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From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Kamp Krusty Vague Reference?
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:19:16 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <ooZTRB1w165w@unkaphaed.UUCP> rkroll@unkaphaed.UUCP (Russell Kroll) writes:
>madera@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Gangster) writes:
>> Bart's locker combination, 36-24-36...wasn't this the measurement
>> Sir Mix-a-lot wanted on a 5'3" woman in the song, "Baby Got Back?"
>> 
>The numbers on the CD I have are ... "36-24-36 ... only if she's 5'3" "  
>.. you are correct. It's around 02:50 into track #3 on the "Mack Daddy" 
>album.

This measurement also is featured in the AC/DC song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt
Cheap" as the phone number to call.  "...just ring 36-24-36, hey, I lead a life
of crime.  Dirty deeds,...".  I remember there was a lawsuit from somebody 
who had the phone number 362-4368 getting lots of obscene phone calls...

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From: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Streetcar named Marge / Clockwork Orange
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:05:08 GMT
Reply-To: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC


-- 
DYN: When OFF was using different dialects, Bart quoted Kubrick's _Clocwork Orange_ verbatim.  Something about missing school because of a pain in his gulliver (slang for a headache).
----
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 Like Berlin, 1930,
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From: bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Larry Greenfield)
Subject: Simpsons endorsements
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:42:18 GMT

Well, in Israely, there are Elite (a chocolate company) Simpsons candy 
bars, there are Simpsons shoes (made by nimrod), and the Simpsons push 
Agfa (a German company) film...  Nope, no Simpsons Toyota ads down her, 
but they sell Butterfinger candy bars here in tehe US.
:::::Larry:::::

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From: dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYN/FF list for 7G04
Date: 24 Sep 92 21:41:47 GMT
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB

Raymond Chen (rjc@onion.princeton.edu) typed:
 
>In article <19m9bnINN10r@cs.widener.edu> dave@sys6626.UUCP writes:
>>   Kids collage fund: $88.50.
>
>So *that*'s why they were fighting over the glue at the beginning of
>``Bart vs. Thanksgiving''...
 
Sorry, Raymond, you'll have lost me.  Alas, 7F07 was one of those
episodes I sacrificed in order to make room for a new episode :(
 
I betch ya the collage fund would be a heck of a lot more if they'd
started another swear jar for Homer.  {``Damn Crappy nails #@$^&%!''}
 
 
Peter Trei (ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org) typed:
 
>>  [Didja notice...]
>
>   When OFF goes to see Munroe, the "Perfect Family" from the Burns
>picnic is in the waiting room, look remarkably imperfect.
 
Too lazy to verify this, but if this observation is confirmed then it's a
gem of DYN and one that I've missed.  {``Ahh, touche.''}
 
 
Dave              "Dad, why is the world such a cesspool of corruption?"
                                                                  Lisa.

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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: A Streetcar Named Marge
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:47:38 GMT
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In article <1992Oct2.025352.19442@mlb.semi.harris.com> eam@gumbee.mlb.semi.harris.com (Ed A. Mills) writes:
>These "let's mimic a popular movie" themes in The Simpsons are growing a bit 
>tiresome, don't you think?  The episodes are starting to seem like those 
>silly books with all of the hidden pictures: Find a "banana, turtle, spoon,
>potato (ha), blah blah blah..  "A Streetcar Named Marge" was Like: Find a
>scene from "The Birds, The Great Escape, A famous play, blah blah.. " 
>
>Cheap laughs from what used to be interesting storylines.  Exactly WHAT was
>tonight's storyline?  Marge is in a play, Homer doesn't want her to be at
>first, but in the end decides it's ok. Uh huh.  Hardly the spellbinding tales
>that Timmy down a well or a 3-eyed fish offered us.  
>
>Sorry, but from where I sit, things have changed.  It used to be about The
>Simpsons MAN!
>
>Ed
I could not disagree more!  I thought this was so funny, I immediately 
rewound the tape to watch it again.  I agree, references for their own
sake add nothing to the show, like a meaningless guest appearance (Sting,
Magic Johnson).  However when a guest voice is incorporated into the plot 
well, and the references are not just references but are actually satire,
then this device works - it wasnt funny because it was a reference to Ayn 
Rand, it was funny because it was an Ayn Rand Day Care Center - it wasn't
funny because Marge was in 'Streetcar', it was funny because it was a 
musical version.  As far as the plot goes - it was great - back to the basics,
back to simple family issues, which turn out to be funnier than plots
that are too contrived.

One more thing - i thought the animation was better.  seemed more in the
old style - less 'Hanna Barberaish', more rubbery faces, etc.  

I give it an A.

-jd

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

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: glazer@cs.cornell.edu (Scott Mathew Glazer)
Subject: Re: A Streetcar Named Marge
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:24:52 GMT

>Does anyone think today's Simpsons has lost its edge?  There's such
>a difference between today and the first season.  The characters each
>had something I missed in everyone (except Maggie) last night:  that
>*edge*.  

I thought A Streetcar Named Marge was one of the best Simpsons ever,
except for

a) Second-rate animation, and
b) A lousy, too-quick ending.

Problem (a) I can live with and adjust to, I guess...Seeing the folks
of Springfield move about in a herky-jerky, first-season manner hurts
a little, though.

Problem (b) is nothing new in the Simpsons.  Frankly, I'm used to it.

But this episode had so much:
-The Beauty Pageant ("Live from beautiful Laughlin, Nevada!")
-The whole day-care center thing
-The play was incredible!  I've never seen A Streetcar Named Desire, it
didn't matter that much!  Cheesy lyrics, done moderately well, in
dramatic situations like "You can always depend...on the kindness
of strangers!...A stranger's just a friend you haven't met!!!!"...
Had me rolling on the floor.  

I saw the episode twice last night and thought it was even funnier
the second time.

--Scott G
From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F24] - Kamp Krusy - another DYN
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:04:52
Organization: Berkeley--Shaken, not Stirred
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In-reply-to: rdault@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu's message of Fri, 25 Sep 1992 15:53:51 GMT

In article <Bv55Hs.1pH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> rdault@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Richard Dault) writes:
=>My fav. part of the show was when Bart takes out his underwear and bangs
=>them against the locker door, then makes an airplane out of it!

This underwear trick appears to be straight from Ren & Stimpy!  In
"Stimpy's Inventions," Ren irons Stimpy's (dirty) underwear, making
them flat as a board.  Stimpy proceeds to play with them.  It's a
bizarre thing to do, and given Groening's appreciation of Ren &
Stimpy, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a reference.

ethan
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From: york@oakland-hills.lucid.com (Bill York)
Subject: Re: [8F18] A Streetcar Named Marge
Reply-To: York@Lucid.COM
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:44:40

In article <BvH7tn.JKJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:

   Also, when Marge is on the phone to Homer before she found out she got the
   part, how come *he* is telling *her* what to get at the store?

This was just by way of ephasizing her oppressed condition.  It was
only during this Stella-like domestic degradation that the director
could truly spot Marge's Blanche-like qualities?

"... A bucket of chicken ... extra skin ..."
From: cobe101@emory.edu (Christopher C. Chung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Scripts wanted
Date: 2 Oct 92 01:56:18 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Does anyone have scripts to any simpsons show?

If you do, please e-mail them to 

labaks@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu.

Thanks

Chris.
From: fjs@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: US episode for 08 OCT 92 will be...
Date: 5 Oct 1992 16:07:41 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu

In addition to this upcoming epissode, I have learned from the Associated Press Newsservice 
and a spokesperson from the Simpsons (a Mr. Silverman) that future shows will deal with;`
Homer meeting God face-to-face
Aunt Selma becoming artificially inseminated
and Marge taking a job outside the loving Simpson household

If I learn anymore new information, I will pass it along ASAP.....


Frank Sereno
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Ks


"Where the men are men, and the sheep are scared....."
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: `Streetcar Named Marge' - 8f18 - Lots o' stuff...
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 17:08:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.070530.2535@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:
>   The judges:
>      Syndicated columnist - William F. George (Buckley and Wills?)

George F. Will
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: blythes@cs.rpi.edu (Stephen Blythe)
Subject: Re: `Streetcar Named Marge' - 8f18 - Lots o' stuff...
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:30:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.070530.2535@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:
|>    What Homer has to say...
|>       Montana        `A beaut from Butte...'
|>       South Carolina `Nothin' could be fina...'
|>       Delaware       `Gee, well, good for her...'

does anyone out there remember what the TV said for "Miss" Delaware ... having
spent a few years living in Delaware, I found H's complete inability to come up
with something for the "small wonder" state so funny that I drowned out what was
said with laughter ...

-steve

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 My views do not necessarily reflect those of the bozos surrounding me.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Another DYN for Kamp Krusty
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:48:53 GMT
Keywords: oliver reference

naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:

>Was that an Oliver Twist reference I saw by the talk of Gruel and then cutting
>to the office of Mr. Black who then toasts "To, Evil." Well, the "To, Evil"
>thing was an addition but otherwise it looked like the Work House's dining
>scene in the movie-musical "Oliver!"

I thought of "Oliver Twist" during this scene as well, although I wouldn't
exactly call the scene a reference.  Now, if Bart had said, "Please, sir,
can I have some more?"...


                             --Steve Stelter
                               sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: phredd@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (phredd@casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: DYN:  Flanders cut to shreds
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:31:20 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Klordny [the immature Legion APA]



DYN:  Rehearsal in Flanders home after Marge wouldn't open Homer's puddin'
cup,  His shirt is off and he has a BIG cotton guaze bandage on his right
shoulder.  Marge was really into her part!

-phredd
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: "The Birds" -- more than just a reference?
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:18:04 GMT
	<1992Oct3.033430.9991@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of 02 Oct 92 23:34:30 -0400

rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes (quoting me):
>>Some guy on rec.arts.tv claims that the "The Birds"-reference portion of
>>"A Streetcar Named Marge" wasn't just a reference--it used the actual 
>>soundtrack of "The Birds" as a sound effect for that scene.
>
>I (of course) can't -officially- deny this, but the sounds during
>this scene are -without a doubt- the sounds of pacifier sucking,
>-not- birds...  I don't see -how- it could be the soundtrack...

I should have said this, of course.  I noticed that, too, and assume
that he meant the *footsteps* were lifted straight from the film.
They did have a sort of "different" (i.e., possibly pre-recorded or
copied) quality to them.  If it weren't for the fact that I found the
difference in the soundtrack a little jarring, I would have dismissed
the notion out of hand.
--
 From the catapult of:              |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
   _,_  J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
 _|70|___:::)=}-  U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under
 \      /   baldwin@usna.navy.mil   |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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From: jwlr@dali.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: springfield is in .....
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:23:56 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

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

>Ah, but in "I Married Marge," we see Homer working in a Springfield
>colonial tourist attraction, placing Springfield in one of the New England
>states.  (Dammit, now they've got *me* arguing about this...and after I
>promised I wouldn't... :)

Oh, you mean like Colonial Williamsburg (VA)?
I guess New England is bigger than I realized! I-)


			James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all}
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bush cowardice? I think not (RE More Bush Cowardice)
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:27:57 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.politics.elections
Organization: Columbia University

Hey!  Lookit this!

In article <1992Oct2.133512.1@acad.drake.edu> vsg001@acad.drake.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.025653.21931@news.columbia.edu>, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>> --
>> "Sounds interesting....  Sounds interesting...."
>> 				-- Homer Simpson
>I have complete respect for ANYONE who can "thump" passages from the Simpsons.
>Truely you have displayed incredible intellectual prowess... I am humbled by
>your incredibly... dare I say masculine... abilities.
>		--VSG001@acad.drake.edu (Vince Goddard-ARCH Conservative)


--
"Sounds interesting....  Sounds interesting...."
				-- Homer Simpson
From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: [8F18] Streetcar - The Birds
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:43:33 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

syracurg@lp.musc.edu writes:

>      I never saw the whole The Birds.  What was going on in The Birds
>   that equated to Homer's tiptoing thru the daycare center?
>                                                     Mary Jane S.

Near the end of The Birds, as Rod Taylor(?) Tippi Hedren and CO. are 
leaving the house, the lawn and the roo are covered with birds all 
cooing. The group has to step very carefully so the birds won't attck 
them. The earlier scene when Taylor goes and gets the car is like that 
too. In this episode the sucking = the cooing and there are several 
babies perched on the shelves like the Birds were perched on the roof.
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Streetcar blows!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:12:58 GMT

lyford@dagny.webo.dg.com (Lyford Beverage) writes:


>By the way, did anyone else think that Troy MacClure (one of my favorite bit
>parts) did not sound like himself in this episode?

I thought so too, although it still sounded as if Phil Hartman was doing
the voice.  I didn't think to check the closing credits to see if his name
was listed, though.



                                     --Steve Stelter
                                       sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: "The Birds" -- more than just a reference?
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:28:31 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Some guy on rec.arts.tv claims that the "The Birds"-reference portion of
"A Streetcar Named Marge" wasn't just a reference--it used the actual 
soundtrack of "The Birds" as a sound effect for that scene.

Anyone want to confirm or deny?  Seems they'd have had to credit such
a use, and I didn't notice any such credit at the end of the program (I
didn't watch *that* closely, though).  I guess the best method would be 
to do an aural 'cmp' on the two soundtracks, if you had a tape of "The
Birds" lying around.
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From: thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom)
Subject: Re: Yet another possible reference in ASNM
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:01:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.184137@IASTATE.EDU> macster@IASTATE.EDU (Michael C Mccarty) writes:
>In article <BvMBAG.6x0@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, jroberts@shade.UWaterloo.ca (J.
>P. Robertson) writes:
>>  
>> P.S.  Some one posted that Bart said, "pain in my Gulliver".  Wasn't that
>> supposed to be "Pardon me, Gov'ner"?
>> 
>
>No, "pain in my (or possibly, me) Gulliver" is correct.  It is a reference to 'A
>Clockwork Orange,' meaning a stomach ache.  If you've ever seen this movie or
>read the book, you'll know that Bart chose an interesting character to imitate
>:-)
>
>					Mike

Actually, "gulliver" means head.  It comes from the Russian, which I believe
is "golovah."

Tom Hove
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: [8F18] Streetcar
Date: 6 Oct 1992 08:49:35 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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     Didn't Alex(c)? Baldwin recently play Stanley on Broadway a la
   in the buff in the rape scene?  I know a few years back, James
   Farentino played Stanley (according to his wife, Michele Lee, on
   Johnny Carson, at the time Farentino wanted to do it in the nude,
   but the director made him keep his Jockeys on)  Why do I remember
   these things?
     Sooo, the Oh Calcutta ref probably is NOT farfetched!
                                                    mjs
From: jcl@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (John C. Laviolette)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons spinoff
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:25:34 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix

<1992Oct1.212815.17350@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BvGz5I.Kp2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Keywords: 
 
 
    A Krusty spinoff might not be TOO bad... I think what they may be
trying to do, after all, is not so much "give Krusty his own show" as to
create a show format for Itchy & Scratchy cartoons... but "The Itchy and
Scratchy Show" would be too limited.  "The Krusty the Klown Show" would
let them try parodies and satires of other children's programs.
    The chance of failure is high, though.  Anyone remember "Uncle Croc's
Block" (same basic idea, with Charles Nelson Riley as a host)?
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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: The Birds?? HAH!
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:22:11 GMT
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In article <1992Oct5.180914.25444@bcrka451.bnr.ca> simpson@bnr.ca (Scott Simpson) writes:

>ObSimpsons:  No one has mentioned it yet, but wasn't Troy's voice really
>"off" this week?  It started out OK, but it seemed to get less and less
>like Phil Hartman's voice as he spoke on.  Troy is one of my big faves
>of the show, and I'll go nuts if this continues.  Besides, when he 
>introduced himself at the pageant, he didn't reference any of his 
>previous work.

definitely - i checked the credits to see if it was still phil hartman...
maybe he was sick...
-jd
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From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: Re: Streetcar blows!
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jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:

>troy mcclure was hosting the beauty paegent.  also, by amazing coincidence,
>he (phil hartman) was hosting a 'greatest commercials' special on another
>network.  i had come to expect better from him.

I watched part of the `A word from our sponsor...' show with Phil Hartman
(-after- watching OFF, of course  :-) and couldn't help thinking that he
sounded -more- like Troy McClure on the special, than he (obviously) did in
`Streetcar...'.  As someone suggested, maybe he was sick with a cold or a
sore throat that day...  He just didn't have that `radio announcer' tone
he usually brings to the part.

Ron `You're a dame and I'm a fella...' Carter
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