Original artwork, not a still
A hundred bucks? For a comic book? Who drew it, Micha-ma-langelo?
— The Simpsons · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Homer treats a hundred-dollar comic book as though its price would require a masterpiece to justify it. His mangling of Michelangelo's name adds another joke: he reaches for an artistic standard while sounding uncertain about the artist himself.
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