![]() ‘Phil McCracken’ is the one that comes to mind first which when said aloud sounds like ‘Phil My Crack In’. The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention voted to affirm a decision made earlier this year to remove Saddleback Church, a major southern California congregation founded by the pastor. In a twist that is reminiscent of Bart Simpson prank calling Moe’s Tavern with laughably fake names, some of the people who signed up to speak included the naughtily named Phil McCracken. One of the longest-running gags on The Simpsons is Bart Simpson dialing into Moe’s Tavern and giving Moe some sort of prank name that when said out loud or repeated it reveals the true prank. Footage of a prank at a contentious Virginia school board meeting has gone viral. This was taken from a page of Bart Simpson’s playbook. More often than not, these clips involve someone losing their mind in front of the panel and exposing themselves as a complete quack but this clip is different. The meeting had been called to discuss a litany of topics as the fall semester approaches. There’s at least one a week that goes viral if not one every day. A school board meeting in Henrico County, VA provided a moment of unintended comic relief as the list of people who signed up to speak began looking like a prank à la The Simpsons. Many compared the prank to Bart Simpson's popular gag calling Moe's Tavern asking to speak with similar names such as 'Seymour Butz', 'Al Coholic', and 'Oliver Klozoff.' Only one person. ![]() This feels like a record year for outrageous clips of school boards and local government meetings going off the rails. ![]()
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