Maggie Simpson's naughty message

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See the blocks on the right. From last week's episode, "Money Bart." "Maggie Simpson learns a new word" (Thanks, bbmancini via Submitterator)

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Anonymous

Well, maybe a stretch… But who knows… FUK (u) catches the eye, no need to spell it correctly to necessarily think of the word! And actually, a good way to avoid censorship
Lobster

The real headline: someone is still watching The Simpsons.
Anonymous

I can’t believe this isn’t obvious to you people. This is another broadshot in the ongoing war between Matt Groenig and Bob Uecker. FU UEKR.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
Stay_Sane_Inside_Insanity

@David Pescovitz

“Maggie Simpson’s naughty message(?)”

There. I fixed it for you. ^_^
V

Eff Ewe See,
Kay Ee Wye,
Em Oh Ewe Ess Eeeee….
- Eric the half a bee
  
  LOL@V.
Anonymous

These are all the possible words in English. Man, those Simpson writers are hi-larious.

KERF KURU FER FEU FUR KEF KUE REF RUE UKE EF ER RE
snakedart

Cowardly to slip this in when the viewership long ago fell below measurable levels.
kridje

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- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That’s why I haven’t sent the men in black to your house.
Anonymous

The Anagram Server found over 100 anagrams. THAT CANNOT BE A COINCIDENCE, PEOPLE!
GIFtheory

You’re all wrong. The naughty word is ZEF, but with the Z rotated 90 degrees. ZEF side!!
Donald Petersen

I imagine this was as close as BS&P would let them get to something naughty.

Text in the frame of a prime-time animated show is never random, sez I.
poolaka

Yeah, this is about as legitimate as me seeing the patron saint, Christopher Hitchens, in my cheeseburger today.
- Brainspore
  
  Next you’ll try to convince me that my Boggle set hasn’t been coming on to me lately.
Moondoggie

You’re one funny fuker, you, Matt.
querent

I caught this when it aired. Sending a link to all who called me dumb while we sat around the smoke-filled living room.

vindicated by boing. a descent band name, that.
mellowknees

Somehow, I see the effword about as much as I see “SEX” spelled out in the dust clouds in the Lion King, or boners in the background on the Little Mermaid box. It might have been on purpose, and it might not have been, but I guess it does prove one thing: humans will always look for something dirty if they think it’s even .05% there.
Hagrid

Pareidolia. Possibly intentionally triggered by the animators.
JoshuaZ

First thing I saw was “fuer” and thought it was a mispelling of fuhrer. Does that Godwin the thread?
Anonymous

This is so fuk ing stupid! People really like to see a red things when they are yellow!

You made me laught so much, conspirator subliminal naughty alien!

The EU for European Union! OMG! Looooooooooool!
ImprovidentLackWit

In a SPEAK-N-SPELL gag, Krusty’s voice spells a Yiddish sounding word… “S…H…I…I know there is a T in there somewhere….”

Maybe the blocks were innocently placed, but…
Anonymous

Dudes, how can anyone think the letters on the blocks are just random? There are at least 2 people who put it there and then there’re 10s more who actually check the cartoon before it goes on the air.

Having said that, I wouldn’t say it’s a coincidence that there’s “FUK” and “FU”, and even “UMFKR”. Anyone with some experience on the drawing or animation business will tell you that you should watch out with letter combinations such as “MF”, “FU”, “FK”, “DK”, and others.

Someone out there wanted to say at least FUCK YOU, and at the most HEY YOU MOTHER FUCKER. FUK U ER is also very VERY plausible.
quintellect

Here’s where the stretched idea is not so stretchy:
The animation for the simpson is done in South Korea (See Al Jean’s interview in NYT dated 11 Oct)
IF it is the EU, IMF, NEF FUK U stretched idea, it could be a animator who is really up to date on how econ policy might be screwing his job\country up?
ahaley

SSSSSSTTTTRRRRRREEEEETTTTTCCCCCHHHHHHH!
bezoared

Fuk/Fur

fuk fur
Anonymous

Not a stretch. You don’t know how bored (and rebellious) animators get. I had a friend that tried to hide marijuana leaves in a game animation once. He got caught, but he said it was not infrequent for something like this to be missed by the leads and appear in the final draft.
fnc

Neffukuer refers to a subspecies of the kwyjibo, and is thus a perfectly cromulent word.
Anonymous

You fools!! It is an anagram for “Nuke Euro If Fume”

Anti EU sentiment hidden in simpsons
Anonymous

‘U M FKR’ That’s all it’s saying – bottom left to right and ‘U FUKR’ – right top down.

The E’s are decoy blocks.

1, ON, 1

Or…

You Fuck, One on one you mother fucker.

…Does this make me crazy???
Anonymous

Again: I think the E blocks are decoys being the only blocks that appear three times in the three parts of the message. That bright letter U is the start of the message and it reads down, til you get to the purple K, at which point you shift your eyes to the other purple letter, O next to an N (ON) the letter I can also be seen as the Roman numeral for number ‘one’ and is the only block in ‘dominant’ red; the contrast colour to blue. Then the message reads as normal from bottom right to left beginning at the non decoy letter U, and ending on the letter R.

- Fionnlagh
Anonymous

The European Union would crush you .. easy.
MrJM

Have I been spelling fucker wrong?
ocorrigan

It’s obviously a commentary on late capitalism and supra-national governance structures in the age of global recession:

“E.U., I.M.F., ONE FUKER”
Anonymous

I got F BOB UECKER.
Anonymous

I believe the animation for The Simpsons is done in Korea, so I think it’s very likely the appearance of FUK was coincidental, rather than a lame and puerile joke.
- grimc
  
  The animation is, but the keyframing isn’t. And it’s the Simpsons. Everything else being equal, odds are it is a lame and puerile joke. That’s why I love the Simpsons.
Anonymous

Fuck Youer? I’m confused.
- Foothealth
  
  FUK UER is referring to a community of Urban Explorers at UER.CA where someone had posted Matt Groening’s house as an exploration site. After his house was posted, some vandals then went and did some damage to his property. Since then, Matt has been angry with UER and due to a cease and desist order, his property was removed from the website database.
Chris Furniss

Either I’m missing something or that’s reaaaaaaally stretching it.
Anonymous

Wish they wouldn’t misspell words like that, how are kids going to learn english.. or french
Anonymous

How many U’s are in a set of blocks? And sorry, I first noticed the two EU blocks were different.
Anonymous

I’m with Locke and Hurley– we should keep pressing the button
fhamilton

I actually paused this on my TiVo when I was watching because it looked like such an obvious place to drop a gag in… I didn’t see anything then, and I think the “FKR” is kind of a stretch now. If I’m missing something, please clue me in.
Anonymous

Read both stacks, from left to right, top to bottom. Sound it out, fast:

OIM (=I’m)
NEF (=gonna)
FUK
UER (=you)
Deidzoeb

Can’t you see the blocks are lined up just like the twin towers? The block that just shows E/U is in position of WTC 7, and it’s some kind of statement against the European Union which I haven’t figured out yet.
- Brainspore
  
  Oh, definitely part of the 9/11 conspiracy! Note how the “left” tower next to the EU is supported by two international organizations bent on controlling the world economy: the O.I.M (International Organization for Migration) and N.E.F (New Economics Foundation). The “right” tower is a thinly disguised threat: They will “Fuk U” up all the way to the “E.R.”
osmo

its a long stretch I think. Its an F and a U? I can get “No Fur MF” from the blocks if that helps?
Craig Duffy

What, you dont know what “onfuieueeumfkr” spells?
jerkzilla

Those aren’t words.
MikeP

Fuck you ER, perhaps?

Seems a bit of a stretch, honestly.
Jack-Booted EULA

Using only four blocks I see two prominent FU’s, a FUK, a FKR, and if corners are allowed, FUKR too. Speculate now as to the meaning of the not-like-the-others EU block.
oasisob1

No, Maggie. It’s ‘Lemur’. ‘Lee-mur’.
tomwj

I wondered if it was FU I E(hear) U(you) E(hear) U(you) E E M(Me) F K R. But I think its a stretch.
mdf

I can get eu mfkr (you motherfucker) but I think it comes down to plausible deniability.
Anonymous

Seriously, people.

Top to bottom in the right column: F-U-K.

Phonetically, that’s how a kid WOULD spell it, don’t you think?
Anonymous

It spells “ttewftwnbr”

obviously an acronym for “three through eight were flukes that will never be repeated”

or is it:

“whbasiofg” :
“we have become a sad imitation of family guy”
Anonymous

After reading the comments, I’m glad I am not the only one that was confused by this post.
David Pescovitz

If you read down, it says “Fuk” and then the top letter in the next column is “U.” If that wasn’t on purpose, I’d eat my hat.
- Anonymous
  
  Definitely too much to be a coincidence. The question is, why would there by a hidden message about Japan, let alone a place like Fukue?
- Brainspore
  
  If that wasn’t on purpose, I’d eat my hat.
  
  Shorts, David. It’s “eat my shorts.”
- Jonathan Badger
  
  No, no — *obviously*, it is “Fuer”, a misspelled version of “Fuhrer” — as the Salon review of the seemingly innocuous “Secretariat” showed, the entertainment industry is trying to send subliminal neo-Nazi propaganda at us.
Anonymous

says

“NO, F.U. EU, I.E EU MFKR”

No, F*** You, European Union,
i.e. European Union Mother F***er
TimmoWarner

I just thought he was referring to the “FUK.”
Anonymous

At a glance, I let my subconscious come up with ‘Ein Fuhrer’. Then upon closer examination I got ‘Monie Fuker’. With monie being a archaic word for money?
Drew

I seriously doubt this is something the writers put in on purpose. There’s no joke, and it’s just not their style.

Perhaps some animator could have slipped it in, but I think it’s more likely just random.
- dw_funk
  
  You miss the fact that most of what the writers put in on purpose aren’t really jokes anymore, either.
kib

“EUMFKR” is a perfectly cromulent word.
Art Carnage

Reading each block left to right, and alternating the direction on each block, we get: EU NO IE which obviously refers to the European Union’s rejection of the Internet Explorer browser.

Hey, it’s just a likely as whatever the heck the original author thought s/he saw.
Anonymous

It’s obviously IE. Internet Explorer is very naughty.