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From: noel@umbc2.umbc.edu
Subject: RE: Why producers would never admit to reading this newsgroup
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:27:21 GMT

	There are a couple angles on this I would like to add on.  I know its 
not really related to OFF, but please bear with me.
	
	I read a column in an old issue of STARLOG magazine written by David 
Gerrold explaining "Why the answer has to be 'no'" with respect to a famous 
author reading or helping out new writers.  
	One incident he remembered was when he dug out a TOS script that was 
never used and then adapted it to the animated series (A sequal to "The Trouble 
with Tribbles").  Anyway, at the same time some 12-year-old kid came in for a
tour of the studio.  This kid comes up to Gerrold and says he has this great
idea for a tribbles sequel.
	To make a long story short, the kid thought his idea was stolen and 
complained and Gerrold had to write a long letter explaining why it could not 
have happened.  He said a worst-case scenario is if hte kid's parents hired a 
lawyer to file a "nusciance" lawsuit that the studio would rather settle 
quickly and out of court to avoid the bad publicity--and deal with the writer 
later (IF the writer still has a job).

	Think about it, imagine the Hell The simpsons producers would catch if 
some college student here filed a lawsuit claiming a writer took the idea from 
this newsgroup and  used it.  It makes the writer look bad and Fox may want to 
pay the guy off quick to keep it under the carpet.

	A more recent event was the episode of "Tiny Toons" written by a bunch 
of 7th graders.  At first I thought it was cool Speilberg did this, showing 
some people can still get breaks.
	Then I found out the only reason he even *saw* the script is that 
somone at a Fox Affaliate put it in some kind of special envelope that the TT 
producers open and pay attention to.  Rather than face possible lawsuits later, 
they decided to make it a publicity coup by accepting the story.

	The moral of this story is, if you have a good idea--keep it to 
yourself
From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Biblical Reference ?
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Date: 16 Nov 1992 11:56 PST
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In article <lind-161192095441@mac85.ils.nwu.edu>, lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind) writes...
>			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

I haven't read the Bible in a few years, but doesn't Jacob just *dream*
about a ladder?  He isn't so foolish as to literally try to reach heaven
by building a long ladder.  Give the man some credit.

-Scott
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				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
				 life." - Lewis Thomas
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Homer on Display
Date: 16 Nov 1992 09:19:35 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

     DYN that whenever Homer is "on display" a la 9F06 (Marge...Job) when
   Bart is inviting passers by to view "CueBall, the man w/ no hair" and
   in 9F07 (Bart...Babe) when Homer is eating all he can eat in the 
   restaurant window ... someone in the crowds always says ..."he's
   hideous!"
From: Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons in comercials
Distribution: world
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:24:14 EDT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

In a message dated Fri 19 Nov 92  9:45, Ehrhart@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (jeffr
wrote:

 E>    What makes you believe they are not?  There have been about 5 
 E> Butterfinger adds shown in the US, and 1 for Butterfinger ice cream 
 E> nuggets.  We probably don't get the Corola adds because no one has
 E> ever heard of it....

  Perhaps the misspelling got you... it's Corolla. I surely think people in
the US have heard of corollas, being among the world's best selling car of
all time...

  ...around here everybody has owned a corolla once in their life... i own
one now, at one time I even owned two...

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From: bzcy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Honking and Headlights
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:36:24 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <Jym.19Nov1992.1642@naughty-peahen>,
Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes: 
> =x= Okay, here's a trivia question for ya . . .
> 
> =x= In _Itchy_&_Scratchy_The_Movie_, when Marge resigns herself
> to dealing with Bart's teacher (leaving Homer to deal with
> Lisa's teacher), Homer responds with an obnoxious "USA!  USA!
> Woohoo!," honking the horn and blinking the headlights.
> 
> =x= It is my contention that the headlights blink because his
> honking the horn causes the lights to dim out.  I've known a
> number of fine American cars (and one Audi) that have had this
> "feature."  My friends think that Homer is both honking the
> horn and flashing the lights.
> 
> =x= I don't have a VCR that I can check this with.  Basically,
> if the lights go out with every honk, I think that means I'm
> right.  Can somebody check?
> 
> =x= Also, I remember (1) Homer shouting "USA!  USA!" once
> before, and (2) the horn-honking/headlight-blinking activity
> once before . . . but I don't remember if they went together.
> Does anyone else know?
> 
> =x= (To folks living outside the U.S.:  Shouting "USA!  USA!"
> is a typical mindless thing one sees at sporting events.  I
> think it really got prominent during the 1984 Olympics.
> It is something a Homer would do.)                   


	Dunno about the whether the headlights flash on or off with the
horn, but I do know that when Marge agreed to marry Homer, they were in the 	
car and Homer did the honking/flashing bit and shouted "In your face, world!"
I don't think he did the USA! USA! then, though.  I first heard the USA! chant
during the 1980 Olympics when the American hockey team beat the Russians.  
Maybe it happened before, too.

Dave Han
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: dadler@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (David Adler)
Subject: Re: Maggie's price on the cash register in the opening?
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:49:44 GMT

In article <damon.05kl@guild.socal.com> damon@guild.socal.com (Damon Anderson) writes:
>Does anyone know how much Maggie cost when she was passed over the bar code scanner in the opening of the show?  It goes by so quickly, I can't tell.  I believe it was in TV GUIDE once, but I missed it.
>

Funny, I just checked this out a couple of days ago. I taped it and
watched it frame by frame. Maggie goes for $847 (or was it $874...)
and change.

Dave



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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons in comercials
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:19:36 GMT

Here in the Santa Barbara, CA area, we see the Simpsons Butterfinger ads
fairly often (but not as often as the Energizer bunny ads, which are
probably among the funniest of all time... :)

- Eric S.

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From: angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald)
Subject: Re: Ronstadt's Mexican Song Translation...
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:43:20 GMT


Gee, it doesn't seem as funny in English...

       Angus MacDonald;   angus@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau)
Subject: Re: Homer listens to NPR. It's a Fact!
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:06:08 CST

In article <1992Nov20.161627.13037@lsa.umich.edu> gerald.b.ross@um.cc.umich.edu (Gerald Ross) writes:
>
>When Homer was teetering over the edge of the mountain,
>he tuned his radio from the left side of the dial to
>the right.
>
>Many NPR stations are located in the 88 - 90 Khz range
>(left side of dial).
>


Well, I guess that sinches it!  (By the way, Twin Cities is at 101.3...)

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: ejohnson@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Eric E. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Troy McClure - Acting Credits
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:41:22 GMT

browning@bombay.gea_esc_syr (Stephen G Browning) writes:


> My favorite running joke has become the "Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure,
>   you probably remember me from such ..."

> Here I have compiled a lists of credits from episodes I have on tape.
>   My collection is nowhere near complete, so please add to this list,
>   and post it back up.


I think that there's one called "Today we live, tomorrow we die".

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From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?
Date: 21 Nov 1992 05:52:20 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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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*!!!

(Unless you wrote this sometime after noon of January 20th, 1993 and somehow
managed to send it back through a timewarp, that is.)

Our President *is* George Herbert Walker Bush.  Mr. Bush will *remain*
President until noon of 20 January, 1993. (Barring unforseen tradegy,
that is.)

You'll have 4 years after January 20 to gloat.  Don't rush it, buddy!

[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.]

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Re: "McMahon & Tate" in 9F07? (snow plow episode)
Organization: Movement to Ban or Re-Regulate the CABLE MONOPOLIES
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:12:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.191656.9434@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>
>Notice that inside the office, you can see part of a name on the door
>behind Homer; the name is "Larry"...

I though of this at first when I saw it, but it was not a door, it was an
advertising poster, and all you were able to see were the letters "L A R".
If you go back and look at the office again, you will notice a DUFF BEER
ad on a different wall.  This leads me to believe that the add/poster on the
wall behind Homer was for Larabee(sp?) Cigarettes, a brand that has appeared
in other episodes of the Simpsons.
From: yeff@Apple.COM (jeff soesbe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Troy McClure - Acting Credits
Date: 24 Nov 92 01:56:04 GMT
Followup-To: yeff@apple.com
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

I hereby offer to maintain a list of Troy McClure acting credits.
Here's the list I currently have.  If there's an error in it, or a
role I missed, please mail me and let me know (not just a "I
think...", but provide the line and even the episode number if you
can).  I'll repost the list occasionally and after any new credits
mentioned on the show.

Does anyone know if Raymond Chen's capsules are available anywhere?  I
figure they would be the best source for a complete list of roles...

enjoy...

---------------

The Stellar Career of Actor Troy McClure
----------------------------------------

Movies:
"Calling All Quakers"
"Cry Yuma"
"Dial M For Murderousness"
"Gladys The Groovy Mule"
"Here Come The Covered Wagons"
"Here Comes The Coast Guard"
"Preacher With A Shovel" (with Dolores Montenegro)
"The Erotic Adventures of Hercules"
"The Revenge of Abe Lincoln"
"The Wackiest Covered Wagon In The West"
"Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die"

"Buck Henderson, Union Buster" (tv?)
"Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory" (tv?)

Educational Films:
"Fuzzy Bunny's Guide To You-Know-What"
"Here Comes The Metric System"
"Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly"

Do-It-Yourself Films:
"Dig Your Own Grave and Save"
"Mothballing Your Battleship"
"The Half-Assed Guide to Foundation Repair"

TV Series:
"Handle With Care"

TV Specials:
"Carnival of the Stars" (host)
Miss American Girl special (host)

---------------


jef
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From: greg@hal.com (Greg Hilton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: US 19 NOV 92 episode will be...
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:20:16 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Ron Carter (rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: 
: US 19 NOV 19 episode will be...
: 
: `Mr. Plow' - New episode!
: 

With guest voices: Adam West and Linda Ronstadt.

Can't wait to see what they do with Adam West, since Batman, like the
Simpson's, was famous for its guest-star appearances.


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From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYN 11/12 and misc. DYN from 11/5
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:08:57 GMT

Hey, dude, the treehouse was a dream sequence... I think the law allows
costume changes for those. :)

- Eric S.

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From: dok_amo@pkinbg.UUCP (Andrew Moores,OVD,)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Crabby Didja Notices for the Bart's Girlfriend Episode
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:09:02 GMT

From article <Jym.13Nov1992.1955@naughty-peahen>, by jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer):
>     . . . that Marge's allergies jibe well with Smithers' claim
>     that "women and sefood [sic] don't mix?"

Was it not "women and seamen [alternative spelling possible] don't mix"?


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Why producers would never admit to reading this newsgroup
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:33:51 GMT

noel@umbc2.umbc.edu writes:
>2.  People are going to beg for jobs and make lots of suggestions for the 
>    show which cannot really be used because of legal/contractual/guild
>    problems.  Then if they were on, and some person suggested and idea as an 
>    off-the-cuff remark, AND IT COINCIDENTALLY APPESRS LATER; the poster is 
>    going to claim they were ripped off, even if the idea in question was
>    thought up months before

Yeah, I remember something in Star Trek fandom in which some st-related people
said that if they received any scripts, they would send them back UNOPENED; not
only wouldn't they consider them for production but they would take pains to
make it clear that they hadn't even seen them.

This is similar to notices one sees on the technical usenet groups that the
poster has never seen the at&t source code to the utility that they are posting
their own source code for, etc.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: haynes@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Carl W. Haynes III)
Subject: [9f07] Comments about FOX
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:43:14 GMT


My favorite parts of the 11/19 episode were the jabs at FOX:

When OFF were about to watch the first commercial, Homer says:
"It may be a lousy channel, but the Simpsons are on TV."

and

the bigfoot with the watch was from the making of the upcoming
FOX special "In Search of Bigfoot".

great lines.

Is it just me or does Homer spend more and more time walking around
in his underware these days.

goodnight.

carl
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: This week in Oz,,
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:33:32 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au::Ian Davis
|||Ian| At least we are still getting repeats, better than nothing,
|||Ian| but you people are always way ahead of those of us up here on
|||Ian| the top of the world.

That reminds me...

The complimentary television guide I receive with my groceries lists
*only* (not a two-fer, waauggh!:( ``Homer Alone'' for this Sunday; no
thanks to Network Ten showing a `The Making of' special for ``Home
Alone II'' at 8pm.


**** News Flash -- Ten has just been purchased by a Canadian and New
**** Zealand Media consortium..  Maybe now the programming department
**** will get off their cans and resume the arrangements for the 4th
**** season. >:(
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<c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>

PS: Now that Vasser College has joined the 'Net, could someone over
there please inform us if a Ms. L. Simpson lodges a enrollment
application in ~6 to 8 years time?  Thanks. :) [that's a ref to 7G04,
btw.]
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: fjames@CS.Stanford.EDU (Frances James)
Subject: Re: 11/12 Episode
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:54:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.171042.24584@unislc.uucp>, mcs@unislc.uucp (Michael Sontum) writes:
|> As long as I am on the episode( and this hopefully doesn't relate to anything 
|> about the chalkboard) there is a reference to Bart getting a "wedgy". I have
|> never heard this term before and had to consult my kids for the answer.
|> Apparently a wedgy is when you pull someones underwear up. Am I getting
|> old or do others know the term "wedgy".
|> 
|> 
|>                           - Mike


I've used the term "wedgy", but I was told that it's an east coast term and
that a lot of west coast people use the term "Melvin" (see "Bill and Ted's
Bogus Journey).

                                  ---Psycho
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: bsm@res.utc.com (Brian S. McCarthy)
Subject: Re: Springfield, Illinois
Organization: UTRC
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:44:13 GMT

In article <uerics.721880728@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
>From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
>Subject: Re: Springfield, Illinois
>Date: 16 Nov 92 02:25:28 GMT
>Remember the episode where the Simpsons pack up to visit Unkie Herb in
>Detroit and get there in less than one day's drive?  Well, it ain't all
>that terribly far from Springfield, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan - you
>could do it pretty easily in one daylight period (I don't know the exact
>distance).
>
>Not really convincing evidence, but it's a step...
>
>- Eric S.
>
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But what about Springfield Mountain?  Are there any mountains near 
Springfield, Illinois?  Just outside of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 
other hand...
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Springfield, Illinois
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:25:28 GMT

Remember the episode where the Simpsons pack up to visit Unkie Herb in
Detroit and get there in less than one day's drive?  Well, it ain't all
that terribly far from Springfield, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan - you
could do it pretty easily in one daylight period (I don't know the exact
distance).

Not really convincing evidence, but it's a step...

- Eric S.

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From: dude@losers.hacktic.nl
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Les Simpson en francais!
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:32:10 GMT
Organisation: black mail inc.

In article  <1992Oct14.194516.11331@newscan.canada.sun.com>, Andre Giroux - Sun Montreal SSS writes:

 A> I don't know if there is an international agreement that the Simpsons  must
 A> be translated in local language as opposed to international. I often read
 A> posts  coming from fans worldwide. In Germany , someone mentionned
 A> Bart calls Homer PAPA. etc...and the locality list goes on and on ...
 A> 
 A> it's kinda cute.But I can't get used to Bart saying "aille omerre" (wrong spelling
 A> to emphasize the pronounciation)

 Like I said before, the Simpsons started off in english in the Netherlands, 
 but after a while the TV-station decided that the series would be dubbed.
 In Dutch. I've only seen one show, and almost threw up. The Simpsons should
 be shown in english, not in dutch, french, japanese or mauwi-wauwi.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@explorer.dgp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: In the Navy (was Re: Reference to _Taxi_ in "Plow"? (+ DYN))
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:48:28 GMT

greg@hal.com (Greg Hilton) writes:
>The list of Sea Chanteys:
...
>   In The Navy

Do y'all know, this was a disco song in the 70s by a band called The Village
People (I'd better have that right...), the original gay (male) disco band.
The song had definite sexual overtones about what it might mean to be in the
navy with all those men around in close quarters.

The show made it clear that this was the song that they were referring to
because that sea captain guy sings two lines of it (one line being "in the
navy").
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