I've lost the true-calling of Simpsonology - don't bother obsessively rewatching episodes, slowing down the frame-rate to pick up the sly in-jokes on store fronts, but I still recall most of the episodes discussed in this very funny linguistic Simpson's essay.
HeiDeas: Beyond embiggens and cromulent
Everyone knows (4th para) the Simpsons is really all about linguistics — and these links are just what I could come up with in a few quick searches here and there....It doesn’t include the timeless classics embiggens and cromulent — see this Linguist List post for discussion of them — and it doesn’t include Bart’s prank calls to Moe, although they are relevant for their phonological and phonotactic properties, because they’re already well-documented. This list begins with the examples from my original post (also on Beatrice Santorini’s excellent linguistic humor web page), and then goes on to the ones I’ve collected since. The episode numbers are mostly those provided on the The Simpsons official home page, though I don’t know if I've been 100 per cent consistent.
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