Hobos: Difference between revisions

== [[Music]] ==

* "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is a humorous folk song describing a fictional hobo paradise. One version ends on this deeply cynical note:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains. }}

* [[Captain Beefheart]]'s song "Orange Claw Hammer" is told from the perspective of a delirious old sailor who is "on the bum where the hobos run". Also note the song "Hobo Chang Ba", from the same album: [[Trout Mask Replica]].

** In "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (2000), Nelson claims that Springfield Elementary science classes are dissecting frozen hobos. And he's got the [[Bindle Stick|bindles]] to prove it.

** In a [[Something Completely Different]] episode "Simpsons Tall Tales" (2001), a hobo explains that there are two kinds of hobos, stabbing and singing, and calls non-hobos ''no-bos''. He works on a strict pricing plan: one story, one spongebath.

** Marge once asked when they became the bottom rung of society and Homer tells her "I think it was when that cold snap [[Throwaway Country|killed off all the hobos]]."

** A Halloween episode where Homer becomes Death has Lisa demonstrating his job to her class on a hobo they brought in with the promise of a meal.