31.12.11

Adventures in Fake Journalism: The Simpsons 717


In the Season 7 episode 'Homer the Smithers', Burns is presented with a Junior Jumble-


Amazingly, it's a fully-constructed far-too-easy jumble. The clue involves a woman calling her husband a 'fat slob', while the riddle is 'What did the man need?' So let's solve it!

Dog
thE
iT
He

Which gives us the letters DETH. Which can't be turned into anything at all - so the Jumble is a failure. Strangely, though - it's simply a case of the circles being misplaced. If they were slightly rearranged, the selected letters would be DTIE.

This, of course, can be rearranged into what the fat man needs. A 'DIET'.

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