Talk:D'oh!

message: I've changed the origin of the term d'oh to reflect what I'd heard once in something about the Simpsons.  Only thing is, I don't really remember any specifics, such as which TV character's exclamation d'oh is based on - perhaps someone could dig around and find more stuff? - Bulbaboy 22:44, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "Shimatta baka-ni!"  Shimatta is "Damn it!", "baka-ni" is possibly "stupidly"/"foolishly". -220.108.200.62 05:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The anime encyclopdia says it means "Oh, no!" or "damn!"  Other sites suggest it can be used as a light swear to when you make a stupid mistake. Prometheus-X303- 11:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Quite possibly.  In ordinary speech I'd say it's a contraction of 'tutting' plus 'oh dear', (or 'oh...') where 't' hardens to 'd'.  It's just English. Points of note are the spelling D'oh (or D'oh!) and the clipped pronunciation.  I wish the article focussed more on those rather than tending to suggest that this is a new word.Hakluyt bean 00:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: Wait, I'm confused. Is it spelt d'oh or d'ohh? Or is this just a case of imperialist american spelling conventions again? :) Borisblue 00:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's spelled as d'oh (with 1 "h"). Some times it's spelling is actually seen in the series. --Jort227 19:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

text: ...I should probably dig up the old postings to discredit Fox's trademark claim.. 203.14.156.195 08:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: No mention of that fact that this was also one of the Skippers famous catchlines from Gilligan's Isle? Weird.--71.97.147.120 (talk) 19:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilligan's Isle 

message: I don't entirely understand how some of the "variations" actually count as... well... variations.
I do see how the japanese variant is different. And I can understand things like "d'oheth".
However, how is Gerald Ford and Homer saying "d'oh" together a variation of the word, "d'oh"?
How is the family saying "d'oh" together a variation of the word?
How is the fact that it's followed by someone else saying, "a deer" a variation of "d'oh"? Either way, it's just Homer saying the same word.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bladestorm (talk • contribs) 
:you're right, if he says "D'oh!", then that's not a variation... D'oh is the word itself, it has to be different to be a variation... "D'oeth", Da'oh (the "fake Homer"), and the "Doh, a deer, a female deer" entries I think are O.K., but if it's Homer saying D'oh, whether someone said it with him or not, it's just not a variation... - Adolphus79 16:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations? 

message: I just spent Way Too Much time doing an edit of this article. I broke the Usages section  into two sections, since half of the entries were for video games. I moved some of the references, like Stargate SG-1 and others, into other sections. 
I also tried to cleanup Variations (added a heading and a caveat comment) by removing "Homer and X said D'oh! at the same time in episode Y". By the same token, I tried to regularize "In Program Name episode "Episode Name", ..."
I also did a bunch of grammar reconstructs, clumping of similar paragraphs, regularized italics and double-quotes, and moved some of the figures and their accompanying paragraphs to more appropriate locations. Because so many of them were moved, changes to individual paragraphs may be hard to see.
Anywho, this will probably be my last Moby Edit for a while ... I think I've scratched that itch pretty well. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 09:42, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good effort! I have turned "movies" and "cartoons" into further subsections, and deleted any cartoon references that did not have articles for referenced episodes ... that's the only "notability" needed for keeping this kind of creeping fancruft under control. —141.156.241.54 00:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

text: You did not go quite far enough, IMHO ... with "On ProgramX in EpisodeY," I say that if they don't both have articles in main namespace, then it ain't a worth a mention ... requiring a link to "ProgramX" is a no-brainer, but without requiring one for "EpisodeY" as well, we'll start getting multiple refs for the same show, and every one-time mention on any episode with its own article. (Can you imagine a sub-section on every time a character said, "D'oh!" on Friends?) --141.156.241.54 04:08, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moby reformat 

message: I'm sure that the character of Harold Bishop from the Australian soap opera Neighbours was using "d'oh!" before The Simpsons even existed... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.243.228.52  (talk • contribs) 18:33, 27 November 2006
: Indeed.  In British English at any rate it's been a standard expression for yonks.  Just a modification of 'Oh!'  I can hear a Scots accent delivering it quite naturally.  But encyclopedias (and media outlets) tend to need a Mr smith or Mr Jones to be the inventor of something, which is understandable.  However I note it's not a copyrighted term. Hakluyt bean 03:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He started doing that after 1989. It was something noticed by the alt.tv.simpsons newsgroup in the early days. 203.14.156.193 15:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harold Bishop from Neighbours 

message: In the Laurel & Hardy films sometimes finlayson's d'oh is long, sometimes short.  The article suggests that Homer's d'oh is a modification, but it would seem it was a correction of Castellaneta's first attempt, which seems slightly different.  Hakluyt bean 03:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  finlayson long and short 

message: This entire article is taken verbatum from reference.com.
Jackmont Feb 26, 2007.
:Uh, no; reference.com mirrors Wikipedia, which is permitted by the GFDL licence. It even cites Wikipedia, as required by the licence. Mindmatrix 16:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagerized

message: If you play a clip of "D'oh" backwards, it becomes "What." Examples: D'Oh, D'Oh Backwards, both. Just so you know... 71.193.69.15 02:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What!?

message: In one of the episodes, Homer is arrested and says "D'oh!" and then Chief Wiggim replies with "That's what they all say...they all say D'oh"
Would that be a varriation of it or anything?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.72.19.92 (talk) 07:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chief Wiggim 

message: Hello, fellow editor ... I can see that it's been over a year since I did a Moby reformat to this article as  in November, 2006 (along with my evil twin,   a few weeks later) ... tonight I/(we?) have:
# listified the two parts of this section, each of which contained five episode titles and references to explain the puns, 
# restored the first part back to a Much Older Version, one that displays "(Annoyed Grunt)" in the Wikipedia article names ... that was (after all) the whole point of the paragraph when originally introduced ... it just overgrew from sourcing for people unfamiliar with American popular culture, and
# linked the (Season 1x) to The Simpsons (season 10) through The Simpsons (season 19) (Easy-peasy!).
IMHO, the episode names look better as a bullet-lists, but Some Other Editor is welcome to turn them back into the Mothers of All Run-on Sentences if they prefer them that way ... please, just don't revert the disambiguations. :-)
Well, I've spent enough time "putting some lipstick on this pig" ... having scratched that itch, now I can just MOVE ON ... Happy Editing! — 07:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to [[D'oh!#Episode names|Episode names]] section 

message: It is said that in Italy "D'oh" is left undubbed, with Castellaneta's own voice. That is FALSE. Italian dubber Accolla voices also Homer's annoyed grunt. I am removing that sentence from the article.--Gspinoza (talk) 19:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  D'oh in Italy 

message: It says its written a certain way in hiragana in the Japanese dub. This doesn't make sense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.148.195.224 (talk) 12:31, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Dub 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Homer doh2.png

message: James Finlayson originated this expression in the early sound era in classic Laurel & Hardy films. Shouldn't this be in the lead? I wonder whether significant prominence is given to him in this very important article. ;)--Stetsonharry (talk) 05:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well he didn't really originate the expression, he just provided the inspiration for it. I suppose he does deserve a mention in the lead. -- Scorpion0422 14:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can add if no one objects.--Stetsonharry (talk) 14:45, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There really isn’t any justification in attributing anything other than popularization of the expression to The Simpsons - as can be seen from this, it was in use as an expression of irritation (and thus it does owe more to oh!, and ah! etc., than to the somewhat spurious assertion that it was a minced epithet for damn, which often doesn’t fit in the context) decades before Homer. The use in the Jennings series, and by James Finlayson, suggest that perhaps it was a British thing; however to say that it isn’t what James Finlayson was saying is wrong - he was taking “d'oh” and drawing it out for comic effect, rather than Homer originating something by shortening something that was always long. 81.178.165.205 (talk) 15:09, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Finlayson

message: In the interest of preparing the way for some kludge relief for this article, I'm going to ask whether "D'oh!" is a word or a phrase?  The first two ¶'s seem to assume that this is a phrase (perhaps the author was lulled into a false sense of certainty by the problematic 'postrophe?).  I don't know about that.  I like "word" a little bit better.  Or perhaps some other possibility?  NorthCoastReader (talk) 00:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just What Is This Beast? 

message: I just wanted to note here that I cleared out all the unsourced parts of the usage section and since what was left was about a dictionary usage, which made it redundant with the section below it (titled "dictionary"), I merged the remainder into that section. Uses can be re-added if sourced but I'd strongly urge against it to avoid having it be a trivia section which is what it was becoming, just by another name. Cat-fivetc  ---- 01:26, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage section: Or, how Wikipedia policy hates unsourced content and redundant section headers 

message: the 32 Doh's wav file that was ONCE linked is now a DEAD link.
--Starius (talk) 12:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  32 Doh's Reference Missing 

message: Not Homer's, but the old one from the 30s and 40s. Get up out my face! (talk) 17:00, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to original drawn-out version? 

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