Here is another list showing how "The Simpsons" uses vocabulary in the service of humor. Sometimes it helps to know what the word means in order to get the joke, but more often the joke illustrates the definition of the word from a skewed perspective. If you're trying to remember what "repercussion" means, nothing beats the image of Homer taking a flamethrower to his snowy windshield. Lisa and Bart 's discussion of irony is a classic, and it's accurate too, no small achievement when the concept has been so sorely abused throughout pop culture.
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