Green Lantern Made The Perfect Simpsons Joke Canon
The most popular comic book hero in The Simpsons may be Radioactive Man, but Green Lantern is giving Springfield's first family the respect they deserve. A gag featured in The Simpsons seemingly became canon just months after the film hit theaters.
As one of the longest-running shows of all time, The Simpsons has undoubtedly had a profound effect on pop culture. In its over three decades on air, it's become a juggernaut of a property, creating a franchise that consists of video games, comics, and an entire subsection of Universal Parks & Resorts. The Simpsons has become infamous among generations who grew up with the show and have turned classic jokes into memes that can be found on any corner of the internet. Seeing Simpsons' jokes take on new life is a testament to the continuing popularity of the animated family.
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In the years before Simpsons memes such as «Steamed Hams» would gain the traction they did, one joke appears to have been snuck into the pages of Green Lantern. In The Simpsons, matriarch Marge Simpson is attempting to discover the meaning of a mysterious phrase, «EPA», unaware it actually refers to the Environmental Protection Agency. She consults local comic book aficionado, Comic Book Guy, who claims that «Eep-aa» was the sound Green Lantern made when he was thrown into a vat of acid by Sinestro. No such comic actually exists, but an interesting thing did occur in Green Lantern #25 by Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver and Ivan Reis hit shelves. As Sinestro attacks Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner with a laser, the sound effect paired with the action is, in fact, «Eep-aa».
Sure, it's not a vat of acid, but that's a particularly specific
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