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Now we all love Homer’s “I sleep in a big bed with my wife” dagger, but can we take a moment to appreciate one of the subtlest, most underrated and easily missable gems in the history of The Simpsons.

Kirk: “Today I drank a beer in the bathroom.”

Homer: “The one down the hall?”

Kirk: “Yeah!”

It’s the delivery that gets me. Homer doesn’t even seem to realise he’s insulting him. There’s no pause, no smugness, no setup. He just genuinely wants to know if Kirk means the communal bathroom down the hall.

And Kirk’s completely sincere little “Yeah!” somehow makes it even more brutal.

It’s such a tiny exchange that you can almost miss it, especially because a few seconds later Homer follows it up with one of the most famous lines in the entire series.