Who said it?

November 14, 2022 10:23 AM

Montgomery Burns or Elon Musk?
posted by clawsoon (53 comments total)

I scored 100% but only because I know my Burns so well. If I didn't, well...
posted by Servo5678 at 10:30 AM on November 14, 2022 [9 favorites]

Smithers! Dismember the corpse and send his widow a corsage.
posted by Chuffy at 10:33 AM on November 14, 2022 [15 favorites]

11/12. A couple were tough calls.
posted by adamrice at 10:34 AM on November 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

I'm not as ashamed as I should be that I got 100%
posted by saturday_morning at 10:37 AM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

80%. I’d like to thank my memory of classic Simpsons, and my awareness that Elon fetishizes work, going hard, and making people go hard, while Mr. Burns fetishizes being wealthy and having workers.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:38 AM on November 14, 2022 [11 favorites]

92%. I also blame my detailed knowledge of Burnse’s mind. I know diddly squat about the Tesla guy.
posted by Namlit at 10:40 AM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

I also scored 100%.

Have the Rolling Stones killed!
posted by box at 10:44 AM on November 14, 2022 [11 favorites]

100%, the main way you can tell is musk can't be funny to save his life and that fact certainly haunts him.
posted by Ferreous at 10:48 AM on November 14, 2022 [17 favorites]

67%, which isn't bad since I don't really watch the Simpsons and have quit Twitter.
posted by slogger at 10:49 AM on November 14, 2022 [9 favorites]

92%

"To Hell with this! Get my razors! Draw a bath! Get these Kleenex boxes off my feet!"

"Certainly, sir. And, uh, the jars of urine?"

"Oh, we'll hang onto those."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:55 AM on November 14, 2022 [9 favorites]

I just guessed Elon Musk for all of them. I mean he's a stupid cartoon villain and I could believe him saying every one.
posted by evilDoug at 10:56 AM on November 14, 2022 [6 favorites]

I missed three. All those that I missed, I unfortunately attributed to a cartoonish caricature of a rich man when I should have attributed them to a caricature of a cartoonish rich man.
posted by Nanukthedog at 10:58 AM on November 14, 2022 [24 favorites]

I was unaware they were two different people.
posted by tommasz at 10:59 AM on November 14, 2022 [10 favorites]

83%. Got the second and second-to-last quotes wrong. Burns is much more poetic speaker than Musk.
posted by riruro at 11:12 AM on November 14, 2022 [7 favorites]

Key difference: Mr. Burns had one person who liked him.
posted by mochapickle at 11:12 AM on November 14, 2022 [19 favorites]

"Aren't you that guy everybody hates?"
posted by box at 11:21 AM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

"I'm in way over my head."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:24 AM on November 14, 2022

Key difference: Mr. Burns had one person who liked him.

I was saying Boo-urns.
posted by dragstroke at 11:34 AM on November 14, 2022 [20 favorites]

You scored 100%!
posted by Splunge at 11:37 AM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Neuralink: It's not rocket science, it's brain surgery!
posted by mittens at 11:39 AM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

I agree with Ferreous--even though I have tried never to hear anything Musk has said, ever, and I gave up watching Simpsons a long time ago, the funny is what divides it. Enough that I got 100 percent.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 11:56 AM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

Local villain C. Montgomery Burns, seen here terrorizing children in a 19th-century woodcut
posted by sindark at 11:58 AM on November 14, 2022 [10 favorites]

I'm impressed y'all scired so well. I scored 75% and honestly half my answers were guesses. But then I only have watched a smattering if The Simpsons. Luckily it included the sun blocking episode or I would have inverted my mars/sun answers and scored even worse.
posted by Mitheral at 12:08 PM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

Wow, I only scored 66%. I don't know much about Musk's tweets but I was a big Simpsons fan a couple of decades ago and figured I'd do a lot better than I did. It was a fun quiz though.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:21 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

67% Can't decide if that's good or not. I'm going to say good since I've never watched the Simpsons and don't pay attention to Musk.
posted by medusa at 12:25 PM on November 14, 2022

The fact that this is even possible ....
posted by riverlife at 1:15 PM on November 14, 2022 [6 favorites]

67%.

I don’t think I watched a single episode of the Simpsons all the way to the end. I hated that show.

If only there was a way to turn off the Elon Musk show.
posted by jamjam at 1:48 PM on November 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

Twitter is going great!
posted by Going To Maine at 2:32 PM on November 14, 2022 [6 favorites]

67%
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"

-Monty Burns.
posted by clavdivs at 3:12 PM on November 14, 2022 [9 favorites]

75%

"Ahoy-hoy"
posted by DowBits at 3:13 PM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

Montgomery Musk
posted by Hairy Lobster at 3:26 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Emont Musk
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 4:46 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

I'm ashamed that I missed any, as someone who once made a New Year's resolution to stop quoting the Simpsons in literally every conversation.

I agree that Musk isn't funny in a Monty Burns kind of way, but he is pretty funny in a Bruno Kirby in Good Morning Vietnam kind of way.
posted by bjrubble at 4:49 PM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

92%, and I haven't watched the show in at least ten years. How is this even possible?
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 4:51 PM on November 14, 2022

I scored 42%, because it amused me to choose Musk for every question.
posted by xedrik at 4:52 PM on November 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

I'm ashamed that I missed any, as someone who once made a New Year's resolution to stop quoting the Simpsons in literally every conversation.

"My family and I can't live in good intentions, Marge!"

Sorry.*



*not really.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:57 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Smithers: "The latest tweet, sir"

Burns: So, the chancellor of Spaceports fell for the Myspace trap, yes..."

Smithers: "He's got the blue bird sir and owns spacecraft..."

Burns: "...and those electric cars, hopping about like a telegraphic banker hawking Metzger's...

Smithers: Mars sir...

Burns: " ...and I've got power. pow.e.r. CHEAP. now go get me the cask of voltarin and telegram the gold dust twins.
posted by clavdivs at 5:53 PM on November 14, 2022 [4 favorites]

92%, and I haven't watched the show in at least ten years. How is this even possible?

83% for me, and I've never consistently watched the show at all. Just read each quote in the voice of Mr. Burns, and decided whether or not it was Burnsy enough and if it would be said with his hands in *that* posture.
posted by JoeXIII007 at 7:19 PM on November 14, 2022 [3 favorites]

We need a Twitter account with you doing that. Kthxbai.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 7:40 PM on November 14, 2022 [4 favorites]

I'm dying to know who the Smithers is in Elon Musk's life.
posted by Toddles at 8:21 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

83%. Excellent. To paraphrase another Burns quote:
"Now, a few more details about this year's Twitter holiday party. It's at the office, no food will be served, the activity will be work and the party is cancelled."
posted by Hardcore Poser at 8:24 PM on November 14, 2022 [4 favorites]

58% - helped only by my old person remembrances of early 'The Simpsons' to guess-choose the correct answer by context.
posted by porpoise at 8:38 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

We need a Twitter account with you doing that. Kthxbai.

LinkedIn? Been posting my Wordle results there.
posted by JoeXIII007 at 8:54 PM on November 14, 2022

I'm dying to know who the Smithers is in Elon Musk's life.

Lex Fridman.

I mean, I like Lex, but it's true.
posted by riruro at 9:00 PM on November 14, 2022

Holy shit, I scored 67% and I was really trying.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:24 PM on November 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

100%! shocked but also not shocked…
posted by mollymillions at 9:43 PM on November 14, 2022

> I'm dying to know who the Smithers is in Elon Musk's life.

Probably this guy.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 6:46 AM on November 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

I've never in my life watched an episode of the Simpsons, and I have never paid very much attention to Musk. But I got 75% on the strength of intuitions about what obviously had to be lines from a cartoon show.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 6:54 AM on November 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

May I play Devil's Advocate for a minute?
posted by zerobyproxy at 8:45 AM on November 15, 2022

75%. But I heard each quote in Burns' voice in my head.
posted by suetanvil at 9:13 AM on November 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

I'm dying to know who the Smithers is in Elon Musk's life.

certainly not any of his (ex)wives...
posted by supermedusa at 9:28 AM on November 15, 2022

I was kind of hoping that the punchline would be they were all Musk quotes.
posted by spilon at 11:26 AM on November 15, 2022 [3 favorites]

Musk has been testifying in the Tesla shareholder lawsuit over his $55 billion compensation package:

Elon on the SEC tweet: "I believe I suggested having a naming contest for a three-letter acronym, middle word is Elon's."

In deposition, Elon described it as a rorscach test—and then walked straight into the definition of it as "save ELON's company"

So if you've been wondering about all the Weird Nerds throwing themselves between Musk and Valid Criticism, these Musketeers are just trying to Save Elon's Company.
posted by straight at 11:11 AM on November 16, 2022