The Simpsons
TV Show • 1989 • Animation Report
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S05E04 "Rosebud" - During Smithers's announcement at the event held to celebrate Mr Burns's birthday, it is mentioned, but the dog is never seen.
Smithers: "I have some sad news to report, a small puppy, not unlike Lassie, has just been run over in the parking lot."
(The gag is that he announces this sad news immediately before Homer's comedy act, which contributes to the audience's negative reception of it.)
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Walrus64
a bunch of animals die like hamsters and lobsters
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S9E21 Girly Edition - Homer overfeeds Mojo the monkey (a service animal) with fatty foods, leaving him near death, then returns him to the store. At the store, the monkey feebly types the message "PRAY FOR MOJO" onto a computer
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DyingDogs20XX
Does dog racing count? More of an agility contest...
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33
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lunala18
In one episode, a character steps on a peacock in Mr Burns yard and it dies. (but it is not shown on screen, only mentioned)
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50
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2
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Nebulacat
The family cat is named Snowball II because the previous Snowball died.
In "I (Annoyed Grunt) Bot", Snowball II dies, as do two other cats, but the fifth cat gets renamed Snowball II and looks just like the original one, so you can avoid the episode and pretend it never existed.
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Yes
26
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Steven S.
A dragon dies at the end of The Serfsons, but it is almost immediately brought back to life.
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SallyBuckley
Various Treehouse of Horror segments include spiders, and the beginning of the episode Mobile Homer features several spiders dropping onto Homer's face when he picks up a box in the garage.
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Walrus64
whackingday includes beating up snakes
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elhopper11
In one of the episodes, Marge orders a new couch for the house but it has bedbugs. I usually skip the episode cuz it makes me uncomfy lol.
Also termite in S14 episode “Helter Shelter”
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mooper
S22
E17
It’s the whole premise of the episode Love Is a Many Strangled Thing.
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35
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wesleythomasm
Homer attempts to throttle Bart at several points.
One ToH short has a fourth Simpsons kid locked up in the attic for being eeeeevillll
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24
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ur_mom_lol
"Eternal Moonshine Of The Simpson Mind" revolves around Homer believing that he blacked out and gave Marge a black eye. At the end, it is revealed that she actually hit herself with the cork when opening a wine bottle
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spirochaete
In "The Canine Mutiny" we hear that Bart once attempted to cover up the death of Milhouse's goldfish by telling him the fish never existed. It didn't work - Milhouse is confident that his owning a goldfish bowl is proof that he also had a fish.
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Artixell
Bart is stalked by a murderer named "Sideshow Bob"
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Otto has a drug addiction
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lunala18
Barney Gumble is an alcoholic who drinks beer all the time and is always drunk
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Barney is an alcoholic. Otto the school bus driver has a drug addiction.
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8
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ShutUpNewt
S12
E5
Homer Simpson is raped by a Panda. It is not shown but heavily implied
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DeenGray
The infamous “panda scene.”
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Nebulacat
In "Homer vs. Dignity", a male panda dry-humps Homer and tries to mate with him, thinking him to be a female panda because he was dressed up.
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Pantalones
The school bully Nelson and his friends beat up other school kids in several episodes.
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29
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Nebulacat
One couch gag involves Ned Flanders being shackled.
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loverboi
s7ep8, mother simpson: homer falls down from some rocks and his collar snags on a tree branch. he stays there for a couple of seconds, and if screenshotted you'd think he got hanged, but he continues to fall after a few seconds.
s6e6, treehouse of horror V: when they enter the graveyard, Moe is hung.
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teaz
a running joke is homer choking bart.
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ExplodingDucks
Being at the nuclear power plant made Homer infertile, but it isn’t really graphic…
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TarotCard
No gore. Cartoony blood and icky stuff can be shown but it is so obviously fake.
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Yes
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DyingDogs20XX
Homer almost always manages to have five-o'-clock shadow. But yes.
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ElevenHopper
In a Fourth of July episode, Mr. Burns is forcing everyone to work very hard for him. He tells one man(not a main character) to come over to him and break his own leg. It’s obvious when it’s abt to happen bc he’s holding a hammer right above his leg. So, just skip over that part.
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Eve101010
In one episode Homers thumb is graphically cut off and kept in a jar of pickle brine
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mooper
'And that horrible act of child abuse... became one of our most beloved running gags.' - 11x22 Behind The Laughter.
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0
Homer falls down the stairs many times throughout the series.He always gets back up perfectly fine after tho
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S11 E14 "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" -
At an auto race, Maude Flanders gets hit by the T-shirts from a T-Shirt cannon, and falls from the bleachers onto the parking lot, killing her.
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LK1924
There's a pretty frightening/graphic (by Simpsons standards) scene in the Treehouse of Horror segment "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace"
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Eve101010
There’s literally a joke where “seizure man” the Japanese super hero gives people seizures... including the Simpsons
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Nebulacat
Herman and the Sea Captain are both amputees, but their amputations happened a long time ago.
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ur_mom_lol
In "Lisa's Pony", Homer falls asleep in the Kwik-E-Mart entrance, causing the automatic doors to repeatedly close on his head
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Walrus64
multible treehouse of horror segments include cannibalism
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ShutUpNewt
In the Babysitter Bandit episode it is implied.
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blurrylesbian2007
In several Treehouse of Horror episodes.
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NightmareLyra
S18
E7
Variation of it; Ralph puts a ice cream cone on his forehead and declares himself a "unitard"
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Walrus64
in krusty gets busted they burn a bunch of krusty dolls
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Nebulacat
Mona, Homer's mother, is dead. Also, Maude Flanders, the mother of Rod and Todd, dies.
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Artixell
Bart is continually kidnapped my Sideshow Bob.
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Nebulacat
"Much Apu About Nothing" is about Apu cheating on Manjula. One episode involves Homer being tempted to cheat on Marge with his coworker Mindy Simmons, but he manages not to.
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wesleythomasm
There are a couple of scenes where Homer is showering or bathing. The two I can remember off the top of my head are 1) Bart learns he can make Homer sing a song by playing with the bathroom taps while he's in the shower, and 2) Bart whomps Homer with a chair while he's in the bath.
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Steven S.
Several Treehouse of Horror episodes contain ghosts.
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Nebulacat
There's a scene of Homer running into Bart's room, shouting, "BART-YOU-WANNA-SEE-MY-NEW-CHAINSAW-AND-HOCKEY-MASK?!", but that's actually a parody of jumpscares.
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herooftime8
Maggie meets Bazuzu
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Nebulacat
A recurring character is Krusty the Clown.
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ExplodingDucks
Many times.
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ElevenHopper
In Season 20, Episode 20 Homer wants to lose weight, so he asks Apu if there's anything that could make him throw up. Apu pours chunky buttermilk from 1961 into a cup for Homer to drink. He tells him not to chew the chunks, but Homer chews them anyways and Apu counts down from three. It shows the store from outside and you see the vomit on the window. Also, Season 16, E 15 at 4:12. You don't see the action, you just see the result on the ground. It's all played for laughs because it takes place in the future, but if you wanna be safe, just skip to 4:22. Also in season 13, episode 21 at 3:21. It's a caterpillar, so it might not trigger you, but the noises were pretty gross to be honest. Just skip ahead to 3:25. Season 18, Episode 8 at 14:45; its baby vomit so it's not too bad, and it's in black and white. Just skip to 14:55. S12 Ep16. It’s not bad, just weird(it’s on the ground while willie’s cleaning it. S32 Ep22 when Moe is talking abt the side effects of anti-booze. It’s just audio.
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Nebulacat
One Treehouse of Horror skit has Homer communicating through farts. He also drools a lot, though I'm not sure that qualifies as spitting.
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Dizzyrizzyroo
Do you know what copaganda even means? Copaganda means showing police in a positive light when they do illegal or immoral things. The Springfield PD are a bunch of incompetent losers. This isnt copaganda in any sense of the word.
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MagitekVai
s10e22 and s13e3: "Shemale". s24e14: "He-she".
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Yes
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1
In homers fantasy marge kisses lindsey negal
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Steven S.
There's No Disgrace Like Home" contains an extended scene where members of the titular family repeatedly shock each other in an electro-therapy setting.
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ur_mom_lol
"Lisa's Belly" features a breast cancer survivor. Marge's dad is said to have died of lung cancer in "Puffless"
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Nebulacat
"Hurricane Neddy" is about Ned Flanders going to a mental institution.
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herooftime8
Several episodes where the kids get vaccines. Other injections include morphine and IV drips.
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Nebulacat
Flashbacks show the kids being born in the hospital. In "Large Marge", Marge gets surgery and is shown at hospital. In "Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'", Homer, Grandpa, and Ned are shown at the hospital. Comic Book Guy goes to the hospital in "Worst Episode Ever". "'Round Springfield" takes place mostly in the hospital.
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Artixell
Seymour Skinner has Panic Attacks as his mother screams at him. It is mentioned he has PTSD from Vietnam as well.
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Bozjudd
lots of loud chewing during dinner scenes
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Steven S.
Moe the Bartender contemplating/attempting suicide is a running gag.
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14
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Mr_Joones
In many episodes Principal Skinner is shown to have PTSD from the Vietnam War.
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petaara
In the episode "Sleeping With The Enemy" Lisa has an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa).
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Nebulacat
In "Sleeping with the Enemy", Lisa's anorexia stems from her thinking she's fat and/or has a big butt.
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AdamK
there are mentions, though I’ve never seen a character actually harm themselves. in ‘King Leer’, Moe’s father gives him one of the family mattress stores. Moe, with tears in his eyes, states ‘this is a dream I had buried so deep, no amount of self-harm could ever carve it out’.
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ExplodingDucks
Moe Szylack attempts suicide and practices self-harm often and he has said it one or twice. Has been mentioned by other characters, also.
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mooper
S30
E4
Specifically in Treehouse of Horror XXIX in it's segment Multiplisa-ty, which is a parody of Split (a movie that has infamously bad DID rep.) There are no characters in the main episodes with explict DID of any kind as far as I know.
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wesleythomasm
Sideshow Bob (AAAAAH SIDESHOW BOB!) is obsessed with killing Bart
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DyingDogs20XX
As a stylistic choice, in moderation. Some episodes.
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herooftime8
An episode parodies the seizure-inducing flashes that can occur during animated shows.
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Yes
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Mr_Joones
Maggie cries, but rarely.
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Yes
14
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TarotCard
Sometimes characters look at the camera and say stuff.
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jdpamv
Maggie and a few other babies are major characters.
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Yes
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ur_mom_lol
Abortions are mentioned several times, but don't often occur
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Nebulacat
Flashbacks show the births of all three Simpson kids, which might be scary if you're afraid of the birth process itself; however, if you're just concerned about inappropriate content, everyone's shame is covered.
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rebeccabunch
krusty the clown is jewish and his identity is often the butt end of the joke. there is also a scene where he realizes he never had a bar mitzvah and responds by saying "i thought i was a self hating jew but it turns out im just a plain old antisemite", a german actor who is walking by stops and says to krusty "we have so much to talk about."
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ElevenHopper
I'm pretty sure Smithers dies in a Treehouse of Horror Episode, but of course he comes back.
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ur_mom_lol
"There's Something About Marrying" has extremely transphobic ending that treats a trans woman as a man
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TarotCard
Nope!
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lunala18
Yes, a LOT.
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Yes
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SallyBuckley
No outright uses of f*g but the episode Homer's Phobia contains insensitive remarks from Homer
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hotfish
There's Something About Marrying ending
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DeenGray
Apu is an Indian stereotype
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Yes
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NightmareLyra
Bart, who is 10, sometimes dates older girls in their early teens in a few episodes
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Yes
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herooftime8
Clarification on Cletus and Brandine: multile episodes do reference them being brother and sister. Another episode claims Brandine is Cletus's mother.
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mooper
S12
E5
Homer getting assaulted by a Panda definitely counts to some degree.
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KittySpark444
Usually, the nude scenes aren't shown unless it's a butt. Bart's private is only briefly shown in the movie.
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KittySpark444
Idk if this counts, but in an episode, Marge gets breast implants
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Nebulacat
No onscreen hanky-panky, but plenty of raunchy implications.
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Yes
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herooftime8
It's a bit of a mixed bag. In the series premiere, Homer is exposed as a mall Santa trying to get extra money for Christmas. In other episodes, Santa is seen as a real character.
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DyingDogs20XX
...Ending? Whaaa? :S
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Maxils
The opening to every episode.
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Yes
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Yes
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Steven S.
In the updated opening sequence used from the Season 20 episode Take My Life, Please" onwards, Homer Simpson is hit by the family car as Marge is pulling it into the garage, although the scene is very cartoonish and he is not hurt in any way.
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Nebulacat
One Treehouse of Horror episode is about vampires and drinking blood.
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Walrus64
mostly i treehouse of horrors
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Nebulacat
Chief Wiggum has a gun and likes to shoot with it.
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Nebulacat
One couch gag involves Marge and Maggie falling into a lake and drowning. They survive, though, because couch gags are not canon.
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