HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What was that chip????
Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:29:22 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
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In article <jbrowne.727677835@zaphod>,
jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne) writes:
>
>
>When Homer was eating the Great Aunt's chip collection, what was the second
>chip supposed to resemble?

  Others have already identified this mystery chip (several times).

  The collection of chips was hilarious.  I remember a woman who was
on the David Letterman show who had just such a collection.  At one
point, Letterman pretended to eat one of her collectibles.  The old
gal looked like she was going to drop dead for a minute, until she
realized that it was a joke.  (Or was it the Johnny Carson show?)

  This episode was, IMHO, the best of the season so far.

The fish in the "tank".
The "beer smoothie".
"The Seven Drunks".
The "See the world through the eyes of a drunk" glasses.
Lisa on acid (now we know where the writers get their inspiration).
"Duff Gardens" (which seemed a lot more fun than "Busch Gardens" -
 the best thing about the "Busch" park was the erotic birds.  The
 only thing that was missing at Duff Gardens was the tour of the
 beer plant.  At Busch, they put you in a little electric car and
 drove you through a huge manufacturing building where the beer was
 made.  What a terrible smell.)
The Disney bashing (particularly the "Main Street Electrical Parade" -
 held during the daytime - the music was amazingly similar, but just
 different enough so Disney can't sue, and "It's a Small World" - "I'm
 not sure that *is* water").
Selma using her tongue to tie her cigarette into a bow (the only time
 that I've ever seen anything like this before was in the TV show
 "Twin Peaks").
"The Erotic Adventures of Hercules".
Selma on her date with "the mole" - imagining what their children would
 be like.
"The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home" ("We put the 'fun' in funeral".)
Barney doing his thing at the sperm bank ("Put your sperm in our hands").

 A terrific show!  It had all the right ingredients, unlike some of the
episodes (like "Homer's Heart Attack"), that make the show so funny.  Seeing
Homer playing with an electric bed just isn't knee-slapping hilarious.
But this episode, with all it's biting sarcasm and it's parodies of pop
culture, is what makes The Simpsons so entertaining.

  -- Mark

"Duff beer for me, Duff beer for you.  I'll have a Duff, you have one too!"
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Sounds for a Mac
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:24:50 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Michael S. Allen wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help me out?  Where are the files with the sounds on them from
> the Simpsons?  Once I get them on my Mac, how do I set things up for them
> to play in place of typical Mac noises?  I need to get them!

Suss out Sumex-aim's sound archive.. (Read the comp.sys.mac newsgroups for
more about this.)  Michael Fulmer <mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> has
recently prepared ~3Meg of samples suitable for use with `SoundMaster'
(also avail. from Sumex).

Btw,, for everyone else who wants sounds in Their Favourite Format,
there are plenty of sound conversion utilities (eg: sox) available.
Hassle the people in alt.binaries.sounds.d or the *.wanted newsgroups
for more info.  But please be a good net.citizen and read these
newsgroups' FAQs before posting,,

-- 
Chris Baird,, ``I could feel her sweet country soul in every digitially
		encoded bit.''[8f19]
From: wilson@eola.cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: DYN (Re: Weekly FAQ...)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:24:44 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: DYN (Re: Weekly FAQ...)
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Keywords:

c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au wrote:
>  * Before posting, are you sure that what you're saying is worth
>    broadcasting to 39,000 people?  For the good of Usenet, make it
>    worth their while.

DYN that if most people followed this, there would be very little bandwidth
at all here.

Whew! It makes one's head spin. It's a nice dream though...

Tom
From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Where are the names of the episodes revealed?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:30:22 GMT
Organization: The Hosequarium South
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: loanstar.tamu.edu
Keywords: eat more moose

In article <C1Ixnt.IJo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, app45293@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ZUSS) writes:
|> 	I see that everyone here refers to the episodes by what must be
|> their official titles.  I have tried to find the title of an episode
|> somewhere in the opening or closing credits, but haven't found any 
|> yet.  Are they revealed somewhere that I haven't found yet?
|> 	Thanks
|> 

They are indeed listed at the end of the closing credits, right before the 
Gracie shhhh.  However, I think some Fox affiliates cut this.  Also, they
only pop up for a fraction of a second, so they are nigh on impossible to
catch without FreezeFrame action.

Congrats to Beppe for getting the Yentl reference that the rest of us missed
(I missed it at least) or ignored.

Any nominations for this week's BachVsFranklin-most-beaten-up-reference-that-
doesn't-matter prize?

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From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Oh, no! Not the Springfield issue!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:10:31 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu



In some article someone writes AGAIN:

>    O.K. I know it's a dead issue and we're all sick and tired of the
>damn thing, but I think this will once and for all settle the issue (somewhat).
>Where is Springfield? It can be narrowed down a little. When Lyle Lanley
>holds up a map of the places he has sold monorails to it is clear that
>North Haverbrook is in the midwest. Since Marge was able to drive there,
>one must assume that North Haverbrook is within close driving distance of
>Springfield, therefore Springfield must be in or very near the midwest.
>Sorry for beating an already very dead horse but I hope this will be the end
>of it.

 It'll be the end of it when you quit talking about it!!!
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: the name Jackie Bouvier
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:25:08 GMT

Btw, the UFA already clearly states that Marge's mother was Ingrid Gurney, born
of Alvarine Bisque and Ferdinand Gurney.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: A few late DYN's
From: rickhaan@MILORI.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:06:48 GMT
Reply-To: rickhaan@MILORI.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona


DYN: Lyle Lanley's song mentions a six-car monorail, but I'm sure in at
least one shot it only had five--anyone else notice this (or have time
to go back and check?)

DYN2: Doris Grau voiced Lurleen Lumpkin in 9F10. She was also involved
with the Tracey Ullman show, I think as a makeup person, although she
was in at least one sketch ("Backstabbers"). I think she has guest-
voiced at least once before--can anyone confirm or deny this?

Rick "Time for a Crime Spree" Haan
University of Arizona
rickhaan@ccit.arizona.edu
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Eye Chart
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:39:57 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

When Hans (I *think* that's his first name) Moleman (his signature was on 
his driver's license) was reading the eye chart at the DMV, this is what the 
chart said (sorry, I can't put the letters in proportion):

                      E
                     FP
                     TOZ
                  PDUIFCQSJ
                 YELWOCLORAC
                 NOTLEWSUNAJ
                 EWNOSREFEJ
(2 more lines I couldn't read)

Now, if you look at the last three lines above, and spell them backwards, 
they're:
CAROLCOWLEY
JANUSWELTON
JEFERSONWE

I looked through the credits, but I couldn't find a Carol Cowley.  There was 
a *Merle* Welton, who is an Animation Checker, and there is a Jefferson P. 
Weekley, who is Background Cleanup.  I wonder who *Janus* is, and who Carol 
Cowley is?

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.lafb.af.mil
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Hooray for Everything
Date: 24 Jan 93 08:38:34 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Keith Kroeger wrote:
> 
> Didn't Hooray for Everything perform during halftime of a football
> game in a previous episode?  Quite possibly the episode in which
> Lisa picks the winners of various games.  I don't remember if
> it was the Superbowl or not, but I'm sure Hooray for Everything

Close.  You're thinking of ``Bart vs. Thanksgiving'', one of the
episodes from the 2nd season.

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons scheduling
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:16:30 MST
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.99

heide@ee.ualberta.ca (Heide Cameron N) writes:

> receiving new ones on Thursdays here (and *not a week late anymore), so it

thank goodness

> seems like all of the satellite feeds should still be then too, but 99% of th
> e
> discussion didn't appear until Sunday.
> 
>         Or it could just be that Fox is more widespread than I thought...

no, it's because of local network problems (see edm.general)
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Marge vs the Monorail (references)
Summary: Truckasaurus line was a Van Damme reference
Keywords: Naughty Word Alert!
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:12:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.160316.1061@rdg.dec.com> nick@bombom.enet.dec.com (Nick Cook) writes:
>>>what movie does one of the characters say, "You're so pretty, I don't know
>>>whether  to fight you or f**k you."?
>> Maybe it was a Jean-Claude van Damme movie?  I can see the 
>>antagonist saying that line to *him*.
>
>It was a Jean-Claude Van Damme called A.W.O.L  - It was in one of the
>first fights
>he had in the underground carpark, where he punches the guy in the nuts!

Even though I haven't actually seen this movie (whew!), I can confirm
this bit of information.  You see, once I was stuck somewhere with some
record store magazine, and nothing else, so I was reading the magazine,
and I read an interview with Jean Claude Van Damme, and I think that
that interview will plague my subconcious in perpetuity.  Jean-Clod
was strutting about what an intellectual he is, and to support his case,
he bragged about the writing he has done for his movies.  He mentioned
the above line ("You're so pretty I don't know whether to fight you or
fuck you" (Which bears a striking resemblance to faux-Brando Truckasaurus'
line, with kiss instead of fuck)), and proudly declared that he wrote that.
You see, there is more to his characters than just mere brutality and
mindless violence; as this line proves, they are latter-day Socrateses,
applying subtle wit and irony to the classic struggle of man vs. himself;
the destructive nature vs. the nurturing, erotic nature.  And to drive this
point home, Jean-Clod went on to describe how in this scene he felt the
need for a cathartic release of these pent up tensions -- "So I punch
him in the balls!" Jean-Clod relates proudly, "I wrote that, too!"

-- 
                    ' ",      *
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wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: fjames@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Frances James)
Subject: Re: More on "Selma's Choice"
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:22:23 GMT

Did anyone else pick up on the reference (in the title) to "Sophie's
Choice", or am I just going crazy?

                ---Psycho
From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:52:56 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
>In article <1k3pncINN4hh@cs.widener.edu> tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
>>>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>>>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".  And of the three men on the
>>
>>um...or how about "pop" as in "father"???
>
>do you know what a pun is?  it's a word with a double meaning used in 
>a clever fashion.  Pop=father, no duh.  If it also =orgasme, then 101 Frozen 
>Pops may be a pun.  It would be a bad one.  Most are.
>-jd

My Webster's New World Dictionary  (Modern Desk Edition) defines a
"pun" as "the humorous use of a word, or of different words sounded
alike, so as to play on the various meanings."  You are thinking of a
double-entendre.  So, obviously YOU're the one who doesn't know what a
pun is.

And I seriously doubt that they ever had any intention of using "pop"
as "orgasm."  That isn't even a very popular meaning of the word.
From: strong-john@yale.edu (John Strong)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Seven Duffs
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:00:27 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

My apologies if someone already posted this, but in response to those asking
for the names of the Seven Duffs, I could only find 4 in the episode: Tipsy,
Queasy, Surly, and Remorseful.

John

- "Anything this bad has to be educational."

 


-- 
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strong@minerva.cis.yale.edu | she only liked me as a friend."                 
Yale University             |                             - Rodney Dangerfield
From: faulkner@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shane P Faulkner)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Grounds keeper Willie
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:58:25 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <C16J3u.Enw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> nchepbur@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca (Neil Hepburn) writes:
>
>	According to the Simpsons FAQ, the groundskeeper/custodian's name is
>Willie. However, my friend adamantly believes that Willies last name is McTavish.
>On which episode(s) was he addressed by this name?
>

Willie's last name has never been mentionned on the show... maybe in a book
somewhere...

BTW, I saw some haggis being prepared on TV last night.  Yechhhhh...

"Git yer HAGGIS... tastes as great as it sounds!"

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From: santafe@watserv.ucr.edu (michael a parisi)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re:THEM!
Date: 21 Jan 93 02:00:40 GMT




In article <1993Jan19.22937.6687@sj.ate.slb.com>
	poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:

>Don't recall seeing Leonard Nimoy in that movie.  If he was, it would
>have been a very small part.

You are correct, he was in THEM!  There's a part where they show
a "control room" (or "ant-central") and some guy is receiving a news
item off of a teletype machine or something like that.  The guy is
Leonard Nimoy.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Springfield City Charter
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:26:21 GMT

In article <1jn10gINNqt3@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
>OK, nobody else has brought this up, so I will.
>
>The document that the Chief of Police and the Mayor were arguing over looked 
>an *awful* lot like the Declaration of Independence.  Couldn't read the 
>signatures, but John Hancock's seemed to be the same size and in the same 
>place, and other signatures were scattered around in what looks like the same 
>pattern as signatures on the D. of I.
>
I thought the same thing so I freezed-framed on it.  The signature
with the same style and placement as John Hancock's actually says
"Jebediah Springfield".  I couldn't read anything else, but that
alone made it clear to me that while the document was meant to *look*
like the US Declaration of Independence, it was really the Springfield
Town Charter; what I mean is, no, the animators didn't just get
lazy and throw in the DI, they actually made something to *look*
like the DI, but be the actual Charter.  Or something like that.

-- 
                    ' ",      *
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wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:03:29 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

panero@cheshire.oxy.edu (Jan Panero) writes:

>In article <1993Jan19.062505.3383@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>>In article <phineas00156930016180518@brombeer.sta.sub.org> phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer) writes:
>>>uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>>>> Krauts never catch nothing satirical.
>>>>              ^^^^^
>>>Really cool... But don't be so proud of your ability to speak and
>>>understand English, especially if you don't catch any german humor.
>>>                                            ^^^^^

Proud?  What an outrageous understatement!  I'm arrogantly conceited
about it!
Ich bin stolz, ein Buerger von Welt zu sein!  :-)

>>Not "catch" but "get".  Uli, you're just going to have to watch more
>>"Golden Girls"...

That's Ool!  Oh God, I hate diminuitives!

>Is this supposed to be a correction of English usage?  If so, I would
>say "catch" and "get" are equally correct here - just very slight
>shades of meaning.  I guess you can't learn everything from Golden
>Girls...

So there!  :-)

Besides I quoted the Catch 22 from somewhere above, now deleted.  I
wouldn't use "catch" myself outside connotations of thieves and diseas-
es.

So there, too!  :-)

Face it!  I'm so much cooler than any of you, my brain cells are super-
conductive.  Anyone else out there doubting my infallibility?  :-)

I hope all those smileys showed my being generally at ease with the
world.  And that some people would be also, if they took my postings a
bit less serious.


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxciii
"And now comes ze time on Schprocket vhen ve dahnce!"
From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:29:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


beppe@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) writes:

>"Walk on the Wild Side" which is about gay prostitution (or something like
>that) and is among the most sleazy pop songs ever.

Walk on the Wild Side a pop song?  Try again . . .

(And the the song is not sleazy.  It's about the underbelly of American
culture generally.)
-- 
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge vs the Monorail (references)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:16:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Adam Trotter writes:

>I believe you are thinking of Al Pacino in "Raging Bull" 
>An excellent movie, even if you're not generally into
>these boxing stories.

Gee, Al Pacino was in _Raging Bull_? I bet Robert
DeNiro would have something to say about that...


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
-- 
"If we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne)
Subject: Re: Mystery Reference Revealed
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:05:33 GMT

beppe@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) writes:


>To what movie is this a reference?

>It's been 48 hours and NO ONE has guessed this.  The whole newsgroups is
>thus awarded an Honorary Homer's Brain award, for doughnut-brainedness 
>above and beyond the call of Homer.  Boy, will you feel silly.

>The above is loosely based on a scene from YENTL.

Er, I think instead we should be awarded the Good Taste in Movies award.


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:28:43 GMT

jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:
>What was wrong with the plot?  In case you missed it, Selma wanted to have
>a baby, but after taking Bart and Lisa to Duff gardens, decided that she
>wasn't cut out to have kids.

Some time before Homer was lying there in bed sick from his sandwich, my
friend remarked that they were going to have to get rid of Marge and Homer
somehow so that Selma could get pissed off with Bart and Lisa.  That's what was
wrong with it, it was way too pat.  A hallmark of bad writing is when you know
something has to happen but there's no natural way for it to happen, and then
the writers just throw in a completely random and somewhat stupid thing like
that sandwich to deal with it.