Nobody Likes Milhouse - The Story of "The Dud"

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  @TheRealJims · 2 years ago · pinned

  When doing the Season 17 vid last year and seeing the Italian Milhouse B-plot, it made me realize I have never really talked about Milhouse. I&apos;ve been doing long-form videos for like 5 years. I&apos;ve made 2 different Nelson videos. But nothing about Bart&apos;s Friend. So I wanted to figure out why I haven&apos;t really connected with Milhouse as a character. <br>(And then it accidentally turned into my longest video essay.) 🤣

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  @hotdiggedydemon · 2 years ago

  FUN FACT: Colin, the Irish boy that Lisa has a crush on in the movie, was originally going to be Milhouse, but test audiences for an early version of the film &quot;didn&apos;t know who he was&quot;

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  @maxresdefault_ · 2 years ago

  Milhouse says a lot of wacky things, but the &apos;How miserable do I have to be until you&apos;re happy&apos; monologue is legitimately devastating

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  @RedEyesBlackKnight · 2 years ago

  Milhouse&apos;s highest point in Simpsons history will always be him entering his name into bonestorm, &quot;Thrillhouse&quot;

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  @davecrowson448 · 1 year ago

  I think my favorite Milhouse quote is “I’m not a nerd! &nbsp;Nerds are smart.”

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  @PmBoyle · 2 years ago (edited)

  Remember the time he ate my goldfish, and you lied to me and said I never had any goldfish? <br>Then why’d I have the bowl, Bart? <br>Why did I have the bowl?

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  @roenais · 2 years ago

  the writers often pit lisa marrying milhouse as her bad end but honestly i think its both of their bad ends. like man, that kid needs to move on and find someone who actually loves him.

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  @qBeYcarpet · 2 years ago

  If you can&apos;t handle me at my Milpool you don&apos;t deserve me at my Thrillhouse

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  @AtlasBlizzard · 1 year ago

  The problem with being the underdog on a status-quo show is that you tend to stay the underdog, which becomes demoralizing to watch.

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  @tinfoilslacks3750 · 2 years ago

  Milhouse is weird because he&apos;s directly impacted by Bart&apos;s extreme level of inconsistency at school. Sometimes Bart is extremely popular, sometimes he&apos;s unpopular. Sometimes he&apos;s scared of Nelson, sometimes he&apos;s best buds with Nelson. Sometimes Bart&apos;s only friend is Milhouse and they&apos;re twin loners, sometimes Bart&apos;s only friend is milhouse but it&apos;s clear Bart is using him and &quot;wears the pants&quot;, sometimes all of the boys are mutual friends with specific dynamics. Bart&apos;s inconsistent characterization forces Milhouse to be maligned because who he is relative to Bart and the other boys changes drastically even when he himself hasn&apos;t changed.

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  @PickleJello · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: That picture of Milhouse looking sad and horrified at the same time in the thumbnail is based on an actual photo of a French man watching the Nazis march in Paris.

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  @ConorMurnane1995 · 2 years ago (edited)

  My favorite Milhouse bit, the one that I think sums up his entire character the best, is actually from that one cowboy episode that people hate for whatever reason.<br><br>When Bart goes missing, Milhouse asks if anyone wants to be his new friend. Ralph then sits next to him and Milhouse says &quot;Perfect! Now I&apos;ll finally be the one in charge!&quot; Ralph then bluntly tells him to shut up and he sadly complies.<br><br>That&apos;s Milhouse right there, the absolute bottom of the pecking order.

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