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From: winnipg@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Winnipg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: WooHoo!  the BATDANCE! (Re: DYN for Mr. Plow (19/11/92 USA))
Date: 23 Nov 92 04:45:04 GMT
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

> In article <Bxzxr5.99z@acsu.buffalo.edu> hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu
> >   DYN (weak): the Batmobile was the big thing in the Auto show
> >circuit a couple years back, you wouldn't know this if you didn't care
> >about cars.
> 
> They've been showing the Batmobile at auto shows since at least the
> early 70's.  I distinctly recall seeing it back then.
> 

I remember a couple of years ago Adam West was at a car convention 
wearing his costume and singing autographs for ummm $3.50 I think?
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: dtorok@nynexst.com (David Torok)
Subject: Re: George Bush in Homer's dream
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 16:13:41 GMT

bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
: 
: DYN signs carried by protestors included:
: 
:  STOP THIS CRAZY TH(ing?)        
yup - STOP THIS CRAZY THING
:  PAY ME NOT TO WORK
:  FORGET THE ALAMO
:  DISGRUNTLED OFFICE SEEKER
:  BRING BACK "SEAHUNT"
:  I DISLIKE IKE
:  STOP EVERYTHING NOW
also....
DESTROY ALL TREES


-=$>Dave<$=-
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: gerald.b.ross@um.cc.umich.edu (Gerald Ross)
Subject: Homer listens to NPR. It's a Fact!
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: gerald.b.ross@um.cc.umich.edu (Gerald Ross)
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:16:27 GMT


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).

Maybe Marge borrowed the plow and was listening to
"All Things Considered"?  Naaaah.  Perhaps Lisa
was sitting in the truck listening to a Jazz show. Maybe.

No... Homer listens to NPR. He's deeper than we think.

Oops I forgot. Maybe he was listening to "Car Talk".

==============================================================
=
= Gerald Ross
=
=     ...It's 1992.  So where's my jetpack?
=
==============================================================
From: jwlr@dali.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Why producers would never admit to reading this newsgroup
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:34:36 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

The reason no one affiliated with the show will admit to reading
this newsgroup is because they *don't*!!

As I recall, someone on the net claimed to *know* someone affiliated
with the show and that poster allegedly passed along some of the
more interesting questions/suggestions/lutefisk ...

(I am sure this will not be the end of this thread, much as I
wish it would be ...)

				James Willer
[any opinions above are already registered with the federal government]
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jct@hubcap.clemson.edu (John Trice)
Subject: Re: Another "Mr. Plow" DYN (Warning: SPRINGFIELD)
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:56:47 GMT

Don.Delgrande@launchpad.unc.edu (Don Delgrande) writes:

>I assume everybody noticed that one of the cars (I think it was after the
>crash) had a license plate that said "Springfield" where the state name
>would go, and just didn't mention it to keep from adding fuel to the
>"Where is Springfield" fire....
>(BTW, I for one find it (a) disappointing and (b) hard to believe that
>Bart never saw the original Batman (POW! BIFF!) TV series.)

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>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
Jingle Bells
Batman Smells
Robin Layed an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel
and Joker got awaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

Bart at the Christmas pagent from the Simpsons Christmas Special
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Langlands)
Subject: Re: 11/12 Episode
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:37:09 GMT

CHARLIE@ac.dal.ca writes:

>>> 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".

>>I can remember my brother referring to this excrutiating trick
>>as a shreddy (British English). Anyone else?


As a matter of fact, when one of my fraternity brothers makes a faux pas
at dinner (sitting down before a guest, wearing a hat at the table, etc.)
We take him up for a cold shower, on on the way he usually gets a "grundy".
Also, I believe there was an episode where Milhouse got a pink belly -
that's another favorite form of fraternal torture!

Dave

-> These views are my own so 3mta3! <-
-> dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu        <-
-> "Haggis, Get yer Haggis!"        <-
-> "Good fer what ails you!"        <-
From: STOLLER@dickinson.edu (Stoller, Richard)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: oops...continuation of previous message
Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:12:51 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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....anyway, in I&S--TM, when OFF watches TV and Bart guffaws at a
guy in an insect suit (after Marge tells him to try "Spanish TV"),
I said it was a long-running Mexican Saturday morning show.  Net
consensus was that it was really SNL Killer Bees reference.  Well,
the several seconds we saw last night makes my Mexican case,
methinks!!  Unfortunately, for the life of me I can't recall
the guy's name.  (I don't have any Mexican students this
semester, alas....)
	---Richard Stoller, Dickinson College
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Marge in Opening Credits
Date: 21 Nov 1992 17:50:29 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Sector 7G
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, syracurg@lp.musc.edu says:
>     What magazine is Marge reading in the grocery store check out line
>   during the Simpsons opening?


"Mom Monthly."  There's an ad for Frosted Krusty Flakes on the back 
cover.  Additional copies of MM are visible on the rack behind Marge,
along with a magazine (apparently aimed at old people) called "Feeble."
The usual nail clippers and disposable razors are also on display.


 - Bucky "Hornpipe Fever" Whaley

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Lisa's sax playing
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:22:43 GMT

stlucas@gdwest.gd.com  writes:
> My son has been playing the saxphone for a few years and
> SWEARS that in the beginning scenes where Lisa is playing a sax
> in school, that she plays a different tune each week, before launching
> into the 'Simpsons theme' portion.  I can't really tell, having not paid
> that much attention.  Anyone notice this or should I tell my son to
> quit dreaming?

It's true!  Lisa has been doing this since the opening was changed last year.
However, I did not see a listing on the FAQ about what snippets whe plays
each week (like Bart's blackboard).  She has played the theme song at least
twice.  
	Since the change, I don't think she plays the theme at all.  She 
usually plays the snippet until she walks out the door.

The following items change during each opening:
	Bart writing on the chalkboard
	Lisa playing during band practice
	The family sitting on the couch

Sometimes the music during the end credits and the Gracie Films logo will be
in a different style.  Kamp Krusty had a Mexican flavor, and the Tree House
of Terror III had an organist.

Torsten at Omaha
From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Moe in the Moonlight? Anyone?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:35:18 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
>In article <BxonJJ.Gnp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn ) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov13.202216.27349@lsa.umich.edu> gerald.b.ross@um.cc.umich.edu (Gerald Ross) writes:
>>>
>>>So what movie or literary work was referenced when
>>>Moe ran across the screen wielding a knife in the moonlight?
>>>
>>>Forgive me if this has been answered already :-)
>>>
>>What makes you think this was a reference to anything? I just thought it 
>>was a funny scene.
>
>A friend of mine seemed to think it was a reference to some horror movie(s)
>(which I haven't seen) where teens are making out and/or having sex and a
>crazed manic comes to kill them.  Friday the 13th series?  (The episode *was*
>shown the day before Fri the 13th...)  Seems to fit...
>
>Eric
>

It's been a while since I've seen any of them, but weren't there scenes
like that in "The Howling" movies?


After all, he was grunting and making wolfman kinds of noises and
was walking in a hunched-back way.

-- 

"All the good signature file quotes are taken."

					-- responses to tina@rjlg.com
From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Happy Daze,,
Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:35:15 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
>
>^ Everyone knows that Laverne and Shirley were friends of Fonzies that
>^ went out with Richie and Potsie once, and proved popular enough to
>^ justify their own series.
>
>ObSimpsons: Didja know that Penny Marshall (Shirley) voiced
>the still at large `Babysitter Bandit', Lucille Botzcowski, in
>the first season episode ``Some Enchanted Evening''?


*tsk* *tsk* *tsk*  Penny Marshall was Laverne.


BTW:  She mostly directs things now.



-- 

"All the good signature file quotes are taken."

					-- responses to tina@rjlg.com
From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:47:51 GMT

Rocky J Giovinazzo writes:
 >
 > Later there's a scene
 > where Homer arrives to pick up Maggie and walks into a room full of
 > babies sucking on their pacifiers.  There's an echoing sucking sound as
 > Homer carefully and slowly walks through the sea of babies, gets 
 > Maggie, walks out backwards, and goes "Oooohhh babies."
 >      I hope I got this right--- There may have been Atlas Shrugged 
 > references that I didn't pick up since I haven't read it yet.
 > 
 > Rocky Giovinazzo

I thought that when Homer "tip-toed through the babies" he was acting
out a scence from Alien (2?) where the liar of Alien larvae is
discovered.

Or was that "The Birds" (Hitchcock) with the pacifiers sounding like
the birds?

Gordon.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: Don.Delgrande@launchpad.unc.edu (Don Delgrande)
Subject: Another "Mr. Plow" DYN (Warning: SPRINGFIELD)
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:13:56 GMT
Expires: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 05:00:00 GMT

I assume everybody noticed that one of the cars (I think it was after the
crash) had a license plate that said "Springfield" where the state name
would go, and just didn't mention it to keep from adding fuel to the
"Where is Springfield" fire....
(BTW, I for one find it (a) disappointing and (b) hard to believe that
Bart never saw the original Batman (POW! BIFF!) TV series.)

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: emh@dlogics.com (Ed Hovorka)
Subject: Re: Soylent Green...what it means!
Organization: Datalogics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:32:45 GMT

winnipg@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Winnipg) writes:

>                                           I haven't seen it listed any 
>where on video
>                                I figured that the only way some of you
>will see it is if it is run on a pbs station late at night.

I rented Soylent Green this past weekend from my local Laserdisc store.
My guess is, if it exists on LD it probably exists on VHS.

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| "Mmmm... Laura Palmer"
|        - Homer Simpson after seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Subject: Mr. Plow DYNs [9F07]
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:56:13 GMT

OK I haven't seen these posted before...

Crazy Vaclav's Place of Automobiles
   One car sold for $2000, another for $5000

Springfield Auto Show
   the cars
      1993 Aristocrat
      Runs on tap water
      Bonnie and Clyde death car
      Krusty Brand hot dog car
      Batmobile
         Sprigfield tags: 2F-3567
      Kumatsu Motors snow plow
   the model selling the prize car has lights flashing on her dress
   Adam West
      the camera tilts just like the TV show when he fights villians
         (both times)

Store behind Barney
   Alien: "Take me to your comic books & baseball cards"

Homer to Barney: "You stole my idea!"
   yet, plowing wasn't *his* idea; it was the idea of the guy at the show

Plow King: Linda's hair gets ruffled when Barney burps on her.

Delinquint accts phone call
   Notice near the phone:
       Missed Payment
       Third notice
       Kumatsu
   Homer claims to be Tony Plow, a ref to Tony Dow (Wally).
   "Yeah they were gay"

McMahon and Tate
   on the wall: Time for another Duff!

Widow's Peak
   Elev. 13,613
   Homer puts beer in thermos (instead of something more appropriate..)

Homer's Radio
   AM goes to 1982 (a ref to something in 1982?)
   FM goes to 1042
   both are totally unrealistic. :-)


Other comments/questions...

The car Homer drives has a licence plate:
   XZLQTMY2X
   it wasn't in stadard American form, yet it had English letters
   (unlike the steering column)
   it appears, disappears, then reappears during the scene

Adam West
   Every time I've seen AW on TV in the last 5 years, he's always had
      a beard and mustache.  Does anyone know if he's recently shaved
      it off?

Homer's dream:
   there was no flag on the White House

Mr Plow ads
   on flyers,           his number is 555-3223
   on TV and in church, his number is 555-3226

Homer's room
   Dark Side of the Moon
       While on the actual album, the colors are correct (Red-Orange-Yellow-
       Green-Blue-Violet), on Homer's wall they aren't (Yellow-Orange-Red-
       Violet-Blue).  This is the *second* time this season the producers
       have screwed up on colors.  Don't they have any physicists writing
       the show? :-)
   The clock says 6:04 first, then later 10:30.
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom)
Subject: Re: Mr. Plow DYN (11/19/92)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:00:39 GMT

This may fall under the "you guys can find a reference in *any*thing"
category, but the scene where Homer was driving over the rickety bridge
reminded me a lot of a Roy Scheider film called "Sorcerer" from circa 1978.
His mission in the film was to haul a load of nitro-glycerin across the 
Amazon jungle.  There was a particularly gruesome brawl at the end in which
Scheider hacked at a guy's neck with a shovel.

Tom "I was born a snake handler and I'll die a snake handler" Hove
:wq
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Lookin' for Bart's punishments
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:40:21 -0500
Organization: The Frustrated Over Achievers Foundation; Lisa Simpson, mascot.
Distribution: world
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>  Hi Simpsons' fans !
>
>  We are two french fans of OFF.
>
>  We would like to know if someone has the complete list of
> what does Bart write on the blackoard during the title sequence.

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From: craig@odie.cs.mun.ca (Craig Coffin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F07] Mr. Plow
Keywords: simpsons
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:05:58 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland

>c8923075@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird) writes:
>>A hectare is a unit of area, not length.

jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer) writes:
>Ah, a reference to _Star Wars_. ("She'll do the Kessel run in 3.2
>parsecs." misquoted from memory)

"She's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs"
(Sorry, had to be said.)

>A parsec is a unit of distance, not time.	I-)

-- 

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From: sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard)
Subject: Re: DYN for Mr. Plow (19/11/92 USA)
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:54:56 GMT

Whenever the showed batman the screen tilted, very reminiscant of the
old batman movies.


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: starke@newsrice.edu (Sean Starke)
Subject: Re: Springfield, Illinois
Originator: starke@lutetia.cs.rice.edu
Reply-To: starke@newsrice.edu (Sean Starke)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:05:03 GMT


In article <1992Nov16.185241.1786@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, jwlr@dali.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer) writes:
|> 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!!!!!!
|> 

  I see your "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!" and raise you a
             "LET IT DIE!!!!!!!!!"

Sean Starke
<starke@cs.rice.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: bassler@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (bassler ryan p)
Subject: Re: US 19 NOV 92 episode will be...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:03:31 GMT

greg@hal.com (Greg Hilton) writes:

>: 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.
...and, for those interested Adam West recently was a guest-voice on the 
Batman animated series.  Mr. West's character was a retired actor who was 
typecast as the superhero character "The Gray Ghost" that he played in the 
"serial-days" of action shows that also turned out to be Bruce Wayne's hero
as a boy.  How's that for appropriate casting.
Nothing to do with the Simpsons...but thought you'd like to know.
Stuck in Champaign

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From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: Reference to _Taxi_ in "Plow"?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:43:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.210724.14478@cs.wisc.edu>, rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes) writes:
|> In article <ELM.92Nov20030702@terrorism.berkeley.edu> elm@cs.berkeley.edu writes:
...
|> >OK, so maybe it's a weak reference.  
|> 
|> Sounds more like a coincidence to me.  But then again, I'm not that grandious.
|> 
|> BARON
|> 

OH, how neive!

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here so that they don't have to listen to them anymore.
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: DYN for Mr. Plow (19/11/92 USA)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:00:37 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

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

 That would be something like "The Wages of Fear" starring Yves Montand.

 Never caught any of these references...thanks for pointing them out!!

Steve

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: George Bush in Homer's dream
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:13:52 GMT

In article <murphy.722341977@well.sf.ca.us> murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy) writes:
>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.

Which leads inevitably to: What would they have shown if Bush had won?



A cartoon found in last week's New Yorker:
Picture: Middle-aged man talking to another middle-aged man in a bar.
Caption: "I just heard that Superman is going to die.  He's the same
	  age I am!"