episodes of The Simpsons, "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]", airing on December 17, 1989.
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Variations of the catchphrase have been heard in numerous episodes, suiting a different situation, examples include [[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire|"Ho-ho-d'oh!"]],[[Bart of Darkness|"D'oheth!"]],[[Thirty Minutes over Tokyo|"shimatta-baka-ni"]] and [[The Simpsons Movie|"D'oooooooooooooome!!"]].
 
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Many episodes have also use (annoyed grunt) in their titles, because d'oh didn't originally have an official spelling, such as [[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]] and [[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]], but other use the shortened term d'oh, such as [[C.E. D'oh]] and [[D'oh-in' in the Wind]].
 
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The term d'oh was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, with the definition:''”Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derogatory) implying that another person has said or done something foolish (Duh).”''
 
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Suzanne is a witch who lives in a Gingerbread House.

After Bart and Lisa were thrown into the Deep Dark Woods, they found their way to the Gingerbread House. At first, Lisa wanted to look up the house in her copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales, but the offer of free candy from Suzanne was enough for her and Bart to enter the house. Soon, the two of them were chained up, with Bart being force fed sweets and Lisa being made to clean the house. Meanwhile, Homer returned home without the kids, and Marge made him go and look for them.

While Bart was eating, Lisa pointed out that Suzanne was only fattening him up so she could eat him, but Bart didn't care. As Bart and Lisa spoke, Suzanne entered the room again and told them to stop chattering and told Lisa to get back to sweeping as the house was filthy. Bart asked why she cared as it wasn't like she had a boyfriend. Suzanne became defensive and said that she did have a boyfriend called George. When she looked at her cauldron, she gave George the surname of "Cauldron". Bart and Lisa laughed at Suzanne because they assumed she was making her boyfriend up...

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