For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications (2015)

Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by tzs on Friday February 12, 2016 @08:25AM (#11086966)

See "The Simpsons" episode BABF22, "HOMЯ", for an hilarious exploration of this theme. In that episode, it is discovered that Homer's IQ was drastically lowered by an untreated childhood mishap.

The damage is fixed, and Homer becomes much more intelligent than most of the other inhabitants of Springfield and it makes his life miserable, leading him to lament "is there no place for the man with the 105 IQ?" and purposefully restore the damage to return his IQ to normal Springfield levels.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by nickpeterson on Friday February 12, 2016 @11:00AM (#11088111)

hmm, I haven't seen this episode, but it feels like it was a spoof on the novella 'Flowers for Algernon', a somewhat heart-wrenching story young children tend to be subjected to.

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Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl... by smrtinsert on Friday February 12, 2016 @02:42PM (#11089906)

Artie: Hello, classmates. Instead of voting for some athletic hero or a pretty boy, you have elected me, your intellectual superior, as your king. Good for you.

- Simpsons

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