What do you think are the most disturbing, unsettling or just plain weird scenes you have seen in a Simpson's episode? For me it is a tie between the two Homers kissing in the episode of Patty's gay wedding and Skinner making out with the frozen corpse found in Springfield glacier.

First one that pops into my mind is Homer's bulging eye after being sucked into the grease vacuum in "Lard of the Dance".

Oh, and Moe's back hair.

How about Homer's eye crusting over after getting laser eye surgery?

Bart's "faking it" scene from Brother From the Same Planet.

Agreed on Skinner making out with the frozen corpse... eeeeeew.

All I have to say is: Comic Book Guy and Agnes Skinner.

When Homer's knee scab crusted over onto Ralph's hand. I get grossed out just thinking about it.

Young Homer discovering the corpse of Smithers Sr.

Pandas need their privacy.

It's not disturbing to me, but someone has to mention Homer eating the Groom & Bride off Selma & Sideshow Bob's wedding cake whole, complete with the indentation of it going down his throat.

"Mmm...pointy."

Also, my girlfriend finds a disturbing moment in a moment from "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson" where Bart licks a pole in a subway car to convince commuters that he was born with no taste buds.

Just the whole sequence now of Homer with his car at the Twin Towers is kind of unsettling for me. I don't object to it being shown, but its hard to watch without thinking about what happened.

Any votes for the episode where Maude is killed?

I don't like the way Maude's death was handled. It was rather crass.

Agreed, Maude's death was very disturbing. I couldn't believe that the show, which was usually silly fun, had gone that far.
Even more disturbing was learning that Ned is incredibly well endowed.

Also, I've always thought that Shary Bobbins death at the end of her episode was disturbing. Sure, getting sucked into a jet engine could be used for laughs, but it's also a whole new level of wrong.

I think knowing Maude was killed off over a contract dispute (from what I understood, at least) adds to the crassness we all see in the episode. With all the jokes they make about Fox and TV, I liked to think they were above that sort of petty rebellion or reaction.

For me, hands down it's the Cain and Abel movie Ned makes with Rod and Todd, in the episode where Homer teaches the sports stars to showboat. The shot of Rod's eye hanging out makes me want to vomit. Homer's scab healing over Ralph's hand is a runner up. But the eye thing is just gross.

I'm surprised no one has so far mentioned Homer's "That's right, kids. Suckle Daddy's sugar ball."

Let's see...

1. The THoH that ended with the skinless Simpson family. ::shudder::
2. Crusty-eye. Even if he was driving at the time, it was probably a little more disturbing than it was funny.
3. Pandas rape.

I can't watch the scene where Lenny gets a spring caught in his eye.

I've been meaning to make a thread like this for ages.

I think its the prohibition episode, the opening scene is of a St. Patricks Day. I thought the Irish gags were hilarious .... until I got the dvd and saw the part where the British pub was blown up. The scene had been cut out when the ep was shown here (in Ireland).

Blowing up pubs ..... just not funny !

What about the THOH episode where the Simpsons shrink down to rescue Maggie from inside Mr. Burns and then Homer enlarges inside of Burns and is trapped under his skin. That is gross.

Also the recent episode where Bart got his licence and was going to marry a pregnant girl. That was just weird.



Actually I think it was an English Fish and Chips place that was blown up. Does that make it funny?

Some people are so disgusted by it that they refuse to even acknowledge its existence, but the Skinner Imposter episode is just weird all around. It does have some good lines, though. "Can I see your copy of Swank, Armin?" and "Continue to look surprised and move slowly towards the cake" are two of them.

You're right it was a chip shop ... but still not funny.
Simpson go to London and all the Irish gags frikkin hilarious but the chip shop ... not funny.

I can see why the censors cut it when it was shown here.

I would also like to add Krusty getting his heart zipper stuck or something, and the blood spurting out in "The Heartbroke Kid." Where Bart gets fat from the vending machine food. That's just gross when the blood spurts out, and how he can open his chest with a zipper.

One of the more remarkable aspects of The Simpsons is that the writers are hyper-aware of the impact of every punch line and visual gag, which completely neutralizes most potentially "disturbing" moments. The writers intended it to be disturbing (that's the gag)--so it's not so disturbing. That's why things like the inside-out gas and Homer's eye crusting over don't bug me at all. We rarely have moments on the show when a gag "gets away" from the writers, and there's unacknowledged subtext to creep us out. The WTC scenes from "Homer Simpson vs. the City of New York" are the exception that proves the rule (but the creative team couldn't have possibly foreseen that).

But if I do have a favorite disturbing moment, it's Homer "saying Grace" at the dinner table by actively--and loudly--fantasizing about the action Maude Flanders gets in Heaven. So, so wrong.

How can we not mention Abe's bastardette English daughter? A female version of Homer. Shuddddder.

I was always creeped out by Mr. Burns scooping out Homer's brain on THOH II.

That was a little wierd but then again, Abe's other bastard (Unkie Herb) looks exactly like Homer too, so it was a nice callback to that.

It was worth it for "Look at me, I'm Davy Crockett!"

Let's not forget Bart envisioning the flesh melting off Homer's face as he says, "Now, how about a kiss" to Bart as the ice cream sundae melts from atop Bart's head in the Bigger Brother episode

Smithers the Snake eating Mr. Burns in that one THoH. Nevertheless, the fact that he was sobbing in between the acts of swallowing his corpse did make that bit hilarious

THE EYE-CRUSTING! The thing that made it especially disturbing for me was the fact that there was a crusting sound effect - the crusting was audible!

As someone who has injured his knees many times, I get sympathy pains during the ep where Homer tears his ACL. The worst moment is when, in an attempt to skip out on the bill, he tries to get up from his wheelchair and run, only to have his knee give out as soon as he puts weight on it. That makes me shudder.

I just saw the movie and I have to be the first to add seeing Bart's penis as a definite disturbing moment.

All of these are good ones. Here's one to add to the mix: In "Home Sweet Home-diddly-dum-doodily," when the Flanders family is taking the Simpson children to get baptized. Maggie takes out her pacifier, says "Daddily-doodily," then turns her head 180 degrees to look at Bart and Lisa in the backseat. When she turned her head, it had this "leather glove being twisted" sound that made it so creepy. On the DVD commentary, the people commenting all screamed when that happened.

Another disturbing moment from the movie:


When Homer looks at Spider Pig and says something along the lines of, "... maybe we should kiss to break the tension."

One from a few years ago that I've only seen once but it ended with Mr. Burns inside Homer's skin dancing around a restaurant.

Homer as the PieMan digging the bullet out of his leg. I can't watch that.

Already mentioned are Homer's eye crust and sentient scab, and the spring in Lenny's eye.

I'm also really creeped out by Dr. Hibbert breaking the fourth wall in Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part I. I know it's not at all noteworthy, but that freaks me out for some reason. A lot of moments in those episodes give me the creeps for some reason. No idea why. Except for Mr. Burns in the shower; I know why that makes me shudder.

In the episode where Selma takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Land, I always get grossed out when Homer eats that moldy sandwich.

Can't sleep, clown will eat me.

I think it's gross when Homer uses the magnet to pull out the metal from when he's pretending to be a robot. Metal coming out of bodies, kind of gross. I think the episode is called "I Doh-Bot."

It's pretty gross when Homer gets shredded by the Pierce Brosnan house, and then is missing the back of his head.

The aftermath Homer being mauled by the badger makes me look away every time.

"Suckle daddy's sugar ball" gets a creeped-out squeak from me every time.
Watching the WTC episode is always unsettling for me, but - am I a horrible person? - it's worth it for the "crab juice" thing. Is it crab juice? Gah, I don't remember.

Yep, crab juice. As a former Mountain Dew drinker (can't now because of the high caffeine content, and it breaks my heart) I am outraged by the slander in that episode! (Or, you know, not really. It just makes me miss my beloved Dew.)

The panda rape has been mentioned, and is one of the most disturbing moment to me for sure.

The other one was when Homer was on a bed, and the mattress came up on both ends and squashed him in the middle, and you see red liquid spurt out on the floor. I was deeply disturbed, until you find out it's his juice box.

The scene where Homer's flesh melts off his face in the one where Bart gets a big brother is pretty gross. He's giving Bart a ride hom from Soccer practice, and Bart's all pissed, and he imagines Homer with the flesh melting off. That's kind of gross.

Snake Smithers, or Slithers, devouring Lord Montymort's dead body in Wiz Kids is a little hard to swallow, no pun intended. Come to think of it, that whole Treehouse of Horror episode is actually kind of gross. What with Bart's puking frog prince, Homer getting chopped up by the Pierce Brosnan house, and Bart's wobbly neck.

ITA with all previously posted disturbing moments. Just picturing most of them, along with side effects, is enough to make me shudder.

I don't recall seeing this one posted already: when Homer imagines himself making out with himself. Ew. I think it's the "oh Homer"'s and the moans and groans that get to me. LOL

Kaboom--Homer making out with himself is mentioned in the very first post. That and Skinner kissing the ice corpse are the reasons I started this thread. I'm glad to see there are others who share this opinion.

Can we include Simpsons-themed ads too? Like the recent BK ones?

In the first ad, we saw a a Simpsonized King, and we was still creepy as hell. But this one was a lot better to the eyes than watching Krusty getting pummeled by an animated version of the Live-action version of the king in the newest BK ad. (In the new ad, why Krusty doesn't push The Clogger is beyond me)

Two words: Rat Milk

Oops! I swear, I must have repressed reading it, that's how much it disturbs me. lol

I thought of another disturbing moment yesterday: the first time we saw Agnes Skinner in that J-Lo dress during Homer's roast. heh heh

Anything to do with Lenny and his eye always wigs me out big time. Like when he and Moe get the spring caught between them, that's pretty gross. The quater that dents his head is still funny, but it's a little gross when the blood spurts out.