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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE! YOU CAN FIND A REFERENCE IN ANYTHING!
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:11:25 GMT

In article <92314.172225RC1DSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> Ryan Collins <RC1DSANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>Hear Hear!! I thought I was the onl one thinking this also!! I love when the
>Simpsons put something in that is subtle, but I don't think the writers
>dig up old movies to make references to them!!!!

Right on!  It was only pure coincidence that a certain Hallowe'en tale
bore passing resemblance (sometimes in the form of frame by frame passing
resemblance) to a certain old movie about a large ape.

And the fact that Simpsons' animation director David Silverman said,
"In every episode there's at least one reference to a classic movie,"
just goes to show that he's obviously out of touch.  Alt.tv.simpsons
has spoken!
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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: Halloween Episode - Refs and DYNs
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:13:41 GMT
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In article <srheault.721635000@cunews> srheault@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Rheault Kihara) writes:
>In <1992Nov13.011154.25012@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov12.220008.22932@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr3.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov11.230610.20757@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>
>>>>You mean the one that spun off "Happy Days"?  Yes I remember it.  The Comedy
>>>>Channel used to show it.  And of course, who could forget the awful '80's 
>>>>re-make?
>
>>>Comedy Central (or Comedy Channel or C or Ha or...) did used to show it
>>>but I thought it came out _before_ Happy Days... and what actors 
>>>"spun off" of Happy Days anyway?
>
>>	No, no... LAS "spun off" Happy Days, not "spun off _from_" it.
>>There was a sketch on LAS called "Love and the Happy Day" starring
>>Anson McDonald(?) (Potsie) and Ron Howard (Richie).  This ultimately
>>became the seed for Happy Days.  (I still can't believe I devote
>>perfectly good brain cells to this sort of information.  :-) )
>
>>Mike
>>-- 
>Mike of course is full of shit.
>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.
>Another person who spun off a series based upon one appearance was
>Robin Williams who appeared as Mork from Ork in a dream sequence to
>Richie, and battled the Fonze's thumb power.
>And of course, Happy Days was itself a TV adaptation of American
>Graffiti, the movie starring Ron Howard, and Shirley. Laverne has gone
>on to direct movies, most recently, A League of their Own, with Big
>being her best-known hit.
>
>Steve Rheault Kihara
>A man who used to say "AAAYYYYY" in junior high school

Ancient proverb say:  when you have no idea what you are talking about, 
shut the hell up.  The "Love and the Happy Days" sketch, with Ron Howard,
playing Richie Cunningham, and other 'Happy Days' regulars, predated the 
'Happy Days' series.  Mike is right.  Happy Days was spun off from this
sketch.  Of course, Ron Howard was also in American Graffitti.  But in 
A.G., he did not play Richie Cunningham.  Undoubtably, if it were not for 
the success of A.G., 'Happy Days' would not have been produced.  But 
technically speaking, Love American Style spun off Happy Days, which
begat 'Laverne and Shirley' and 'Mork and Mindy' and, shudder, 'Joanie
Loves Chaichi'.  Word.
-jd

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From: irwin@galton.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Kelsey Grammer on Later
Summary: More Sideshow Bob
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:08:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

Tonight on Later with Bob Costas, Kelsey Grammer was the guest.  During
the conversation he mentioned that there will be a third episode
featuring Sideshow Bob.  Unfortunately he didn't give any details on the
story or when it would be on.  It sounded like it would be later this
season however.

Mark

Mark Irwin     Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago
irwin@galton.uchicago.edu
irw1@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: I&STM
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:35:39 GMT
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In article <92310.134507TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu> TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu (Sime) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.202847.1735@oracle.us.oracle.com>, jdonald@us.oracle.com
>(John R. Donald) says:
>>
>>In article <1992Nov3.212444.4688@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
>>flaps@dgp.toronto.edu
>>(Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>>
>>>Wow, what an intense episode.  ... I didn't know it was
>>>going to be so cool so I didn't take notes.  Anyway......
>>
>>Intense?  I thought this was easily the worst episode ever.  Simply not
>>funny.   "Where did he put the firecracker?"  I can't imagine child abuse
>
>I thought the entire episode was funnier than balls myself...
>The Star Trek thing was _hysterical_ . So what if others have done it, it was
>a riot!  "Sigh. Again with the Klingons..." I died laughing...

right.  ha ha, mr scott is fat.  mr sulu is old.  a laff-riot.  gets funnier
every hundreth time.  maybe it would have been better if it was topical, 
but STVII was released so long ago...

>Hey, cartoons are rough, especially the Simpsons and Ren and Stimpy.  Cartoons
>have always been pretty violent, except now we have idiots butchering classics
>like Bugs Bunny so we don't see Daffy Duck get his beak blown off ('pronoun
>trouble...').
>
>I don't want to see the Simpsons or R & S (or I & S for that matter) become
>tame.  If they do so, they'll lose their humor.  I can see people being nice
>on Highway to Heaven.  I want my old cartoons.
>
>-Sime

the simpsons is a new cartoon.  its humor has been more sophisticated 
than most cartoons.  it has effectively use the tools of sarcasm, irony, 
social commentary, and not relied entirely on violence for laughs.  
i think that the simpsons are making fun of cartoons like I&S, because 
they are so idiotic, yet so popular.

-jd
-- 
"Good Idea, Boss."	- Homer Simpson

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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: HOMER'S CAR
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:12:52 GMT

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

>Actually, if you'll also notice, in Lisa's Pony (assuming it's the same
>car), when Homere goes out to the car, just before the end, he falls
>asleep in the car, and his head leans on the steering wheel, (and I
>can't remember exactly what happens next, since I haven't watched the
>episode in a few months), and then the air bag pops out, and like
>Maggie, Homer uses it for a pillow.

>But my favourite comment from when Maggie was driving was Chief
>Wiggum's....

>Wiggum: "Aw, look, there's a baby driving a car... and look, there's a
>monkey driving a bus"

>I just wonder if this might be a refernce to Otto....

Probably not.  Otto may look vaguely simian, but he certainly doesn't
resemble a dog, and the Chief's remark was "...a dog driving a bus."
However, I wouldn't put it past Otto to *allow* a dog to take the
wheel of his bus for a while...  :)

                  --"Bang Bang" Steve Stelter
                    sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Chief Wiggum in '96!
From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F04] Treehouse of Horror III
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:09:51
Organization: Berkeley--Shaken, not Stirred
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In-reply-to: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:55:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.065545.6250@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
=>> >> Gravestones in the Pet Cemetery (Dial "Z" for Zombies)
=>> {rc}
=>>         Hamster in a exercise wheel
=>>         Lobster  [Eaten by Mistake]
=>>         Doggie tomb with a bone-shaped headstone
=>>         Fish Police (unsuccessful TV show)
=>>         Capitol Critters  (")
=>>         Family Dog  (")

And don't forget the gravestones in the human cemetery.  We see two
zombies rise from the dead.  The names on their tombstones are those
of people who do the show.  One was tombstone said Jay Kogen, and the
other started out Wolo..., and was probably Wallace Wolodarsky.
They're both supervising producers (turned zombies :-).

ethan
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From: pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Moral Lessons Spoofing
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:30:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.062514.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> collins_w@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
>   I was talking with someone through email and the subject of how
>annoying the moral lesson at the end of some shows can be (such as
>"Inspector Gadget"). We then realized that it would be hilarious for
>the Simpsons to spoof this. He didn't have any suggestions, and I
>haven't come up with anything either, but I thought this group could
>have some fun with this idea.

    Excuse me?  They already did spoof this last season!  In fact, it
was rerun just a couple of weeks ago.  It was in Blood Fued at the end
where everyone is sitting around the couch.  I won't repeat the whole
thing since 99% of those reading this know what I'm talking about,
but Marge tries to offer different morals, each of which get shot
down, until Homer finally declares "yeah... it's just a bunch of stuff
that happened!" Absolutely hilarious!
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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: I&STM
Distribution: alt
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:24:49 GMT

jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:
>"Where did he put the firecracker?"  I can't imagine child abuse
>being funny.

Well, although this was clearly a reference to child abuse investigation
techniques (to the person who said it wasn't, you're wrong; it's a cliche'
technique to get the child to point to parts of the body of an anatomically
correct doll, and furthermore the doll looked like him), I didn't think that
the child was specifically claiming to be abused.  I thought that this was yet
another obscenity reference, with the child saying that Bart had shoved the
firecrackers up his ass.  This can't be taken too literally, he wouldn't still
be here, so I think you just have to think "shoved it up his ass, ha hahahaha"
in a somewhat mindless way.  I'm good at being mindless and it was funny.

>Bart dropping his pants.  How many times is this funny?
...
>Also, we have never actually seen Homer spank Bart, have we?  So why does Bart
>expect it so readily?

Yeah, that's a good point, especially given the content of this episode.
But Homer does get extraordinarily angry with Bart quite frequently and I can
imagine him striking him in a moment of anger.

>... Homer is simply not a bright guy.
>I can't believe he is that familiar with the names of the Supreme 
>court justices.

Ah, Homer's level of stupidity has always been kind of inconsistent.

>And I didn't like the bit about 40 years from now, although I don't really
>have an argument against it.  I just didn't like it.

One thing which was disappointing about it is that we actually get to see that
Bart will become a Supreme Court justice.  I guess this is a continuation of
the Clarence Thomas reference, but it's somehow disappointing to imagine a
prestigious future for Bart.  He should just go on being Bart.
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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
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Subject: Re: marge gets a job, or whatever it's called

>I can't believe...

Here's another one: "I can't believe it's a girdle, girdle"

(Wanders off mumbling something about and Oprah interviewing Matt and the
Simpsons was great too)

Be seeing you...
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From: rnelson@arnold.d.umn.edu (Ron Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: George Bush Clip
Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:56:09 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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Folks:

Somewhere in my Simpsons archives I have the clip with Bush ranting about 
the Waltons & Simpsons.  However, I don't remember which episode it was on.
Could someone enlighten me?

Thanks:

Ron Nelson
Duluth, MN
rnelson@ub.d.umn.edu


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From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE! YOU CAN FIND A REFERENCE IN ANYTHING!
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:00:55 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes) writes:
>I remember about six months ago I posted something similar to this
>and I got flamed to no end (I'm sure the remark about Marge's pubic
>hair being blue didn't help either).

I was one of the ones who flamed you and I have no regrets.  You
richly deserved it, and you probably deserve it again.  This, however,
is not another flame, but a correction.

You were NOT flamed for posting something to the effect that people on
this group sometimes "find" references where none exist.  Lots of
well-respected members of the a.t.s "community" do that all the time
(though most seem to have given up by now).

You were flamed long and hard for having the temerity to post a
message to the effect that anyone who discusses "The Simpsons" on this
group (and, in particular, anyone who devotes significant effort to
cataloging interesting aspects of this show, as with my Itchy and
Scratchy Episode Guide) must be the kind of total dweeb who lives in
his mother's basement and spends all day and all night on his
computer, never interacting with other people.  You THEN went on to
mention (as a counterexample?  I don't know) your participation in a
"fantasy baseball league," a well-known haven for dweebs of exactly
the aforementioned type.  Simply put, it was just too easy a target to
resist.

As for the joke about Marge's blue pubic hair, well, that's actually
kind of funny.  If you confined yourself to the occasional merely
tasteless observation about the Simpsons, you'd have a long, happy and
nearly flame-free tenure here on a.t.s.

>So I'll say it again.  Watch the cartoon, enjoy it, take it for what
>it's worth and move on.  It's only a fucking cartoon! Get a life!
>Maybe the Simpsons are a reference to all the weenies of the world who
>spend more time at a computer than with people.  A bunch of nobodys.

Say what you will about us, at least we don't get our jollies by
lighting a verbal stink bomb and throwing it into a crowded newsgroup.
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From: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: marge gets a job, or whatever it's called
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:47:16 GMT
Reply-To: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC

In article <seyjuCm00awTM9WlZ9@andrew.cmu.edu>, ar2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam K. Rixey) writes:
> Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.simpsons: 6-Nov-92 Re: marge gets a job, or
> wh.. Raymond L. Gilbert@bronz (6149)
> 
> > Happy ending?
> >    Who says this has a happy/sappy ending?  What happens to Jack Marley?
> > He's left jobless and wifeless!
> 
> 	I personally wanted to see a follow up to MY favorite segment - did the
> "Angel of Death" ever start blasting away???

Surprisingly, no.  I spotted him (and his funny hat) when the donut man was taking the donuts away.  I don't know why he didn't defend his donuts w/deadly force.

ALSO, there is an animation goof at this scene.  The only funny thing about Homer's hat is that it changes color...

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From: trumpet-user@oregon.uoregon.edu (Default Trumpet User)
Subject: FAQ
Keywords: FAQ
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:37:57 GMT

will someone please post the FAQ I keep losing my copy, and need to make a 
hard copy.

Thanks
the Timinator
From: jaime@tcville.HAC.COM (Jaime Villacorte)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Homer-ism list needed - Mmmmm....donuts
Keywords: Mmmmm
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:38:41 GMT
Reply-To: jaime@tcville.HAC.COM (Jaime Villacorte)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA


Is someone keeping a list of all the "Mmmmm....xxx" Homer-isms that are uttered
by the great one? I checked the FAQ and it's not mentioned there.

						- jaime villacorte

Mmmm....donuts
    ....jelly donuts
    ....fuzzy
    ....soylent green
(etc.)
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From: giovin@medr2.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Subject: Re: Clockwork Orange; Ayn Rand
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:26:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.215555.11507@bsu-ucs> 00bjgood@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>I'm kinda new to this group but did anyone notice that Bart was dressed up
>as the dude from Clockwork Orange?
>Also, on an earlier episode I hope everyone noticed the Ayn Rand references in
>the child care center Maggie went to.-- 

I loved the Ayn Rand stuff... "The Fountainhead Cookbook" was unexpected
and I liked the "A is A" sign on the wall... It was a little obscure
though and mostly contained in the philosophy of the day care
teacher.  I wonder how many viewers know her work though?

Rocky Giovinazzo
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From: thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom)
Subject: Literary References: Marge gets Job
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:46:19 GMT

Let me first point out that even *I* think these references are a stretch,
but here they are anyway:

(1)  The guy who was retiring was Jack Marley.  Possible reference to 
     Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"?  (Orig. Jacob Marley, Scrooge's partner.)

(2)  Burns flying into Smithers's bedroom window reminded me of Keats's
     "The Eve of St. Agnes," in which Porphyro does something similar and
     "hoodwinks" his lover Madeleine.

(3)  More cinematic than literary:  The Monty Burns song was straight out of
     a similar scene in "Citizen Kane."  (Orig. "Charlie Kane" song.)

Just some ideas . . .                   

And by the way, Itchy *is* a jerk!

Tom Hove
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:14:34 EST
From: Thomas G. Hopkins <TH5733A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: maggie driving the car

I will kill all of you.
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From: Daniel.Parmet@launchpad.unc.edu (Daniel Parmet)
Subject: Halloween Episode
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:44:36 GMT

(I am posting this article for a friend of mine.)

Hello!

First off, someone mentioned (Ron I believe) that the "To the book depository!"
quote may have been a reference to the old BATMAN style of: "To the Batmobile!"
.  I would second this school of thought.  That's what immediately came to
*my* feeble mind. :)

Secondly (and Thirdly),

I have not seen any mention to either of these:  (but PLEASE don't flame me if
I'm wrong, and they HAVE been mentioned)

Grandpa's "It's Evil, EVIL!"  line was a reference to that old guy at the
beginning of a few of the "Friday the 13th" movies who was always  warned the
new arrivals to Camp Crystal Lake that the camp was "Evil" or cursed.  Gee,
those elderly sure can sense these things can't they?  :)  (Again, PLEASE don't
flame me, I *LOVE* elderly people :) ).

Also, I think that the title of the third segment "Dial "Z" for ZOMBIE" was
a possible parallel of "Dial "M" for MURDER".   I haven't seen the movie,
but I'm sure the story does not have similarities to the movie though.  But,
the genre of the movie *DOES* fit the 'holiday' spirit!

One last observation (actually question)...
Does Barney's line from "King Homer", "Wow, look at the size of that 
platform?",
have any significance? - (I mean other than being hilarious!!!)


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