About

Good Ol' Rock. Nothing Beats That is a quote said by Bart Simpson in an episode of The Simpsons in which he's preparing to play Lisa in a game of Rock Paper Scissors. In the scene, the audience can hear Lisa's thoughts predicting Bart will throw rock because he always does in the game, followed by Bart thinking "Good ol' rock, nothing beats that!" The scene became an exploitable template mocking how an entity is always predictable.

Origin

In the Season 4, episode 19 episode of The Simpsons, which aired on April 15th, 1993,^[1] Lisa and Bart begin to play a game of Rock Paper Scissors. Lisa can be heard laughing at Bart because she knows he always picks rock in the game, followed by Bart thinking "Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!"

One of the earliest known edits of the scene was posted on 9gag on February 24th, 2018 by user unclebacon,^[2] who used it as a reaction image to a poll of the most popular options in Rock Paper Scissors. The post gained over 40 upvoted in six years (shown below).

Spread

Over the following years, the scene was used as an exploitable in various ways, usually to make point about a fictional or non-fictional entity being predictable. For example, on November 29th, 2020, Redditor WinterCaptain posted a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure edit in /r/shitpostcrusaders^[3] that gained over 1,900 points in over three years (shown below, left). On May 13th, 2021, a deleted Reddit user posted a video game-themed edit on /r/memes,^[4] gaining over 33,000 points in three years prior to being removed by moderators (shown below, right).

On September 20th, 2023, Redditor diablo744 posted an edit in /r/HistoryMemes^[5] that gained over 19,000 points in four months (shown below, left). On December 8th, Redditor the_real_violet posted an edit in /r/dndmemes^[6] that gained over 1,200 points in two months (shown below, right).

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