Standardized Testing

[@mrjphead-manouvre9069]

"please put down your pencils and stare at the front of the room" the simpsons was so spot on

[@robertferguson5503]

Mr JP Head-manouvre I HATE THAT

[@what-thepopisthis]

Mr JP Head-manouvre same

[@jellyacc]

the fuck? that happens?

[@icarusswitkes986]

Pretty accurate

[@maxdurk4624]

Yes lol. You arent allowed to do anything after you finish your test, just sit and wait til everyone's done. And its also parodying the mindset behind having kids do that, which is also behind giving kids pointless busy work rather than enriching their education.

[@ExtendedPachiderm]

Cuts off right before Bart says "Hey, I don't need you to get me in the back of a police car"

[@dasadd6374]

Ughh he cut out the best part

[@Nick-jb4xi]

Thank you!

[@billymays495]

Yeah but that's assumed also it's funnier when u think of him getting arrested cuz his test broke the machine it was so frikded

[@willc5723]

He was supposed to be a drifter

[@oldmanonyoutube]

Bart was stealing police cars before Grand Theft Auto was a twinkle in Rockstar's eyes.

[@WoddyPecker]

How Lisa actually filled in that she liked the smell of bank customers gets me all the time

[@AdamVrbasCZ]

hahaha, me too :D

[@niccolorichter1488]

@@AdamVrbasCZ mnam dobroty

[@AdamVrbasCZ]

@@niccolorichter1488 what? :D

[@skan5728]

I prefer the smell of gasoline. It smells very good, not my fault

[@Guldmann266]

Well, if you don't like french fries or gasoline, a bunch of well-groomed people might be a reasonable answer

[@xTheToastBurntx]

The machine almost breaks because of Bart's awful answers, he gets police officer. Classic

[@SmashPortal]

Well I'll be jiggered.

[@donsly375]

Well I'll be jiggered.

[@sci_pain3409]

Well I’ll be jiggered.

[@Screechette]

Well I'll be jiggered.

[@rorygamble8599]

@Johnson77 I can’t believe you would say such a thing in this context

[@GoregeousLey]

I like how they've hired an old guy to sit on a rocking chair and only give him a broom to fix the machine.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

It's what the Test said he'd be good at!

[@scivolanto]

He's probably here since 1929 and has brought the broom himself...

[@paradoxzee6834]

In a factory where I used to work we had jobs like that. A mashine got stuck so there was always someone standing on the top with a big stick trying to push it in. Or we have boxes with eggplant, and someone just need to push it to the side so it fits more in a box.

[@Starteller]

I remember those good old times when to fix a computer machine was to give a good smack.

[@TheAlmightyJod]

As someone who lives in Iowa I can confirm that we give them a full toolbox of supplies. They only need the broom though so they just take the toolbox home.

[@kingofevilpotato]

I like how the National Testing Center's gate is shaped like a bell curve.

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

kingofevilpotato Clever!

[@maxdurk4624]

Ah, didnt notice that!

[@Zistheone2]

Is that a reference to something?

[@sethmichaelmarks2980]

bell curves

[@Waraba_]

Zistheone2 I'm pretty sure bell curves are what they shoot for in testing scores. Shows that it wasn't too eary or too hard.

[@legoexplosion922]

i love how obvious the answer choices are just like on any other personality tests

[@googiegress]

If you clearly understand the test and lie / cheat to get what you want, they suggest you become a CEO.

[@ShadowSorel]

@@googiegress wow! just like a real CEO

[@cuddleslikespie]

Introvert vs extrovert quiz What do you do in your free time? A. Cry alone in your room listening to sad music Or B. Snort coke on a park bench with 50 of your closest friends

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

@@googiegress Or a politician.

[@jacobnorris8256]

@@cuddleslikespie Find out your harry potter house!!!!! What SPEAKS TO YOU the most: A: A slithery sneaky snake whos evil. B: A super duper smart raven. C: A brave and strong lion. D: Some stupid badger.

[@theodorecharles6502]

I like how every test question is phrased so innocently yet with absolutely no attempt to hide the method

[@SukatoKjolen]

Reminds me of every Hogwarts House test I've ever taken.

[@agrandcanyonoffucksgiven2776]

What are you not a lawyerbird?

[@douglasbabb1725]

@@SukatoKjolen And every test just like it.

[@myname7937]

​@@SukatoKjolen you just weren't brave enough to not have a cat alergy, deal with it Hufflepuff.

[@Kfroguar]

Welcome to aptitude testing

[@philswaim392]

I love how Lisa is anti authoritarian but school as an authority is always something she respects unquestionably.

[@erik2839]

It’s due to the fact lisa has something to gain from school

[@InquisitorLavellan]

@@erik2839 she's also a child

[@typingcat]

Just like Antifa beating those who oppose forced mandatory government vaccines.

[@erik2839]

@@typingcat ?

[@158-i6z]

@@erik2839 just another person that needs a hobby.

[@Mezzy..]

"Janey, school's never a waste of time!" "Since we have 15 minutes left until recess, please put your pencils down and stare at the front row." Simply brilliant. So true

[@misterturkturkle]

Zimmerman St. Charles is dead

[@deusexaethera]

Nowadays they call that Mindfulness Meditation.

[@nygelpereira6540]

@@deusexaethera lol

[@mnzznxplay9747]

Filling test with silly questions is also not "waste of time"

[@scintillam_dei]

I make my students play games if they're finished.

[@aivokallo77]

"Carpenter ant? You mean termite?" *works as a lawyer bird 20 years later*

[@glowcloudwheatproducts495]

Carpenter ants are a real kind of ant......

[@fuckoffwiththehandles]

Well he does specialise in bird law, not ants.

[@asdfsdfsdf5114]

Well let's go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor.

[@benjaminfacouchere2395]

And lyrebirds are real too. But of course the joke is that the first part sounds like a profession :)

[@VicioStarbreaker]

Bird lawyer from its always sunny in philadelphia 🤣

[@AA-eu4mx]

" "Career Aptitude Normalizing Test" or "CANT" " lol XD

[@Urbanscape667]

That is all a standardized test is there for. To tell you what you can't do. Lol

[@lollipopcorndog]

irl, it’s just called “Career Aptitude Test (CAT)” but I guess they added the Normalizing part as a joke

[@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain]

@@lollipopcorndog DUH

[@zewzit]

Oooohhh... I thought she said Korea Aptitude Normalizing Test, or "KANT". The joke still worked, but I was very confused what the whole reference to Korea deciding everyone's fate was...

[@imjoesan]

Lmfao

[@krono9451]

Has anyone noticed that they give out 3 options to choose from, but the answer sheets have 5?

[@JackBond1234]

That's not unheard of. Those standardized answer sheets tend to have 5 bubbles, but questions might have fewer answers. The remaining bubbles are considered invalid answers.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Stebo. That's the kind of thinking that'll get you in trouble on a standardized test. Are you a troublemaker Stebo?

[@Manas-co8wl]

That's not just not unheard of, practically all my tests had questions with more bubbles than the answers

[@billyeveryteen7328]

Standard scantron sheets have 5 options, A-E, to bubble in. They probably made non-standard ones with more or fewer options, but I assume they were probably more expensive, because I don't think I've ever seen one. It wasn't uncommon to take a standardized test that had fewer than three options, or even more than five; you'd be told to fill in A+B, A+E, etc for options higher than six.

[@PyroGothNerd]

A lot of scantrons are like that

[@EpicMRPancake]

Note how Milhouse and Martin get the careers they actually want, a neat little detail which shows that the system does actually work for a few. Although I think Milhouse will still have to find his own destiny when he fails the first day of boot camp.

[@EnragedOxygen]

Im not sure if it counts, but i saw him being mega-ripped in one of the "future" episodes. Maybe test was right all along.

[@CarboKill]

Unfortunately those who fit nicely into the system go on to spout full support for it, because of an inability to put oneself in the shoes of those you meet. For example, boomers long after the boomer economy ended.

[@t8ercreator650]

@@CarboKill Ok, Enoch.

[@batt3ryac1d]

@@CarboKill I worked for 40 years at $7 an hour and bought a mansion and a Mercedes for $4k its all that avocado toast you eat thats preventing you from owning a home!

[@wakkaseta8351]

@@batt3ryac1d So instead of investing that money or buying a more practical car and abode you got yourself a frou frou house and a plastic shell with needless doodads?

[@jake9705]

We didn't have these sorts of tests when I was in elementary school. Though I visited my "guidance" counselor in high school as I had no idea what to do after graduation. She asked what I wanted to do; I said I don't know, that's what I came to you for. She politely said leave my office and come back once you know what you want to do, so I did. It was one of the most confusing afternoons of my life.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Guidance counselors are useless. My sympathies.

[@thewallachianbard6975]

Yuck, government paid do-nothing workers , I hate those.

[@jeremyphillips3087]

sounds like you had bad parents. They should have been asking you to think about your future since before highschool.

[@awesomebeast7509]

@@jeremyphillips3087How are you helping the situation? Did you parents ever teach you to keep your mouth shut, if you can’t help the situation? You’ve shown that all your family knows is how to run their mouths lol

[@jeremyphillips3087]

@@awesomebeast7509 I'm highlighting the responsibility should be on the parents for raising their child, which is an attitude that is sadly lacking in todays society. Jake's story goes that he went into a school counselors office and expected them to figure his life out for him. That's not how guidance counselors or life works, his school's not to blame.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

They saved the test-acronym into the german dub as well. Basically the acronym was changed to "QUATSCH", which means "silly", "weird" or "ridiculous". The "stare at front of the room" joke was actually more dark and was like "… and stare at the front into nothingness/emptiness."

[@nox5555]

The problem is, we dont have such tests in germany-

[@zandovic]

We do, right before the Abitur! At least in my G8 school in Baden-Württemberg we did.

[@mikasaackermann8736]

Damn that jokes even better IMO

[@visionist7]

Why are German schools called gymnasiums but have nothing to do with gymnasiums?

[@whitebuckindustries6367]

Felice Graziano why are gymnasiums called like schools but have nothing to do with it?

[@Lumposaurus]

I took a similar test back in the 1980's when I was in HS. It came back saying that the best career for me was: Unavailable because of improperly filled out personal information. It still haunts me to this day.

[@meyague]

that's like something that could happen to Homer Simpson

[@Lumposaurus]

@@meyague I've thought that more than once.

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

you were that kid that caused the machine to mess up and an old man had to bash the machine with a broom

[@Lumposaurus]

@@Robbie-mw5uu They kept telling me he was coming but I just stood there til they closed *SAD* :( 😿

[@naterk9460]

Good thing it wasn't called the Career Utility Normalizing Test

[@Hossak]

See you next wednesday!!!!

[@wannabecartoonist7389]

You are a

[@randyandy98]

I think that’s the Australian version

[@waddledeedeee]

charisma uniqueness nerve and talent

[@MsJubjubbird]

It had a six thirty timeslot

[@penndawt]

When I went to middle school, the state test was called the DSTP. And now I realize that backwards, it spells PTSD.

[@jpg7616]

You mean... now that you look back on it?? I’ll let myself out...

[@Timsturbs]

@@jpg7616 ecin

[@auspiciousman]

My state test up until 7th grade was the terra nova. Didn’t even bother with an acronym. In elementary school I always thought it was because it was so boring that it was terrifying.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@auspiciousman And I bet you wished for a super nova to happen when you were taking it

[@jakeg3126]

@@Timsturbs just so you know your comment of ecin had translate to English and it said walk

[@yhs098]

The fact that bart chose option C and in the episodes that take place in the future he's a lawyer is attention to detail on an another level

[@krispykremes2482]

lol no

[@Bloombaby99]

@ACardenas1 Pretty sure he had to be a lawyer before he got to that point.

[@Azraeltheangelofdeath]

@@Bloombaby99 Most likely yes, but technically no since anyone could be nominated to be a member of the supreme court regardless of qualifications, it just always been that they usually choose judges who are in good standing

[@PointsofData]

@@Azraeltheangelofdeath there are no explicit requirements, but itd be stupid to elect someone with no law experience to the highest court in the land. It isn't "just because" they they choose judges in good standing; they do that because it's the surest way to pick worthy candidates. So yes, it is very, _very_ likely Bart was a lawyer...unless he did some other INCREDIBLE law related work that absolutely stunned the world.

[@Azraeltheangelofdeath]

@@PointsofData Yes but if politics have ever taught us something its that worthiness never matters to politicians they usually just nominate judges that are going to make rulings more in line with their political leanings though we have had quite a few conservative judges that have made some surprising rulings lately

[@SlamTF2]

I always found it interesting how the guys at 1:20 aren't actually animated talking

[@pinkfreud62]

I think they decided to put in the speaking after they realized people may not know what the police were there for.

[@Mr_Fancypants]

@@pinkfreud62 But they are shown taking the papers away and bringing them the mail?

[@billtree52]

@@Mr_Fancypants he means after they'd already animated that part of the episode. Last minute dubs are fairly common in movies and TV shows. Especially if they need to clean up a continuity error or reducing the MPAA rating by having a bad guy who just got shot say off camera "he shot me!" Or something like that to make it look like he didn't just get brutally murdered by the protagonist

[@k-leb4671]

There's a scene in the third episode of Futurama in which Hermes talks without moving his lips. I always thought that was amusing. The DVD commentary revealed that the writers thought up a line too funny not to include, but too late for the animation to be redone.

[@2bobaf]

Well one's a ventriloquist.

[@Megacooltommydee]

I know it seems unrelated, but I've watched Steamed Hams so many times, that in the beginning, that I immediately recognized the ambient sound effects of birds and wind, and even half-expected a doorbell sound effect.

[@TheGreatFryMaster]

i dont know if I should be worried, or if I should treat you as if you are a god

[@RobotnikPlays]

Aah, Superintendent Chalmers welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!

[@davidhong1934]

@@RobotnikPlays ...yeah

[@grantmuirheid3138]

@@davidhong1934 Oh egads! My roast is ruined!

[@davidhong1934]

@@grantmuirheid3138 But...what if...I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking?

[@zmodem4619]

You can't just CUT OFF Bart telling off the counselor about how he doesn't need his help to get in the back of a police car, and the whole imagining himself being a drifter! COME ON, MAN!!! xD

[@dannygjk]

yeah I like the drifter part.

[@sirmount2636]

The drifter scene is excellent.

[@philiphoward123]

Don't have a cow, ma

[@OldieBones]

The security around those standardized tests was crazy! You could lose your job or even face legal action if you negligently lost tests, or had them stolen out of your car or something. They were so paranoid about the answers getting put on the internet.

[@VDAM1984]

I saw a few on the floor in this episode, I hope they didn't miss those

[@oz_jones]

@@VDAM1984 Boy, I do hope somebody was fired for that blunder.

[@Not_interestEd-]

I never really understood why they get so paranoid about that, even now. Like if you don't want students sharing answers then don't have a standardized test! Let the kids figure themselves out instead of draining them of their motivation by forcing them to do mindless work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. School is about learning, not studying. Pain in my ass...

[@PartofHistory214]

@@Not_interestEd- School was made the way it is to train factory workers. That's a kind of learning, I guess.

[@sameaston9587]

​@@PartofHistory214 ok so standardized tests (and homework) started around the Cold War. Student intelligence was one of the ways the US and USSR competed against each other. So like, you lose or botch those tests, you botched... your motherland.

[@vulkar1066]

As a public school employee, I can confirm that standardized testing works exactly like this.

[@Spiderbro8]

How to determine the children of todays career Q1 - Would you rather pick up A: a phone B: a plate C: a broom D: an elderly person Q2 - Do you have 2 years experience in either of these?

[@bsamaniac305]

I always see one but two is impossible.

[@josephstalin6549]

Old man job interviews have changed drastically since you were looking to be hired. We can’t just go somewhere and expect to be hired anymore

[@kenhollis6197]

@@josephstalin6549 What do you mean?

[@CarsSimplified]

Painfully accurate.

[@josephstalin6549]

@@kenhollis6197 Baby Boomers had it alot easier than it is today

[@zelly4914]

I remember doing one of these career tests in about 7th grade. My top two results were Janitor and Forest Ranger. I remember being so confused and wasn't sure what either of those said about me.

[@SiccDeville]

so is your occupation like Wily or Smokey the Bear?

[@AT-il2ej]

That you suck at real work and that you were a plague upon others

[@zazuzazz5419]

It says you’re a genius and a Dharma Bum! 😂

[@adamloga3788]

Obviously you're supposed to be the guy that cleans the forests. Better get to work, some of those trees are filthy and I think that some of the Grizzlys need a bath.

[@1trackmind28]

Someone's got to clean up after a bear shits in the woods.

[@nivaavina2403]

As an adult I find this way more funny... than I did as a child. 'Husband running naked on a beach with your marriage councillor!!!' Classic

[@edmerc92]

*Counselor

[@marsfalcon665]

They’re both correct

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

@@marsfalcon665 no they're not. A Councillor is a member of a council, and a counselor provides counsel.

[@roguesheep3083]

He just meant running naked on a beach with either one is a good time.

[@radscorpion8]

@@OntarioTrafficMan thank you for that important spelling correction good sir

[@holton345]

My wife used to work for ACT in Iowa as a test scorer. This episode is one of her favorites.

[@caroldefender4144]

I like how Mrs. Krabappel revealed her life story at 0:33.

[@universalcerberus5863]

This writing is absolutely genius.

[@Cheezdealer]

Universal Cerberus so many funny, witty lines and illustrations in two and a half minutes.

[@Despond]

Probably the best animation writing our species will ever see/read.

[@GoodNewsJim]

Spot on. They have double entendres ALL day. But if you watch, they jam out triple entendres from time to time. They even hit a couple quadra entendres too, which I didn't even think was possible! Simpsons is the best thing on television except maybe shows that brought people to have faith in Jesus Christ the God of Love.

[@maizetheholographiccorn5641]

"Its like a mommy" lol 😅

[@IN_T]

Gasoline has always been one of the GOAT smells, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I cut down on French fries and banking tends to be online these days so no need to wait in line.

[@scottrobinson2195]

Indy T n

[@NotShowingOff]

The Simpsons writers went to the IVY league schools, succeeding in this system, but they just like Parker and Stone of South Park observe the world with a sense of irony.

[@EmmyV2002]

Eww

[@k-leb4671]

Just don't get addicted.

[@Auraa10]

amen

[@gmanplaysgames256]

I feel like with his history of being such a troublemaker, Bart would actually make a decent cop, he'd certainly know how the delinquents think.

[@circesgrotto]

Cops are delinquents anyway so yeah

[@Capri_00]

Yep

[@snowyyzoe]

he does make a decent one later in the episode but like most cops the power gets to his head lmao

[@happiestaku6646]

@Snowy Zoë not really, because in the end, he takes the fall for Lisa being the troublemaker to lose his job as a Hall Monitor.

[@AnimeboyIanpower]

It gives him a sort of... Leverage...

[@SP_Rocks1408]

"Well, that was a waste of time!" Thus spoke Janie, her words forever immortalized the world over!

[@natalieschannel7675]

“National Testing Center : Controlling your Destiny since 1925..”

[@Matt-of2eq]

That's where sat and act and a slew of other tests. Back in those days we also had the Iowa and th Stanford. They also do the SOLs which really screwed up learning.

[@virginiamoss7045]

I (an introverted girl) took one of those tests back in 1966. They said I should be a teacher. It was so wrong I thought it was somebody else's score. I could write all the reasons why, but I won't bore the reader. I was angry; how dare they! 15 years later I realized they may have been telling at least all the girls to be teachers because all my school days there were never enough teachers; they were so desperate to hire anyone, even unqualified widowers off the street to stick in the classrooms of 32 to 36 students each. I became an architect which wasn't easy for women in those days.

[@namvo3013]

So the result wasn't told the kid's real potential but what adult want them to become?

[@catalinaprada5390]

¿Wait they wanted to manipulate students just for make more teachers? THAT'S DESPICABLE Spanish traduction: QUE TRUCASO NO

[@nonono9681]

Have you ever teached architecture?

[@virginiamoss7045]

@@nonono9681 Never crossed my mind and the idea is, well, NO.

[@boopdoop2251]

Dang, that’s really sexist of them.

[@shaemae123]

ah, the old simpsons. the only simpsons i will watch.

[@musicalman1995]

shae mae that's a bit silly. The new episodes aren't as good but they're still okay. Still well-written satire.

[@rebeccaluis1223]

musicalman1995 i agree its not as good but its good enough for me to still laugh my head off

[@UnchainedEruption]

musicalman1995 No the Simpsons became painfully bad in Season 10 and unwatchable after Season 12. Only gets worse and worse every year since.

[@rebeccaluis1223]

Gallifreyan Buccaneer i respect your opinion

[@UnchainedEruption]

creature from the dank lagoon luis The only episodes I found enjoyable after Season 12 was the three tales of revenge from like season 17 or 16, the pieman episode, and the one where Ralph becomes president. And those weren’t even that good, just not totally cringeworthy.

[@Tubeite]

I love how Bart's daydream is the most realistic of the three possible outcomes.

[@rileyk5228]

You mean Milhouse

[@Scenario_animations]

​@@rileyk5228 what do you mean, did you watch the video. Bart's dream was the most realistic

[@followingtheroe1952]

You have little faith in the prowess of the Native American man

[@ButterMuttSquash]

Probably a coincidence, but I like how Bart filled in C for lawyer bird when most depictions of his future involve him going to law school.

[@Durodriguez511]

omg hi BMS

[@ZakkandtheJ]

He's said to become a cop on this episode so I think it's just Bart eventually becomes involved in law

[@TheYoo2b]

I like how there's a "give a hoot, read a book" poster with Krusty on it when Krusty can't even read

[@hubtubby]

Haha... Careful, the ADL will be after you.

[@taurterus8306]

When I was in high school my math class had a poster of EINSTEIN explaining why standardized testing works Pretty much the same thing

[@PointsofData]

It doesn't rhyme and I'm pissed. Almost, but not quite, which is the fucking worst.

[@PointsofData]

@@taurterus8306 (if you're referencing that "fish climbing a tree" quote that's always attributed to him, he never said it, fwiw)

[@floweyfangirl69420]

@@PointsofData what does "fwiw" means

[@Kfroguar]

I took one of these in middle school. I said I wanted to be a teacher. I answered every question to align with being a teacher. It told me, along with every person in my class, that we should work in the medical field (predicted medical shortages were big news at the time). When I told my mother, she told me she'd taken the same test in the 80's and they'd all been told to become computer programmers. I actually kind of like the process of filling put standardized tests, but that experience cemented for me rhat they are absolute BS.

[@brocksamson9737]

I loved the little details that give more character. Like at 1:00 mrs. Hoovers heel hanging off, generally to signify restlessness or carelessness for what ever reason.

[@Bloombaby99]

Good eye and perception.

[@omarromero9038]

This episode was also directed by Quentin Tarantino

[@OliverSchlecter]

@@omarromero9038 💀💀

[@ManoredRed]

I have always found the idea of that tests can determine a person's general aptitude for a job laughable, let alone determine what a person's career should be.

[@locke2517]

Growing up, we had the Texas assessment of knowledge and skill. Also known as T.A.K.S. (There's been several iterations of the acronym since) It wasnt actually graded on the test till high school I believe. So I marked "D" for all my answers. I finished in about 10 minutes, and read quietly for the rest of the day. I read the fellowship of the ring I think. The whole class had to remain silent till everyone finished the test. It was really nice.

[@josem588]

Now we take STAAR but once in middle school (8th grade) I didn’t take it and I have to do tutoring for the tests i didn’t take but then i take the one from math and biology in 9 grade passed them (even the math one and I don’t know how if didn’t study i remember that the calculator I used can do equations like it was rigged or something)

[@ArchetypeGotoh]

1:26 “Iowa Non-International Airport” That got me laughing: but DSM has a flight to Canada now, i think, so it’s international!

[@KTHR56]

It did, but not anymore. Still has the customs office though.

[@Despond]

Even down the the dramatic and exaggerated caution on the guard picking up highschool tests = genius. First 5-6 seasons of the Simpsons pretty much covered every form of humor that is possible.

[@The_Gallowglass]

That's why the teachers that kept you engaged the whole class were the best.

[@Ghost-ss1vu]

Poor Lisa, I was always told I'd make a lovely kindergarten teacher, even though I repeated stated I hate the sight of little children 🤣

[@AltoonaYourPiano]

I always loved how the tests are taken to Proctorville, Iowa to be analyzed, a reference to the IOWA tests (I think, anyway).

[@mattdeluccia153]

I like how they kept the “Military Strong Man” thing consistent in Milhouse’s future continuity.

[@ricarlab.967]

Seeing what makes up Springfield P.D., Bart likely wasn't the only person who glitched the "sorting hat".

[@JovanaSanchez000]

Huh, so the marriage counselor was the "rabbit in a hole".

[@keshiaanders6452]

Yes. If the woman is anything like a Miss Springfield (all beauty & no brains), then Ken (Mr. Krabappel) was an idiot to cheat on Edna for her.😒

[@carultch]

@@keshiaanders6452 Do we ever see what Ken Krabappel looks like? And when did we learn his name is Ken?

[@ErrorNumber404]

Nordic Tyr objectification in action

[@stevekaczynski3793]

0:42 - Krabappel revealing more than she intended...

[@nightw4tchman]

I love how old Simpsons was filled with so many just a little too subtle jokes that I didn't get as a kid. It's amazing to rewatch.

[@youdbettertube]

lol lawyer bird

[@lionelhutz5137]

lol

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Was that your answer Lionel?

[@KingOfElectricNinjas]

Ironically the Secretary Bird is a real thing.

[@lucasross3714]

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at law

+KingOfElectricNinjas Haha how "ironic".......dumbass.

[@sophietomov4368]

Real standardised testing: if jimmy is on a train with six apples and the train to his left leaves at five and the sky is blue then what color is jimmy's teacher's dad's mom's fifth cousin twice removed's tee shirt? A: 84 B: the Appalachians C: the vase to Brian Griffins left in season 5 episode 20 D: please state meaning of life below

[@Lance-we2ud]

Sophie Tomov D: 42

[@starvoltnexus3139]

Sophie Tomov basically

[@qig_angiebaby2026]

D. ask siri

[@taylorwilson5172]

Real

[@lumburgapalooza]

Hey, at least this question might provoke some creativity instead of reinforcing obedient mimickery

[@GuyPerson-jt9tv]

This is what I actually thought happened when they graded standardized tests when I was a kid.

[@Haldinyar]

This show was so good. The teacher getting cheated on bit was so well described.

[@benjiddragon5247]

0:21 damn that girl in the back has a huge nose :O

[@thekitmi9156]

Correction: :O/

[@Da.Liar-Pig]

That is like how i draw background characters

[@zz449944]

I remember how in school in real life, standardized test instructions always included how to correctly fill in the bubble sheets because the "tests will be scored by a high-speed computer" but it took 6 to 8 weeks to get the results back. hahahahahaha For some reason, any question that mentioned FOOD would get me hung up for a long time. I would keep reading the words over and over and my brain fogged over with a Homer Simpson mentality and all I cared about was the food.

[@Scar1etz]

Well, the papers need to be transported and organized before being taken to the machines, so I think it natural for it to take a while

[@AlexanderVonish]

@@Scar1etzthat and also hundreds of others schools having tests delivered to the same processing centers is a sure fire way to clog things up for a while.

[@josem588]

@@AlexanderVonish and also because the computers from the 80s or 90s were not as fast as computers from today are

[@koyomin241]

1:14 please put down your pencils and stare the front of the room. Every student:😳😳😳 Lisa: ⬅️👁️👄👁️➡️

[@JaesadaSrisuk]

The fact that Edna has a Master’s from Bryn Mawr is such a great little detail, no wonder she was so hilariously bitter lol. RIP Marcia Wallace.

[@inosmosiswetrusttaaa2828]

In German the test is called "Qualifikationsaufgabentest für Schulabgänger" shortened "Quatsch". Quatsch means nuts, nonsense or bullshit

[@tennisthelegend]

0:03 my face when i have insomnia at 3:Am but im watching a funny video

[@Nullifidian]

I don't think I ever took a formal assessment test, but at a meet-and-greet for incoming students and parents, the counselor told me to pick a career on the spot so that she could advise me which high school classes were best to get into the college program I wanted to enter. I told her my career goal was not to end up bitter and miserable, working at a job I loathed because I was forced to pick a career at 13. While at university, I ended up changing my major midway through to something completely different - Classics to biology - so having the choice forced on me at 13 would have been a brilliant idea. Right?

[@weckar]

I would have also greatly preferred to lock in earlier.

[@princessmarlena1359]

I love the Daria reference! 👍

[@nuclear_war_games]

Didn't matter to me, I got kicked out of college. Unintentionally

[@yoshikagekira4471]

Well according to this, you're in line to be trained as a laundry cannon operator. First time for everything indeed.

[@friedpancakes266]

Isn't that from Spongebob?

[@sabrina.h2737]

Ah the good old days when bank customers smelt like cash and not crushing debt.

[@Bloombaby99]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thewallachianbard6975]

I mean it still smells like cash...for the bank And by Bank I mean the executives and owners

[@hemlo7494]

2:12 Martin Prince pursuing his own doom. Good luck, kid.

[@samschellhase8831]

“Career Aptitude Normalizing Test, or CANT” Spot on since the beginning

[@furrykef]

It's weird that Ralph apparently knows how "salmon" is pronounced.

[@Bloombaby99]

This!😂😂😂😂

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

I was a smart kid, and I didn't even know how "salmon" was pronounced as a kid. Then again, I've been reading since I was 2, so that's probably why.

[@tinman96]

This was before his character was thoroughly flanderized

[@danielfleming5585]

The smartest girl in the school getting homemaker is unintended brilliance.

[@IndogaKirai]

Simpsons predicted that COMPUTERS are sexist.

[@meztizo_americano86]

The dreaded ITBS aka the Iowa Test of Basic Skills from elementary school later called the CTBS test. I remember these quite well in the 90s

[@rs72098]

A lawyer bird = Charlie's favorite animal.

[@Endless_Jaguar]

Lisa is such an academic totalitarian.

[@TheAnon03]

Had a job scanning exam papers. 1:50 isn't too far off from the little tricks we developed to keep the machines running. Machines are a lot faster though, about 100-120 pages/min for one of the slower machines and 140-160 pages/min for a faster one. Get a good machine and you can really push it, got one of the ones I worked on to 174 pages/min for a bit and I swear I saw one hit 192 though that wasn't stable at all. Of course working at those speeds means that if something goes wrong it goes wrong fast, can't even remember how many times a page or two or three from somebodies exam was caught up in the rollers and 8'd. Don't worry too much as long as the mass hired temp on minimum wage is competent they can usually extract them without damaging the paper too much, really the bigger problem is if a stack of freshly cut exams gets knocked over and scattered, if your pages aren't ID'd individually then it becomes a case of trying to match the handwriting of loose pages with the other couple of dozen exam papers from the pile and if they aren't numbered then putting them in whatever order seems to makes the most sense. The good news is we typically didn't loose papers during my shifts we only found loose pages that had fallen under a machine once and they were ID'd so we were able to match them with the right paper and rescan.

[@brentwalker173]

Just got a job as a Systems Analyst and immediately thought of this clip. 😆

[@OpinionatedAussie]

"HANDLE WITH CARE" Yeets it into the back of the van.

[@Jotari]

Girl sitting in the background of Lissa's class looks like Snoopy.

[@DYNEadvance]

I like how Ralph seems legit pissed off about his result

[@michaelwulfsohn1931]

the entrance is a bell curve 1:37

[@Myne1001]

School at the beginning of the clip: light pastel lavender with darker lavender pillars School near the end of the clip: yellow-orange with lavender pillars

[@worldcomicsreview354]

A wizard repainted it

[@Myne1001]

@@worldcomicsreview354 I hope someone got fired for that blunder!

[@robbarbour3173]

Maybe during their test they hired a contractor to paint the school. Just saying 😌

[@weho_brian]

anyone feel like Martin is settling by only being a "Systems Analyst"

[@davidcarbonara825]

The gate to the testing center is a bell curve...genius.

[@ogsxl]

so this was always just a survey, rather than an actual exam

[@iloveeveryone8611]

"School is never a waste of time." Oh, how gullible I was to believe that...

[@starman1158]

I really do love the smell of bank customers, it really helps me with locating who has money with them

[@rubberrand142]

Remember when you could just have blue hair and no one cared to make sense of it?

[@bigoudi07]

No ?

[@connormclernon26]

Bigoudi 07 considering some old hair dyes would do that to hair, it makes some sense

[@ToonyTails]

@@bigoudi07 I mean, you still can, nothing has really changed

[@sickboy6477]

2:18 The incredibly disrespectful and condescending tone of that guy makes me feel violent. Not even Lisa deserves be spoken to like that

[@LaPrincessa1206]

The questions seems like something off of a buzzfeed quiz lol

[@bifftop_johnny]

Hahahaha. Bank Customers

[@gamingcraving4400]

2:20 Bart: Police Officer?! Well, I'll be jiggered! Me: *If you don't become a police officer, you'll probably meet one when you grow up.*

[@williamfairchild7439]

For a career I want to be a Firefighter and put out fires with the hose, rescue people from burning buildings, drive the Fire Truck with the siren wailing and the lights flashing and wear boots, pants, coat, hood, gas mask and helmet

[@Kibouo]

0:55 “A lawyer bird”, a preview to that futurama Kentucky lawyer bird?

[@SavageGreywolf]

it's just a play on words. There's an actual type of wading bird that has the common name lawyer bird.

[@Kibouo]

@@SavageGreywolf I’m sure that’s what it is, but I’d like to think it’s a futurama référence lol

[@BrenTenkage]

this has aged like the finest of wines

[@CLxJames]

Bart really said jiggered with that hard R Getting a head start in that policeman career I see

[@stevencramsie9172]

Don’t worry, if you get pulled over while being yellow? You have nothing to worry about.

[@thereccher8746]

The thought of Bart being a law enforcer is low-key horrifying.

[@zazuzazz5419]

…Is it like “a chimp with a machine gun”?? #GimmeJimmy #BecauseMoxyIsInSuchShortSupplyTheseDays

[@suspense_comix3237]

"It's called the Career Aptitude Normalizing Test, or CAN'T."

[@brokenpikachu9491]

I like how the machines breaks when Bart’s test enters it

[@johnhopkins358]

The fact that the question said “if I could be any animal I would be a” and then only gave them three options

[@jacobsernoff1473]

I like how the grading site was in Iowa, the same place where the ACT is headquartered.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

I believe it's more of a reference to the tests called Iowa Basics or Iowa Assessments.