I wanna say the cat, as well... But there was a point where they didn't have one, and I can't remember if this episode was in that window. It would have been nice to see them do something with the cat, though, usually it's just there for a quick cat gag, while SLH gets full scenarios.
UnoriginalUsername Plus cats in the days of CRT monitors like to sleep/get on top of them. It could be completely possible that snowball jumped on the side of the desk knocking the drinking bird to its side and then going on top of the monitor.
You forgot Snowball 2. Cats have a tendency to get curious around a spontaneously moving object and play with it, so there's a good chance she played with the bird and knocked it over. That explains why the bird is in a different position and possibly the computer is moved a little. Speaking as someone who has cats, this is almost an everyday occurrence, so I should know. And if none of these explanations, as thought out as they are, work, there's always the simplest explanation made famous by Lucy Lawless: "A wizard did it."
+TheITinFIT This seems to be the most likely solution. Cats are known for walking across tall furniture aimlessly. As far as something that's not an accident, however, the Bart solution here is satisfactory.
+TheITinFIT Haha, I didn't realize that the Snowball II theory would pick up so much steam! I admit, I considered her very briefly, but kinda abandoned it because she wasn't in this specific episode. Although, in a weird way, it kind of makes sense that the character we never see ended up doing the thing they didn't show us. Maybe Snowball II is actually behind every major Simpsons mystery? #teamsnowball
+ToonrificTariq I almost did while re-reading my drafts! It had my face in my hands, wondering how on earth I can read that section straight. It's so silly and dumb.
You're missing one big thing... those birds work specifically because of the water that they "drink". The water evaporating off of the felt beak is what causes the change in temperature that makes the liquid inside rise and causes it to tilt back into the water cup. With the way he had it set up, tapping the computer key, it would have only tapped it a couple times before it just stopped moving completely.
I love how during the whole bit about Marge's "character progression" you never once stop to say "just kidding" or anything. Tongue-in-cheek humor at its finest.
+TELMEman Haha, part of that is my super dry sense of humor, but also just not knowing how to lampshade jokes properly. Kept trying to transition out of that section with some kind of acknowledgment, but it always came off as corny to me
the sequence of marge's arc with the drinking bird is the hardest i've ever laughed at your videos. although i prefer relatively serious mysteries for this series this one knocked it out of the park. good show.
My theory is that it was a result of the house's foundation. In marge gets a job the house tips exactly where the computer is, and Homer refuses to buy the part that would prevent the problem from happening again. This is a couple seasons later meaning it would start to happen again, and Homer's extra weight could easily trigger a slight tipping of the house exactly where he was sitting for the past month or so. The computer desk is on wheels, so desk would have rolled slightly if on a slight angle. This could have also shifted the computer to the left as we see. The chair also rolls to the left since homer when he comes back immediately stands in front of the computer as if the chair is no longer there.
I think it depends on the cat, my cat doesn’t knock stuff over. We need to examine what this cat has done throughout the series by watching every episode he’s featured in
Personally I never liked the Marge-centric drinking bird episodes. Seemed a little to pro-drinking bird in my opinion, keep your drinking bird politics out of my show.
_Too_ pro-drinking-bird? The right of American citizens to keep and display physics-based desk toys, knick-knacks, tchotchkes, and bric-a-brac _shall not be infringed._ It's right there in the Constitution. If you don't like it, love it!
Favorite part of King Sized Homer, was when Homer was talking to Bart about becoming obese. Then Lisa spins in her bean bag chair like a Bond villian and Homer screams like a girl.
All I know is, I love the continuity of the drinking bird. Introduced back when homers brother came and gave it to him and he was just obsessed with it. I love that stupid detail
Herb did it he is finally getting his revenge on homer and as an owner of a drinking bird himself he understands drinking bird technology means and motive cased closed
I always thought the bird dried out and that’s what made it lose momentum and fall over. They only work if the beak stays wet My aunt had one when I was a kid and remember playing with it trying figure out how it worked, and the two were always connected in my mind
Vampirech1ck your spot on. The water is absorbed by the felt on the head which in turn creates a temperature difference between the top and the bottom. The liquid in the bird rises to the top, another temperature change and back it goes.
Ultimately, I don't think Bart, Lisa or Marge would interfere with something as important as Homer's work, which is the family's livelihood. As a kid, I was terrified to answer a simple phone call because I didn't want to mess up my Dad's work. I'm going to have to go with Santa's Little Helper -- he can easily reach the bird and loves to mess with family property like you said. They even make a point of showing him snooping around the room earlier. In fact, I'd guess that there's a deleted scene that shows Santa's Little Helper knocking it over, but since it wouldn't be that funny or necessary, they probably cut it...leading to a perfect case for Simpsons Mysteries! Great video as usual.
Maybe in worry of ruining Homer's work a family member did move it, maybe Marge notices it pressing the y button and assumes Homer positioned it like that by accident, worrying it might mess something up, she puts it aside
The opening section of this review is literally what happened when I went to write a review of this a few weeks ago. Eureka! That's a Simpsons Mysteries episode! (Also, I can't believe I went on for over 10 minutes about a frickin' drinking bird. That's The Simpsons for ya.)
+TheRealJims I think the bigger mystery is how was the Drinking Bird was able to tap the Y button repeatedly, considering that it can't work unless you have a source of liquid for it to dunk into (which a dry computer key obviously isn't).
WorldNews92 well I read this and then hired a panel of ten to twelve physicists and they all say the same thing "its a cartoon show please leave me alone"
The Simpsons have a cat, and we all know that cats are Jerks, is it impossible to think Snowball II did it? She seems like a more logical reason than Santa's Little helper. She could have done it in two very realistically feline ways 1) Cats wander when they are bored. It is possible that Snowball II casually jumped onto the desk and while walking along it or more likely when she jumps up she knocks the bird over, this can explain the odd place it lands because she could have bumped it towards the keyboard on an angle depending on where she is positioned before she jumps up. This theory can also explain why, during the short period of homer going to and getting back from a movie that he doesn't see, that a meltdown becomes so imminent, Snowball walked across the keyboard and cause more issues than just not venting the gas, we are led to believe that he is working his same job but from home so wouldn't the plant have had more meltdowns if homer wasn't venting the gas every 30 60 -min (there's no reason to believe he was gone any longer than that) like it seems to indicate when he wasn't home to do it. 2) Cats play with toys, the bird is a small moving toy that would be an ideal swatting plaything especially when there's no humans around. Snowball jumps up plays like a kitten and topples the bird, and hell she probably still walked across the keyboard because cats are jerks.
Animation student here. I think the animators missed an opportunity by including the dog, instead of the cat in the scene. He could have been making the cat sit down or something instead of the dog, which could have explained the cats role in potentially knocking over the bird.
He could have someone take over. Sure it always to hear a new voice on a video like this or on a character. But it's introduced and/or choose someone that sounds similar usually makes it less jarring
there is another option santalitt- the dog hit the table; the bird fell to the floor, then a human put it back in the table if we follow this reasoning we have two suspects; bart and lisa both would think is just a decoration, but only bart would put it back in the way homer finds it , lisa would probably put it standing.
I think everything here is pretty solid but would like to offer a more likely and simpler explanation to why Bart is the prime suspect: Bart and Lisa return home from an early day off school which explains why the other kids are off as well. The school bus on Lisas return is not very busy and the logic for the time line issue is solved when you take this into account - she is returning for extra classes.Lisa would rather spend more time at school than at home, and Ralph would likely be required to have extra tutorials.This leaves Bart at home alone while Homer is at the movies. Considering that Bart would likely just be sitting at home watching TV and that the computer is in the living room he would be irritated by the tapping of the drinking bird and simply place it on its side and continue to watch TV. This also makes sense for all the inconsitancies with the positioning of the drinking bird upon Homers return. As said in the video Bart would have no consideration for the consequence of his actions and simply just want to watch TV in peace.
Some schools allow kids to go home for lunch. While most of the time they eat at the school, maybe they decided to eat at home for a change of pace, then returned to school. When they closed the door, the vibrations may have knocked the bird down.
Snowball II was not shown in this episode, but it´s a cat. Cats knock things over and maybe Snowball II is mad because of no screentime. Your conlusion is right tho, this is a really great episode!
I love this conspiracy theory breakdown, but I have to disagree with your reason that Lisa wouldn't do it. Because let's be real here, it seems just as likely that the drinking bird continuously hitting "YES" (rather, hitting Y, pardon me) would be dangerous and cause a meltdown than stopping it. I mean, even as a kid I kinda viewed that scene as it hitting Y over and over is actually what caused the meltdown, and it fell over "because" of that to show the drama of the situation. To me, it was Homer's plan of the bird itself that did it, and Homer blaming the bird anyway was showing what a irresponsible jerk he is. I guess seeing it as an adult the "it falling over caused it" is maybe the intent, but I'm not even 100% convinced of that to be honest since that make sit less Homers fault and I'm ready for him to take all the blame in an episode like this. Lisa could totally have reconsidered the danger of just agreeing to every prompt and removed it to try and PREVENT danger. I have to imagine the plant inst just asking "should I stay stable for the next few seconds?" and you just have to keep assuming it that it needs to (although...I suppose in the type of Simpson's logic and the very fact that Homer has managed to even do this job at all means it very well could be that dumb). But assuming it's not THAT dumb, surely there are times to say Y and times to say N depending on its current situation...or else it would be all automated. Maybe the bird was already partway through a destructive "are you sure" routine that was bad and Lisa was like "oh no! ok, I'll stop it until Dad gets home". seems like the type of smart but still 8 years old thing. Even if it wasn't actively asking a dangerous question, maybe she removed it, watched it for a bit to see what it would do, and it looked like it was just going to wait for input so she figured it waiting a little while was less risky than arbitrarily saying "YES" to every question.
What about the cat? Computers get warm and they like warm. The toy is also a moving bird. You could say snowball just jumped up smacked it over and in beating it around it got flipped over before snowball got board and wondered off.
I always assumed the drinking bird gradually moved by itself but just as I started watching this, Snowball II became the obvious suspect. Cats walk up on surfaces all the time and Snowball could easily have knocked over such a light object.
I always blamed Snowball 2, and I always thoughts Bart and Lisa came home for lunch and took the bus back for their afternoon classes, cause that was a thing that happened in my elementary school.
Now, fun fact: In Das Bus, when Bill Gates and his men arrive to buy Homer's web service out and start ransacking the house, there is one shot where you can see one of the men destroying the Drinking Bird he got from his brother Herb! I remember being so sad when I noticed that! NOOOOOO!! Not the Drinking Bird!!! RIP Homer's Drinking Bird August 27, 1992 - February 15, 1998
Charlie did it. He found out that Homer purposely became disabled, thus ruining disability compensation for everyone. So he killed himself, was reincarnated as a butterfly, and flew to the Simpson home to knock over the bird. Because _no one ever suspects the butterfly! Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!_
The boring answer: It's only in a different position because of different people animating both scenes, animation errors like that happen often in these shows.
Homer: *tries to dial number on touch tone phone* phone: 'the fingers you have using to dial...are too fat. to obtain a special dialling wand please mash the keypad with your palm now." Homer: *SCREAMS*
A better question is how that bird is even pressing that key? The birds require a glass of water to dip into in order to keep going but homers setup has no water to speak of
The bird was given a simple task. All it had to do was hit one key over and over again. It, however, was a drinking bird so it ended up passed out lying on its side. :)
I love The séquence with Marge and the Drinking bird! Great job on that part. I love The running gag with the phtyists too! You do an excellent job on every video. I’m personally thinking that the dog or the cat did it but you never know!
This is only slightly relevant, but I remember liking or at least noticing that the drinking bird was in this episode, because I remembered it from the Herb storyline (and how Homer liked the bird and wanted Herb to give it to him.) I think that might have been an early time that I appreciated continuity before I even understood what continuity was - I'm sure I at least thought something like "Hey, he still has the bird!"
You dont live with cats do you? lol Something being knocked over is no big mystery, especially something thats bobbing back and fourth and located next to the keyboard I actually find it pretty comforting. If something is out of place or I hear some sound that I don't expect in the dark, my subconscious doesn't worry about it being murderers, it just blames the cat and moves on lol
The fact this video is a thing makes me feel good for some reason. Like every complex question the human race has encountered has been answered so we are now covering the trivial ones like this.
I like the Lisa theory, Lisa probably wouldn't think her Dad would be stupid enough to leave a bird in charge or something that could cause a meltdown. She'd be shocked when she found out what happened and also she is only 8 so isn't always gonna be 100% rational
The first time I saw this episode I assumed that the Drinking Bird ‘fainted’ because it managed to screw things up by pressing continually the Y key that it caused the meltdown, so it fell down for the shock. I know it’s not realistic, but The Simpsons’ world works in a way that their reality might be stretched for the sake of a joke.
It could've actually been Homer himself. Due to his heavy weight, he causes strong vibrations, meaning it could've shifting to the bird to an angle to get in it's position. He would've had to have walked near the window, but his reason for that is odd. Guessing by the scene prior, he may have attempted to chase after one of Bart's friends while they viewed him through the window.
I love these episodes! Growing up I always wondered how the bird got knocked over! Because obviously it didn't have the kinetic energy to do so itself.
You're underestimating animals emotional complexity. It is extremely common for dogs and cats alike to get pissed off at something their owner does, and retaliate by destroying or messing with something their owner likes.
I would say the Bart theory although his pranks are usually much more creative than just knocking something over and he loves to take credit for them too. So gotta go with Snowball II for this one :)
Lenny and Carl did it. They missed having Homer at the workplace as he completed their dynamic and filled a number of niches no one else could, despite being adequate at best at his job. They used their unrevealed until now skill with archaic slings (this skill will never come up again) to strike the bird through the window, causing it to spin and land at that unusual angle on the table. The increased table space was a small animation error with the perspective but not anything worth faulting the staff over, these things happen and the show's still good. This plot was dropped because it was a bit TOO screw the audience, even by Simpsons standards. The fallen bird was kept ambiguous as it was an essential plot point for act 3. As this video shows, intelligent and good looking fans can come up with numerous, satisfactory conclusions to the mystery.
I would argue that it's one of the characters who were making fun of Homer from the window. After they were scared away, they may have returned to gaze once more at his obesity and to make fun of him. Upon arriving at the house, Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo and Milhouse find it empty. The bullies then force Milhouse into going into the house, most likely to collect an item of 'fat' clothing from Homer that they could take to school and use to ridicule Bart further. Milhouse then enters the house, and being a nerd, is intrigued by Homer's computer. As he approaches the computer, he is disturbed by Santa's Little Helper, who is most likely character in the house. He freaks, knocks the bird over and runs. Homer arrives back in the house after the theatre incident to find that a melt down is imminent. It was Milhouse.
maybe someone in the family saw that the computer was saying that the meltdown was happening and then took the bird off the y-key to try and not make it any worse
I say it was Snowball II. Cats don't need a motive to knock things over. They just do it :)
I wanna say the cat, as well... But there was a point where they didn't have one, and I can't remember if this episode was in that window. It would have been nice to see them do something with the cat, though, usually it's just there for a quick cat gag, while SLH gets full scenarios.
UnoriginalUsername Plus cats in the days of CRT monitors like to sleep/get on top of them. It could be completely possible that snowball jumped on the side of the desk knocking the drinking bird to its side and then going on top of the monitor.
akiameko1984 Wait, there wasn’t a period where they didn’t have a cat, was there?
The cat thought the drinkinh bird was an actual bird and tried to eat it.
That’s it. That’s the answer. Cats knock shit over or off tables all the time. It was Snowball II. She almost caused a meltdown. Bad cat!
It was the dog with the shifty eyes.
Hey! How about... INDIANA JONES!
The real culprit was the adventures Homer had along the way.
You know it's evil because it has shifty eyes.
You forgot Snowball 2. Cats have a tendency to get curious around a spontaneously moving object and play with it, so there's a good chance she played with the bird and knocked it over. That explains why the bird is in a different position and possibly the computer is moved a little. Speaking as someone who has cats, this is almost an everyday occurrence, so I should know.
And if none of these explanations, as thought out as they are, work, there's always the simplest explanation made famous by Lucy Lawless:
"A wizard did it."
+TheITinFIT This seems to be the most likely solution. Cats are known for walking across tall furniture aimlessly. As far as something that's not an accident, however, the Bart solution here is satisfactory.
+TheITinFIT Agreed, and as if to prove the point, our cat jumped on the computer table and knocked off a toy while I was watching this video!
+TheITinFIT Haha, I didn't realize that the Snowball II theory would pick up so much steam! I admit, I considered her very briefly, but kinda abandoned it because she wasn't in this specific episode. Although, in a weird way, it kind of makes sense that the character we never see ended up doing the thing they didn't show us.
Maybe Snowball II is actually behind every major Simpsons mystery? #teamsnowball
My cat is a destructive bastard. I'm also going with the Snowball hypothesis.
+TheITinFIT I've always believed that Snowball 2 did it. Even as a kid it's the only reason for it to happen.
The drinking bird literally only works with a glass of water. The fact that homer got this setup to work is a scientific miracle
I guess they don't follow the laws of thermodynamics after all.
I'm pretty sure it works with other liquids which affect the rate of drinking but it definitely doesn't work without liquids
@@EmuStarGaming I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
MAYBE THATS WHY IT GOT KNOCKED OVER BROOOOOOOOOOOO
You can apply heat to the base and it'll still work. So if the computer was hot enough...
I cried at the Marge/Drinking Bird part.
+ToonrificTariq I almost did while re-reading my drafts! It had my face in my hands, wondering how on earth I can read that section straight. It's so silly and dumb.
same man, those episode were so sad!!!
I thought I was having a stroke
I thought someone was signalling for help under duress
Amazing
That's right, Mr. Burns was REALLY shot by... the drinking bird.
I would watch that video.
No, he was shot by Larry
Oh, lets say moe
You're missing one big thing... those birds work specifically because of the water that they "drink". The water evaporating off of the felt beak is what causes the change in temperature that makes the liquid inside rise and causes it to tilt back into the water cup. With the way he had it set up, tapping the computer key, it would have only tapped it a couple times before it just stopped moving completely.
I love how during the whole bit about Marge's "character progression" you never once stop to say "just kidding" or anything. Tongue-in-cheek humor at its finest.
+TELMEman Haha, part of that is my super dry sense of humor, but also just not knowing how to lampshade jokes properly. Kept trying to transition out of that section with some kind of acknowledgment, but it always came off as corny to me
@@TheRealJims this man has seen a lot of modern Simpsons
the sequence of marge's arc with the drinking bird is the hardest i've ever laughed at your videos. although i prefer relatively serious mysteries for this series this one knocked it out of the park. good show.
Yeah I know it's the same explanation for who shot Mr. Burns
+ShadowAngel being badly photoshopped just adds to the comedy for me haha
ShadowAngel
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ShadowAngel watch the who shot Mr burns video by this guy and you'll understand why
I'll be honest it took me a second to grasp the joke, but once I did I got a good laugh. Well played for sure :)
"It's a cartoon, leave me alone."
A joke that I saw coming, yet still made me chuckle. I tip my hat to the Real Jims.
Proceeds to crack the case in secret.
My theory is that it was a result of the house's foundation. In marge gets a job the house tips exactly where the computer is, and Homer refuses to buy the part that would prevent the problem from happening again. This is a couple seasons later meaning it would start to happen again, and Homer's extra weight could easily trigger a slight tipping of the house exactly where he was sitting for the past month or so. The computer desk is on wheels, so desk would have rolled slightly if on a slight angle. This could have also shifted the computer to the left as we see. The chair also rolls to the left since homer when he comes back immediately stands in front of the computer as if the chair is no longer there.
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Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Pretty obvious that the cat did it, it's a bird shaped thing and it's moving, cats love to attack things like that
Doesn't even matter that it was bird shaped, or moving.
One of our cats will knock all sorts of shit over or on the floor just because it can. 🤷♂️
I think it depends on the cat, my cat doesn’t knock stuff over. We need to examine what this cat has done throughout the series by watching every episode he’s featured in
You ever seen a bird before?
Personally I never liked the Marge-centric drinking bird episodes. Seemed a little to pro-drinking bird in my opinion, keep your drinking bird politics out of my show.
_Too_ pro-drinking-bird? The right of American citizens to keep and display physics-based desk toys, knick-knacks, tchotchkes, and bric-a-brac _shall not be infringed._ It's right there in the Constitution.
If you don't like it, love it!
Drinking Bird Control means using both hands
How did the drinking bird hit the button if there was nothing there for him to drink?
@@jeremymain7303 It was drinking freedom.
RiC David I fricking love this so much and you by extension
Favorite part of King Sized Homer, was when Homer was talking to Bart about becoming obese. Then Lisa spins in her bean bag chair like a Bond villian and Homer screams like a girl.
pretty obvious that it was Snowball.
Because knocking important objects over is what cats do.
All I know is, I love the continuity of the drinking bird. Introduced back when homers brother came and gave it to him and he was just obsessed with it. I love that stupid detail
Not to mention it appeared once again when Bill Gates' goons destroyed it, and accordingly, it was never seen again
I reckon it was hank scorpio
Ralof Of Riverwood If Springfield blows up and Homer somehow survives, Hank can have him back.
Ralof Of Riverwood
So he can have him
A wizard did it
No it was definitely Lyle Lanley
"Marge has expiriance with drinking birds"
Herb did it he is finally getting his revenge on homer and as an owner of a drinking bird himself he understands drinking bird technology means and motive cased closed
I always thought the bird dried out and that’s what made it lose momentum and fall over.
They only work if the beak stays wet
My aunt had one when I was a kid and remember playing with it trying figure out how it worked, and the two were always connected in my mind
Vampirech1ck your spot on. The water is absorbed by the felt on the head which in turn creates a temperature difference between the top and the bottom. The liquid in the bird rises to the top, another temperature change and back it goes.
That would make sense, but you can clearly see in the crime scene that the bird is half-full.
Was this before or after you got bit by Dracula?
CoNasty Corleone before
It was the cat. THE CAT!! Cats are always knocking stuff over just because.
it could have been the late Paul Newman getting revenge on homer for destroying his corn.
"Mistah Nooman's gonna have mah legs broke!"
I think Marge was trying to replace Homers bird. It's obviously a different Drinking Bird based on the difference in the legs.
10:23
“I can’t sit here and play some up beat guitar music”
*Abruptly cuts guitar music*
I've always wondered about this.
WAIT, YOU'RE HERE?
Ultimately, I don't think Bart, Lisa or Marge would interfere with something as important as Homer's work, which is the family's livelihood. As a kid, I was terrified to answer a simple phone call because I didn't want to mess up my Dad's work. I'm going to have to go with Santa's Little Helper -- he can easily reach the bird and loves to mess with family property like you said. They even make a point of showing him snooping around the room earlier.
In fact, I'd guess that there's a deleted scene that shows Santa's Little Helper knocking it over, but since it wouldn't be that funny or necessary, they probably cut it...leading to a perfect case for Simpsons Mysteries! Great video as usual.
Yeah but Bart's an asshole
Maybe in worry of ruining Homer's work a family member did move it, maybe Marge notices it pressing the y button and assumes Homer positioned it like that by accident, worrying it might mess something up, she puts it aside
The opening section of this review is literally what happened when I went to write a review of this a few weeks ago. Eureka! That's a Simpsons Mysteries episode!
(Also, I can't believe I went on for over 10 minutes about a frickin' drinking bird. That's The Simpsons for ya.)
+TheRealJims I think the bigger mystery is how was the Drinking Bird was able to tap the Y button repeatedly, considering that it can't work unless you have a source of liquid for it to dunk into (which a dry computer key obviously isn't).
+TheRealJims I love this series - keep it up!
+WorldNews92 Unless it was Tab.
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WorldNews92 well I read this and then hired a panel of ten to twelve physicists and they all say the same thing "its a cartoon show please leave me alone"
"I can't sit here and play some upbeat guitar music..."
*Upbeat guitar music stops.*
I had a toy drinking bird and my cat used to bat at it whenever he had a chance... So I'm gonna point the blame at Snowball II
It was knocked over by... oh, let's say Moe.
The Simpsons have a cat, and we all know that cats are Jerks, is it impossible to think Snowball II did it? She seems like a more logical reason than Santa's Little helper.
She could have done it in two very realistically feline ways
1) Cats wander when they are bored. It is possible that Snowball II casually jumped onto the desk and while walking along it or more likely when she jumps up she knocks the bird over, this can explain the odd place it lands because she could have bumped it towards the keyboard on an angle depending on where she is positioned before she jumps up.
This theory can also explain why, during the short period of homer going to and getting back from a movie that he doesn't see, that a meltdown becomes so imminent, Snowball walked across the keyboard and cause more issues than just not venting the gas, we are led to believe that he is working his same job but from home so wouldn't the plant have had more meltdowns if homer wasn't venting the gas every 30 60 -min (there's no reason to believe he was gone any longer than that) like it seems to indicate when he wasn't home to do it.
2) Cats play with toys, the bird is a small moving toy that would be an ideal swatting plaything especially when there's no humans around. Snowball jumps up plays like a kitten and topples the bird, and hell she probably still walked across the keyboard because cats are jerks.
Cats are jerks! .. I thought I was crazy for thinking that
"Its a cartoon show: please leave me alone". LOLOL. This guy is hilarious.
Having watched this immediately after binging the "who shot mr burns" videos, the marge arc with the drinking bird edited in really got me good
My exact experience. It was magical. I laughed so hard it alerted the whole house.
The Marge-Drinking Bird part made jumping into the Simpsons’s mysteries rabbit hole worth it.
Animation student here. I think the animators missed an opportunity by including the dog, instead of the cat in the scene. He could have been making the cat sit down or something instead of the dog, which could have explained the cats role in potentially knocking over the bird.
PLEASE DONT EVER STOP UPLOADING
Logiq what if he dies?
Then his ghost will upload
@@jasonpade4949 what if his ghost die
@I forgot to add a name Would that be a ghost _ghost_ or a _ghost_ go...ah wait nevermind.
He could have someone take over. Sure it always to hear a new voice on a video like this or on a character. But it's introduced and/or choose someone that sounds similar usually makes it less jarring
The Marge with drinking bird bit was very clever I liked it
I say Homer did it, it's possible that with each step he took, the drinking bird moved to the position bit by bit
there is another option
santalitt- the dog hit the table; the bird fell to the floor, then a human put it back in the table
if we follow this reasoning we have two suspects; bart and lisa
both would think is just a decoration, but only bart would put it back in the way homer finds it
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lisa would probably put it standing.
I think everything here is pretty solid but would like to offer a more likely and simpler explanation to why Bart is the prime suspect:
Bart and Lisa return home from an early day off school which explains why the other kids are off as well. The school bus on Lisas return is not very busy and the logic for the time line issue is solved when you take this into account - she is returning for extra classes.Lisa would rather spend more time at school than at home, and Ralph would likely be required to have extra tutorials.This leaves Bart at home alone while Homer is at the movies.
Considering that Bart would likely just be sitting at home watching TV and that the computer is in the living room he would be irritated by the tapping of the drinking bird and simply place it on its side and continue to watch TV. This also makes sense for all the inconsitancies with the positioning of the drinking bird upon Homers return. As said in the video Bart would have no consideration for the consequence of his actions and simply just want to watch TV in peace.
Some schools allow kids to go home for lunch. While most of the time they eat at the school, maybe they decided to eat at home for a change of pace, then returned to school. When they closed the door, the vibrations may have knocked the bird down.
7 years later and still perhaps the biggest mystery (and my favourite thing that you’ve done).
Homer knocked it over with his stick when he was yelling at the kids outside the window.
False. It was shown to be standing after the kids entered the house.
Stand down!
marge actually failed her drinking bird exam. she missed the baby, she missed the blind man...
Snowball. Cats just knock stuff over.
Snowball II was not shown in this episode, but it´s a cat.
Cats knock things over and maybe Snowball II is mad because of no screentime.
Your conlusion is right tho, this is a really great episode!
I love this conspiracy theory breakdown, but I have to disagree with your reason that Lisa wouldn't do it.
Because let's be real here, it seems just as likely that the drinking bird continuously hitting "YES" (rather, hitting Y, pardon me) would be dangerous and cause a meltdown than stopping it. I mean, even as a kid I kinda viewed that scene as it hitting Y over and over is actually what caused the meltdown, and it fell over "because" of that to show the drama of the situation. To me, it was Homer's plan of the bird itself that did it, and Homer blaming the bird anyway was showing what a irresponsible jerk he is. I guess seeing it as an adult the "it falling over caused it" is maybe the intent, but I'm not even 100% convinced of that to be honest since that make sit less Homers fault and I'm ready for him to take all the blame in an episode like this.
Lisa could totally have reconsidered the danger of just agreeing to every prompt and removed it to try and PREVENT danger. I have to imagine the plant inst just asking "should I stay stable for the next few seconds?" and you just have to keep assuming it that it needs to (although...I suppose in the type of Simpson's logic and the very fact that Homer has managed to even do this job at all means it very well could be that dumb). But assuming it's not THAT dumb, surely there are times to say Y and times to say N depending on its current situation...or else it would be all automated.
Maybe the bird was already partway through a destructive "are you sure" routine that was bad and Lisa was like "oh no! ok, I'll stop it until Dad gets home". seems like the type of smart but still 8 years old thing. Even if it wasn't actively asking a dangerous question, maybe she removed it, watched it for a bit to see what it would do, and it looked like it was just going to wait for input so she figured it waiting a little while was less risky than arbitrarily saying "YES" to every question.
Simpsons mystery videos are the best, please if you can find the time make more of these!
What about the cat? Computers get warm and they like warm. The toy is also a moving bird. You could say snowball just jumped up smacked it over and in beating it around it got flipped over before snowball got board and wondered off.
It's more likely that Snowball II probably did it. Cats are known to knock things over, plus its a bird, and we know how cats feel about birds.
I always assumed the drinking bird gradually moved by itself but just as I started watching this, Snowball II became the obvious suspect. Cats walk up on surfaces all the time and Snowball could easily have knocked over such a light object.
10:50 Or maybe it was knocked down by, oh, let's say, Moe
I absolutely love your videos,please do more of Simpsons mysteries.
Agreed
Agreed
Marge didn't pass the test with flying colors. She missed the baby, the blind man...
missed the door
I always blamed Snowball 2, and I always thoughts Bart and Lisa came home for lunch and took the bus back for their afternoon classes, cause that was a thing that happened in my elementary school.
Now, fun fact: In Das Bus, when Bill Gates and his men arrive to buy Homer's web service out and start ransacking the house, there is one shot where you can see one of the men destroying the Drinking Bird he got from his brother Herb!
I remember being so sad when I noticed that! NOOOOOO!! Not the Drinking Bird!!!
RIP Homer's Drinking Bird August 27, 1992 - February 15, 1998
BB hood is all good.
Marge didn't ace the drinking bird test, she missed both the baby and the blind man.
The theatre owner clearly lives in a society, hence the green hair
Charlie did it.
He found out that Homer purposely became disabled, thus ruining disability compensation for everyone. So he killed himself, was reincarnated as a butterfly, and flew to the Simpson home to knock over the bird.
Because _no one ever suspects the butterfly! Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!_
They have a cat - Shit gets destroyed ...
Gert Madsen I love how that's COMPLETELY overlooked
The boring answer: It's only in a different position because of different people animating both scenes, animation errors like that happen often in these shows.
Homer: *tries to dial number on touch tone phone*
phone: 'the fingers you have using to dial...are too fat. to obtain a special dialling wand please mash the keypad with your palm now."
Homer: *SCREAMS*
A better question is how that bird is even pressing that key?
The birds require a glass of water to dip into in order to keep going but homers setup has no water to speak of
"I dont wanna look like a weardo, I just go with the mumu"
The bird was given a simple task. All it had to do was hit one key over and over again. It, however, was a drinking bird so it ended up passed out lying on its side. :)
You know, cats do like to jump on tables and knock things over for absolutely no reason...
I love The séquence with Marge and the Drinking bird! Great job on that part. I love The running gag with the phtyists too! You do an excellent job on every video. I’m personally thinking that the dog or the cat did it but you never know!
I have been very unfair, you've convinced me that Marge would be capable of handling a Drinking Bird
The green-haired theatre manager mystery is solved in season 27 where he is found out to be Krusty's long lost brother
What about Snowball II/V she could of knocked it over.
*This episode aired years before Snowball V came about.
This is only slightly relevant, but I remember liking or at least noticing that the drinking bird was in this episode, because I remembered it from the Herb storyline (and how Homer liked the bird and wanted Herb to give it to him.) I think that might have been an early time that I appreciated continuity before I even understood what continuity was - I'm sure I at least thought something like "Hey, he still has the bird!"
Bart walks by, thinks of a prank, ''expolsion" "cool"
You dont live with cats do you? lol
Something being knocked over is no big mystery, especially something thats bobbing back and fourth and located next to the keyboard
I actually find it pretty comforting. If something is out of place or I hear some sound that I don't expect in the dark, my subconscious doesn't worry about it being murderers, it just blames the cat and moves on lol
A wizard did it.
Whenever anything like this happens. A wizard did it.
The fact this video is a thing makes me feel good for some reason. Like every complex question the human race has encountered has been answered so we are now covering the trivial ones like this.
I think the cat is the likeliest culprit #TeamSnowballII
Not much of a mystery to me. If you're drinking all day, at some point you're gonna fall over.
I like the Lisa theory, Lisa probably wouldn't think her Dad would be stupid enough to leave a bird in charge or something that could cause a meltdown. She'd be shocked when she found out what happened and also she is only 8 so isn't always gonna be 100% rational
The first time I saw this episode I assumed that the Drinking Bird ‘fainted’ because it managed to screw things up by pressing continually the Y key that it caused the meltdown, so it fell down for the shock.
I know it’s not realistic, but The Simpsons’ world works in a way that their reality might be stretched for the sake of a joke.
But hey, that's just a theory...A SIMPSONS THEORY!
XD
+DannyBReviews Stop that. :p
Ralphie get off the stage sweetheart.
+TheSkully343 You're making us miss the contest.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand cut!
It could've actually been Homer himself. Due to his heavy weight, he causes strong vibrations, meaning it could've shifting to the bird to an angle to get in it's position. He would've had to have walked near the window, but his reason for that is odd. Guessing by the scene prior, he may have attempted to chase after one of Bart's friends while they viewed him through the window.
Would a drinking bird even be strong enough to press the key of a keyboard?
Another topic for another video
I don’t think a drinking bird would actually work without cool water to saturate the beak felt
It was the butterfly! The butterfly!
I suspect it was the cat,Snowball 2,. Cats are always walking on keyboards.
That's right, folks. The Drinking Bird shot Mr. Burns.
I love these episodes! Growing up I always wondered how the bird got knocked over! Because obviously it didn't have the kinetic energy to do so itself.
This is like watching a Zapruder film documentary
You're underestimating animals emotional complexity. It is extremely common for dogs and cats alike to get pissed off at something their owner does, and retaliate by destroying or messing with something their owner likes.
I would say the Bart theory although his pranks are usually much more creative than just knocking something over and he loves to take credit for them too. So gotta go with Snowball II for this one :)
Marge never used a drinking bird before..... it was a gun
It was just a reference to his theory on whether it was Marge who actually shot Mr. Burns.
That's what I thought
It was a joke
No shit Sherlock
Gamingchewie *McBain voice* That's the joke.
Lenny and Carl did it. They missed having Homer at the workplace as he completed their dynamic and filled a number of niches no one else could, despite being adequate at best at his job. They used their unrevealed until now skill with archaic slings (this skill will never come up again) to strike the bird through the window, causing it to spin and land at that unusual angle on the table. The increased table space was a small animation error with the perspective but not anything worth faulting the staff over, these things happen and the show's still good.
This plot was dropped because it was a bit TOO screw the audience, even by Simpsons standards. The fallen bird was kept ambiguous as it was an essential plot point for act 3. As this video shows, intelligent and good looking fans can come up with numerous, satisfactory conclusions to the mystery.
He quoted the who shot mr burns episode part two but replaced gun with drinking bird
If you read the book "are you disabled" well...
make the connection
we replaced the guns with the drinking bird
Adrian Richardson With his latest release of ET, Spielberg had finally gone too far.
It was the cat. All cats knock things over for no reason.
You forgot about Snowball II,Snowball II could have bumped the drinking bird down by accident??You know cats,right??Always knocking your stuff around.
I would argue that it's one of the characters who were making fun of Homer from the window. After they were scared away, they may have returned to gaze once more at his obesity and to make fun of him. Upon arriving at the house, Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo and Milhouse find it empty. The bullies then force Milhouse into going into the house, most likely to collect an item of 'fat' clothing from Homer that they could take to school and use to ridicule Bart further. Milhouse then enters the house, and being a nerd, is intrigued by Homer's computer. As he approaches the computer, he is disturbed by Santa's Little Helper, who is most likely character in the house. He freaks, knocks the bird over and runs. Homer arrives back in the house after the theatre incident to find that a melt down is imminent.
It was Milhouse.
Bart and Lisa came home for lunch, and I guess came back on the bus.
maybe someone in the family saw that the computer was saying that the meltdown was happening and then took the bird off the y-key to try and not make it any worse
4:00 Weight GAIN,
What's creepy is I was watching this episode 2 days ago on DVD. And realised the same thing. Turns out Google now reads your mind.