Customers Walking on the Pipes

You gotta give me my floor back. My customers are walking on the pipes!

A scene from The Simpsons shows a customer complaining that the restaurant floor has disappeared because customers are walking on the exposed pipes, followed by a chaotic view of Homer, Marge, and other characters navigating a huge pipe network. The joke exaggerates a nonsensical plumbing problem and is used as a reaction to situations where infrastructure or systems are so broken that people must literally move through them. EN: A scene from The Simpsons shows a customer complaining that the restaurant floor has disappeared because customers are walking on the exposed pipes, followed by a chaotic view of Homer, Marge, and other characters navigating a huge pipe network. The joke exaggerates a nonsensical plumbing problem and is used as a reaction to situations where infrastructure or systems are so broken that people must literally move through them.

• @itvbia / 4773 2020-08-21