It seems to be a running gag on the show that when anything crashes, it explodes, regardless of what it is made of/contains!
How many such occurrences can you think of?
To start things off : I can remember a pram, and the contents of a milk lorry.
'Non-flammable' Explosions
Jan 21, 2002, 2:58 AM ET42 posts by 25 posters
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And when Homer makes corn flakes.
Bazilla
Paul Hyett wrote:
Both of the following contian gas, but exploded rather easily:
A corn truck falls into a huge pothole and creates a gigantic explosion... as well as fills the hole with popcorn.
Marge's Canyonero rolls over and immediately catches fire.
The canyonero referred to the tendency of large SUVs like it to catch fire at random ("unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!"), so I wouldn't count it.
"Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote:
Paul Hyett wrote:
Homer crashed thru a baseball backstop while driving (drunk, I think) and it explodes.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:51:22 -0700, visitor ,wrote:
yeah, it's the best example ! It is the onet i tried to remeber !
[email] (coBoong) wrote in news:[email]:
Moe's bar caught on fire..
oops, guess maybe Moe did that himself :)
[email] (coBoong) wrote in news:[email]:
The Simpson's house caught on fire, and the next morning, they were having breakfast in the (somewhat) scorched kitchen
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, visitor stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
I thought of another one : the poisoned chocolate eclair in the episode where Homer became a food critic. When he throws it away because Lisa says its low fat, it blows up Moleman's stall.
The baby carriage exploding and catching fire when Homer's a ghost.
The baby carriage that rolls into the street ( THOH XI, I think) flips over and catches fire.
Angela
"SPoOkY0428" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Didn't Hans Moleman's Gremlin catch fire when Otto ran it off the road?
"R. Flowers" wrote in message news:Pl338.1600$[email]...
Cars are flammable.
The earliest one I can remember is in "Team Homer" when the students throw Krabappel's desk over on it's side and it catches fire.
-Anthony Regina P.S. Screw Flanders
In article , "R. Flowers" wrote:
Wasn't there an Amish horse and buggy?
You might be thinking of Family Guy when Meg is taking her road test and she runs an Amish guy off the road because she was trying to race him. The horse then exploded into a ball of flames.
Angela
Marge ran Moleman off the road in the Canyonero. I thought that the Gremlin catching fire was a joke about the law suit from years ago about cars with defects that caused them to explode in certain accidents.
The manufacturers knew about the defect but chose not to recall because it would cost more to recall than it would to pay out the people who sued.
I'm going off on a pretty big tangent here, but you get the point.
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jason Saslow stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
Then the sleazy bastards got hit with punitive damages, I glad to say! IMO they were lucky not to go to jail for negligent manslaughter!
Jason Saslow wrote:
I think it was the Gremlin that had a very sensitive gas tank in the back.
A popular bumper sticker in that era was "Attention tailgaters: You hit me and we go up together!"
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:23:14 GMT, "Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote:
That was the Ford Pinto.
If one of those pintos should happen to burn... 98 lawsuit ford must deter!
If one of those pintos should happen to burn... 98 lawsuits that ford must deter!
It can be two things.
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message news:[email]...
Pram? Lorry? You're making those words up... Perhaps any object that is called something else in Britain is flammable. Look for an elevator/lift to go up in flames next week -- or an aubergine/eggplant.
NL
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Nathan Loeschman stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
Any volunteers to write a Real English to American English dictionary? :)
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message news:[email]...
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A...Abattoir/Slaughterhouse. Your turn.
NL
B...Bollocks/Slang. Used as a noun, verb, adverb and adjective. Similar to the American English use of the "F" word.
Dr Hibbert - "This man's APPENDIX is about to burst!"
(slice... grab.... toss.... BOOM!!!!)
mg
[email] (Matt G) wrote in message news:...
"See you in hell, candy boys!" Pop rocks + shaken cola = demolition man type explotion.
Mr. ? -
Homer: "What do I do in case of Fire?" Smithers: "I can't hear you!" drives away Homer looks back to see Burns' office in flames, with Burns still in it. "D'oh!"
Was that Hibbert or Dr. Nick?
This was the camping episode with Earnest Borgnine, right?
Dr Hibbert
Yes
My bad, thought it was Dr. Nick performing a street-side appendectomy.
"Jason Saslow" wrote in message news:[email]...
I have doubts as to whether Dr. Nick even knows what an appendectomy is.
Me too, which is why that scene would have been even more impressive. Remember, there was a cheering crowd when he threw it clear and it exploded.
"Jason Saslow" wrote in message news:[email]...
"The something's connected to the red thing, the red thing's connected to my wrist watch..... Uh oh..."
In article , "Y2Bogus" wrote:
"Don't worry, It's INflammable..."
Sam wrote in news:[email]:
Tonight, when "Police Cop" Det. Homer Simpson threw a bad guy onto another pile of bad guys, they all burst into flame.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
It was Dr. Hibbert He used his Trusty Knife to save the man on the street. Don't thank him, thank THE KNIFE! (The episode where Bart Joins the Junior Campers)
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:27:20 -0600, Sam wrote:
explodes, regardless of what it is made of/contains!
---- The soapbox racer (driven by whatsisname, the egghead kid) hits a wall and bursts into flame. Oww-ie oww-ie oww-ie!
73, Keith
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Drunk and full of pie, Paul Hyett wrote:
And you'll be taking your holiday on the lift, guv.
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I'M LIVING IN A CUCKOO CLOCK!!!
Dr Music P.S. Parking was ample.
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Calm yourself, my good man, or you'll give yourself skin failure.