Homer and Apu in “Much Apu About Nothing”

Homer

Please identify this object.

It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public library last year.

Homer

Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen stripes are for good luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars?

Because this particular flag is [chuckling] ridiculously out of date! The library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912 after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did.

Homer

Uh... partial credit.