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Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons (benschmidt.org)
103 points by samclemens on June 28, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 35 comments



Frinkiac does pretty much the same thing but in a more entertaining way: https://frinkiac.com/


Very cool that site, well done. Thanks for sharing.


It appears I can now confirm that the Sea Captain's name is only mentioned by a character (Lionel Hutz) in one line in Season 4. It does also appear to have been used in a caption in season 11, though not mentioned by a character. His first name is given as Horatio according to the Simpsons wikia but that doesn't seem to appear in the show as far as I can tell.


It would be nice if the search was case-insensitive! E.g. 'she' returns different data than 'She'.


there's some settings in the top right corner that allow you to change case sensitivity


I jumped straight to, "dental plan"


Didn't Lisa need braces?


dental plan


I find it interesting how "Homer" has experienced a constant, steady decline in usage over time.


I'm surprised that Marge is consistently higher ranked than Lisa.


Moreover, Homer > Bart > Marge > Lisa > Maggie.


"Skinner" however remains constant.


Its appearance correlates with "Mother" or "Super-Intendent"


Super Nintendo Chalmers!


Very cromulent. Is the raw data available or is that unpossible to legally distribute?


So donut returns quite different results than doughnut. Is this just the script writers using their preferred spelling for doughnut, or does this come from transcription data (thus indicating a preferred spelling for transcribers)?


"This is great! And all I've done is enter my name-Thrillhouse!"


The word "Doh" doesn't even show up until season 8. I'm guessing it's not written out in the closed captioning?


The official written form is "Annoyed Grunt": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27oh%21#Origin


This was always one of my favorite episode names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(...


Search does not appear to be case insensitive, nor does it group common words.

EDIT: apparently others discovered this an hour or so before me!


A few interesting trends: Fox, McBain, Poochie


What about us braindead slobs ?


You'll be given cushy jobs!


Monorail


Were you sent here by the devil?


Nobody gonna finish it?. fine

No good sir I'm on the level..


Is the data on which this based freely available?


tomacco?


Probablie


upvoted for reference sickness index


All good people should already have seasons 1-8 memorized. What else would anyone need?


My friend and I used to be unbeatable at Taboo, and similar games, because we could use Simpsons references to get to just about any word.


there are no tick marks on the x axis.


This would be better if it was only 10 years of the Simpsons.




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