kontextmaschine:

Watching the “Michael Jackson voices an inmate in the mental asylum with Homer who thinks he’s Michael Jackson” episode of The Simpsons and at this point it reads like two worlds ago

“Stark Raving Dad”, S3E1, 1991, the inciting incident is Homer puts his shirts through the wash with a red hat and he’s institutionalized because an adult working class man wearing a pink shirt is a severe enough violation of social norms to imply insanity

(under a mental health system that is transparently staffed by time-servers as a mechanism of social control)