The Golden Age of The Simpsons has so many amazing, underappreciated jokes that blend into the background, but all fans seem to remember are the punchlines that get the most play. Not everyone gets to be a headliner like Bort.

The beauty of the Simpsons fandom is that, since the show’s most dedicated followers from the beginning have been, let’s just say, Comic Book Guy-esque, classic Simpsons jokes make up some of the internet’s earliest memes, thanks to the hard work of Web 1.0 fan pages from the 1990s. As such, when the profoundly quotable Season Six episode “Itchy & Scratchy Land” first aired in October 1994, the best lines and funniest bits from one of the all-time greatest Simpsons episodes immediately became inside jokes on the early internet that continue to get repeated to this day.

In 2025, much of the Simpsons shitposting that serves as the cornerstone of online culture takes place on Twitter,...