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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons in comercials
From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:06:27 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

> >(Corola & ButterFinger) are not shown in the Continental US?
> >
> >
> >					Chris.
> >
> Au contraire, mon frere.  The 'Butterfinger' ad has been playing in the state
> or at least in the North East, for at least a year.  The ad plays excellent
> homage to the Bruce Lee variety karate flick, don'tcha think????
> 
> Jeremy
> -- 
>   (\_/)          " Love to eat them mousies,
>   |* *|              Mousie's what I love to eat.
>   \>Y</            Bite they little heads off...
>    `U'               Nibble on they tiny feet."       B.Kliban `75

As well as the Southwest, in fact, I think I saw it on national t.v., so 
I think it is safe to say that butterfinger is advirtised in America and 
Canada

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind)
Subject: Biblical Reference ?
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:42:41 GMT

			A friend of mine mentioned something about an episode from last month
that I thought was interesting:  
			The entire episode where Homer stays home from church on Sunday is very
similar to the biblical story of Jacob's Ladder, wherein Jacob tries to
reach heaven, not through worship and religious practice, but by building a
ladder.  Although Homer doesn't make a big pretense about  the religious
signifigance of his Sunday, he does eventually feel that he doesn't need to
go to church to reach God (which turns out to be true).  The reference is
strengthened in another way.  As Homer watches TV one sunday morning, he
watches a home-improvement show where the host is instructing viewers on
how to build a ladder.

			Any judgements about the moral lesson of the episode I will leave for
others to make.

--Jeff
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Gillett, David)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?
Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:01:32 -0500
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

rks sez:
  It is a politically correct thing to do: to support police forces.

moi:
  It is a politically *expedient* thing to do.  That's a different matter.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: DYN for ``Mr. Plow''
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:10:40 GMT

DYN that in the middle of a blizzard, Homer's hair was waving in the wind?

That may not seem important, and you're right. It isn't. :-) *But*...we've
seen a couple other episodes (like ``Kamp Krusty'' and ``Homer The Heretic'')
where it appeared to be rooted at *both* ends.

So what's the deal with Homer's hair? (Or, perhaps more appropriately, 
what's the deal with Homer's hairs? :-)
-- 
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1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
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From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE! YOU CAN FIND A REFERENCE IN ANYTHING!
Date: 15 Nov 92 08:25:34 GMT
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex

In article <1992Nov11.041125.12361@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>In article <92314.172225RC1DSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> Ryan Collins <RC1DSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>>Hear Hear!! I thought I was the onl one thinking this also!! I love when the
>>Simpsons put something in that is subtle, but I don't think the writers
>>dig up old movies to make references to them!!!!
>
>Right on!  It was only pure coincidence that a certain Hallowe'en tale
>bore passing resemblance (sometimes in the form of frame by frame passing
>resemblance) to a certain old movie about a large ape.
>
>And the fact that Simpsons' animation director David Silverman said,
>"In every episode there's at least one reference to a classic movie,"
>just goes to show that he's obviously out of touch.  Alt.tv.simpsons
>has spoken!

"At least one" does not mean "every third frame".  Yes, there are quite
a few references in the Simpsons, but sometimes I think people here search
for things that aren't there.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy)
Subject: Simpsons on LD?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:30:43 GMT



I'm curious if there are any plans to release Simpsons epsiodes on
laser disc.  I imagine there would be quite a market for these, especially
if they were in CAV format.  I know *I'd* go to work on a collection right
away, giving up all these tapes I'm keeping...
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:02:01 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <1ekiqkINNiuv@uwm.edu>,
jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
>From article <1e91a2INNoqi@morrow.stanford.edu>, by AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark):
>
>>   Actually, the FORMER President said that American families should
>> be "a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons".
>
>Wrong, WRong, WROng, WRONg, WRONG!!!  *Wrong*, *WRONG*!!!
>
>Our President *is* George Herbert Walker Bush.  Mr. Bush will *remain*
>President until noon of 20 January, 1993. (Barring unforseen tradegy,
>that is.)

  Picky, picky, picky.  For someone so sensitive to language, you
should really learn how to spell.

>[Perhaps its time to post the relevant sections of the US Constitution
>here?  As a short refresher on what makes this country tick?  The
>immense ignorance of our government by it's citizens ticks me off.]
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Yes - that's a real TRADEGY, isn't it?

  What makes you think I'm a citizen, anyway?
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: In the Navy (Village P)
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:56:44 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Nov23.104927.428@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@explorer.dgp (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>syracurg@lp.musc.edu writes:
>>     Was The Village People really a "gay (male) disco band", or was
>>   that just a part of their act.  I never knew that.
>
>I'm fairly sure that they really were.  There was a substantial gay disco
>subculture at the time.

Of the members of "The Village People", supposedly two of them were
gay, one bisexual, the rest straight.  I honestly don't remember where I 
read that but the point being that it was a rather mixed group.

Back in the 70's, the group was an inside gay joke.  They dressed
in traditional "manly" clothes (cowboy, construction worker, etc.) and 
sang songs about being "manly" that had not-so-subtle double meanings.
The "joke", however, was much more subtle and was a social commentary
on the illusion of sex roles we all cling to - not only the illusion of
"macho" but the illusion of "not-macho".  Too heavy for most people 
who probably simply enjoyed the disco beat and let things go at face value.

Rumor had it that the U.S. Navy was considering using "In the Navy" as
a jingle in their recruitment ads - until somebody explained it to
the brass.

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Mr. Plow ad 2 reference?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:08:02 GMT

KCSCHIE@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu writes:

>In article <1992Nov20.210323.8536@news.columbia.edu>
>tl24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Tami  Luhby) writes:
> 
>>
>>
>>Here's a reference for ya.  In the second Mr. Plow ad (the artsy one), a man
>>drops a snow shaker paperweight (you know those things you shake and it snows?)
>>to me this is a reference to Citizen Kane, where Kane drops one of those when
>>he dies at the beginning.  Anyone else catch this one?
>>
> 
>Hmmm... I thought about this when I watched it and wondered if it was
>a Kane reference, but I think it was probably something else. True,
>Kane drops a snow-shaker-thing when he dies, but the one in this
>episode was thrown to the ground and shattered. Methinks it's a reference
>... but to what?

I don't think it's a reference to anything in particular, despite the
breaking snow globe.  Seems to me that it's just a broad poke at all 
those bizarre "art" commercials that have been plaguing the ether in
recent years.  Since Mr. Plow is in the snow business, the snow globe
would make sense as an image you'd expect to see in an arsty Mr. Plow
commercial, but I'd stop short of calling it a "Citizen Kane" reference.


                                    --Steve Stelter
                                      sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: bmorrell@nx10.mik.uky.edu (william b morrell)
Subject: Re: Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx10.mik.uky.edu!bmorrell
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:50:12 GMT

In <1ebn1mINNj67@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:

>This may have been mentioned before, but if it was, I missed it, so I will 
>apologize in advance for repeating it.

>BTW, what other shows have Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria done?  Not 
>necessarily together.

In addition to Maximum Overdrive, Yeardley was in a movie about a girl with
terminal cancer (Glass Cages?). I saw it on cable once and now can't remember
it.

On a related subject, what character(s) does Hank Azaria do on the show?
I believe he does Milhouse, but am not certain and the FAQ doesn't list 
credits (HINT,HINT).

Also, in Treehouse of Horror III, Milhouse was dressed as Radioactive Man,
not the Flash as as stated in the episode synopsis. I tried to post then,
but the mailer was screwed up.

Bill Morrell
From: marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: used car (U2?)
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:17:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge, Ma, USA

In article <dhallora-231192030214@lafmaclablogger.lafortune.lab.nd.edu> dhallora@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Dave Halloran) writes:
>In article <By55Az.48F@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
>dmorton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Daniel Morton) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The used car that Homer was looking at in Mr. Plow looked suspiciously
>> like the eastern-block(?) car that the rock band U2 used in their music
>> video for the song "The Fly". This seems even more likely because of the
>> fly in the middle of the steering wheel and on the hood ornament if I
>> remember correctly. Anyone agree?
>> -- 
>> "Awright, let's forget the bullshit and get on with the so-called art"
>>                       --  Charles Bukowski  --  
>
>That was an East German "Trabbie" (Trabant) if I ever saw one.  When the
>Berlin wall came down, they caused countless accidents on the Autobahn. 
>They only make 26 horsepower.

Or it could be a Yugo.



-- 
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Marty Del Vecchio
Software Engineer
Shiva Corporation
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Troy McClure - Acting Credits
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:54:47 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: david.CLark@analog.COM's message of 19 Nov 92 11:50:52 -0400

Also don't forget educational video "Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to
You-Know-What," and "Handel with Kare" [spelling merely conjectural],
the cop/ex-con buddy show.  He also hosted the Miss American Girl
pageant.

I agree that T.M. is one of the funniest running bits.  It doesn't
hurt that the incomparable Phil Hartman voices him.
--
 From the catapult of:              |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
   _,_  J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
 _|70|___:::)=}-  U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under
 \      /   baldwin@usna.navy.mil   |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: jwlr@dali.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Springfield, Illinois
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:52:41 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson) writes:


>the worst city in America by Time magazine.
>In the latest U.S. News survey,(or Newsweek?), Springfield, IL
>was voted one of the worst places in the country to live 

>Also the Simpson's rival power plant is in Shelbyville, which
>is a small town outside of Springfield, Illinois.

>Does anyone have any more evidence?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!

			James Willer
[any opinions above are already registered with the federal government]
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jeremy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (jeremy.l.radosh)
Subject: Re: DYN for Mr. Plow (19/11/92 USA)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:32:35 GMT

>Plus, when Homer went to rescue Barney, he crossed that rotting footbridge.
>I personally find this to be reminiscent (tho' I don't believe it's a true
>reference) of the footbridge scene from ``Indiana Jones and the Temple of
>Doom''.
>
>*PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NOT CALLING THIS A REFERENCE!!!* :-)
>
>-- 

I will say it, it is a direct Homage/Reference/Rip-Off of a movie.  The movie
is "Sorcerer" with Roy Scheider (sp?) wherein Roy play a man who must
drive a truck loaded with nitro-glycerin (sp?) through the jungle.  There is 
a dramatic scene where he crosses a bridge just like the one Homer crosses.

My 2cents.

Jeremy

PS. Sorcerer was a remake of an earlier film (of the same name???) (starring??).

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  (\_/)          " Love to eat them mousies,
  |* *|              Mousie's what I love to eat.
  \>Y</            Bite they little heads off...
   `U'               Nibble on they tiny feet."       B.Kliban `75
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge in Opening Credits
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:50:49 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Her magazine is "Mom Monthly"
-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: George Bush in Homer's dream
Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:01:43 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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In Homer's dream, when George Bush asked for his helping in "getting these 
priceless art objects out of the White House," was this a dig at the 
President trying to smuggle things out as he moves out?  Anybody know whether 
this episode (at least the dream segment) was done before or after the 
election?

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy)
Subject: Re: George Bush in Homer's dream
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:32:57 GMT

In <1ej967INN6c2@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:

>In Homer's dream, when George Bush asked for his helping in "getting these 
>priceless art objects out of the White House," was this a dig at the 
>President trying to smuggle things out as he moves out?  Anybody know whether 
>this episode (at least the dream segment) was done before or after the 
>election?



A local paper reported that this was done after the election, and that
another scene had been prepared for that slot in the event Bush won.
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From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:50:48 -0500
Organization: Club Simpson Intl.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Karl Wagenfuehr:
> 
> Is this the first Simpsons episode where they explicitly talk about sex?

Ron Drake:
> 
> One of HomeBoy's defining moments is in "Colonel Homer" when What's-Her-
> Name (Lurleen?) propositions him.

Me:
>
> The S-word also stages a mention in ``Oh Brother where art Thou?'' as
> Abe recollects about the Carnival Girl/Prostitute (``She did things
> your mother would never do, like have sex for money.''), and during
> ``Itchy & Scratchy & Marge'' as Dr. Marvin Monroe is interviewed live
> from Vienna.
>
> ..and all the above scenes where tampered with by Network Ten,, :(

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: shalamsk@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Paul Shalamskas)
Subject: Re: Marge Gets a Job (11/5/992)
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:00:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov09.185046.28825@sco.com> jondr@sco.com writes:
>
>I am not baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin).  I didn't say:
>>Burns, in love with Marge, contemptuous (to the extent he thinks of
>>him at all) of Homer, reacts to Homer's foolhardy demand for an
>>apology and Marge's rejection, not with the same Burnsian wit and
>>cunning he applied to the "Tom Jones Problem," but by relenting and
>>bestowing on Marge and Homer the night of their lives.  TOTALLY out of
>>character for Burns
>
>not at all!  remember "blood feud" (conveniently rerun just a few weeks
>ago)?  burns is going to destroy homer but smithers asks him to relent,
>which he does... and then buys the simpsons a $30K olmec warrior god
>sculpture!!
>


Nahh, love makes you stupid.  Burns would do whatever it takes to make
Marge happy.  (I bet he doesn't let her work there, though, since it would
be too painful for Burns to see her every day.)

Romantic cartoons, what a concept.

:-)

John Shalamskas       shalamsk@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
From: davida@anagram.umd.edu (David Arnold)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The elusive FAQ
Keywords: Where is it?  How do I get it?
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:21:43 GMT
Reply-To: davida@anagram.umd.edu (David Arnold)

Ok, I've dutifully read (the subjects at least) just under 600 articles,
many with flames of "Read the FAQ", but not ONE SINGLE reference to it,
in spite of several posts asking about it.

Could somebody post some information about how to get the FAQ, if there
is any anonymous ftp site for archives, where one can find the episode
guide, etc?

If you respond to me, could you also post in the group so others can benefit
from this?

Thanks in advance,
David
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: DYN from ``New Kid On The Block''
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:14:00 GMT

First off---Great episode! Almost (but not quite) as good as ToH3.
(By the way, did anyone else find Laura attractive? :-) Hey, I've got
a bad teenage mustache; do ya think she might give me a chance? :-)

Anyway, the DYN:

Didja notice that the ``Clumsy Student Mover'' also works for ``The 
Frying Dutchman''? (At least I think it was him! They had similar 
voices, anyway!)

Only one minor problem: are they going to make Laura a recurring 
character? She and Bart still seemed to be doing quite a bit together
at the end of the episode, and she hasn't moved away or anything.
I have to admit, if they don't use the character a fair bit or wrap
it up somehow, I'm going to be somewhat disappointed. (But then again,
OFF have been somewhat ambivalent about continuity, haven't they? :-)

-- 
(By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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From: sperry@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Robert Joseph Sperry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Another Godfather reference?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:36:53 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30


O.K., I'll just say that this *may* be a reference, or maybe I've just 
watched The Godfather many too many times...

Homer had just plowed out Bart's school so classes wouldn't have to be
canceled.  Bart get's out of the bus and Skinner says something like
"If it wasn't for your father, we would've had to have closed school today."

At that moment, kids pop up from both sides and rapid-fire Bart w/ snowballs.
Bart contorts, goes "A-a-a-a-a-h"  and collapses and then one kid comes
and gives him one last snowball in the face.

Now compare this to when Sonny Corleone was murdered by Barzyni's (sp?)
thugs on the causeway.

They pop up and machine gun him, he contorts just as Bart did, goes 
"A-a-a-a-a-h", and collapses... Then one of the thugs comes and kicks
him in the face...

Well, it may sound weak, but if you've seen that scene recently, I think
you'll agree that it is a reference...

Also, there was definitely a Godfather reference (now who's being naive?)
in I&S:The Movie so there is a precedent.... And there was another 
reference in a past season's episode where Homer got Lisa the pony.....  
MG seems to be a big Godfather fan.... Mmmmmmmmmm... The Godfather.....


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From: tl24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Tami  Luhby)
Subject: Mr. Plow ad 2 reference?
Reply-To: tl24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Tami  Luhby)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:03:23 GMT


Here's a reference for ya.  In the second Mr. Plow ad (the artsy one), a man
drops a snow shaker paperweight (you know those things you shake and it snows?)
to me this is a reference to Citizen Kane, where Kane drops one of those when
he dies at the beginning.  Anyone else catch this one?

-tl24