Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today was long and hard and I need a laugh, so let's jump right in and laugh!

Research has shown that laughter is good for us. It has all kinds of health benefits. Despite most of us knowing this, none of us laugh enough. Yeah, I know, being an adult is tough, and furthermore there is a lot of grim stuff happening in the world. These things may be true, but that just is all the more reason for trying to get a little laughter into our lives.

To the Beemobile!

Yesterday in the Bro server, @raymondspeaks wrote "it's awfully quiet in here". I happened to be looking just as he wrote that and this Simpsons clip instantly popped into my head. I think I will never not think of this clip when someone says that.

If it's not clear from the clip, they are doing an Adam West Batman parody here. This is a funny episode. There is also at least one Scarface bit in the episode, if I remember right. Anyway, watch and laugh!

Speaking of Simpsons...

Homer Jumps Springfield Gorge

This was, I think, the first time that Homer became kind of an idiot superman. Up to this point in the series, he had been Father Knows Best, a kind of misguided but well-meaning dad. Bart was the original focus of the show, after all, so Homer was a background character.

But here as he makes this fall twice and somehow survives, well, the path from here to current Homer who seems impervious to harm and is a complete idiot is a straight line.

The funniest part of this isn't his unintended jump or the fall, it's that the ambulance immediately crashes, sending him falling again. Now that's good humor!

Not that the later stupid Homer couldn't be fun.

Well I guess that was more of the middle ground. I think that's around when Conan was still a writer, during what fans often call the Golden Age of the show.

But anyway, it's not only Simpsons we can laugh at. Say—do you like Mushrooms?

I wonder how being a mushroom would impact encountering a not-quite-Godzilla...

So... back to the Simpsons. Remember when Homer became an astronaut?

Too bad the clip cut off before Barney passed out. That was the icing on the cake to that scene. You know I haven't watched Simpsons in years, not since the dark times began. But even today, so many situations remind me of scenes from those Simpsons episodes I watched when I was a kid. I guess I must have really enjoyed the show for it to stick in my mind so well. Everything rings a bell. Almost like...

Anyway, it's night here as I write this, so let's finish with a bedtime story.

Well, that was silly.

So what do you think? Did any of those make you laugh or were they just stupid? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

David is an American teacher and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Mastodon. 【Support @dbooster with Hive SBI】

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