Talk:D'oh!

I've changed the origin of the term d'oh to reflect what I'd heard once in something about the Simpsons. Only thing is, I don't really remember any specifics, such as which TV character's exclamation d'oh is based on - perhaps someone could dig around and find more stuff? - Bulbaboy 22:44, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I heard Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer) say in an interview that "d'oh" was inspired by Jim Finlayson of "Laurel and Hardy" fame. Finlayson played a character who, when peeved, would say "dooooooh!" But Matt Groening wanted something more clipped to go with animation. "D'oh"! was the happy result.

I always thought it was supposed to be Homer exclaiming DAMN! then catching himself and replacing the second half of the word with oh! This makes more sense in the early 'clean' seasons ^^' This is also supported gently by what Homer said in Japanese in that one episode, it sounded to me like "shimatt-bakabi!" starting with a curse and ending in a less vulgar exclamation.

"Shimatta baka-ni!" Shimatta is "Damn it!", "baka-ni" is possibly "stupidly"/"foolishly". -220.108.200.62 05:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

"baka-ni" is often used to mean "extremely" and is used much like the New England slang "wicked" is. --MikeCraig 06:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The anime encyclopdia says it means "Oh, no!" or "damn!" Other sites suggest it can be used as a light swear to when you make a stupid mistake.[1] Prometheus^-X303- 11:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Spelling

Wait, I'm confused. Is it spelt d'oh or d'ohh? Or is this just a case of imperialist american spelling conventions again? :) Borisblue 00:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

It's spelled as d'oh (with 1 "h"). Some times it's spelling is actually seen in the series. --Jort227 19:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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D'oh! and woo-hoo! are my favorite Homerisms. PrometheusX303 23:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

In the German-dubbed version (the quality of which is debatable) Homer does pronounce "Nein!" (No!) in un unusual way. The diphtong /ai/ is very short and the "n" lengthened. I suggest: "Neinnnn!" Prorokini on Jan. 26th.

Variations?

I don't entirely understand how some of the "variations" actually count as... well... variations.
I do see how the japanese variant is different. And I can understand things like "d'oheth".
However, how is Gerald Ford and Homer saying "d'oh" together a variation of the word, "d'oh"?
How is the family saying "d'oh" together a variation of the word?
How is the fact that it's followed by someone else saying, "a deer" a variation of "d'oh"? Either way, it's just Homer saying the same word. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bladestorm (talk • contribs)

you're right, if he says "D'oh!", then that's not a variation... D'oh is the word itself, it has to be different to be a variation... "D'oeth", Da'oh (the "fake Homer"), and the "Doh, a deer, a female deer" entries I think are O.K., but if it's Homer saying D'oh, whether someone said it with him or not, it's just not a variation... - Adolphus79 16:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

It may have started as "variations", but now it's just a magnet for fanboys to add every reference to when Homer says it ... in other words, just another crufty list. And if you try to delete them, a bot will just restore them as "vandalism". <Sigh!> —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 07:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Save D'oh!

My friends, if you have nick in Finnish wikipedia, then go save article D'oh!

Origins

Looks like we've got two sections entitled "Origin"... I'm not very good with these kinds of things; could someone combine the two or something? V6stang 00:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Leave it all to me. Remember one of Homer's most famous Homerisms:

"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. "

--lEoN2323 19:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Moby reformat

I just spent Way Too Much time doing an edit of this article. I broke the Usages section into two sections, since half of the entries were for video games. I moved some of the references, like Stargate SG-1 and others, into other sections.

I also tried to cleanup Variations (added a heading and a caveat comment) by removing "Homer and X said D'oh! at the same time in episode Y". By the same token, I tried to regularize "In Program Name episode "Episode Name", ..."

I also did a bunch of grammar reconstructs, clumping of similar paragraphs, regularized italics and double-quotes, and moved some of the figures and their accompanying paragraphs to more appropriate locations. Because so many of them were moved, changes to individual paragraphs may be hard to see.

Anywho, this will probably be my last Moby Edit for a while ... I think I've scratched that itch pretty well. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 09:42, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Good effort! I have turned "movies" and "cartoons" into further subsections, and deleted any cartoon references that did not have articles for referenced episodes ... that's the only "notability" needed for keeping this kind of creeping fancruft under control. —141.156.241.54 00:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)