HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jimdean@bnr.ca (Jim Dean)
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Originator: jimdean@bcrks81
Reply-To: jimdean@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:06:50 GMT


In article <BALDWIN.92Dec14091356@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>, baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
> In article <Bz8Kr7.CMn@CAM.ORG> emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend) writes:
> >>And he first chased the Road Runner in 1947.  "Operation: Rabbit" was
> >>50's-vintage; late 50's, I think, for that matter.  It was, to my
> >>knowledge, the only meeting between [Bugs B. and Wile E. C.]
> >
> >Wile E. met with Bugs on two other occasions: one where the closing gag
> >was Wile E. saying his name was Mud, and another where Bugs was filling
> >in for the Road Runner.  I'm afrad I don't remember the names of these
> >two...
> 
> Well, that's not two "other" occasions.  "Operation: Rabbit" is the
> one with the closing line you mention, and it's the one already under
> discussion ("Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius!  I like the way that rolls
> out.")  I am unaware of a cartoon in which Bugs filled in for the
> Roadrunner directly (i.e., a sequence of chases set in the U.S.
> Southwest desert), but I'd sure love to expand my knowledge of the WB
> cartoonography if such a thing exists.

Poster #2 knows of what he speaks...such a thing as Bugs Bunny
substituting for the Road Runner does exist, and is one of my
favourites...unfortunately I do not recall a title for you...I do
remember that Bugs had to take vitamins to stay as fast as Road
Runner. And there were *two* meetings of Bugs & Wyle E. (not counting
the road runner). Both have been on Global here in Ontario in the past
month, and both are similar but distinct. Again, I don't have a title.

-- 
Jim Dean (Internet: jimdean@bnr.ca) +-----+    National Capital Baseball League
mild-mannered computer scientist -->|Phone|--> President. Pitcher. My knuckler?
Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa,Ont. |Booth|    Not too legit to hit!  6-0, 1.99
Phone: (613) 763-2135 Fax: 763-7241 +-----+    Phone: (613) 723-1580
From: ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu ()
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Where'd the nipple go?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:13:51 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

When Krusty shows Homer his surgery scar, his superfluous nipple
(from the season premiere) is noticeably absent.

J
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: amundsoc@columbia.dsu.edu (CHRIS AMUNDSON)
Subject: Doh!!!
Keywords: [VCR] [Screwed-up]
Organization: Dakota State University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:02:21 GMT

Hello,

	I set my VCR to record the Dec. 17 episode of the Simpsons (the one 
where Homer has a heart attack) and for some reason, it didn't work.  I 
watched the show at home, and my VCR was set to record it here at school, so 
I was able to see it.  I thought it was one of the funniset ones I have seen 
yet, especially the opening with the TV show COPS: In Springfield.  I was 
wondering if anyone has that episode on tape.  I have five or six of the 
recent episodes recorded, and I would be willing to trade them all for the 
Dec. 17 episode.  I would pay for the tape and postage.  Email me at: 
amundsoc@columbia.dsu.edu if you are interested.  I will be leaving for 
christmas break on the 22 of December and returning on the 13 of January so 
I wont be able to read my mail from Dec. 22-Jan 13. 

						Thanks,

						Chris ("CRACK") Amundson



*************************************
*                                   *
*  "You know it's sad but true"     *
*                   --Metallica     *
*                                   *
*************************************
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal)
Subject: Re: Simpsons isn't JUST for non-thinking right-wingers
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:42:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.154222.26549@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>>I suggest you look up "satire" in your dictionary.  Perhaps you should look
>>for a clue there while you're at it.
>>
>I *know* what satire is and that wasn't satire, that was mindless patriotic
>drivel!

Sigh.  An Ivy League education used to mean something.

__   -paul asente
\/     asente@adobe.com   ...decwrl!adobe!asente   moo-bear@cs.stanford.edu

Feminism:  a socialist, anti-family political movement
           that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their
           children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
           become lesbians.			-Pat Robertson
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: The "J" in Bart & Homer Simpson
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:13:19 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Dec14.213800.11830@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:

>According to the FAQ, the initial is something to do with Bullwinkle, but
>according to SI (not sports, simpsons) it stands for "Jojo" (at least,
>that's what Bart's stands for; this is in the 3-D issue)

I heard it was Groenig's way of paying homage to Jay Ward, creator of
Rocky and Bullwinkle.


Carl Oppedahl AA2KW  (intellectual property lawyer)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228
voice 212-408-2578     fax 212-765-2519
From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9f08] alpha release (corrections please)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:39:06 GMT
Organization: BCS*Mac
Reply-To: stx!costello@world.std.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <BzGF6L.HBw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> (alt.tv.simpsons), g-martin1@uiuc.edu (Gregory A. Martin) writes:
|  % A mob of people gather at Krusty Burger for their free prizes. Chief Wiggum
|  % is grateful to Carl Lewis. Lisa visits Doctor Hibert.
|  
|  
The chief kisses his Carl Lewis game card while exclaiming, "Carl Lewis,
I could kiss you."

This is a semi-specific reference to the semi-outing of Carl Lewis by
Dwayne and Antoine during their segment on the 1992 half-time show of
Fox's In Living Color.

         ...................................................... 
         Michael E. Costello             costello@world.std.com 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mcguire@ecf.toronto.edu (MCGUIRE Peter F.)
Subject: SAMPLES ... SAMPLES
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: alt.tv.simpsons
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:47:36 GMT

  OK Y'ALL... I finally posted more samples of OFF to usenet. To maintain
net etiquette,  I have posted them to alt.binaries.sounds.misc ...

got that they are at :

           alt.binaries.sounds.misc



They were recorded (digitized) on a sun sparc 2 at 8000 Hz using the
xsoundtool. They are un uuencoded format right now, but when you
uudecode them they will be .au files. (mu law digitizing)


As allways, we (I) love to hear you responses to these samples.
Especially you guys that called me a hosehead!

What is that all about eh?


Enjoy them, ... OH, I will keep them on my account for a while so if you
can't access alt.binaries.sounds.misc, I will gladly mail them to you
directly.
Remember , these are for personal use only, and all the other usual
disclaimers , which really don't mean anything anyway since you really
only need money to get a ruling in court in your favor.


"Just like how they forgot about me in the jungle for 60 days in vietnam"
                    Principal Skinner


]
TEx
From: Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:16:42 EDT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

In a message dated Thu 16 Dec 92  9:09, Mxsst1+@pitt.edu (michael   Strouck
wrote:

 MS> Anybody know who Snowball I was and what happened to her?

   Snowball 1 was OFF's first kitty... it was run over by one of the
mayor's irresponsible relatives. It was his brother or nephew, and the name
was something like Clovis or similar...

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Zapper@qube.ocunix.on.ca      |  *luv 4-ever to slow@royalroads!*
 Trevor Boicey, UofO Comp. Eng. | She's got pretty pursuasion....-REM
 "Just the mention of bourbon, makes me sexy..." - The Tragically Hip
From: hacker@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Marcos Hacker)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Movie Parodies
Date: 13 Dec 92 07:59:29 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.


   Is there a list of the movie parodies from the Simpson's? I've
noticed parodies from Goodfellas, An Officer and a Gentleman,
Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. This last episode also contained
a parody that I think was from the movie Brainstorm. When Homer
is sitting in the "Sharper Image" chair, and begins to hallucinate,
it reminded me of a seen from the end of the movie. The movie
stared Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. Did and one else
notice?

/\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\
\/    Marcos Hacker           hacker@cis.ufl.edu                \/
/\    904-395-6607            hacker@math.ufl.edu               /\
\/    University of Florida   x4401ahh@ufcc.ufl.edu             \/
/\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: cbaird@scorch.apana.org.au (Chris Baird)
Subject: Hopefully the last word on the `Mr Lisa' thread,,
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:47:05 GMT

	Fun is No. 1, entertainment is definitely the first goal
	of the show.  And there's a little commentary about
	politics in there, but there's also a commentary about
	the way television shows resolve a problem in a half
	hour.  [Lisa] uncovers corruption and the joke is, every
	branch of government swings into action and nails this
	guy in two hours and expels him from Congress.  That to me
	was the big satire.
				-- Matt Groening, 27 October 1991
				   Interview with Steve Kettmann
				   San Francisco Chronicle
From: ffr@strider.UUCP (F Frank Rowe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge's reaction
Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:20:28 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

regarding...
> > Smithers : " His name is Homer Simspon, sir, from sector 7-G"
> > Burns : " Simpson Eeehhhhhhh????"

Aaron L Dickey wrote:
> ... I was just pointing out that there happens to
> be VERY little continuity between episodes....

How can you call this (Montgomery Burns' failure to recognize Homer)
a lack of continuity?  It's the _ultimate_ in continuity!
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in how many countries?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:00:59 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

| Jukka A Virtanen (aka juvirtan@kruuna.helsinki.fi) writes:
|
| | Chris Peterson (a74k110@phobos.ucc.umass.edu) writes:
| |
| | I was just reading the interview in Spin magazine with Groening, and he
| | was saying how there's all this neat Simpsons items around the world, i.e.
| | Australian bread, Indonesian soda, Israeli babywipes, etc.  It got me
| | thinking, in how many countries can people watch the Simpsons? I had no
| | idea that they had gone worldwide.  Anyone have a list of countries?
|  
| You may count in all of Europe except the Eastern block. I'm not sure
| about Asia or South America but I guess we're dealing with at least 50
| countries worldwide.

At least 88 according to an issue of Simpsons Illustrated.  A year and a
half ago a friend return from Croatia where B&W English (and undoubtably
pirated) broadcasts were shown on one of the newly formed `liberation'
TV stations.

Btw,, the Australian bread was just your typical white-sliced with
standard Groening bromides on the plastic wrapping.  Did MG mention
the Aussie Simpsons Pasta?  [Something bordering on vulgarity about
Marge being delicious. ;)]

-- 
Chris ``Nobody, but <nobody>, eats the Simpsons!''[7F04] Baird,,
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: graham@vax.wi.edu (Justin Graham)
Subject: Msg. to WLO '88 (everyone else ignore)
Organization: Whitehead Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:32:41 GMT


Rumor has it you've become computer literate and are finally reading up on 
your favorite TV show.  Drop me a line and let me know what you and the other 
Hyperlords are up to. We missed you guys during this last Week (only 4 grads 
showed on Thursday!).


Justin
graham@vax.wi.edu
From: JKWASHNA@pearl.tufts.edu (J.J. Kwashnak)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F09] Homer's Heart Attack DYNs
Date: 18 Dec 1992 09:10:23 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>DYN... 
  
>in Homer's bed
>   turkey 
>   spaghetti
>   Diet Cola
>   pepperoni pizza
>   double layer round cake (strawberry?)
>   something in a portable heater pot (chili)? 

I think it was a fondu set.

>foreshadowing in the kitchen:
>   "healthy" curtains with fresh corn

Don't know if this is really forshadowing.  They have been there for a 
long time.

>Springfield General Hospital
>   Emergency
>   Room
>   ---------->
>   Krusty: SSBob stuck in human canon

This is SideShow Mel, not Bob.


>organ donation: First of all, we don't have the technology to transplant
>lungs, and secondly, they only transplant kidneys out of cadavers

I thought that there had been a couple done recently.  Wasn't there
a heart, lung double organ transplant done?
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Marge's reaction
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:50:17 GMT

kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
>Case in point: yesterday's
>episode here in the States was a repeat of the one where Homer's brother
>comes back and invents to "Baby Translator".  There were some references
>in the episode to the fact that Homer had obtained his couch by taking
>it from the Flanders' trash pile almost 10 years ago. Yet last week when Maggie
>spoke, they made it clear that the Simpsons didn't meet the Flanders until
>1984 when they moved into their current house.

Uh, wasn't 1984 almost ten years ago?
If he had said "almost nine years ago" I'd be more likely to agree with you,
but ten years is a round number.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: noel@umbc2.umbc.edu
Subject: RE: Some information I've received from a new reader,,
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:27:17 GMT

	Oh great.  Somone actually associated with "The Simpsons" has made
themselves known.  I hope they read my post on why they would never admit to
readting this newsgroup. 
	Know what we can look forward to now?

1.  Lots of people begging to have something named after them or some other
    reference on the requestor and their friends will get

2.  Poeple flaming OFF and the writers becuase they know somone with power is
    watching

3.  Lots of wasted bandwidth of people gushing about how much they love the 
    show, its their favorite, never miss an episode, then it slides into one
    of the above

4.  People posting all their ideas and suggestions for the show which
    the writers cannot legally consider anyway.

	Now I am NOT complaining, I am telling you what happened from my 
expereinces on a mailing list for a production where somone on the staff 
actually got on to post.  The above will happen, the best you can do is put up 
with it.
	On the bright side, I also noticed from expereince that after a couple 
of weeks, saner heads prevailed and within a month things went back to normal.
My suggestion is that if you don't want to see all this happen, unsubscribe 
from the newsgroup until February.
	I'll still be around, somone has to figure out what cars they slipped 
into the animation. 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: Homer & Ren & Stimpy
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:18:02 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1gtqqvINNpfa@cs.widener.edu> ffr@strider.UUCP (F Frank Rowe) writes:

>What was the deal with all of Homer's outrageously distorted facial
>expressions during his heart attacks?  Were they a ref to Ren & Stimpy
>cartoons?

>I've never seen Ren & Stimpy, but I've heard they contain a lot of sight
>gags like that.

We thought the same thing, having seen a few Ren & Stimpy episodes.
We frankly do not like the outrageously distorted facial expressions
in the Simpsons, partly on their own merits (or lack thereof) and 
partly because they make us think of Ren & Stimpy.  This seems like a 
new thing for the Simpsons;  I don't recall having seen such distorted
faces to quite this extreme before.


Carl Oppedahl AA2KW  (intellectual property lawyer)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228
voice 212-408-2578     fax 212-765-2519
From: allan@cs.UAlberta.CA (Allan Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Married ... With Children (was Re: FOX PREGNANCIES)
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:25:44 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess)  writes:

>>ctalbott@mksol.dseg.ti.com (christopher j talbott) writes:
>>
>>>Married...With Children:  Last season, Peg was pregnant, and so was
>>>Marcy.  Yet, this season, no infants...
>>

>That's because it was all a dream of Al's. Actually, the reason there's
>no Bundy baby is that Katey Segal had a miscarriage (or so I've heard),
>and that's why she was absent from about 6-8 straight episodes.

>Also in Al's dream, Marcy was pregnant, and Bud was named Grandmaster B
>(and actually adoptem the pseudonym after Al mentioned it to him). I
>just don't recall which episode it was that we found out it was a
>dream...

It was an episode where Al gets a job as a private investigator, and
ends up solving a case involving a murdered millionaire and a missing
diamond.

After he solves the case, Al wakes up and finds that he dreamed the
entire episode (and the past season). (Didn't Dallas do something like
that one year?)

Hmmmmm.... Simpsons, Married With Children... Looks like Fox has
the market cornered for surreal comedies. (Is there an alt.fan.mwc
anywhere?)
From: G.LEVINE@pdnis.paradyne.COM (G.LEVINE)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: preg
Date: 15 Dec 1992 03:59:34 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Content-Name: Message
Content-Type: Text
Content-Abstract: [Message from Word Perfect Office]
Content-Length: 253

Marge is not the first 'toon woman to appear pregnent.  The first
one I recall is Wilma Flintstone, pregnant with Pebbles.  (This,
of course, was a one-month TV pregnancy.)  Anyone remember any
others?

                                       gary
From: sbookey@ep.ieee.org (Seth Bookey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:09:19 GMT
Reply-To: sbookey@ep.ieee.org
Organization: IEEE, New York, NY

There are many take-offs of scenes from "Citizen Kane" in every few episodes over the

past three seasons.  When Mr. Burns hosts the retirement party (in episode where Marge

works at the plant), the song Smithers sings is a parody of a song sung to Kane at a

party at the newspaper office.
From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Commercials
Date: 10 Dec 92 23:48:45 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1g5a18INN714@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
>mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Murphy) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec7.194113.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> tmeehan@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>>>I don't mind a little bit of product endorsement, but WHY does Global here 
>>in>Ontario run a lot of the Simpsons' Toyota and Butterfinger commercials at 
>>the >breaks?  Is it the same elsewhere?
>>
>>Nope.  I'm in Chicago and I have yet to see either commercial aired during 
>>theSimpsons.  I've seenthe Butterfinger commercial at other times, but have 
>>never seen the Toyota commercial.  Montgomery Wards' Electric Avenue 
>>sponsors theshow in Chicago.  I can't tell you how annoying that is.  
>>Ditka's become their spokesperson.  Ewwwwwwwwww.  (though I can see a 
>>connection between Wards and Burns...)
>
>Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that there was a Federal Trade Commission 
>ruling (which, of course, would only apply to the United States) that 
>characters appearing in a particular TV show can't be used in commercials 
>during that same show.
maybe, but I've seen Seinfeld do Amex commercials during 'Seinfeld'.
-jd


-- 
"Good Idea, Boss."	- Homer Simpson
From: rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:36:20 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <1992Dec18.163129.18946@zeus.ieee.org> sbookey@ep.ieee.org writes:
>There's plenty of originality.  Plus, the average viewer doesn't  have the insight
>
>to half the homages, so I tend to find it that much more enjoyable when I know what
>
>the movie is.

So you are better than the average viewer?  What makes you so superior?  Is it
the fact that you can't seem to hit the enter key when you come to the end of 
the line?
I still say it takes much more talent to write an original script than it is to
patch up a show with scenes from old movies.  In the case of the latter, all 
the writers have to do is call the research department and ask them to find a
paticular type of scene in a movie.  
I'm not saying that a show may not be enjoyed this way, I just believe it's a
cop out.
And half of the "references" mentioned probably aren't references at all, but
merely resemble other shows/movies.  You could analyze any other sitcom and 
find similar "references" in them.  Shows such as Rosanne, Married with
Children, and Sienfeld are just a few.

Now, a question.  Does anyone with a satellite dish find the Simpsons on a wild
feed, on Wednesday?  I have found it on occasion on G1 tran22.  But it hasn't 
been there for the last month or so.  Does anyone know where they moved it?
I can't find it on Ku band either.  If someone out there knows where it has
moved to, please post.

No fancy .sig required
From: FELSON_ADJ@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: 3eyed sperm
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:23:41 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I just noticed this while watching last weeks show again:
  when homers sperm are moving around under the microscope,
  one of them has three eyes!
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons