This Week In Viral: The Simpsons ; Rick and Morty

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Probably the two most viral animated series right now.

There’s a steamed ham meme roaming the internet and it’s rather silly.

“Steamed Hams” comes from a scene in the Simpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield, which first aired over twenty years ago.  In the anthology episode that features 22 short scenes about Springfield’s citizens, Principal Skinner has Superintendent Chalmers over for lunch ala “dinner with the boss”. The luncheon does not go according to plan, as Skinner burns the ham he was preparing, leading him to kind of bullshit the occasion. After Skinner burns the ham, he tells Chalmers that he’s making “steamed clams” for lunch as smoke fills the house. Skinner attempts to convince Chalmers that what he had prepared “steamed hams” for lunch,  his Albany-slang nickname for hamburgers.

The producers of the episode actually posted the script that you can see here., but it didn’t take long for this bit to go viral and even become a source for further parodying like this one that’s edited like Dragon Ball Z. 

Press secretary, Sarah Sanders, had a bizarre address to the press the other day which featured a pre-recorded Donald Trump addressing the congregation of reporters almost like Zordon from the Power Rangers. That said, it didn’t take long before someone got a hold of it and used inspiration from the “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender” Rick and Morty episode where Rick drunkenly traps a bunch of intergalactic heroes where he slowly picks them off one by one.

 

 

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