Original artwork, not a still
Lock your doors and bar your windows, because the next advertisement you see could destroy your house and eat your family.
— The Simpsons · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker delivers an exaggerated alarm, telling people to lock doors and bar windows because the next advertisement could wreck their house and devour their family. The absurd scale of the danger turns ordinary advertising into a monster, satirising both fear and marketing.
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