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From: ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:15:45 GMT

rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes) writes:

>In article <N17sVB3w164w@admiral.uucp> barcheta@admiral.uucp (Alec Cornell) writes:
>>hacker@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Marcos Hacker) writes:
>>
>>> 
>>>    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?
>>
>>Actually, I thought the scene where Homer sees visions on the vibrating 
>>chair was ripped off (or should I say, an homage to) the scene in 2001 

>I think "ripped off" would be quite accurate.  Most of the so-called references
>are actually rip-offs because the writers of this rag cartoon don't have enough
>talent to be original.

That's crazy.  Really.  You just don't get the humor of the movie reference
I guess.  It's hard to understand why they are so funny, all I know was I
was rolling on the floor when the vibrating chair scene was shown.  Or when
the dog was forced to watch violent movies a la "A Clockwork Orange".

It's hard to understand humor.  All I know is what I like... it takes quite
a bit of ingenuity to tie the movie references in to the fairly ordinary
Simpson's lives.. I guess that's where the humor is.  The absurdity of seeing
Homer rocket through other dimensions as he sits in his vibrating chair was
hilarious, and this is to the writers' credit, being able to make it work
like that.

Anyway, it's certainly not "ripping off" scenes because the scenes would
definately not have helped the plot at all, but rather or just thrown in for
fun.  Consider it, perhaps you can see the difference.

-Avumede
From: wesley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Wesley HRJ Gaus)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Homer & Ren & Stimpy
Date: 20 Dec 92 03:37:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Dec19.151802.1946@panix.com> oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
>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.

>new thing for the Simpsons;  I don't recall having seen such distorted
>faces to quite this extreme before.
>
Yeah ,  in an older episode (I don't remember the title) the one where Bart
attempts to jump over a small canyon with a skateboard- 
when Homer falls down the cliff- he has some pretty nasty yet hilarious 
facial distortions - also I thought that this was rather graphic for
a Simpson's episode


--

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From: rsantos@milp.jsc.nasa.gov (Robert G. Santos)
Subject:  Bart-like prank at IAH
Organization: Loral Space Information Systems
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:45:20 GMT

-- 
The other day I was at Houston Intercontinental Airport and heard this 
announcement over the loudspeaker.
"Will Richard Cranium please meet his party in the baggage claim area".
I immediately thought of Bart Simpson and his endless prank calls to 
Moe's Tavern.

For anyone who doesn't understand:  Richard Cranium = Dick Head.

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From: ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier)
Subject: Re: Snowball I and Re: Prank calls to Moe: a starter list
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:37:51 GMT

>ObSimpsons: Is Marge the first cartoon character to be depicted as
>            pregnant? (She's the first that *I've* seen.) 

Wasn't Wilma knocked up with Pebbles?
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Prank calls to Moe: a starter list
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:01:16 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Please feel free to add to or revise this; it's just what I remember off
the top:

Seymour Butts
Ivana Tinkle 
I. P. Freely
Homer Sexual
Amanda Huggenkiss
Mike Rotch
Oliver Clothesoff
Hugh Jass


-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: How to get your grubby mitts on the FAQ,,
Date: 15 Dec 1992 04:22:30 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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From a recent thread in alt.tv.simpsons:
| Could someone please mail me the FAQ, or post it?
| . . .
| It might be a good idea to post it anyway, for those who can't ftp.

I'd rather not,, Many people who read this newsgroup through the
mailing list might not appreciate it if I started posting the 1000+
line file on a irregular schedule.  I know of a few local subscribers
on VMS accounts with a mere 500kB disk quota limit.  Poor souls.

I'll mention again for those who may have skipped my other message
about Widener's FTP archive .. Anyone who's without access to FTP but
who can still email can obtain the *latest* revision of the FAQ by
sending a message to archive-server@cs.widener.edu with a Subject of
``send simpsons faq'' (don't include the double quotes, doofus) ..
Simple eh?

PS: That's ``archive-server'', not ``archie-server''.

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
From: ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu ()
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserve
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:33:49 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

My favorite Barney, by a long shot:

Homer is kicking the shit out the mailbox...

Barney: (emerging from Moe's) I'm with you, Homer! (fist in air)

a classic...

J
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Matt Groening
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:39:00 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <mnoe.9.724109742@alexandria.lib.utah.edu> mnoe@alexandria.lib.utah.edu (Michael Noe) writes:
>Attention all Simpsons fans:
>
>This month's issue of Spin magazine has a great interview with Matt 
>Groening. He seems like a level headed guy. And he gives some interesting 
>inside info about OFF. Like yes Lisa's sax solo does vary from show to show.
"Well, duh!!" as Marge would say. The solo isn't what was being discussed,
it's pretty obvious that THAT varies from show to show. 
Someone had said that the rest of the theme varies slightly from show to
show, which is what you may be thinking of


>
>Robert Nelson
>rnelson@edu-utah-lib-alexandira


-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart's prank phone calls (as of 1-Dec-92)
Date: 15 Dec 1992 02:48:31 -0500
Organization: Geeky Simpsons Lists `R' Us
Distribution: world
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^ Please feel free to add to or revise this; it's just what I remember off
^ the top:
^ 
^ Seymour Butts, Ivana Tinkle, I. P. Freely, Homer Sexual, Amanda
^ Huggenkiss, Mike Rotch, Oliver Clothesoff, Hugh Jass.

From alt.tv.simpsons' Frequently Asked Questions file:

3.8)  What phone pranks has Bart used on Moe of Moe's Tavern?

	7G03:  Hey, everybody, I. P. Freeley!
	7G06:  Hey, everybody, I need a Jock Strap.
	7G01:  Is there an Al Coholic here?  ... and ...
	       I wanna see Oliver Klose-off.
	7F11:  I wanna Seymour Butts.
	7F14:  C'mon, one o' you guys has gotta be Homer Sexual.
	7F22:  Hey, has anybody seen Mike Rotch lately?
	8F08:  Somebody check the men's room for a Hugh Jass!
	8F09:  Come on guys, do I have a Bea O'Problem here?
        9F06:  Hey, I'm lookin' fer Amanda Huggenkiss!   ...and...
               Hey, everybody, put down your glasses.  Ivana Tinkle!

RTFAQ?
-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Continuity error spotted.
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:41:26 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

unknown (poutsmaj@mace.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
: This leads me to me question:  Can anyone figure out exactly WHEN Homer
: lost his hair?  From the 'Maggie Speaks' episode, we know he had hair

My best guess would be he lost his hair shortly after Bart was born.
Cause and effect don't you know :-).
--

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* Bill Ranck                                          ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
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From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:46:32 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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^    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.

Write to archie-server@cs.widener.edu, Subject: send simpsons movie_refs

..which lists most of the popular allusions noted in alt.tv.simpsons'
three year history. (Up until the late 3rd season.)

^ This last episode also contained a parody that I think was from the
^ movie Brainstorm ... Did anyone else notice?

Only about several billion others (I exaggerate) posted this immediately
after the premiere a few months ago.

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons isn't JUST for non-thinking right-wingers
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:49:10 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>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.
>
I'm not a student at Harvard. if that's what you mean. If you think that
the episode was making fun of the kind of mindless jingoism it displayed,
then say why and don't insult me because I disagree with you.

-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: Bart-like prank at IAH
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:49:03 GMT

rsantos@milp.jsc.nasa.gov (Robert G. Santos) writes:

>-- 
>The other day I was at Houston Intercontinental Airport and heard this 
>announcement over the loudspeaker.
>"Will Richard Cranium please meet his party in the baggage claim area".
>I immediately thought of Bart Simpson and his endless prank calls to 
>Moe's Tavern.

>For anyone who doesn't understand:  Richard Cranium = Dick Head.

Ah, yes...  About 6 years ago, on a trip to Israel, we had this kid we
hated.  We called him Richard Cranium.  He had no clue.  We told him
it was the name of a famous porn star...:)

Mike
--
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From: marcus@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark A. Freedman)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:36:15 GMT
Organization: Tessier-Ashpool monitor, Mass-Neotek Corp

+--
| mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken) Has publicly proclaimed:
| 
| Anybody know who Snowball I was and what happened to her?
| MS

Wasn't she run over by Clovis, the Kennedy-esque mayor's brother?

"This leash demeans us both"

- mf


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From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE Flanders Out of Character
Date: 18 Dec 1992 08:46:43 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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        Flanders in the hospital donating a kidney and a lung "To the highest 
bidder'!?!?!?  That is WAY EXTREMELY out of character for Ned Flanders.  
Donating for free yes, but for money?  Its as bad as Marge in the Maggie 
^C             
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mail simpsons@cs.widener.edu
Subject: RE Flanders Out of Character
 
 noel@umbc2.umbc.edu wrote:
 
>Flanders in the hospital donating a kidney and a lung "To the highest
>bidder'!?!?!?  That is WAY EXTREMELY out of character for Ned Flanders.
>Donating for free yes, but for money? 
 
 Didn't he say something like "to any lucky person that needs it" or something to
that effect? I REALLY doubt that Flanders is that kind of person to sell his 
vital organs. After all, like Homer says, "He's a regular Charlie Church."

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From: Adriene_Nazaretian@QM.cis.YALE.EDU (ALN - Go Giants!)
Subject: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserves
Organization: Yale University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:26:43 GMT

In article <4610.1077.uupcb@satalink.com> joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) writes:
>From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
>Subject: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserves
>Date: 11 Dec 92 20:25:00 GMT
>To: Adriene@YaleADS
>
>AN|In the episode where lisa is in the beauty contest, when homer is trying to
>  |sell barney the ticket and barney has all the cash and homer asks where he
>  |got it "Some scientist.... Ever since they stopped testing on labratory
>  |animals, a guy like me can really clean up, BUurrrrrp."  he turns around
>  |and has all these wires attached to his head.  Priceless moment
>
>Yeah, the peanut line was a really good one.    Let me think.   Other 
>good Barney lines.    One of my favorites was when Barney came over to 
>stay with Homer (when Marge went to the retreat).   When Homer opened 
>the door, and Barney was standing there looking at Maggie he says, "Oh 
>look, it's little Bart!   Do you remember your uncle Barney?   Uh-oh, 
>someone smells stinky.   Oh, it's me!"
>---
> . 1st 1.02b #1051s . FOR SALE: Iraqi rifles. Never fired, dropped once.
>                                                                     
Yeah, barney is a great character!  I do hope to see more barney character 
development, the more we know about him, the funnier it seems.
Any other fav barney lines?  Jeez, this makes my day :-)

-Adriene
From: phase@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Phase)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsons vs. Disney
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:57:34 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


 You known, after unfortunately paying
$4.25 to go see Disney's Aladdin, I was extremely dissapointed
in it's extremely trite and un-original plot, sorry music, and
it's absense of any real humor. It's feeble shots at humor were
Home Alone style, slapstick that just didn't even make me grin.
 Let the disney fans say what they like,
but the average pisode of the Simpsons is 1,000,000,000,000 times more 
clever, humorous, original, witty, and better for young kids and adults 
alike, and far more enjoyable than any animated film Disney has released 
in
 15 years!
    Sure, the Simpsons animation is not state-of-the-art, but who cares,
The Simpsons are so much more of a finished product to enjoy and love, 
that Disney will probably ever make again. Matt G. has done it.
                             phase
From: Jim.Tambas@f250.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Jim Tambas)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:48:00 GMT


 >
 >DON'T POST QUESTIONS UNLESS YOU'VE READ THE FAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!
 >

 DVV> Hey! No reason to flame someone just because they didn't read the FAQ!
 DVV> Maybe the poster doesn't know where the FAQ is--I know I couldn't find
 DVV> it for a while after I started reading the Simpsons newsgroup. I find
 DVV> a lot of discussions here a lot more trivial and wasteful of bandwith
 DVV> than simply asking what happened to a cat. Get off your soapbox and
 DVV> relax! -stressed out soapbox rebutter now gets off HIS
 DVV> soapbox and tries to relax! :------)

      Excuse me but I figured this was the best place to write this,
      but could someone please tell me how I can get my hands on the
      FAQ.
       
      THANK YOU
      


... "Milhouse, we live in the age of cooties!"  - Bart Simpson
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.11
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [not about] Marge's Pregnancy
Date: 19 Dec 92 03:49:13 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <YORK.92Dec18151003@oakland-hills.lucid.com> York@Lucid.COM writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.192012.19777@leland.Stanford.EDU> ridenour@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Lynn Ridenour) writes:
>
>   >york@oakland-hills.lucid.com (Bill York) writes:
>   >>So, trivia question for all you TV-fans:  Who was the first TV-show
>   >>couple to be shown sharing the same bed?  
>   >
>
>   Old question.   The Munsters.
>
>We have a winner.  The Bradys were a close 2nd.

Didn't Darren and Samantha sleep in the same bed on "Bewitched"?  That
certainly pre-dates "The Brady Bunch" by several years.

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: D'oh
Keywords: D'oh!
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:18:57 GMT

Was that Marge's first "D'oh!" in Homer has a Heartattack?  Right after
Homer tells her how they gave up health insurance for a pinball machine,
she goes, "D'oh!"

So, Bart's done it, Lisa's done it, now Marge.  Geez, Maggie's first
word really should have been "D'oh!".

(Bart said it in "Bart gets an F" (?))

(Lisa said it in "Dog of Death")

(Homer sez it every episode ;-)
-- 
                    ' ",      *
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wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
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From: "derek finlay" <derek.finlay@canrem.com>
Subject: continuity error spotted.
Reply-To: "derek finlay" <derek.finlay@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:29:34 EST

Hi!

CJT>Married...With Children:  Last season, Peg was pregnant, and so was
CJT>Marcy.  Yet, this season, no infants...

I can tell that you don't follow Married with Children.... They got
around the plot that had Peg and Marcy pregnant by making it all a dream
in one episode. The reason? Well, the actress who plays Peg had a
miscarriage.... so they decided to write off the plot and move on to
another idea...hence "Married with MORE Children"

but we regress....

The Simpsons! Truly a masterpeice! Notice that each episode has a moral
behind it.... in a way..I'd call The Simpsons a modern day Fintstones!

Derek
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Hit `n' now; That Ol' Bach/Franklin Debate
Summary: A Marge-like solution
Keywords: What did Ayn Rand have to say about the location of Springfield?
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:53:19 GMT

New insight into the old Franklin vs. Bach debate.  Hit `n' now if
you still have functioning brain cells...


While paging through an encyclopedia a few days ago (it was a boring
day at work), I came across an entry on a certain Benjamin Franklin Bache.
It seems he was a grandson of Franklin and accompanied him to France
as a young boy.

Well, with a name like that, he almost certainly must be who the Simpsons
animators were trying to represent, for he is BOTH Franklin AND Bach(e)!

What a wonderful compromise solution this is, and I'm not even making
this up.

Marge would be pleased.
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wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Hank Azaria & FAQ
Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:14:58 GMT
Organization: your service
Distribution: na
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> 1) What voice does Hank Azaria do? 

Various non-main-character stuff:

  Limousine driver: "Where to, pappy?"
  Recipient of Homer's drool at the First Annual...Excellence show: 
    "Watch it, chief" 
  Chief something-or-other at the nuthouse, who hadn't spoken
    in xx years: "Nobody ever reached out before."

  ...and other cab-driver/gas-station-attendant types.

Distinctive voice.  Once you pick out which is his, you'll
recognize it every time.
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