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07/20/2001 Archived Entry: "CHUDs"

I finally found out the answer to something that's been bugging me for far too long now - what a CHUD is.

You see, on a Simpsons episode called The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Homer tells his family a tale of woe about the last time he went to New York when he suffered various misfortunes and was robbed of everything he owned. At the end of the story, Homer says morosely, "...and that's when the CHUDs came for me."

References to these CHUDs popped up intermittently in popular culture but I never figured out what it meant... until today, when someone (Jim Battista) explained that it stood for 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller' and originated from the 'serious' horror flick CHUD. There's also a hilariously named sequel called CHUD II: Bud the CHUD.

So now I can die a happy man.