Homer: Let the Barts Out

About the Homer: Let the Barts Out sound

Extracted, isolated, and stripped of every scrap of context until it means precisely nothing. The line is never funny inside the episode. It becomes funny only once nobody can remember what it was originally about, and the whole format runs on that. The Simpsons has been supplying this kind of raw material for thirty-five years without any sign of exhausting the supply, because there is simply too much of it and too much of it is strange. Play it when a situation calls for a decision nobody understands. Release the Barts.

OriginAn out-of-context line from The Simpsons.