I love this scene so much, because the passage of time did a huge number on it. It's gone from homer looking crazy out of touch, to now the "kid" suddenly looking insanely out of touch.
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the joke in the simpsons where the kid at the music store doesn't know Apple Computers
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I love this scene so much, because the passage of time did a huge number on it. It's gone from homer looking crazy out of touch, to now the "kid" suddenly looking insanely out of touch.
That entire episode makes me sad now. I knew all those bands growing up, there were my childhood. Now kids watching this episode now would call them the "dinosaur bands."
The episode aired in 1996. Back then, Apple Computers was in dire straights and irrelevant in the face of the juggernaut that was Windows PCs. The joke being the young Gen X kid doesn't know what they are because that are so insignificant and Homer is behind the times to not know this. Only a couple years after the episode aired, Steve Jobs would come back to the company, the iMac would be released and...
The episode aired in 1996. Back then, Apple Computers was in dire straights and irrelevant in the face of the juggernaut that was Windows PCs. The joke being the young Gen X kid doesn't know what they are because that are so insignificant and Homer is behind the times to not know this. Only a couple years after the episode aired, Steve Jobs would come back to the company, the iMac would be released and...
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Homer feels old and out of touch when his kids don't relate to his music. So he decides to go to a music store and is surprised to find they dont' stock records anymore. So he starts going off about projects started by steve jobs, "the guy behind apple computers" and the record store clerk has no idea what he's talking about.
The joke was supposed to be Homer can't keep up with the latest trends at the music store, and only knows old computers. Today, however, the concept of a music store in and of itself is outdated, and if you didn't know who apple was you'd sound like you were a thousand years old.
People had Apple computers, then others got way more popular.
Then Apple started to get well known again.
Nobody knows the band Grand Funk? The wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? Oh man!
Actually the joke refers to Wozniak. The kid claims that the "Hullabaloo Festival" is the greatest musical festival of all time, which Homer questions and replies that the US Festival was actually the greatest festival of all time, which was in part put on by "that guy from Apple Computers" Steve Wozniak.