That was my favorite episode!! When Homer, proceeding through his list of Things-To-Do-in-the-Next-24-Hours, calls Bart, "C'mere, boy" and Bart automatically drops his pants and bends over Homer's knee with the classic, "Oh, mannnn..."

the word 'fatal' would have been more appropriate with all the F's in the title.

Fan-fugu-tastic!

/Homer

Man eats poison and dies. It just doesn't get more ironic than that.

I predict much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the improper use of the ironic tag.

Death is served

But I asked for cake!

ruh roh

wait, thats scooby doo

It's like raeee-aiiin,on your wedding day,
but it's not ironic.

Puffer fish don't have lungs. =P

mmmmmmmmmmmmm Fugu.

fatality

Always nice to see Darwin at work.

This fugu fish does not have an iron-y taste.

No no no!!! It is ironic because they were expecting yummy fishiness but ended up with a gullet full of poison. That's ironic, isn't it?? :-/

FUGU ME!

I say "poison! poison! tasty fish!" all the damn time. Because I'm a dork, mainly. Still a good episode though.

"But... I didnt have any of the Chocolet mousse"

/Monty Python, meaning of life

There are people that actually LIKE sushi?

Foolish fisherman feasts on fatal Fugu fish. Funeral to follow.

Yea, verily, thou shalt useth thine tag of DUMBASS in cases of such dumbassery.

Ironic this is not.

/Joining the crowd in browbeating the submitter

Fugu? FugMe

That's as dumb as baking a cake with a razor blade in it and hoping you don't get the wrong slice.

Tastes just like chicken.

Sushi = good.

Deadly Fugu fish = very very bad.

I fail to see the irony, however.

/Hasn't read article

when it says...fugu fugu fugu
on the label label label
you will like it like it like it
on your tablbe table table

Sounds like this could have used a Dumbass Tag to me.

Hey, isn't this the same fish that they use in Haiti to allegedly make zombies. I think it's like some extract from Pufferfish liver. They make a powder from it, mix it with some other things, then they blow it on you. It makes you look and appear dead, and then they keep your soul, and make you their slave.
/I think I've seen the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow a few too many times.

I think it's ironic, because he was a FISHERMAN with many years experience fishing in the area... I don't think it's too much to expect a fisherman to be aware of the dangers of eating raw fugu kidney.

Rain on your wedding day would be ironic if you were a weather forecaster who had predicted sunshine, lolly pops, rainbows and everything else...

Red lights when you're already late would be ironic if you were the person who programmed the traffic lights program, and farked it up.

If it was just some dumb joe carving up a fish and comping down on poison, then that's just bad luck.

but fisherman = irony.

......Um...?!! Can I have Fugu Fish for my last meal,...Warden??

Venturi, well..I'll have the chicken.

Darwin says, "I win! Pay up biatch!"

AHH! DEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH!

/Grandpa Simpson

I have actually eaten fugu... and yes, it is a "tasty fish".

Are they sure he is dead? Tetrododoixin does have the nasty habit of making you look dead, but actually you aren't. See The Serpent and the Rainbow (yes, the movie is based off of the book by a celebrated arvard ethnobotanist.)

I've become a killer.

According to Matt Groening (would he lie?), they sell non-poisonous fugu. Maybe the guy should've eaten that instead.

can anybody on here email Sweater Girl or Jeff and see if I lost my keys the other night? Yeah, Portland Fark Party baby.

Bukharin--That was the "salmon mousse." If yer gonna quote the Holiest of Holys, at least get it straight...

Fugu...not just delicious and nutritious, but potentially deadly. Think of it like the love of mushroom hunters to find rare varities of wild 'shrooms, while hoping to avoid the deadly ones. Sad thing is, folks in my area who were recently horribly poisoned by wild mushrooms, but survived, said that the things were the tastiest mushrooms they'd ever had, and went back for more. In a few hours, the mycotoxins had destroyed a good deal of their kidney and liver functions.

Sushiluscious, and tingly all at the same time.

once again: dont belittle a little alliteration

"Here, try this. It's from a disgusting fish, it's innermost disgusting parts, and it just might kill you. By the way, it's also going to cost a fortune. Enjoy your meal."

people=morons

Harvard.

Hau'oli Haole=html moron

"It's hard to deny there's something fishy in what keeps driving people to fill up on fugu. "

...I can only hope that my death can be summed up in a horrible, horrible pun.

EAT FISH AND DIE, EARTH SCUM!!

"I know I left my keys in one of these threads..."

What fish did you eat B0rg9?

I'm not following. Does the eating of this fish give one a ten minute orgasm?

Seriouswy stwongbad, why would anyone eat that shiate?

As my Italian friends tell me, "va fagu!"

From the USDA Bad Bug Book

"Fish poisoning by consumption of members of the order Tetraodontiformes is one of the most violent intoxications from marine species. The gonads, liver, intestines, and skin of pufferfish can contain levels of tetrodotoxin sufficient to produce rapid and violent death. The flesh of many pufferfish may not usually be dangerously toxic. Tetrodotoxin has also been isolated from widely differing animal species, including the California newt, parrotfish, frogs of the genus Atelopus, the blue-ringed octopus, starfish, angelfish, and xanthid crabs. The metabolic source of tetrodotoxin is uncertain. No algal source has been identified, and until recently tetrodotoxin was assumed to be a metabolic product of the host. However, recent reports of the production of tetrodotoxin/anhydrotetrodotoxin by several bacterial species, including strains of the family Vibrionaceae, Pseudomonas sp., and Photobacterium phosphoreum, point toward a bacterial origin of this family of toxins. These are relatively common marine bacteria that are often associated with marine animals. If confirmed, these findings may have some significance in toxicoses that have been more directly related to these bacterial species.

Poisonings from tetrodotoxin have been almost exclusively associated with the consumption of pufferfish from waters of the Indo-Pacific ocean regions. Several reported cases of poisonings, including fatalities, involved pufferfish from the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of California. There have been no confirmed cases of poisoning from the Atlantic pufferfish, Spheroides maculatus. However, in one study, extracts from fish of this species were highly toxic in mice. The trumpet shell Charonia sauliae has been implicated in food poisonings, and evidence suggests that it contains a tetrodotoxin derivative. There have been several reported poisonings from mislabelled pufferfish and at least one report of a fatal episode when an individual swallowed a California newt.

From 1974 through 1983 there were 646 reported cases of pufferfish poisoning in Japan, with 179 fatalities. Estimates as high as 200 cases per year with mortality approaching 50% have been reported. Only a few cases have been reported in the United States, and outbreaks in countries outside the Indo-Pacific area are rare.

The first symptom of intoxication is a slight numbness of the lips and tongue, appearing between 20 minutes to three hours after eating poisonous pufferfish. The next symptom is increasing paraesthesia in the face and extremities, which may be followed by sensations of lightness or floating. Headache, epigastric pain, nausea, diarrhea, and/or vomiting may occur. Occasionally, some reeling or difficulty in walking may occur. The second stage of the intoxication is increasing paralysis. Many victims are unable to move; even sitting may be difficult. There is increasing respiratory distress. Speech is affected, and the victim usually exhibits dyspnea, cyanosis, and hypotension. Paralysis increases and convulsions, mental impairment, and cardiac arrhythmia may occur. The victim, although completely paralyzed, may be conscious and in some cases completely lucid until shortly before death. Death usually occurs within 4 to 6 hours, with a known range of about 20 minutes to 8 hours.

All humans are susceptible to tetrodotoxin poisoning. This toxicosis may be avoided by not consuming pufferfish or other animal species containing tetrodotoxin. Most other animal species known to contain tetrodotoxin are not usually consumed by humans. Poisoning from tetrodotoxin is of major public health concern primarily in Japan, where "fugu" is a traditional delicacy. It is prepared and sold in special restaurants where trained and licensed individuals carefully remove the viscera to reduce the danger of poisoning. Importation of pufferfish into the United States is not generally permitted, although special exceptions may be granted. There is potential for misidentification and/or mislabelling, particularly of prepared, frozen fish products."

NOT the same poison that was featured in "The Serpent and the Rainbow." Different entirely.