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From: C0031018@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Johannes Heyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Re: The first "D'oh !"
Date: 12 Aug 1992 12:11:13 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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>Here in Germany, the dubbing they've done was great. I've never heard
>the original english voices, but I think, the loss of humor caused by
>dubbing is only little, they've done a real good job.
>
>Stephan.

Wrong! But if you liked the dubbed episodes, try the original ones. You'll
like them even 1000% more. In my opinion the german versions sucked. Most of
my friends were disappointed by The Simpsons at first because they saw the
german episodes. When I showed them the original versions they instantly
became Simpsons enthusiasts!

Ciao
     Johannes

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From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Subject: Yeardley /= Weirdly?
Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:02:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.160138.5893@Princeton.EDU>, rjc@onion.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
|> 
|> Yeardley ``No it doesn't rhyme with `weirdly' '' Smith is 27 years old
|> and has presumably graduated from grammar school.
|> 
   How is it pronounced?

        TIM
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From: ntraven@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (The Night Raven)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Ren and Stimpy
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:34:19 GMT
Organization: The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK


     Okay, okay... This post is not about Homer, Maggie, Bart, Lisa, or
Marge...  PLease please don't flame me, okay?  (cringes)

          Ren and Stimpy is a WILD animated cartoon that borders somewhere
between gross/hilariously inventive/insane/twisted.  It is done (directed and
created by) John Krikfalusi who used to do stuff on the New Adventures of
Mighty Mouse.  Ren and Stimpy was on MTV for a while but now appears at 8:00 pm
(Central time) on Nickelodeon Satuday nights and 10:00 am on Sunday Mornings..

Check it out!
phluuke@maria.wustl.edu

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From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Help
Date: 13 Aug 1992 06:43:40 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

     Is it possible to set mail from this list to "nomail" so that mail
   is not delivered for a set period of time?
     How do I do that?

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From: bx314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph J. Gebis)
Subject: Sesame Street
Reply-To: bx314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph J. Gebis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 03:15:50 GMT


	I was watching Sesame Street today (don't ask...) and I noticed
the Simpsons!  During Grover's song, "If you wubba wubba me, i'll wubba
wubba you," there was appearances by Geena Davis, Robin Williams, Jeff
Smith ("The Frugal Gourmet") and the Simpsons.  Everyone was only on for
a second, but it was pretty interesting, I thought, that The Simpsons
would be on Sesame Street.

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: Best Simpsons Moment
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:42:38 GMT

In article <880348n.17.713561326@ace.acadiau.ca>, 880348n@ace.acadiau.ca (GREGORY NICHOLS) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug11.161648.9320@nrtpa038.bnr.ca> Sparky writes:

|> >>Uh-huh.  I think that if you look up "easily-amused" in the dictionary, 
|> >>there will be a picture of you!
|> >>
|> >
|> >Yeah, and your mug will appear under "asshole."
|> >-Sparky
|> 
|> I feel sorry for anyone with an intellect that spits out profanities as a 
|> rebuttal.

What a couple of homers.

-- 
Ray Charbonneau              | The fifth dentist makes all the money.
rcharbon@athena.mit.edu      |             -- me
MIT and the Library Systems Office are glad that I'm posting my opinions
here so that they don't have to listen to them anymore.
From: updike@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Todd F. Updike)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: about Mr. Burns (favorite moment)
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:41:53 GMT
Reply-To: updike@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California

I am totally new at this game, ie, this is the first time I have
attempted to "REPLY" to a message, so this may come out as total sh-t ,
but here goes:

     My all time favorite Mr. Burns sentence was from the following:
 
 It was the episode when they lost their dog, and at this time,
  Burns was in his "rejuvenation" chamber (essentially a coffin!), and
  Smithers was meekly saying something like,
   "Sorry to disturb you Mr. Burns, but there's a girlscout at the
    door selling cookies")

   Burns said in this low voice, :

               "Release the hounds ! "

 Again, it was the way he pronounced it that I just kept cracking up.
 I must've replayed that line on the VCR 10 times in a row !!!


 Now, if anyone actually received this message, please drop me a line
or post it or something so I know if I am using the REPLY feature
correctly.  Much obliged !

 - TFU
From: batemanc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Mad Chris)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: First Doh! ( I think )
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:47:12 GMT

I know someone asked when the first "Doh!" occured, but I don't think 
anyone said the answer. I don't know which is the first Simpsons 
episode, but if it is the one with 'Miss Bots', the Baby sitter,
then this is where the first Doh! is.

Phone: RING RING!
Receptionist: "Bumper bonny baby booper baby sitting service."
Marge: "Hello, I'd like a sitter."
R: "What name please?"
M: "Simpson."
R: "Please hold". 
[Looks at poster with picture of the Simpsons and headed NO! NO! NO!]
   "You've got to be kidding lady!
Phone: RING RING!
Receptionist: "Bumper bonny baby booper baby sitting service."
Homer: "Hello, I'd like a sitter."
R: "What name please?"
H: "Sampson."
R: "Wait a minute. Did you wife just call a moment ago?"
H: "No, I said Sampson, not Simpson!"
R: "Thank god! What a nightmare family. Especially that big ape of a father!"
Homer: "Doh!"

Well, it's from memory, and not word for word. But the announcer on Sky said
that this was the first Simpsons ever shown, so if it was, that was the first
Doh! ever shown.

Mad Chris.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: c8923075@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: Re: Simpsons Prophetic?
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:37:07 GMT

>|>
>|> ... I am definately watching future shows to see if this 
>|> parallel was just a fluke or if Matt "Nostradomus" Groening is really onto 
>|> something
>
> Mmmmmmmm.... riots.

Remember the coincidental re-broadcast of "Radio Bart" during the LA
riots, where Bart played the "Larry the Looter" video game?

And what about Bart's spelling of "po***oe" in ``Dead Putting
Society'', or the fates of the baseball leaguers in ``Homer at the
Bat''.  What else have I forgotten..  Huhmmmm,,

And on the news recently was a report about the planned closure of
Oregon's only Nuclear power plant in 1996.  Man, those two cooling
towers look awfully familiar,,


-- Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
From: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu (R.CLOUGH)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Origin of THE OLD MAN
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:19:25 GMT
Reply-To: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu
Organization: Duke U. Med. Ctr., Durham, NC

In article <4683@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, damian+@pitt.edu (Liquid Cooled Spherical Imaging) writes:
>AND, one of the patches had a picture of a character who looked remarakble 
>like the old man in the Simpsons episodes!  He had his hands behind his back,
>and he appears to be walking somewhere.  I think it says KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 
>underneath him.  Do you think that this character had some place in 70's pop 
>culture?

This sounds like Mr. Natural, an old Robert Crumb character.  Crumb did
a lot of underground comics in the 60's and 70's (and still does today), and
the "Keep on Truckin'" thing, and a couple of album covers for Big Brother
and the Holding Company(w/Janis Joplin) are the most famous mainstream things
he did.  I never thought about the connection to the Simpsons character until
you mentioned it, but it's quite possible that it's an homage to R. Crumb.

--Rob Clough
Robert Clough, DUMC (though certainly not speaking for them)
	"I'm not angry.  I'm a delightful sort of person."--Bob Dylan
From: mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Lisa and Bart's age and grade?
Date: 22 Aug 92 02:06:33 GMT
Reply-To: mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

Shawn O'Donnell writes

}I am told that Maggie will utter her first word next season, but
}after that, she may never speak again.  :(

In the -Flaming Homer- (secret code designation unknown) episode when everyone  
is saying MO, Maggie speaks it also.  Does this count or did Homer imagine her  
sying it ????

Mark
From: djr@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Dan Redder)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Post me!
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:40:51 GMT
Organization: Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State Univ.


I liked the one where Homer was listening to sublimal vocabular tapes and 
said	"food, umm, thing, umm, dig"  or something like that...
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jamesf@cae.wisc.edu (James Friedmann)
Subject: Favorite Moment from "Treehouse of Horror II" 
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:06:07 CDT

There was one scene from Treehouse II that really floored me.

It's right after Burns pulls out Homer's brain.  
He puts the brain on his head and says 

"Look at me! I'm Davy Crocket!"

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: kwright@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ken Wright)
Subject: Re: article in the local tv guide
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:28:47 GMT

Who are Ren and Stimpy?? I've never heard of them.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: baker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Baker)
Subject: Re: Oh the shame!
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:18:18 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.171346.11166@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>Oh the shame!  I cannot for the life of me (nor can anyone I know)
>remember the "three sayings that will get you through life"!
>
>All I can remember is:
>
>1) Good idea, boss.
>
>2) It was like that when I got here.
>
>Can someone tell me the third!

(3) Cover for me!  [or something like that]

I am not sure on the order of the three things.



Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Subject: Hair!
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: long gleaming waxen flaxen blonde
Organization: Dimoxinil, 485 Hair Plaza, Hair City, Utah.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:47:28 GMT

Whilst half this newsgroup's usual readership have their attention
diverted elsewhere, I'd like to come forward with a question I've been
wanting to ask for ages,,

Who else shares the opinion that it would improve Lisa's appearance
substantially if she were to adorn a tress?

ie:            BEFORE                          AFTER

	    ___/~\/~\_                      ___/~\/~\_
	  __\         |                   __\         |
	  \      ,, ,,/                   \      ,, ,,/
	   \    (o)(o)                    /     (o)(o)
	   / C       _)                   \  C       _)
	   ---|  ,___\                    /   |  \___\
	      |    /                      \   |    /
	      oooooo                      /   oooooo
	     /      \                     \__/      \


Voice your preference (or not) for the longer hair with an email reply
to this article, and I'll report on the outcome of the survey in a
week's time.  (Alas, the character design that has been etched in
stone at Groening's library somewhere in LA will assure that my dreams
will go unfulfilled,,  but Hey!  Maybe I'll get lucky. :)

What do the Abject Admirers think?


-- Chris Baird,, <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
             ``An unspoiled lump of clay to mould into my own image.''
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!'  (George Bush speaks)
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:00:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.192220.13279@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
gjnelson@ee.umn.edu (Gr ad student Greg Nelson) writes:
>
>If it's the same quote he used before, it's "More like the Waltons and
>less like the Simpsons."  Jay Leno's comment on this quote was
>something like, "Hey, say what you will about Homer Simpson, but
>at least he has a job, owns his own house, and didn't have more
>kids than he can feed!"

  It's funny that Bush thinks that the Republikans should be *more*
  like the Waltons.  Grandpa Walton (the actor, not the character)
  was a "pinko commie fag", to borrow from Archie Bunker.  He was
  investigated by the "House Un-Americans Activity Committee" in the
  '50s and was (for a while) blacklisted.  In one of his films he
  played a "co-conspirator" in the assassination of JFK.  This film
  made Oliver Stone's "JFK" look like Tricky-Dick Nixon directed it.

  "More like the Waltons", indeed.  Oh, well.  I guess that Bush,
  like Quayl(e), would rather live in Fantasyland than *our* cartoonland.

  -- Mark (hoping that I annoyed *lots* of Republikans)
From: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Jamesa Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Bart & Lisa's ages
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:09:12 GMT
Reply-To: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Bart is ten. He is in 4th (?) grade.
Lisa is eight. She is in 2nd grade.

In "Stark Raving Dad" (w/that Jackson fellow), Bart tells Lisa that
she is '... that much closer to being ten ...' (or words to that effect,
I don't have the actual quote on hand, so I may be contradicted by someone
who has more time to kill than I do)

					Jamesa Willer (jmw1388@cs.rit.edu)
{The opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all.}
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: US 20 AUG 92 episode will be...
From: psantucci@desire.wright.edu
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:09:12 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Aug17.174803.26654@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:> 
> The US 20 AUG 92 episode will be `The War of the Simpsons'.
> 
> --
> Ron Carter |   Denver | Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence
>   Director | Colorado | "A ... mind stretched by a new idea can never
> rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu | go back to its original dimensions."  -Holmes
I'm not sure if I have this one on tape or not - would someone care to
post/send me a brief description?

Meum Planetum Non Est,
PATMAN
From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Ren and Stimpy
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:39:00 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

In article <wZkoPB1w165w@wuntvor.norman.ok.us> ntraven@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (The Night Raven) writes:
>
>     Okay, okay... This post is not about Homer, Maggie, Bart, Lisa, or
>Marge...  PLease please don't flame me, okay?  (cringes)
>
>          Ren and Stimpy is a WILD animated cartoon that borders somewhere
>between gross/hilariously inventive/insane/twisted.  It is done (directed and
>created by) John Krikfalusi who used to do stuff on the New Adventures of
>Mighty Mouse.  Ren and Stimpy was on MTV for a while but now appears at 8:00 pm
>(Central time) on Nickelodeon Satuday nights and 10:00 am on Sunday Mornings..
>
>Check it out!

In Canada, Ren and Stimpy will be available on MuchMusic in September.

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
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From: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: Oh, Danny Boy
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:15:07 GMT
Reply-To: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Could you *please* not cross-post this thread to 'alt.tv.simpsons' anymore?
I enjoy Dan-Boy's foibles as much as the next guy, but I *don't* want to
hear about them while digesting silliness about Homer, Bart, Lisa, Apu,
et al.
		Thanks
		James Willer
		(jmw1388@cs.rit.edu)
From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Maggie's Voice
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:08:18 GMT
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco

Long ago (during the first season?), Whoopi Goldberg said that if
Maggie ever talks, she wants to do Maggie's voice.  So this is a
possibility...

Of course, Maggie _did_ talk in the thanksgiving episode where Bart
runs away from home: after he returns and is considering whether or
not to knock on the front door, he sees himself apologizing, then he
sees everybody looming over him and blaming him for everything.
Maggie says "It's YOUR fault I can't TALK!"

     << Brian >>

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com (Andre Giroux - SSS Sun Montreal)
Subject: Another trivia question
Reply-To: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:59:18 GMT

Ok Simpsons freaks, tell me HOW OLD IS BURNS ????

(and what episode they are talking about it ...)

Andre


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-BANG
"I told him to do that Smithers"

"brilliant strategy sir..."
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From: starke@cs.rice.edu (Sean Starke)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Potato(e) : Bart & Dan at the same reading level?
Date: 21 Aug 1992 16:46:51 GMT
Reply-To: starke@cs.rice.edu (Sean Starke)
Organization: Rice University
Originator: starke@lutetia.cs.rice.edu


   I just re-re-watched "Dead Putting Society" and discovered a
very interesting fact.

   When Bart is up in his room doing his science experiment,
which involves studying a potato, he clearly writes on his notepad
"1 hour - still just a potatoe" with that tricky "e".

  I don't know what this means, but I thought I'd point it out...

Sean Starke
<starke@cs.rice.edu>
From: Roger.Wennstrom@lu.erisoft.SE
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Which TV channels
Date: 12 Aug 1992 03:33:56 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

>>  Here in the Netherlands they show The Simpsons on RTL4, but it's dubbed. 
>>  Does anyone know if they run the Simps in the UK (if so, where & when)? 
>It's run on Sky One via the Astra satellite, at 17.30 CET on Sunday evenings. 
>The frequency is 11.317 Vertical (same satellite as RTL-4). 
 
>Onto the repeats at the moment! 

I believe that the correct time is 19.30 CET on Sundays for the Simpsons
on Sky. 

/ Roger
From: Roger.Wennstrom@lu.erisoft.SE
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Oh the shame!
Date: 19 Aug 1992 04:13:29 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Cut From quotes file:

  316%I want to share something with you:
  316%The three little sentences that will get you through life.
  316%   Number 1:  [whispers] Cover for me.
  316%   Number 2:  Oh, good idea, Boss!
  316%   Number 3:  It was like that when I got here.
  316%-- Homer tells Bart the secret, ``One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish''

  ----------------------===========================---------------------------
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From: jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!'  (George Bush speaks)
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:35:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

In article <1992Aug20.184204.13737@morrow.stanford.edu> AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <djr.1.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu>,
>djr@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Dan Redder) writes:
>>>From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
>
>  A number of times.  Many established actors will refuse roles that
>  conflict with their politics.  For example, you're not likely to see
>  Charleton Heston in a film which, in his view, is biased towards the
>  left.  It's not likely that you'll see (hear) him in "The Simpsons",
>  either.  But that's his problem.

I have been debating this very subject with my roommate lately.  For the most 
part I think that you are correct, but think about this anomaly: Planet of the
Apes, Soylent Green, Omega Man.  Each of these movies contains elements of
anti-nuke, anti-war, pro-environmental issues themes. The first time I saw
Heston doing an NRA commercial I was surprised, I figured that a guy who did
movies like he had, would certainly be a liberal.  I think that he probably
changed sides like Ronnie Ray Gun did.
>
>  I'm waiting for The Simpsons to strike back at Bush and his cronies
>  with their "Family Values" rhetoric.  A new chalkboard opening, perhaps.
>
>  -- Mark
>
They did strike back a long time ago when Bush made this statement the first 
time.  At the beginning of the show, before the credits, the Simpson's were
sitting around watching TV, Bush was on (Live, not cartoon) saying this sound
bite about an America more like the Walton's than the Simpson's. Bart said:

We are like the Walton's, waiting  for the depression to end.

Something like this anyway.

Greg