Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, 9×10
I was asked today where specifically the Simpsons clip came from. At last, an entry that really fits in the Trivia category. The clips came from an episode called “Miracle on Evergreen Terrace“, season 9 episode 10. More than you will ever need to know about the episode is gleanable from here.
This episode also featured Bart’s use of the word “craptacular” (a nice blend, or in the terminology the Wikipedia suggests, a “frankenword.”), one of many lexical innovations spawned by this show.
The Simpsons seems to written by a relatively Linguistics-savvy bunch; examples one can use to make points in Linguistics seem to come up there more than one might expect by pure chance.