HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Mr. Plow ad 2 reference?
Date: 23 Nov 92 00:26:30 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:

>I don't think it's a reference to anything in particular, despite the
>breaking snow globe.  Seems to me that it's just a broad poke at all 
>those bizarre "art" commercials that have been plaguing the ether in
>recent years.  Since Mr. Plow is in the snow business, the snow globe
>would make sense as an image you'd expect to see in an arsty Mr. Plow
>commercial, but I'd stop short of calling it a "Citizen Kane" reference.

maybe it's both.

("New Shimmer. It's a floor-wax *and* a dessert topping ...)


				James Willer
[any opinions above are already registered with the federal government]
From: CT71@music.mus.polymtl.ca (Phillipe Chayer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Lisa's sax playing
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:07:15 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

In article <1992Nov18.165236.16346@gdwest.gd.com> stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) 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, Maggie does ply a different tune each time...
    Also, Bart writes a different thing each time he gets punished
    And they all sit a different way in front of the TV too...


Phil.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: studer@physics.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Studer)
Subject: 4th series on Oz? (was Re: This week in Oz)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:55:31 GMT

In article <1eae9cINNarh@cs.widener.edu> c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird) writes:
>DAVIS@licr.dn.mu.oz.au::Ian Davis
>|||Ian| At least we are still getting repeats, better than nothing,
>|||Ian| but you people are always way ahead of those of us up here on
>|||Ian| the top of the world.
>
>That reminds me...
>
>The complimentary television guide I receive with my groceries lists
>*only* (not a two-fer, waauggh!:( ``Homer Alone'' for this Sunday; no
>thanks to Network Ten showing a `The Making of' special for ``Home
>Alone II'' at 8pm.
>

According to my Sydney Morning Herald "Pink" guide, the episode synopsis
for next Sunday's Simpsons looked an awful lot like:

KAMP KRUSTY

In other words, the new series might be starting... 

>
>-- 
>Chris Baird .. A good-looking rebel who plays by his own rules,, ;)
><c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>


Andrew Studer... studer@physics.su.oz.au
From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F07] Mr. Plow
Keywords: simpsons
Date: 22 Nov 92 23:35:32 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

c8923075@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird) writes:

>A hectare is a unit of area, not length.

Ah, a reference to _Star Wars_. ("She'll do the Kessel run in 3.2
parsecs." misquoted from memory)

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

>Kumatsu Motors was the company that took over Herb Powell's car company.

Hey! He took my DYN!!!

				James Willer
[any opinions above are already registered with the federal government]
From: Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: How do you know?
Distribution: world
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:44:50 EDT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

In a message dated Tue 16 Nov 92  1:46, Kim@inquis.enet.dec.com  wrote:

 K> But people here seem to think that it really was Michael Jackson!  His
 K> name wasn't used because of contracts, etc.  So, how do you know if it
 K> really was him instead of some imitator?

 K> Same argument for Dustin Hoffman too.

  The only Groening allusions to this are from "Itchy and Scratchy the
Movie (9f03)" where Lisa is explaining how incredible the movie was, since
Bart is forbidden to see it.

  She says, roughly "and so many stars made cameo's, Dustin Hoffman,
Michael Jackson. They didn't use their real names, but you could tell it
was them!"...

  The selection of Hoffman and the gloved one for that line was too
coincidental to the jackson and hoffman voices in the simpsons. IMHO, it HS
to be true...

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

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From: browning@bombay.gea_esc_syr (Stephen G Browning)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Troy McClure - Acting Credits
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:45:35 GMT
Reply-To: browning@bombay.gea_esc_syr
Organization: GE Aerospace Engineering Support Center


 My favorite running joke has become the "Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure,
   you probably remember me from such ..."

 Here I have compiled a lists of credits from episodes I have on tape.
   My collection is nowhere near complete, so please add to this list,
   and post it back up.


               Troy McClure : Acting Credits
               -----------------------------

 Films:
 ------

     The Revenge of Abe Lincoln
     The Wackiest Covered Wagon in the West
     Preacher with a Shovel (with Dolores Montenegro)

 TV:
 ---

     Buck Henderson: Union Buster
     Troy & Company's Summertime Smile Factory
     Handle with Care (debut after Superbowl)

 Educational:
 ------------

     Lead Paint - Delicious But Deadly
     Here Comes the Metric System

 Home Repair:
 ------------

     Dig Your Own Grave and Save
     Mothballing Your Battleship
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson)
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?
Reply-To: canderso@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 22:03:41 GMT

In article <1ekiqkINNiuv@uwm.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1e91a2INNoqi@morrow.stanford.edu>, by AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark):
>
>>   Actually, the FORMER President said that American families should
>> be "a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons".
>
>Wrong, WRong, WROng, WRONg, WRONG!!!  *Wrong*, *WRONG*!!!
>
>Our President *is* George Herbert Walker Bush.  Mr. Bush will *remain*
>President until noon of 20 January, 1993. (Barring unforseen tradegy,
>that is.)
>
>You'll have 4 years after January 20 to gloat.  Don't rush it, buddy!
>
>[Perhaps its time to post the relevant sections of the US Constitution
>here?  As a short refresher on what makes this country tick?  The 
>immense ignorance of our government by it's citizens ticks me off.]

Sounds like a sore loser to me.

--
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     Boulder, Co. (303) 494-6278   internet:         canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu
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From: MXWA%Met%TES@encon01.encon.pge.COM
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsons Moderated Group?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:53:00 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Those of us not fortunate enough to have direct access to News have to read 
alt.tv.simpsons through a mailing list.  Every message posted to the group 
comes to us as an individual mail message.  I'm away from my computer on 
Friday and Monday, therefore I generally have 200-300 mail messages waiting 
for me upon my return.

As much as I detest moderated groups, it sure would be nice in this case.  The
signal-to-noise ratio in alt.tv.simpsons has reached a level higher than any 
I've observed in my 8 years of USENET browsing...

If someone were able to take the time to moderate a sub-group or mailing list,
filtering out the hundreds of repeated, asinine observations and references, 
questions regarding the meaning of "IHMO" and "OFF", and juvenile flames, it 
sure would be pleasant to just get the MEAT of the group.  (Said meat being 
more and more difficult to filter out every week.)  I think MANY of us would 
be eternally grateful to a person or persons able to take the time to do that.

(Before you reply with "Hey asshole, you don't have the right to complain if 
you can't do better yourself..." let me state that I would be willing to try 
to do this if (a) I had USENET access so I could actually get alt.tv.simpsons 
directly, (b) I was at my computer regularly, and (c) I had the time to do 
so.)

I know this won't happen...but hell, I can post my dreams...

Does anyone else out there miss the early days of alt.tv.simpsons, back when 
it was fun?  Reading this group (especially through a mailing list) has become
much like eating a shit sandwich, the only nourishment coming when I dislodge 
a little piece of food that was stuck between my teeth.

Mark
From: yantosca@buast7.bu.edu (Robert Yantosca)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Homer and Pink Floyd
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:49:26 GMT
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

I was watching my "Mr. Plow" tape today and I noticed that teenage Homer
had a poster of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album on the wall 
(black background, with a prism and a beam of light getting split into
a spectrum.)  

I find this interesting because one of the cuts on that legendary album
is entitled "Brain Damage."  Sounds like it would be right up Homer's
alley... :-) 

Bob "That name again is Mr. Plow!" Y.


-- 
"The Doctor" Bob Yantosca        |  "Please do not offer my God a peanut."
 Graduate Student and Time Lord  |        -- Apu, to Homer J. Simpson
 Boston Univ. Astronomy Dept.    |  "Thou hast besquirted me, O leotarded one"
 yantosca@bu-ast.bu.edu          |        -- Evil Sheriff of Dodge City
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: goehring@infonode.ingr.com (Richard R Goehring)
Subject: Re: DYN 11/12 ( warning - reference )
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:34:46 GMT

doctor8@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason Abner Miller) writes:

>In article <sheppamj.721622197@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, sheppamj@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Matthew Sheppard) writes...
>>Probably obvious to a lot of people but:
>> 
>> 
>>The Court scene where the prosecuting attourney asked if the judge
>>knew how much chrimp Homer ate and the bags of mail were brought in
>>was all too close to _Miricale on 52nd St._

>	Ahh, make that, "Miracle on 34th St." ...
>	This was a blatant reference, because the attorney says something
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>like "15 bags of mail ... all of them addressed to Santa Claus c/o Mr.
>Kris Kringle".  This was right out of the movie, and was probably too obvious
>to be a reference.                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  So are you saying the references have to be extremely subtle ??

  Or are we making up a new category ?

  :-)  :-)  :-)

  Richard " references, schmeferences "  Goehring


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From: trey@godzilla.larc.nasa.gov (Trey Arthur)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Why producers would never admit to reading this newsgroup
Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:35:14 GMT
Organization: CSC - NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov17.233611.16637@cs.wisc.edu>, rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes) writes:
|> In article <17NOV92.06423638@umbc2.umbc.edu> noel@umbc2.umbc.edu writes:
|> >	Some people said they performed an experiment to see if somone who 
|> >helped make "The Simpsons" read the newsgroup and had some success.  Then it 
|> >was asked "Why don't say they read it?"
|> >	The following is based on personal expereince from being on a mailing 
|> >list for a certain cartoon series where the producer actually appeared.
|> 
|> Do you people really believe that the producers read this newsgroup?  Are you
|> that grandiose or just nieve?  I really hope that you don't think that they get
|> ideas from this group.  God, help us all!!!
|> 
|> BARON
|> 

they not only read this group but also post here too!
didn't you see the post from MG a few months ago.

...and you think we're nieve.

trey

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From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: *MAGGIE SPEAKS-DEC.3 EPISODE*
Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:51:36 -0500
Organization: Frustrated Overachivers Foundation; Lisa Simpson, mascot.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Torsten writes:
 ^ In one of the TUS shorts, Maggie did speak.  I believe it was the episode
 ^ where Bart has a nightmare and is blamed for a whole bunch of things by
 ^ every member of the family.  Maggie says (paraphrased), "It's your fault
 ^ I can't talk!"  It sounded like Lisa, but sort of spooky.

The scene that you're referring to appeared in ``Bart vs.  Thanksgiving''
(and is classified in the same category as Homer's hallucination in
``Flaming Moe''); but otherwise, you are correct -- Maggie did speak in
the Tracey Ullman shorts.  [from memory: ``Goodnight'', (Scary Faces) and
(House of Cards); other various baby non-pacifier sounds in ``Babysitting
Maggie'' and the ``Burp Contest''.]


-- Chris Baird,, <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au> ``Goo nigh!''
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Larry Greenfield)
Subject: Simpsons in Japan
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:05:55 GMT

I got a chance to see some Simpsons in Japanese... from the 1st season. 
Like in Germany (from what I hear), Bart calls Homer dad instead of 
"Homer", although he uses "oyaji" which translates closer to "pop" rather 
than "dad" or "father" (ie, must more informal). The male voies are quite 
good and similar to the originals EXCEPT Flanders, whos Japanese voice is 
gruff and low... the complete opposite of the originals. Bart, Homer, and 
Krusty all have good voices. 
  The FEMALES on the other hand... well, Marge is certainly different, 
but she DOES have a "strange" voice, and it's not bad. My biggest bone to 
pick is with the voice of Lisa... in the original, Lisa is the smart one, 
the most mature. Yet, they give her a sweet, cutesy high-pitched voice.  
Doesn't gel well.
  the translation is pretty good, and while they don't subtitle the 
chalkboard openings, they do subtitle things in the show that need it 
(such as the sign from COD PLATTER to COLD PET RAT, they'll subtitle 
right under it).
:::::Larry:::::

--
Larry Greenfield (bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
From: paul@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Paul Fidler)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:23:18 GMT
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC

In article <1992Nov16.172606.7780@cs.mun.ca> craig@odie.cs.mun.ca (Craig Coffin) writes:
>
>
>
>So, who's Ayn Rand?

Who's John Galt? 

(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAchoke....)

Sorry...


..........................................................................
From the lair of the Wily, Speckle-throated, Burrowing, Five-toed Yak.....
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: madera@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Gangster)
Subject: Ronstadt's Mexican Song Translation...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:47:33 GMT

Just in case anyone cares, 

"Sen~or Plow no es macho, solamente es un borracho" 

means

"Mr. Plow isn't macho, he's just a drunk..."

Being Puerto Rican, I nearly died (since it's so true  =)

--
Felix "The Gangster of Love" Madera 		 madera@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
============================================================================
"They say, `Don't be afraid of flying...you'll go when it's your time...';
 what if we're up there when it's the pilot's time...?" - Robin Harris
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: How do you know?
Date: 18 Nov 1992 11:12:28 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>In a message dated Tue 16 Nov 92  1:46, Kim@inquis.enet.dec.com  wrote:
>
> K> But people here seem to think that it really was Michael Jackson!  His
> K> name wasn't used because of contracts, etc.  So, how do you know if it
> K> really was him instead of some imitator?
>
> K> Same argument for Dustin Hoffman too.
>
>  The only Groening allusions to this are from "Itchy and Scratchy the
>Movie (9f03)" where Lisa is explaining how incredible the movie was, since
>Bart is forbidden to see it.
>
>  She says, roughly "and so many stars made cameo's, Dustin Hoffman,
>Michael Jackson. They didn't use their real names, but you could tell it
>was them!"...
>
>  The selection of Hoffman and the gloved one for that line was too
>coincidental to the jackson and hoffman voices in the simpsons. IMHO, it HS
>to be true...
>
>-- 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
>              "Women and seamen don't mix, sir" -Smithers
>               "We know YOUR feelings Smithers " CM Burns

The media made a big deal of it when Dustin Hoffman appeared, but I never 
heard a similar orgy of info about the "Michael Jackson" appearance, so I was 
never sure that it really was Michael, but, unless all of the media were 
wrong, it was DEFINITELY Dustin.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@space.laafb.af.mil


Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: slevine@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Steffan Levine)
Subject: Re: A stretch of a reference
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:12:47 GMT

In article <1e11uiINN4br@gap.caltech.edu> han@cluster.gps.caltech.edu (Hari Nair) writes:
>Did anyone else think that the old man in the rest home that pretended
>to be Bart's grandpa looked a lot like Gollum from the animated Hobbit?
>
>Hari Nair
>

ahh... no
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: "john russell" <john.russell@canrem.com>
Subject: homer on display
Reply-To: "john russell" <john.russell@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:52:50 EST

"He's hideous!" -- a reference to Gargantua, the circus ape with the
scarred face?

John
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jeremy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (jeremy.l.radosh)
Subject: Re: Soylent Green...what it means!
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 15:17:42 GMT

>> >>Ok, in a nutshell here's a description of the movie Soylent Green.
>>         (description deleted)

>> >Thanx for ruining the "surprise" for everyone who hasn't seen it yet.  

>> Winnipg did everyone a favor.  It was bad--nay, abysmal.  I loved the 
>> Simpsons ref, though.
>> --
>
>Sorry, I can't help but smile at my redemption! :)

There was nothing to be redeemed from.  I keep forgetting how sarcasm doesn't
carry over the net.  My Thanx was that-> sarcasm.  If you haven't seen the
film yet, the real affect of the ending will not carry over, cuz we as a
people are already desensitized to the issues presented.  At the time the film
was released, thought, the subject matter was fresh.

In all earnestness, the original question (what is Soylent Green) clearly 
was asked by someone who din't know of the old movie.  The answer could have 
been given without that crucial piece of info., just for kindness sake.

As for the merits of the movie (your redemption), to each their own.. Soylen
Green was "ahead of its time" for a sci-fi realistic-type movie.  The problems
faced in Soylent Green were 1> the greenhouse effect 2> overpopulation
3> coroprate greed and 4> the morality of institutionalized suicide.  Do
any of these themes sound familiar.  I guarentee you that when this film was
made, only #2 and #3 were occasionaly found in Sci-fi movies.  Production
qualities aside, the film had merit.  

Jeremy

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Mr. Plow DYN (11/19/92)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 19:26:08 GMT

In article <By0xx4.DF1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:
>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.
>
I don't know how many times I've seen the rickety bridge scene in movies.
Rage with Glen Ford and Stella Stevens about a doctor who bitten by
a rabid animal and needs to get back to civilization for the cure comes
to mind for one.

--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
From: collins_w@cubldr.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Mmmm .... : Homer is not the only one
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:14:15 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


   Homer is not the only one who says: "Mmmm .... ______". In an
episode of "Lost in Space" (just shown on the Sci-Fi channel), the
robot was being recharged. The robot then said: "Mmmm .... delicious".


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P.S. Did anyone see my "Mmmm .... mermaid" in rec.arts.animation a
     while ago? You have to imagine Homer saying this (at least someone
     else mentioned that he thought it was funny also - or are we the
     only two?). Just imagine homer sitting in front of two TVs, watching
     both mermaid series ("Mmmm .... mermaids").
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