Stuck holidaying with your parents/kids this summer? Rest assured anything that’s ever happened to you on a trip will have happened to Homer and family at some point and been way funnier.
Here are 21 times The Simpsons perfectly captured the family summer holiday experience.
All clips & photos credit: FOX/The Simpsons
1) Every kid on every car journey ever…
2) When too much caffeine makes your Dad jumpy…
3) But he can’t stop, as coffee is the only thing keeping him from killing you all…
4) Especially as your Mum keeps telling your Dad to watch the road…
5) And sighing when he wants to tweak the menu at Little Chef…
Homer: I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon moustache, five o’clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.
Waitress: How about I just shove a pig down your throat?
Homer looks excited.
Waitress: I was kidding.
6) When your Mum and Dad fight about the SatNav and this is the result…
7) When your Dad won’t stop for ice cream and you swear you’ll do things differently when you’re a parent…
8) When your Dad insists on riding the water slide…
9) When you’re sick of spending every second with your sister…
10) But then feel gutted when she deserts you for the cool kids…
11) When your Dad says something inappropriate in public…
Lisa Simpson: That’s a reusable grocery bag. This market doesn’t use plastic bags because they end up in the oceans and interfere with jellyfish mating habits.
Homer: Stupid horny jellyfish neutering our dudes.
12) Though you have to admit some of his quips are quite funny…
“It’s like he’s on the dashboard of the entire country.”
13) When your Dad’s beach body actually scares people…
14) When foreign sweets send your kids mental…
15) When you finally get to play a tune you like on the stereo…
16) When your Dad has a cocktail and does this…
17) Which is almost as bad as when you find him in the rave tent doing this…
18) That morning you put your kids in the holiday club…
19) When your Dad hums Tetris and packs the car like a boss…
20) Though of course it makes the back window a tricky find…
21) On the way home, when your kid waits until everyone else is asleep to say something sweet…
Bart: Hey Dad, I thought your car was pretty cool.
Homer: Thanks boy. I was waiting for someone to say that.
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