This Simpsons writer has just offered up the definitive version of the Steamed Hams meme
Bill Oakley’s sketch from 1996 has been all over the internet in recent weeks.
A scene from The Simpsons which has become a meme over recent months has been tackled by the writer who penned the sketch.
The scene sees characters Principal Seymour Skinner and Superintendent Gary Chalmers meet at the former’s house for a meal which goes disastrously wrong – and has become known simply as “Steamed Hams”.
Originally seen in the episode 22 Short Films About Springfield in 1996, over 20 years later people have been sharing edited remakes of the scene – such as “Steamed Hams But Skinner Is Honest About Everything” and “Steamed Hams But It’s A Piano Dub”.
American television writer and producer Bill Oakley, 51, has shared the original first draft of the Steamed Hams sketch which he wrote in the 1990s, originally titled Chalmers vs Skinner.
Oakley’s release of the original transcript has been shared thousands of times and met with a warm response from fans.
Some noted that, bar a few lines, the first draft is hardly changed from the final script.
Other versions of the Steamed Hams sketch have seen it re-edited so every word spoken in the scene is replaced with its first occurrence.
