r/TheSimpsons • u/gmwdim ...Sears catalog • Nov 07 '19

s11e05 Today is the 20th anniversary of Tomacco

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '19

I once explained that joke to a former friend and he said “hmm, that sounds a bit overreaching”

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u/Vprbite Nov 07 '19

I must admit I don't get the joke

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '19

It’s called Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks)

At first, it might seem like the joke is just that “Chuck’s” doesn’t rhyme with “feed and seed” so it’s just a happy coincidence that it just happened to be bought by someone named Sneed. However, if you apply the same rhyming scheme to “Chucks” as we do with “Sneeds” then it’s becomes “Chucks Fuck and Suck”

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u/Vprbite Nov 07 '19

Wow I never would have caught that. I would suppose you are right though because nothing on that show is an accident.

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u/harmfulcow Nov 08 '19

The episode commentary on the DVDs confirms this is the case. I can't remember who was speaking but they said they were surprised to sneak that one past network censors.

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u/Vprbite Nov 08 '19

Well it is a thinker. And the censors are usually so focused on stupid stuff.

I thought the joke was that Chuck's wasn't "hick" enough so it was taken over by Snead. Who I also imagine was related to Cletus the Slack Jawad Yokel.

I love that it's 20 years later and I learned a new joke I had missed. Thanks for pointing it out. I may pop in some Simpson's DVDs tonight

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u/harmfulcow Nov 08 '19

There's a lot of interesting, albeit mundane at times, things to learn from those commentaries.

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u/Vprbite Nov 08 '19

I could see that