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Well, the incentive is that he didn't want to run the tests out of laziness (i.e. he lacked an incentive to run them). He ran to Lisa to give his anticlimactic

Well, the incentive is that he didn't want to run the tests out of laziness (i.e. he lacked an incentive to run them). He ran to Lisa to give his anticlimactic report not to be deceptive, but rather he just happened to be cycling through that part of town and just needed to use the bathroom really badly.

tedk-42 2y ago
The writers of these episodes were really on another level considering it was a cartoon. Lisa's first word is still a personal favourite of mine, especially now as a father.
- kenjackson 2y ago
  What's her first word?
  - g4zj 2y ago
    Apparently it was "Bart". I had to look it up because I was curious as well.
    - 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y ago
      I guess GP is referring to the episode, rather than the actual word . . .
  - gedy 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word
  - tedk-42 2y ago
    More incentive to watch the 20min episode if you ever get the opportunity haha
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- fluoridation 2y ago
  To be honest, it's difficult to tell if the subplot makes sense on purpose, or if the writers just wanted to make a joke and it just happened to end up making sense. I don't think I had ever put the three scenes together before now.
  - nativeit 2y ago
    One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.
    - jshdhehe 2y ago
      Goofy cartoon but I always thought it was very cleverly done in parts. The laugh followed by "fuck life is actually like that" aftertaste.
      - vlovich123 2y ago
        The entire writing room was Harvard grads and people who went on to accomplish impressive things in the industry (eg Conan O’Brien was a writer, David X Cohen was a writer and then went on to cocreate Futurama with Groening). The early writing team was one of the sharpest ever assembled and dismissing it as a “goofy cartoon” is missing the talent behind it just like if you dismissed Futurama in that way.
    - sobkas 2y ago
      > One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous. Not everything, for example I read somewhere that chess "fight" in Tween Peaks was random and didn't adhere to chess rules because no one really paid attention to record or follow moves.
garrettgarcia 2y ago
I thought his incentive was to defend the idea of miracles/faith/angels/God.
- neycoda 2y ago
  More often than not in scientific fraud I've seen the underlying motives be personal beliefs than financial. This is why science needs to be much stronger in weeding out the charlatans.
  - belief-in-money 2y ago
    [citation needed] --- I conjecture the most common underlying motive is to embellish cv, and climb the academic ladder.
NoPie 2y ago
It's actually quite clever from the part of the scientist. The incentive would be money, maybe the pay for doing this test was not good enough. Or maybe the scientist was motivated by thirst of discovering something good for humanity like cure for cancer and didn't want to get distracted by other things. Funding is also needed but angel bones are clearly impossibility. Why even spend time on disproving that? But if she had engaged in discussion with people clearly believing in this nonsense it would have taken too much time. Saying, the tests are inconclusive lets her be distanced from all this and allow people to leave her alone, mostly that the groups will continue their disputes among themselves.

tedk-42 2y ago

The writers of these episodes were really on another level considering it was a cartoon. Lisa's first word is still a personal favourite of mine, especially now as a father.

kenjackson 2y ago
What's her first word?
- g4zj 2y ago
  Apparently it was "Bart". I had to look it up because I was curious as well.
  - 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y ago
    I guess GP is referring to the episode, rather than the actual word . . .
- gedy 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word
- tedk-42 2y ago
  More incentive to watch the 20min episode if you ever get the opportunity haha
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fluoridation 2y ago
To be honest, it's difficult to tell if the subplot makes sense on purpose, or if the writers just wanted to make a joke and it just happened to end up making sense. I don't think I had ever put the three scenes together before now.
- nativeit 2y ago
  One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.
  - jshdhehe 2y ago
    Goofy cartoon but I always thought it was very cleverly done in parts. The laugh followed by "fuck life is actually like that" aftertaste.
    - vlovich123 2y ago
      The entire writing room was Harvard grads and people who went on to accomplish impressive things in the industry (eg Conan O’Brien was a writer, David X Cohen was a writer and then went on to cocreate Futurama with Groening). The early writing team was one of the sharpest ever assembled and dismissing it as a “goofy cartoon” is missing the talent behind it just like if you dismissed Futurama in that way.
  - sobkas 2y ago
    > One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous. Not everything, for example I read somewhere that chess "fight" in Tween Peaks was random and didn't adhere to chess rules because no one really paid attention to record or follow moves.

garrettgarcia 2y ago

I thought his incentive was to defend the idea of miracles/faith/angels/God.

neycoda 2y ago
More often than not in scientific fraud I've seen the underlying motives be personal beliefs than financial. This is why science needs to be much stronger in weeding out the charlatans.
- belief-in-money 2y ago
  [citation needed] --- I conjecture the most common underlying motive is to embellish cv, and climb the academic ladder.

NoPie 2y ago

It's actually quite clever from the part of the scientist. The incentive would be money, maybe the pay for doing this test was not good enough. Or maybe the scientist was motivated by thirst of discovering something good for humanity like cure for cancer and didn't want to get distracted by other things. Funding is also needed but angel bones are clearly impossibility. Why even spend time on disproving that? But if she had engaged in discussion with people clearly believing in this nonsense it would have taken too much time. Saying, the tests are inconclusive lets her be distanced from all this and allow people to leave her alone, mostly that the groups will continue their disputes among themselves.