Random Musings...Fat and The Simpsons

For some reason, when I woke up this morning I remembered how in the sixth grade I dissected a frog. Even more oddly, my brain connected this event with The Simpsons. Let me explain.

In the sixth grade, my friend Amie and I were lab partners assigned to dissect a dead frog. This is the one cutting-an-animal-open-for-science school assignment which I did instead of opting to writing an excessively long report about the animal's physiology (i.e., the humane option). While I was working through the assignment, Amie was cutting out the frog's tongue and stretching it, but that's beside the point. Within the frog, I discovered short yellow tubular thingies. I asked the teacher what they were, and he said it was fat. Yellow tubular thingy = fat.

Are you seeing the connection?

So, this memory floated to the surface of my mind this morning and then latched itself to The Simpsons. The connection thread that my brain used is that the Simpsons are yellow tubular thingies AND they're fat. Not really an interesting connection, but I thought "how appropriate." Jumbo-sized Homer, with his substantial gut, is a fat yellow man. The fat in the frog was yellow. Almost all of The Simpsons' characters have bulbous midsections. They're chubby and cute. They're yellow and fat (except for the ones that aren't, LOGIC).

That was my morning. Why don't you tell me about yours?