Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Homer's grudging admiration for a man he usually resents is the joke: Flanders is smug, wholesome and, for once, unfairly well-built. The line escaped the show as an internet-era meme, a go-to caption for any sudden, reluctant, slightly absurd appreciation of someone you thought you had worked out.
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In context
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From "Little Big Mom", episode ten of The Simpsons' eleventh season, the first episode broadcast in 2000. The family has gone on a ski trip, and on the slopes Homer is spooked by a skier in a skin-tight suit before realising it is Ned Flanders, who announces that it feels like wearing nothing at all. A stunned, half-hypnotised Homer mutters his verdict about his neighbour. Soon after, a falling clock breaks Marge's leg at the lodge, and Lisa takes over running the house.
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- Simpsons Wiki: Stupid Sexy FlandersIntroduction and BiographyReference checked
- Simpsons Wiki: Little Big MomQuote box and Full StoryReference checked
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