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From: Andy@birdland.UUCP (Andy Patrizio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 2 Cars In Every Garage, 3 Eyes On A Sperm (was Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:00:43 EST
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In article <1992Dec12.152939.28443@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, Alan J Rosenthal writes:

> >If it *didn't* have three eyes, then it would have been a normal sperm, no?
> 
> Well, actually normal sperm don't have eyes.  :-)
> 

Then how do they find the egg? :-)

(I'M JOKING!)

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From: sramirez@hopi.intel.com (Steve Ramirez)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Lincoln Savings - DYN
Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:17:23 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
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Did anyone notice how in the "Maggie Speaks" episode when Homer
told Baby Lisa that he was starting a college fund for her at
"Lincoln Savings"? For those who don't read the papers, Lincoln
Savings was one of the most notorious offenders in the S & L crisis
a couple years ago, and their president, Charles Keating, is 
consdered to be the biggest crook in the scandal.

I wonder if Homer even knows? I think it would have been funny to 
show him flashing back to that scene and then, a "D'oh!!" 



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and get drunk and criticize each other"     - Sid Vicious on Johnny Rotten
From: josher@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joshua Michael Powers)
Subject: Re: Hello, Joe!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 00:56:51 GMT

Actually, 'Hello, Joe,' *is* a Bogart quote, but not from Casablanca.
I saw the movie that it is really from recently, but I forget the title.
It was not very well-known, and was standard anti-Nazi war propaganda.
Bogey stops would-be Nazi sabatoeurs (sp?) from blowing up the second fleet
or something like that.

josher@leland.stanford.edu
From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:29:01 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: ami@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of 16 Dec 92 06:52:04 -0400

In article <1992Dec16.105204.11298@leland.Stanford.EDU>
ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas) writes, quoting
jimdean@bnr.ca:
>>Poster #2 knows of what he speaks...such a thing as Bugs Bunny
>>substituting for the Road Runner does exist, and is one of my
>>favourites...unfortunately I do not recall a title for you...I do
>>remember that Bugs had to take vitamins to stay as fast as Road
>>Runner. 		  ^^^^^^^^
>
>Vitamins, huh? Uh, yeah, sure. :-)
>
>Just like the "power pills" Underdog had stashed in his ring, right?

Those were No-Doz.  The way they made little US Flags appear in
Underdog's eyes should be a dead giveaway (that always happens to me
about the tenth cup of coffee).
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From: ffr@strider.UUCP (F Frank Rowe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Wasn't it obvious ?!
Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:36:42 -0500
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bcopelan@cs.strath.ac.uk (Barrie Copeland) writes:
> I'm pretty sure I saw the three-eyed sperm.  I'm also pretty sure
> it was a dig at radiation effect on genes.

Jeez, wasn't this obvious?
I'm not trying to take a dig at Barrie here, it's just that I'm
continually amazed at how some things are immediately obvious to some
people, while ....

Other recent examples in this newsgroup:
The fact that Lisa's sax solo changes from show to show; the fact that
most communist countries boycotted the *real* olympics in '84 in LA,
just like in "Maggie's First Word"; and the fact that the president's
reference to his "22 million bosses" was *satire*, and not "mindless
patriotic drivel"!

I thought these were so obvious, they didn't even need to be pointed
out.  Of course, what scares me is the realization that there must be
some occasions where *I'm* the one who "doesn't have a clue".  Argh.  :)

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From: fjames@CS.Stanford.EDU (Frances James)
Subject: Re: Snowball I and Re: Prank calls to Moe: a starter list
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:18:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.180859.16621@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:
|> 
|> ObSimpsons: Is Marge the first cartoon character to be depicted as
|>             pregnant? (She's the first that *I've* seen.) 
|> -- 
|> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|> |      Mike Hammond      | ``Yes, I'm...too wascally for Bugs Bunny,  |
|> |     BNR Ottawa, and    |   Too wascally for Bugs Bunny,             |
|> | Co-op Student from the |   So wascally...it's almost funny!''       |
|> | University of Waterloo |                        Right Said Fudd,    |
|> |      Math Faculty      |                      ``I'm Too Wascally''  |
|> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Wasn't Wilma Flintstone pregnant with Pebbles?  I remember seeing the episode
where she was born.

                                      ---Psycho
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:51:08 GMT

In article <37911@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> 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?

Well, that sequence was taken almost directly from 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
I haven't yet seen anything in TS that reminds me of Brainstorm...


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From: rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9f08] alpha release (corrections please)
Date: 20 Dec 92 15:32:16 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette

g-martin1@uiuc.edu (Gregory A. Martin) writes:

>==================================================================== 17-Dec-92
>[9F08] Lisa's First Words
>==============================================================================
>
>Bart:   Mom, dad, she can talk! Say it again, Lees...
>Lisa:   Bart. Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart, Bart.
>Bart:   I'm her first word.
>Marge:  Well, I'm not surprised. Lisa's crazy about you. She thinks you
>        hound the moon.(????)


I thought the phrase was 'hung the moon'....

Rendell

p.s. another great post, Gregory
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F23] Brother, can you spare two dimes?
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:55:21 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

Was this broadcast before, and when?

I hadn't seen it until last week.


_Home Alone 2_ has now grossed over $90 million.

	** Macaulay Culkin: HE MUST BE STOPPED !!!! **
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: kevin@dipl.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Kevin Anderson)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Reply-To: kevin@dipl.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:12:38 GMT

>>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.

Run, don't walk, to your nearest dictionary and look up the word, "satire"
From: marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:59:11 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge, Ma, USA

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?

A frame of this sequence was reprinted in some magazine I was reading a couple
of months ago, and it clearly shows a 3-eyed sperm.


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From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:46:51 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <ellert.724718233@ds2.uh.cwru.edu> ellert@ds2.uh.cwru.edu (Ed Ellert) writes:

>So this is a reach, but what do yall think?  Homer J. Simpson, Rocket J.
>Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose.  Any similarity?  Could it be
>intentional?

To quote Marge Simpson:
"Well, Duh."	(Flaming Moe)

				Jamesa Willer
[don't call us, we'll call you]
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu ()
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F09] Homer's Heart Attack DYNs
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:51:56 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

In article <BzFqoE.6Bv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
(Raymond L. Gilbert) said:
>   Trauma
>   ---------->
>   Jacques: finger stuck in bowling ball
>   Willie:  arms stuck?
>   old geezer: beard caught in bicycle
>   karate instructor: hand stuck in wood during chop
>   Apu: neck stuck?
>   Krusty: SSBob stuck in human canon
>   Wiggum: mouth stuck open
>

Looked to me like Apu took it in the shoulder once again. Remember his
instructions to Homer upon hiring him at the Kwiki-Mart?
"Take it in the shoulder."

Bandages on Apu's shoulder...

J
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Mindless patriotic drivel
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:03:58 GMT

KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
>*I* don't understand what's so wrong with patriotism.

Fine.  This is a political disagreement we have.  It explains how you
appreciate that scene while others of us find it distasteful.

>If you don't feel that
>the writers of the Simpsons (and the actors as well) have a right to express 
>their feelings of love for the country, then don't want the damn show.

I don't know what you're talking about about their "right to express"
something.  I'm not saying they should be prohibited from including something,
just that I think it produces an inferior show.  Surely I can criticize a work
of art without being called a censor.  Well actually, apparently not!

>It's not like they do it in every episode.  It happened ONCE, for G*d's sake!

I think it's part of a pattern and quoted another episode, Itchy & Scratchy &
Marge, which I think has the same pattern of expressing somewhat left-wing
sentiments at first but then apologizing for them at the end.  I dislike this
pattern and it has happened several times.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
Subject: Re: Continuity error spotted.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:18:01 GMT

In article <1gb9tfINN80l@cs.widener.edu>, KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
|> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
|> >In the episode with Homer's low sperm count, when the couch is broken,
|> >he remembers all the fond memories on the couch.  One such memory is that
|> >of finding out who shot J.R. on Dallas.
|> >
|> >At 8:30, the episode where Marge thought she might be pregnant was shown.
|> >While she was visiting the doctor's, Homer was telling the kids about when
|> >they got married.  In the scene where Homer was working at a fast food
|> >restaurant, Marge came through the drive through to ask that he return
|> >home.  He tore off his uniform and underneath the shirt, was a T-shirt
|> >that said, "I shot J.R.".
|> >
|> >How could he have such a shirt at such a young age (with hair) when
|> >he watched the episode telling who shot J.R. when he was older (and balder)?
|> 
|> Well, this is just a *suggestion*, but:
|> J.R. was shot on the last episode of the season (what year was that, 
|> anyway?), but his assailant wasn't revealed until the first episode of the 
|> following season, which I think was shown in October.  During that summer, 
|> lots of those shirts appeared.  So, maybe Homer got old and bald between the 
|> time that he bought the shirt, and the time he found out who shot J.R..
|> Like I said, just a suggestion. ;-)

And Homer might not have seen the relavation for years, until some syndicated
re-run.


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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Continuity error spotted.
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:19:16 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.214721.14971@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>
>How could he have such a shirt at such a young age (with hair) when
>he watched the episode telling who shot J.R. when he was older (and balder)?
>
Knowing Homer, the flashback was probably him watching a rerun...

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From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Warner Brothers cartoons
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:57:08 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Okay, since the subject has come up, been beaten to the ground, and been 
trampeled:

Is there a news group or mail list for Warner Brothers cartoons?

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons isn't JUST for non-thinking right-wingers
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:42:22 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Dec14.215403.25014@adobe.com> asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.151216.27981@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>The point is, many of us found that statement morally offensive.  We don't
>>believe that the president of the USA takes direction from ordinary people; we
>>think that he is opposed to ordinary people and acts immorally.  We think that
>>having him say pleasant saccharine things about how properly he acts is
>>offensive.
>
>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!

-- 
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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: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart & Joke Names to Moes
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:57:28 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Dec10.140921.9703@zoo.bt.co.uk> gah@zoo.bt.co.uk writes:
>Apologies if this is an FAQ...
>
>Is there a definitive list of the joke names that Bart uses on 
>the phone when calling Moes bar?
>
>Please e-mail
>
>Geoff
Me Too, Me Too : glazier@isr.harvard.edu
:ew


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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: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Maggie Talks (with DYNs & quotes)
Date: 4 Dec 1992 19:29:19 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

wms@ssd.intel.com (William Shubert) writes:
> Too much caffeine caused KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil to type:

Oh Yeah?! What makes you think so?  I'm always this hyper! :-)

>>And Grandpa winning the house by participating in rigged game shows in the 
>>50s.  I wonder what show he was on, and what his category was?
>
>   Wasn't there some scandal a long time ago with the game show called
>"The $<whatever> Question"?  The game had people sealed in a room at the
>end of the game and asked a question.  As I remember being told, it was
>discovered that the producers were feeding the correct answers to
>contestants who were popular with the audiences.
>                               -Bill (wms@ssd.intel.com)

It was the $64,000 dollar question that Bill's referring to, but actually, it 
turned out that there were *several* quiz shows that were rigged.
Joyce Brothers was one of the contestants on $64,000 Question (Although 
*NOBODY* claims that Dr. Joyce was involved in any shenanigans.)  Her 
category was *boxing*!  This was where she got her start as a personality, so 
that she could appear on just about every TV show ever produced.
From: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl (koos van den hout)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Even the NeXTStation says "D'oh"
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 23:03:49 GMT
Organization: HIN / BBS Koos z'n Doos
NewsSoftware: Rnf 0.71b

Today I first encountered a NeXTstation (hmmm... too much PC's for me lately I
guess).

Anyway, being the kind of freak I am, I clicked around a bit, and when the time 
came that the system had to make an alert sound towards me, it said the
ultimate correct word :

"D'oh"

And loud too (nice work in a full classroom).

Now that makes the real Simpson lover happy. A computer that says "D'oh" right
out of the box.

When I found the prefs, the sound had the perfect name 'Homer'.

If only life was as perfect as this every day.

(How, oh how do I make OS/2 2.0 do this ? It has sound settings. Sure. On+Off.)

                                        Grtx. KH

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From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Spotted my first ref!
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:23:30 GMT

Well, I never thought I'd see the day, but I spotted my first totally unfounded
reference in the "Homer gets a Heart Attack" episode tonight.  When the roast
pig tells Homer that the best meat is in the rump, it reminded me of the "Dish
of the Day" in Restaurant at the End of the Universe. 

Anybody else notice this, or am I simply starting another flame-bait thread?


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From: alan.kennedy@canrem.com (alan kennedy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: simpsons vs. disney
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:50:16 GMT
Reply-To: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


    - news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:

-> 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 release
->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.

I have to throw in my 2 cents here...

Firstly, I have never been a fan of Disney animation, (I prefer Buggs 
Bunny). It is without a doubt the best (classical) animation around, but I 
don't like the types of stories they do. However, I think I am a minority 
here (Box office receipts tell you that). But this is like comparing 
apples and watermelons. You can't compare them just because they are both 
animated. I mean you wouldn't compare Seinfeld to Ishtar right?

->clever, humorous, original, witty, and better for young kids and adults
I have to disagree here too. If I had kids (under 12 or so), I don't think 
I'd want them watching OFF. It is a VERY adult show. My brother had a 
tough time explaining to his 7 year old why he was laughing at the line 
"Women & seamen don't mix." 

->    Sure, the Simpsons animation is not state-of-the-art, but who cares
While not the same style or qulaity as Disney, the Simpsons is very much 
state of the art. The quality is amazing for a weekly show, and they do a 
lot of difficult things (like 3D scene moves).

So what am I tring to say here? I LOVE the Simpsons and not Disney, but 
that is my opinion & there are millions who are the other way around. But 
they are both very well done for what they are.

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