{"id":2175904,"date":"2025-11-25T01:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2175904"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:19:55","slug":"this-is-the-best-joke-from-the-latest-simpsons-episode-the-day-of-the-jack-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-is-the-best-joke-from-the-latest-simpsons-episode-the-day-of-the-jack-up\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Best Joke From The Latest \u2018Simpsons\u2019 Episode, \u2018The Day of the Jack-Up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Simpsons<\/i> just delivered what was arguably the best episode of the season. A big reason why \u201cThe Day of the Jack-Up\u201d worked so well is that it actually managed to comment on a number of contemporary issues in a creatively fresh fashion, unlike\u00a0<\/span>some other Matt Groening-produced shows\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The episode is all about Mr. Burns opening a Las Vegas Sphere-esque music venue, which soon books the K-pop girl group Kneesock Dolls. Unfortunately for superfan Lisa, bots controlled by an anonymous online reseller called \u201cSeatMiser\u201d immediately buy up all the tickets for the concert. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this culminates in an extended parody of M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s\u00a0Trap<\/i> \u2013 which, to be fair,\u00a0<\/span>was already kind of a comedy.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

While the episode featured a number of very funny moments \u2013 including an FBI profiler played by\u00a0Criminal Minds<\/i>\u2019 Paget Brewster and a twist ending that was better than Shyamalan\u2019s \u2013 the best joke was an extended gag that began just moments into the episode.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Smithers informs Mr. Burns that he\u2019s to meet with someone who wants to buy the nuclear plant\u2019s excess power in order to mine blockchain cryptocurrency, the 104-year-old tycoon agrees, reasoning, \u201cI do know mines, chains and crypts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We then get to see the \u201cC. Montgomery Burns Rules of Negotiation.\u201d Each rule is introduced with a title card accompanied by classical music. Rule One? \u201cAct Like You Don\u2019t Need the Money.\u201d Mr. Burns demonstrates this by setting fire to a pile of cash on the boardroom table. Rule two is \u201cSpeak First, Lose First.\u201d When one of the crypto investors remarks that the silent Burns \u201cmight be dead,\u201d he takes this as a win.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s \u201cExtreme Demands, Tiny Concessions,\u201d which finds Burns opening the blinds in the darkened meeting room very slightly and telling his guests \u201cIf you agree to triple your offer, I will, in return, let in a sliver of sunlight.\u201d They eventually storm off, which Mr. Burns refers to as a \u201cclassic counter move.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the bit isn\u2019t over yet. When Lisa announces that she wants to see Kneesock Dolls (\u201cMy favorite girl pop band, from my favorite Korea\u201d) we get to see the first of the \u201cHomer J. Simpson Rules of Negotiation\u201d which is \u201cSay Anything to Do Nothing.\u201d After rattling off a bunch of nonsense to weasel out of buying tickets, Lisa bursts into tears and he relents.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is all part of\u00a0her<\/i> negotiation tactic: \u201cCry Your Way to \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a fun joke that harkens back to classic formal experiments like Homer\u2019s dictionary presence in \u201cHomer Defined.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And is there any better visual representation of the billionaire class than a rich guy in a bejeweled gas mask watching a roomful of people choke on the smoke from his burning money?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Simpsons just delivered what was arguably the best episode of the season. A big reason why \u201cThe Day of the Jack-Up\u201d worked so well is that it actually managed to comment on a number of contemporary issues in a creatively fresh fashion, unlike\u00a0some other Matt Groening-produced shows\u2026 The episode is all about Mr. Burns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[418769,418768,418767,418770],"class_list":["post-2175904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-contemporary-issues","tag-kneesock-dolls","tag-mr-burns","tag-paget-brewster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/This-is-the-Best-Joke-From-The-Latest-\u2018Simpsons-Episode.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175906,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175904\/revisions\/2175906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}