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From: tom@spud.kludge.com (Tom Lemos)
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Organization: T.T.L.F.  San Francisco, CA
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Subject: Re: maggie driving the car

wd208cs@opie.bgsu.edu writes:

> In article <Bx7EGE.A34@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prat
> > 
> > Maggie driving the car is from Saturday Night Live... late seventies
> > early eighties.  I think the skit was called something like Felix the 
> > Driving Cat.

> I'm almost positive the cat's name was Toonces.  But I could be wrong...

nope. Toonces is right.


Tom@spud.kludge.COM                             Tater Tot Liberation Front
"People should be taught what is, not what should be."    San Francisco,CA
                                         -Lenny Bruce      +1.415.255.8340
From: fjames@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Frances James)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Marge gets a job
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:34:02 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

My favorite part (that no one has mentioned) was when Bart was showing
off the house to tourists and he mentioned Homer, who then charged at
the window, howling, and the woman tourist said something like "It's
horrible!!!"

Also, when Homer drank the free sample of dish liquid...

                      ---Psycho
From: craigc@natinst.com (Craig Conway)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYN 11/12 and misc. DYN from 11/5
Date: 13 Nov 1992 08:36:28 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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In article <Bxn2vC.3s8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:
->In article <sheppamj.721622197@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard) writes:
->>The Court scene where the prosecuting attourney asked if the judge
->>knew how much chrimp Homer ate and the bags of mail were brought in
->>was all too close to _Miricale on 52nd St._
->                                   ^^^^ 
->     Miracle on 52nd St?  You aren't talking about that movie made 60
->years ago where Santa Claus comes to New York, and in the court, bags of
->letters addressed to him come to prove his existance are you?  My memory
->is failing me, but I'm certain that wasn't the title.  I thought it was
->Mircale on 35th St.  Don't flame me if I got the street wrong... :-)

 This isn't a flame, but I think it's 34th street.  I know that it is NOT
52nd street, though. 

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From: jeremy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (jeremy.l.radosh)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Soylent Green...what it means!
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:54:24 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <VHa5TB2w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> winnipg@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Winnipg) writes:
>>Also, I have never heard of the movie ``Solyent Green''. Could someone
>>please post it's relevance to ``Marge Gets A Job''? (You don't 
>>have to wreck the movie, but I've never even *heard* of it, so I would
>>appreciate getting *some* clue. Or is this all fictional, like that
>>``Green Golf Ball Joke'' on rec.humor? :-) :-)
>Ok, in a nutshell here's a description of the movie Soylent Green.
>Made in the early 70's it starred Chuck Heston & Edward G. Robinson in a 
>future where there's overpopulation and little food to go around. Anyway 
>there's this new cheap food item being given out called Soylent Green. To 
>make a long message short Chuck finds out its made from dead bodies.
>
>mmm...soylent green


Thanx for ruining the "surprise" for everyone who hasn't seen it yet.  
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  |* *|              Mousie's what I love to eat.
  \>Y</            Bite they little heads off...
   `U'               Nibble on they tiny feet."       B.Kliban `75
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Justice Bart (was Re: I&STM)
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:04:10 GMT
Organization: Club Simpson Intl.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


Steve Stelter writes: 
> Alan Rosenthal says:
> > And someone else writes:
> > >
> > > One thing which was disappointing about it is that we actually get to see
> > > that Bart will become a Supreme Court justice.  
> >
> > Yes.  He seemed so... tired.  So... dulled.  The Anti-Bart.
>
> True.  On the other hand, at least we are reassured that Homer will be alive
> six months from now.

I wonder if Bart finally got that tattoo?

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
From: sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: DYN 11/12
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:36:37 GMT
Organization: Clarkson University

Probably obvious to a lot of people but:

When the Simpson's neighbor came over and complained about the garbage
and Homer looked and saw a Moose the music was VERY suggestive of
_Northern Exposer_.

The Court scene where the prosecuting attourney asked if the judge
knew how much chrimp Homer ate and the bags of mail were brought in
was all too close to _Miricale on 52nd St._

Oh well.  Just thought I'd be the first to 'notice'.

-M@

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From: tina@rjlg.COM (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart's Teacher
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:16:08 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
> I'm not sure, but when Marge was talking to Bart's teacher in the classroom in
>I&STM episode, I thouhgt I saw her name on the blackboard behind her. It 
>looked like her name was spelled "Mrs. Grubappel", with a G at the beginning, 
>not a K. Did anyone else notice this? It was where she was showing Marge all
>his "toys" he brought to school.
>
>                      Just something to bother everyone with,
>                        Dave "disappointed because no Barney cameos" Clark
>

I didn't notice this one, but it seems to me that the idea of
a teacher actually being NAMED something that sounded like "Crab Apple"
(instead of just being called that) was pretty funny.

-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: Wondering about the 11/5 episode...
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:39:43 GMT

In article <BxD98I.FCL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> madera@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Gangster) writes:
>Did the school janitor actually say "tit" and get away with it?  =)

	Yes, you can say that on THIS network....  :)

	I thought I heard "tit" also, but I don't remember what the
context was or if I was just hearing things..

>Felix "The Gangster of Love" Madera 		 madera@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

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From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsons Voices
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 


There was an episode some time ago where the end credits had the 
people who do voices listed, and what characters they do.   Can 
someone tell me what episode this was?

Also, has someome compiled a listing of who does what voices on the 
show?  Even for the minor characters?   Is this information available, 
or is it speculation?
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From: Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Diploma Help
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Nov 92 19:19:42 EDT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

  I need to know exactly what the Engineering diploma on Itchy's wall says,
if it says anything, from "I&S the movie"... Anybody catch it?


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Who was playing air-hockey with Hendrix
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:23:49 GMT

If you're sick of this discussion, hit "n" now...



In article <BxKp6J.9Kn@icon.rose.hp.com> jimr@mothra.rose.hp.com (Jim Ranlett) writes:
>Well, after a couple of rewindings, a buddy of mine decided it was
>Amadeus playing air hockey with Hendrix.  sounded good to me.
>
Ah, but unless they were playing his music, "sounded good" isn't enough ;-)

I don't think it was Mozart.  Too chubby, and just otherwise wrong.  What
do I mean, just otherwise wrong, and how can I give that as a valid
reason?  Well, grasshopper, you see, I lived a year in Salzburg, Mozart's
birthplace, and major life-time residence (though he hated it there and
much prefered Wien).  Since Salzburg, unlike Wien, only has Mozart as
a claim to fame, you get Mozart shoved up to and out your ears.  For a
whole year, my essence was impregnated with images of Mozart.  From
Mozart liquers to funky Mozarts in ads for banks, his image has seeped
into my very being.  
So, when I am not struck with anything Mozartish about the figure
playing airhockey with Jimi, I think that I can say wiht some validity
that it is not Mozart (or the animators did a *really* bad job!).

And yes, I have a VCR and I have the episode on tape, and I reviewed
the scene in slow-mo and freeze frame.

And since I live in the greater Philadelphia area, I think I can claim
with equal validity that the figure is definately not Franklin, whose
visiage gets beaten into our being here in Philly.

Again, my best guess is that it is Bach.  The simple style of clothing
certainly makes him more likely than Mozart.  (Plus the chubbiness, and
the style of powdered wig -- the figure had wavy but straight hair on
the wig, whereas Mozart is generally dipicted with at least a pony-tail
in his wig, and it's not as puffy.)

Can anyone find a conclusive reason that it is *not* Bach?

(Note:  I do not claim that abscence of this will prove that it is Bach,
just that that then must be our best working theory; I think I have 
provided evidence that it is not any of the other people suggested
before (ie: Franklin) -- to those who flamed me before, brush up on
your basic scientific technique!)

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                    ' ",      *
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wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:58:42 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <1992Nov9.174955.8012@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>jcc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeremy Caplan) writes:
>>I still am confused as to why pursuit of money is considered,
>>"SELLING OUT"-- as if being a 'starving artist' is some noble position or
>>whatever....
>
>The pursuit of money per se is not considered selling out; however, modifying
>the artistic qualities of your production for money is considered selling out.
>The idea behind the accusation of "selling out" is that the artist is
>sacrificing artistic integrity for money.  True art is supposed to be its
>own reward, or something like that.
>
>Being a starving artist often is a noble position, because your creations are
>being created purely for artistic reasons (it's obviously not for the money;
>you're not getting any!).

For the "art" of Itchy&Scratchy, selling out is almost a neccessary
componant -- I mean, their art lies in the fact that they parody a 
certain kind of cartoon.  How better to be true to that than to sell
out in a really big way?

It's a Warhol kind of thing...

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                    ' ",      *
Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:49:55 GMT

jcc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeremy Caplan) writes:
>I still am confused as to why pursuit of money is considered,
>"SELLING OUT"-- as if being a 'starving artist' is some noble position or
>whatever....

The pursuit of money per se is not considered selling out; however, modifying
the artistic qualities of your production for money is considered selling out.
The idea behind the accusation of "selling out" is that the artist is
sacrificing artistic integrity for money.  True art is supposed to be its
own reward, or something like that.

Being a starving artist often is a noble position, because your creations are
being created purely for artistic reasons (it's obviously not for the money;
you're not getting any!).
From: jcc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeremy Caplan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:51:31 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

I realize that you were kidding when you said Itchy and Scratchy were selling
out, but I still am confused as to why pursuit of money is considered,
"SELLING OUT"-- as if being a 'starving artist' is some noble position or
whatever....

jer
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Date: 8 Nov 92 04:52:04 GMT

Like Karl says, and I'd like to point out that it's not really clear what this
group is for.
(But I read it diligently just to make sure I don't miss anything...)
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:12:43 EST
From: Thomas G. Hopkins <TH5733A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
 <1992Nov9.195131.18169@news.acns.nwu.edu>
 <1992Nov9.174955.8012@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
 <1992Nov10.015842.3249@udel.edu>

I will kill all of you.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: bagus@netcom.com (Mark E. Ruedy)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 10:05:02 GMT

In article <a3k1zl=@rpi.edu> liebea@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:
>
>     There must be very few people posting to this newsgroup.  The special
>Election Night episode of The Simpsons was very much involved with an Itchy &
>Scratchy movie, and nobody here has anything to say about it.
>

What can you say.  Looked like I&S sold out for some of Hollywood's long
green.

-mark
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:35:53 GMT

In article <a3k1zl=@rpi.edu> liebea@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:
>     There must be very few people posting to this newsgroup.  The special
>Election Night episode of The Simpsons was very much involved with an Itchy &
>Scratchy movie, and nobody here has anything to say about it.
>
They did, but they put it all in alt.tv.simpsons, and didn't cross-post...

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: liebea@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:25:19 GMT

>They did, but they put it all in alt.tv.simpsons, and didn't cross-post...

******** 589 unread articles in alt.tv.simpsons--read now? [ynq]

Do you think I have time to read this?

				-Adam Lieberman
				 liebea@rpi.edu
From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: RE: NOTEABLE ABSENCE
Date: 8 Nov 92 15:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

I think it's because everyone is posting stuff about that episode in
alt.tv.simpsons rather than here....

chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
                                                                                                           
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: liebea@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
Subject: Noteable Absence
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:31:06 GMT

     There must be very few people posting to this newsgroup.  The special
Election Night episode of The Simpsons was very much involved with an Itchy &
Scratchy movie, and nobody here has anything to say about it.

					-Adam Lieberman
					 liebea@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Noteable Absence
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:58:36 GMT

In article <myp1f+p@rpi.edu> liebea@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:
>>They did, but they put it all in alt.tv.simpsons, and didn't cross-post...
>
>******** 589 unread articles in alt.tv.simpsons--read now? [ynq]
>
>Do you think I have time to read this?
>
y
/itchy/
^N

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                          '
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: another ref? in Marge Gets a Job
Date: 6 Nov 1992 13:25:29 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  The angle and character actions in the scene where Burns wistfully
thinks about Marge seemed awfully familiar. He's lying on his
stomach, looking at the TVs (?), with a smile on his face and his legs
swaying back on forth behind him. For some reason I thought of
Rebel Without a Cause, but it's been a LONG time since I saw that and
I can't say that there is any relation.

 Anyone else see anything in that?

Steve
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart)
Subject: Re: I&STM
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:40:31 GMT

In article <BALDWIN.92Nov6091308@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:
>>I hesitate to criticize I&S for fear of being tarred and feathered...
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Glad to see that subscribers to this group have inspired the proper
>level of fear and awe in regard to this subject.

Come, on.  Any avid I&S fan can come up with something more creative than
tar and feathers.....


Frank Stuart           |   grep: dead.trees: Permission denied
fstuart@eng.auburn.edu |   MMMMmmmmm, Soylent Green
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: flamers and two new discussions
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 04:40:45 GMT

In article <1dol8fINNmk1@cs.widener.edu> tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
>>
>>tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
OB>
>Pardon me, but I *DID* in fact, read the whole message.  And I STILL maintain
>that if you don't like to pick things apart and discuss them, then
>you shouldn't be reading this bboard/mailing list.
>
>Or, at the very least, you have entirely NO business flaming those who
>DO like to pick things apart.  This is the best mode we have in which
>to do this.

You have no business flaming people who DON'T like picking things apart!
You have no business telling us, the anti-everything-is-a-reference-gang
that we shouldn't be reading this newsgroup. I read this newsgroup to
get info on upcoming episodes, news, clarifications, and other things,
but I too am sick of seeing every Tom, Dick and Harry trying to find a
new (untouched) segment of the current week's episode that is
"unoriginal" and therefore a "reference."

Sheesh! There's a hundred new messages on here a day, and it's not the
only group I read! Maybe we should RFD alt.tv.simpsons.references!

>Perhaps we need to make sure some word or phrase appears in the subject
>line, like "Detailed Reference -- those who tink they have more of a life
>than me need not read."
That would work too, although I do enjoy some references, 30 per
episode, or however many we're finding is overdoing it.

jam
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: dube@carson.u.washington.edu (Ric Dube)
Subject: YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE!  YOU CAN FIND A REFERENCE IN ANYTHING!
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:27:03 GMT

Do you honestly think that the writers for the show shrewdly insert
references to TV movies from the mid-seventies so that only you and the
five other people who saw the film could recognize that?

Use your head!  These things are cliches, spoofs, genre references, etc.
Not specific references to little teeny world you've built for yourself. 


If this is all wrong, then Homer himself is a reference to Roseanne Barr,
because she's fat too.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: `Treehouse of Horror III' - 9f04 - Mo' SloMo Mania, refs, misc.
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:03:27 GMT

Gremlins itself is chock full of references.  I believe the original 
inspiration was a science fiction/fantasy device of an "emporium" that 
appears, sells a customer something that Ralph Nader would not approve of, 
and then vanishes, leaving a vacant lot.
 
> 3) "A Clockwork Orange" - Bart's costume
> 4) "Cape Fear" - Krusty riding under the car straped in with a belt.
> 5) Twilight Zone - (The line "I'm talkie Tina and I love you very
> much" comes to mind)
> 6) Night of the living dead

Also, Lisa (?) calls her story about the evil doll "A Boy and His Doll", 
which is most likely a reference to Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog".

Torsten at Omaha