Steamed Hams

Examples

Skinner appears on a parody Steamed Hams burger advertisement.

Steamed Hams burger ad

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Delightfully devilish despite the fact they’re obviously grilled!

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Looping cartoon redraw of Chalmers outside Skinner’s house.

Steamed Hams animated redraw

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No visible caption — Looping cartoon redraw of Chalmers outside Skinner’s house.

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Purple cartoon character watches a tiny drawing of Skinner in a thought bubble.

Watching Steamed Hams

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STEAMED HAMS

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Superman crossover with Skinner.

What does the S stand for?

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What does the S stand for? / Steam from the steamed clams we’re having. Mmmmm, steamed clams!

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Eight edited Simpsons panels: Chalmers asks about cloud painting localized within the Hundred Acre Wood; Skinner says yes to “May I see it?” and they admire a colourful sky.

For once, he really can show you

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The usual suspicious interrogation ends with an unexpected reward: permission to look, and something beautiful actually there. The Winnie the Pooh crossover turns an escalating excuse into an oddly wholesome payoff. This is an edited comic, not original Simpsons dialogue.

Edit uploaded by Zak Wolf, whose archive description says “I just came up with” this crossover.; attribution is not independent identity verification.

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Lisa reads to Chalmers, with the caption “Seymour put on a luncheon. He tried, he tried! He said those hams were steamed. He lied, he lied!”

A very short performance review

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A whole disastrous lunch is reduced to a sing-song verdict. The repeated “tried” gives Skinner a moment of sympathy before “lied” promptly withdraws it. A different Simpsons scene supplies the performance; the caption makes Chalmers the audience for his own lunch review.

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A sign among packaged hams: “Our apologies, we don’t stock ‘Steamed Hams’ but you can find hamburgers in the beef section.”

Please take your regional dialect to the beef aisle

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Skinner’s invented food terminology escapes into customer service. A real-looking grocery sign patiently translates the joke back into a product location. Know Your Meme attributes the photograph/post to Woolworths in June 2016; this archive copy was uploaded in May 2017. The Albany claim belongs to the Simpsons joke, not a verified regional dictionary.

Woolworths photograph/post according to Know Your Meme’s context article; packaging and store marks retained.

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About & sources

Skinner disguises a ruined dinner with increasingly implausible explanations, giving remixers a recognizable scene to rebuild in other styles.

Date

The Simpsons, April 14, 1996; selected March 2010 text-to-movie remake is an online adaptation checkpoint, not the first quotation or meme.

History

Know Your Meme traces the scene to the April 14, 1996 Simpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield.” Its chronology records an online definition in November 2007, a Facebook group in November 2009, and a March 3, 2010 text-to-movie remake. This exhibit selects that documented adaptation checkpoint, not the original broadcast or a definitive first meme. Later edits transpose the dinner into other media and game styles while retaining its familiar dialogue and escalating excuses. This representative still is not a playable episode, remix or complete scene. Television imagery and dialogue rights remain with their respective holders; public reuse rights are not established. Private research preview only; no affiliation or endorsement.

Know Your Meme — Steamed Hams chronology
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