Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Doh

Doh!

(Source)
Homer Simpson may have made this grunt famous, but it is actually first attested in 1945 in a BBC radio script for a program called It's That Man Again. A similar interjection was used by character actor James Finlayson in Laurel and Hardy films, which was the inspiration for Dan Castellaneta's interpretation of "annoyed grunt" in The Simpsons scripts.

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