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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
It’s still early in the Major League Baseball season, but some teams have already been ravaged by injuries. Before fans of the Brewers or Yankees start to feel sorry for themselves, though, remember an even more star-crossed team: Mr. Burns’ collection of all-star ringers brought in to play for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s softball nine. Do you remember what ultimately sidelined each player?
Take The Simpsons Softball Quiz, then come back and let us know how you did.
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100%
that episode was great. i especially liked the roster of ringers Mr. Burns originally selected, and changed when Smithers pointed out most of the players had been dead for 100 years.
posted by james on 5-21-2008 at 10:38 am
7/9 – Nice quiz. I was surprised how much I remembered from that episode.
posted by MikeTrig on 5-21-2008 at 10:50 am
Another quiz that I can ace…Ok, so I know my Simpsons and my Sesame Street. What does that say about me?
posted by beth on 5-21-2008 at 10:55 am
If gazillion were a real number I’d have seen it that many times.
posted by bryan on 5-21-2008 at 11:00 am
8/9
Shave your sideburns!
posted by shasta on 5-21-2008 at 11:57 am
100% I knew I’d ace this one, I can still sing the song from the end of the episode “we’re talking softball, from Maine to San Diego..we’re talking softball Mattingly and Canseco Ken Griffey’s grotesquely swollen jaw Steve Sax and his run in with the law
we’re talking Homer Ozzie and the Straw”
posted by Emily on 5-21-2008 at 12:06 pm
100% Being a huge Simpsons fan/trivia buff, anything less would be shameful.
posted by Kyle Gunn on 5-21-2008 at 12:45 pm
9/9 When you think about how long ago this episode came out is amazing that some of these guys played until just recently (or still do).
posted by lproud on 5-21-2008 at 12:50 pm
Darryl……Darryl…..
posted by Will on 5-21-2008 at 12:51 pm
9/9 I haven’t seen that episode in years and I still remembered all of that. Wierd
posted by heather on 5-21-2008 at 1:46 pm
10/10. Woo hoo!
posted by bedhead on 5-21-2008 at 2:22 pm
9/9 — 100%
Wow! Figures that it’s a Simpsons quiz when I finally score my first 100% on one of these quizzes.
Feh, I’m proud anyway…
posted by PJ on 5-21-2008 at 5:57 pm
7/9–though I should have got the Steve Sax one as I can also sing the song! Dang!
posted by Julia on 5-22-2008 at 5:10 pm
Weird. I had that song stuck in my head since yesterday. 7/9 not bad. I think the Mystery Spot should be condemned.
posted by Steve on 5-26-2008 at 1:25 pm
100%
One of the best episodes!
posted by vankook on 5-29-2008 at 2:33 am
100%
posted by Milo on 7-23-2008 at 3:09 pm
100%
“I am so smart, I am so smart. S-M-R-T… I mean S-M-A-R-T!”
posted by Steve on 8-8-2008 at 6:05 pm
OWN IT! 100%
Greatest Simpsons episode by far. Too bad for Homer and his lightning bat.
posted by Mario on 11-20-2008 at 4:29 pm
100%
That episode and Flaming Moe’s are my two favorite. Both have great songs also!
posted by Frank on 12-18-2008 at 7:54 pm
9/9, a great episode, but still not homer and the guatemalan (sp?) insanity peppers
posted by aaron on 5-18-2009 at 1:54 pm
100%, though Darryl Strawberry was replaced after hitting 9 home runs by a pinch hitter, not a pinch runner. Burns was playing the odds, having a right handed hitter face a left handed pitcher.
posted by Ron on 5-30-2009 at 12:04 pm
I haven’t seen that episode in years and I still got all the answers correct!
posted by Lee on 8-20-2009 at 7:36 pm