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After 34 years on the air, The simpsons withdrawn one of its most famous longtime jokes. In the episode of October 22 of the animated sitcom, entitled "McManuse & Wife", Homer Simpson underlines that he no longer strangles his son, Bart. X (formerly twitter) User @ Babylamb5 published A scene clip This has become viral, encouraging viewers to weigh with their approval (in agreement with Homer that "times have changed" since the suffocation gag was introduced) or their disapproval (accusing the animated series of being too much " wake up").

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Since his first in 1989, the public saw Homer grasp his son by the throat and say: "Why are you small!" While Bart Gags and his eyes swell comically with his head. But it seems that the joke is officially a thing of the past - and the show has included a meta reference to why. In the episode of October 22, Homer shakes the hand of his new neighbor, who says: "Whoa! It is quite a grip." Homer turns to Marge and says: "You see, Marge? Strangling the Boy paid." Returning to the neighbor, he adds: "I'm kidding, I don't do that anymore. Times have changed."

As indicated on the Simples Fandom site, The strangled joke was also referenced in the Halloween episode of November 5 "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV", but it was not Homer strangling Bart. Instead, in a segment on all residents of Springfield becoming Homer clones, the Kirk Van Houton version of Homer strangles the Milhouse version.

A few Simples Fans complain that the choice to stop using this current joke proves that the show is now too "awake", which they consider negative. An X (formerly Twitter) The user wrote , "What is the world that happens, in 100 years, you will be avoided by society to work incorrectly." Another display , "Plus #Homersimpson strangling Bart!? Wow These new awakened liberals are sorry bags. The writers and producers of #simpons should be ashamed! Losing, losers." Someone else said, "It looks like the Simpsons wake up. I wonder who they hurt." Another shared X user "I would say that this awakening [Expletive] finally infected the Simpsons, but to be fair, the golden age of the Simpsons was years ago, people are so soft these days LMAO."

Other fans joked on the caricatured nature of violence, stressing that he should have been obvious to anyone who looked at Homer to strangle his son was wrong at any time. "Finally, we have exceeded the time when your child viciously chokes until the child's eyeballs are strengthened are socially acceptable by everyone," wrote an X user . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The viral position has also attracted the responses of people who support change - or at least think that anyone who occurs by the pension of the joke is out of line.

"It is logical that they would change it and I appreciate that they did it. There are only a few jokes that started funny but which had to stop," A person shared online . Someone who posted a clip for the new episode that has become viral wrote , "Me looking at the cynical bars in the comments making the precious cartoon caricature of caricatures, a mistratorship gag no longer continues and that the Simpsons should end. You call it all" awakened ", I call her a good character development for Homer." Another X -published user "There are people in fact that Mad Homer Simpson will not go out when he has not done it for years (if you really looked). People just read the headlines and get angry with things nowadays."

As this fan noted, it's been a while since The simpsons Used this gag, even if so many people only seem to make it now. The last time Homer strangled Bart took place in the episode of season 31 "The Winter of Our Monetized Content, which was broadcast in September 2019.

As for the producers of the show, As indicated by Variety , they responded to the controversy with a drawing by Homer strangling Bart and saying: "Why you are the little clicks - !!" The declaration accompanying the drawing simply reads: "Homer Simpson was not available to comment because he was busy strangling Bart." So maybe the joke was not withdrawn after all - time will tell us.

Better life contacted Fox for additional comments.

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