HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F09] Homer's Heart Attack DYNs
Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:06:33 GMT
Organization: your service
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> in Homer's bed
>    something in a portable heater pot (chili)? 
A fondue set

>    in the Emergency Room
>    Willie:  arms stuck?
Torn up from wolf attack?

>    Apu: neck stuck?
Bandage from "taking it in the shoulder", like he
taught new-employee Homer

> Sunday School:
>    The 10 commandments are written on the wall behind the teacher.
As they always are (Lisa and the 8th)

> The Springfield Journal of Cardiology
>    a ref to The New England Journal of Medecine?
There are MANY "xx Journal of xx" out there... but could be.

> What gives?  They cut the intro again this week!  When are we going to
> be able to expect a nice full intro *every* week?
Ours was normal, I think - what was missing?

> When God told him he was going to die in 6 mos, was this really what he
> was talking about?
Dunno.  He started to rise up, but came back when the ham was mentioned.
I figgered they'd do the "white light, long tunnel" thing, so maybe
this wasn't it.
From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Maggie Talks
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:54:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BALDWIN.92Dec8204857@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>
>But the Simpsons *like* Krusty-Burger.  Homer and the kids drool over
>them, and even Marge has never been seen to express disapproval.  I
>believe she may even have been seen eating them.  So, what would cause
>them, in their flashbacks, to describe Krusty-Burgers so harshly?
>

I think the part where Krusty spits out the burger wasn't actually seen
by the Simpsons, but included as a gag for the viewers. Maybe Krusty
knows what's in those burgers. :)

MS
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier)
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:28:29 GMT

In article <724469043.AA09124@illusion.tpg.org> Jim.Tambas@f250.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Jim Tambas) writes:
> >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
>      

The answer to that question is in the FAQ for chrissakes!  

Yeesh, I'm gonna have to put "Part-time net.cop" on my resume if this keeps up.

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:20:25 GMT

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?
>> 
>> /\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\
>> \/    Marcos Hacker           hacker@cis.ufl.edu                \/
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>> \/    University of Florida   x4401ahh@ufcc.ufl.edu             \/
>> /\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\
>> 
>
>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.

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: Sparky
Subject: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserves
Summary: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserves
Organization: None
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:29:01 GMT

In article <Adriene_Nazaretian.54.0@QM.cis.YALE.EDU>
Adriene_Nazaretian@QM.cis.YALE.EDU (ALN - Go Giants!) writes:
>In article <4610.1077.uupcb@satalink.com> joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe
Siegler) writes:
[Stuff Deleted]

>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
>

2.  One when Marge is away at "Ranch Relaxo" and Barney passes out on
kitchen floor @ Simpson house.  Maggie is crawling over his belly
when 'BUURRRRRP'.

Another at the soap box derby:  "Hey you look like Mary Tyler Moore."
(to one of Marge's sisters, who promptly sprays Barney w/Mace) "Ow!
Ow! BUUUURRRRRP Ow!.  It IS Mary Tyler Moore."

Classics.

--Sparky
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [not about] Marge's Pregnancy
Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:12:18 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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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?  

Wasn't it Ricky and Kris Nelson, who were married in real life, on "The Ozzie 
and Harriet Show"?
From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Marge's Pregnancy
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:40:30 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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 In some message ID unknown, Mike Hammond asks:

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

 No. In the Flintstones, Wilma was pregnant with Pebbles. That's the 
 episode where her mother came to stay with them (Fred & Wilma) and 
 needless to say, Fred did not like it. I'm sure everyone knows the 
 rest of the story.





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From: "derek finlay" <derek.finlay@canrem.com>
Subject: cars in ""homer's bypass"
Reply-To: "derek finlay" <derek.finlay@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 18 Dec 92 14:18:28 EST



NO>        Flanders in the hospital donating a kidney and a lung "To the highes
NO>bidder'!?!?!?  That is WAY EXTREMELY out of character for Ned Flanders.
NO>Donating for free yes, but for money?  Its as bad as Marge in the Maggie
NO>Speaks episode.

Yes.. it is abit outrageous! He was however giving the body parts
away. He stated "First come first serve" not to the highest bidder.
Flanders is an extreme Christian who will go to extreme lengths to
help people less fortunate then himself. A good example of this is the
episode in which the down and out brother of Homer "Herb" came looking
for Homer for a loan, and accidently went to Flanders house and was
given a meal new clothes ..etc..This is one of many examples.

 Derek

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: 2 Cars In Every Garage, 3 Eyes On A Sperm (was Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius)
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:29:39 GMT

mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:
>(But if it is, is this a reference to
>``Two Cars In Every Garage, Three Eyes On Every Fish'' [7F01]?

I assumed so, in a dim kind of way.  Mostly it's referring to the fact that
it's irradiated.  That previous episode just set a standard for what radiation
does: it creates an extra eye.

>If it *didn't* have three eyes, then it would have been a normal sperm, no?

Well, actually normal sperm don't have eyes.  :-)

But the sperm's defects were accurate (in a cartoon kind of way) in that the
problem was that the sperm were sluggish.  Insufficient motility is one cause
of infertility.  The fact that they were bumping into each other was an
artistic-license-version of the sluggishness.

>Second, I don't think it was meant to be a vibration effect. The impression
>I got was that it was supposed to be a *focusing* effect--the Hosperm 

Um, there are two scenes being talked about and confused here.  The vibrating
was at the end when he's in the super-duper vibrating chair which by vibrating
has revitalized his uro-genital system, or something.  The focusing was near
the beginning with the microscope.
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: FOX pregnancies
Date: 15 Dec 1992 12:01:32 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

  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...
  
  You mean you didn't see the episode where Al found out that the whole 
  pregnancy thing was a dream?  (Was this an homage to "Dallas", or was 
  Benjamin Franklin really the father of Peg's baby? :-) )
  
  Seriously, though, the end of the pregnancy storyline was necessitated 
  because Katie Segall, the actress who plays Peg, miscarried her baby in
  real life, and I guess the writers decided it wouldn't be very sensitive 
  to try to get her to continue a pregnancy storyline at that point.  Thus 
  the "dream" episode.
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:13:56 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: emru@CAM.ORG's message of 14 Dec 92 02:30:42 -0400

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.
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From: jtteh@borland.com (J.T. Teh)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Homer gets a coronory....
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:36:33 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Borland International, Inc.
Originator: jtteh@genghis.borland.com

Just heard that this week's episode will have Homer getting that
heart-attack we've all been expecting. 

- JT
From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Where'd the nipple go?
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:51:28 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:

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

He didn't open his shirt far enough to show *any* nipples.

At least that's how I *remember* it. (Could be wrong, don't feel
like checking, don't sue me)

				Jamesa Willer
[don't call us, we'll call you]
From: shindle@ocf.berkeley.edu (Richard Michael Shindle)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in how many countries?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 20:04:48 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: planecrash.berkeley.edu

Mike


Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jbiag@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathan D. Biag)
Subject: Maggie speaks episode
Summary: Funny homer line
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:34:40 GMT
Keywords: maggie homer lines

Hi... I know I'm a little late.. but I didn't think of asking until now...
People were talking about favorite lines from that episode, but I don't 
recall anyone writing about the line in the beginning where Lisa was referring
to Maggie's first word...  She said something like: "Better to keep one's mouth
shut and be thought a fool then to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Then we heard Homer thinking to himself "Hmm.. what did that mean?  Better think
of something... they might think you're stupid..."  And then he said something
really dumb..  I was really cracking up after that...  Strange thing is, I
can't remember the exact lines used.   Does anyone else remember it?  If so,
can you please post (or preferably e-mail) it to me?  I'd like to jot it down.
Thanks in advance!  :)

Jon
jbiag@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:08:20 GMT

In article <BALDWIN.92Dec11101535@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>, baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
...
|> ObSimpsons:  Someone noted last time last night's episode ran that one
|>              of Homer's sperm had three eyes.  I froze both such
|>              scenes, and I don't agree.  It's possible he was
|>              mistaking the vibration effect at the end for a
|>              three-eyed Homer-sperm.  Any comments?

If you freeze-frame a sperm, can it be thawed and used for artificial
insemination?


|> LEAVING THE NETWORK AT XMAS.  Write me after 1 Mar 93 at: LT JD Baldwin, USN
|>                                                           AIR OPS DEPT
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|>                                                           FPO AP 96697-2820

And so the signal to noise ratio worsens.  Bye.

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Date: 16 Dec 1992 13:54:00 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

In article <724469043.AA09124@illusion.tpg.org>,
Jim.Tambas@f250.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Jim Tambas) writes:
>
>      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.

  Hmmmm...perhaps this question should be in the FAQ?
From: wft@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Tell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
Subject: Re:   the video
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:02:18 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec16.192123.23686@athena.mit.edu> grisha@athena.mit.edu (Grigory Golberg) writes:
>
>Would a white citizen of, say, South Africa,
>who moved to USA be considered African American?
>If no, thn why?
>
>-GG

You have hit on an interesting exception to the rule.  A Politically
Correct person would probably say that whites shouldn't be living
in South Africa anyway, hence they don't deserve a politically
friendly term.

You can't say Afrikaaner because not all whites in South Africa are
Afrikaaners.  I think 40% are English.

This has nothing to do with 90210.  :-)

By the way, I haven't seen an episode since we saw Jim's temp/secretary
for the first time.  Has she reappeared to disrupt the Walsh's marital
bliss?

William F. Tell
UC Berkeley
From: phoebe@pop.cis.yale.edu (Phoebe Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
Subject: Re: Favorite lines from Heathers
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:42:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.bh90210,alt.tv.90210
Organization: Yale University

In article <1992Dec11.184421.2450@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
prufrock@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scot N Gibson) wrote:
> 
> 
> Heathers is one of my top 10 favorites.  Brilliant movie.
> 
> Favorite line:
> 
> "Dear Diary- My teen angst bullshit has a body count."

I like the part where Winona says to Shannen, "Why can't you just be a
friend, Heather?  Why do you have to be such a megabitch?"  And Shannen
says, "Because I can be."  Best ever! 

____
Phoebe Moore                  phoebe@pop.cis.yale.edu
"What fun is it being 'cool' if you can't wear a sombrero?"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
From: cass@netcom.com (Diana Tenery-Fisher)
Subject: Re: Heathers quiz
Keywords: Heathers, Trivia, Very
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:26:58 GMT

 A few corrections... 

It's SYlvia Plath.. not SIlvia... 

And the girl is Renee Estevez... she is MARTIN Sheen's daughter and Charlie
Sheen's sister (also Emilio Estevez) not Charlie's daughter.

-diana
From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
Subject: Re: Andrea gets into Yale!
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:09:17 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

ROBERT MACKENNA (rjm1@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
> I do believe (and one of you Left Coast types correct me if I'm wrong)
> (That's you, Larry :-) ) there is no such thing as "California
> University".

You're right, not per se.


>               Just like there's no "West Beverly High".  CU is referred
> to in the show as "a State school that's right up there with those
> expensive private schools".  Well, when I think good state schools in
> California, the first thing I think if is Cal/Berkeley.

That makes complete sense to me, and you right that in some fields
UCB is the best school in the state, public or private.  But, UCLA
is also one of the best schools (I think consistently in the top 20
in the US News and World Report college guide every year) in the
country, and probably overall number three in California, but look out
for my Alma Mater UCSD as an up-and-comer (in the scientific fields
at least).

I think the key part you might have overlooked is that Brandon said
something real close to "right here in town" a few times.  Oh, and
also didn't mastermind Darren Star go to UCLA?


> It just seemed to me that "California University" was an analogue to U.
> of Cal.-Berkeley. (Or just Cal, in sports lingo)  

Makes sense to me.


Larry
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
From: tmark@cognet.ucla.edu (Terence Mark)
Subject: Re: Are you serious
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:13:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.224030.23380@leland.Stanford.EDU> ridenour@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Lynn Ridenour) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.194805.5162@cognet.ucla.edu> tmark@cognet.ucla.edu (Terence Mark) writes:
>>I once knew a person (and I know there are many more) who honestly
>>believed that the wrestling and story lines depicted in the
>>World Wrestling Federation shows were 'real'. He could get into
>>quite animated and heated discussions about whether or not the wrestlers
>>were really hurting each other, whether Hulk Hogan was "really" fooling
>>around with Elizabeth, mate of Randy Macho Man Savage, etc. He was
>>*not* kidding, either. He was *very* funny to talk to, but the experience
>>was also somewhat disturbing.
>>
>>It is thus with the same kind of amusement I read comments like the above.
>>I *assume* that most of us would agree that professional wrestling
>>is *not* realistic (maybe not a safe assumption in this group), just
>>like I *assume* most of us here would agree that the situations portrayed
>>in,say, Gilligan's Island are not realistic. If one was, however, to find 
>>someone who *did* think these shows were realistic, would that then
>>render them any *less* UN-realistic ? Or might we better conclude that  
>>there was something off-center about that person's judgement ? 
>
>I imagine your friend who takes wrestling seriously has also
>purchased an electric food dehydrator, a juicer, a steam iron,
>and numerous miracle stain removers.  :)  I'm wondering what
>about his life would make the situations portrayed on WWF seem
>familiar.
>
I'm quite sure that nothing in this person's life made the WWF situations
seem familiar. I think his judgement of the show's realism (actually, its
reality) says more about the fact that he was quite a dim bulb.

I would say the same about people who judge 90210 to be realistic portrayal
of teen life anywhere - let alone in Beverly Hills. It's one thing to say
one enjoys watching 90210 - I personally enjoy watching lots of garbage too -
but it's another thing entirely to say the program is realistic. It is not.
It's also another thing to say the show is well written - it is not.
It is simply a soap opera that is filled with cute "kids", and it is no
better written and no more realistic than any other soap opera. Actually
one might argue that it is in some respects less realistic than some other
soap operas since the majority of the story lines are crammed into about
40 minutes (actually less since they try to deliver a couple of lines/
episode).