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From: basestu@bmerh123.bnr.ca (Jean Giblin)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:06:14 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?
>
>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 
>The Space Odyssey, near the end when the astronaut looks arrives at 
>Jupiter and sees similar things.  The look back at Homie's face 
>especially reminded me of 2001.  Without, it could have almost been Dr. 
>Who or "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"'s funky time travel vortex 
>stuff.
>
>Red Barchetta

It was definetely an homage (Homerage?) to 2001.  That particular sequence,
using a technique called 'video feedback' or something like that, won lots
of awards way back when, and for a while, the industry was completely nuts
about it (it wasn't computer graphics, but looks like it was).    

Brainstorm was also probably 'stealing' this technique from 2001.  One other
notable occurance of it was in Dr. Who (good call, Red!), where the title
sequence of the classic fourth (and a bit of the third) Doctor's reign(s)
used the same tunnel effect, with the tunnels shaped like the Doc's head,
the TARDIS, and the Dr. Who Logo.

BUUUUUUT, Homer's eye changing colour was specifically from 2001.  Cool how
they made his eye look like HAL's, huh?


nok
I am a traveller through all time and space
To be where I have been....

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From: biancol@ecf.toronto.edu (BIANCOLIN FABIO S)
Subject: Re: I know this isn't Itchy and scratchy...
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:46:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.143254.10921@ultb.isc.rit.edu> med2062@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.E. Donnaruma) writes:
>    But it will take forever to get an answer on the alt.simpsons net. 
>Anyways, I'm trying to find out all those movies that "John McClure"
>"stared" in. 
>"Hi, I'm John McClure... You may remember me in such films as 'Today we
>Kill, Tomorrow we Die' or the do-it-yourself video 'Foundation Repair'"
>
>

   His name is  Troy McClure.


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From: richarje@inga1.acc.stolaf.edu (JT)
Subject: Re: flay me to the moon
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Distribution: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:15:27 GMT


I think that we are delving into uncharted philosophical waters here, bringing
up questions such as "Is there a bad I&S cartoon?" and "What is the true spirit
of I&S?"

Well, the answer to the second is SENSELESS VIOLENCE!!!

As for best I&S, "Steamboat Itchy" and the trailer for I&STM (the suspense!)
were my favorites

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From: W9C9 <W9C9@UNB.CA>
Subject: New Christmas Special?????
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:00:53 GMT

This might be posted too late, but does anyone know if the Simpson's
will have a new Christmas special, or will it be the 'Santa's Little
Helper' episode? Just curious..........








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From: med2062@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.E. Donnaruma)
Subject: I know this isn't Itchy and scratchy...
Originator: med2062@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:32:54 GMT

    But it will take forever to get an answer on the alt.simpsons net. 
Anyways, I'm trying to find out all those movies that "John McClure"
"stared" in. 
"Hi, I'm John McClure... You may remember me in such films as 'Today we
Kill, Tomorrow we Die' or the do-it-yourself video 'Foundation Repair'"
From: rreeves@acs.bu.edu (Robert Reeves)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Wanted: Itchy and Scratchy Episodes
Summary: please post
Keywords: I&S
Date: 10 Dec 92 20:35:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA



	Please post this on the net (compilation of Itch and Scratchy together on one tape) as I too would be interested in such a beast....

			robert reeves  rreeves@bu.edu
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From: ath@po.CWRU.Edu (Aaron T. Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: RE: FLAY ME TO THE MOON
Date: 15 Dec 1992 01:53:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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The episode that Marge discussed with the producers had Itchy
steal Scratchy's pie, and then Scratchy gets angry and "throws
Itchy into a vat of acid". (They had a sketch of Itchy sinking
into the vat on the wall). Marge advised them to change the
ending.
I remember this one because it is the best evidence that the
cat manages to win too.

I also enjoyed Itchy and Scratchy beating up Hitler. if you've
never seen any of those patriotic WWII cartoons, I say that
segment was as good a parody as "Steamboat Itchy".
-- 
Woody: My uncle fell out of an airplane, but he managed to land 
	on the only haystack in the entire county.
Norm: Your uncle must be one lucky guy.
Woody: Not really. He went through the propeller first.
From: wesley@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Wesley HRJ Gaus)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Porch Pals
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:41:11 GMT
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Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In that the same episode with "porch pals" there was also the cartoon where I&S
were throwing a baseball and Marge was drawn as a squirrel(?) and she kept
saying "You can't do that.."

Also- I thought the Porch Pals was the best episode:

Can anyone correct me in the dialogue??

	"Lemonade?"
	"Please."
	"I made it just for you."
	"That really hit the spot."
	"Doesn't it though"
	"Aww, You make delicious lemonade, Scratchy."


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From: e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter /\/\odin)
Subject: Re: flay me to the moon
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
Distribution: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:40:40 GMT

richarje@inga1.acc.stolaf.edu (JT) writes:


>I think that we are delving into uncharted philosophical waters here, bringing
>up questions such as "Is there a bad I&S cartoon?" and "What is the true spirit
>of I&S?"

>Well, the answer to the second is SENSELESS VIOLENCE!!!
Or *UNPROVOKED* VIOLENCE!!!!!!!

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From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Commercials
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:01:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <104511@bu.edu> abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky) writes:
>"Today" ---a popular national morning news show--- and often pitches

	Well, I wouldn't go as far as calling it news...

MS
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From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: Re: Snowball I and Re: Prank calls to Moe: a starter list
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:08:59 GMT

Far be it from me to flame someone else, but I was struck by this.

In article <1992Dec14.155659.5667@burrhus.harvard.edu>, glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
|> In article <622@blue.cis.pitt.edu> mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken) writes:
|> >
|> >Anybody know who Snowball I was and what happened to her?
|> 
|> DON'T POST QUESTIONS UNLESS YOU'VE READ THE FAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!
|> 
|> Has this been said enough times for you now?
|> 
|> Snowball I was Lisa's first cat, and it was hit by a car.

And then the very next article on my newsserver was from Mr. Glazier, and
read:

|> Please feel free to add to or revise this; it's just what I remember off
|> the top:
|>
|> Seymour Butts
|> Ivana Tinkle 
|> I. P. Freely
|> Homer Sexual
|> Amanda Huggenkiss
|> Mike Rotch
|> Oliver Clothesoff
|> Hugh Jass

Which, of course, is in the FAQ. This struck me as being *just* a little 
hypocritical, and makes me wonder if Mr. Glazier *does* read the FAQ.

(Actually, strangely enough, there's no mention of Snowball I in my
copy of the FAQ, which admittedly is a little out of date, being the
10/12/92 version.)

I realize I'm probably gonna get flamed for this. I just don't like
seeing people flaming others when they are (IMHO) unjustified.

One other thing. Snowball I was indeed Lisa's first cat (1988-1990)
and was killed by a car driven by the mayor's brother Clovis.
(From ``Treehouse of Horror III''.)

ObSimpsons: Is Marge the first cartoon character to be depicted as
            pregnant? (She's the first that *I've* seen.) 
-- 
(By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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From: npl@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Fork Boy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Barney is not getting the press he deserves
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:00:54 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <4576.1077.uupcb@satalink.com> joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)  writes:
>
>AA|Doesn't anyone want to talk about Barney Gumble?!?

I cracked up in last week's episode when he was stuffed in the garbage can
after getting pummelled by joe frazier, and all you hear is "Hey, a peanut!
<crunch>". That was classic Barney.

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From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F09] Homer's Heart Attack DYNs
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:25:57 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BzFqoE.6Bv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:
>
>organ donation: First of all, we don't have the technology to transplant
>lungs, 

Wrong. It was done here at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center a couple
of months ago, and the patient still lives.

MS
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Subject: Re: [not about] Marge's Pregnancy
From: fenick1@husc10.harvard.edu (Sharon Fenick)
Date: 18 Dec 92 14:36:50 EST

In article <YORK.92Dec17174531@oakland-hills.lucid.com> York@Lucid.COM writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.192024.14734@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>
>   I always wondered when Fred and Wilma "did it" because they had separate
>   beds, probably because it was a family show. Nowadays, of course, the
>   Simpsons share a bed, more like the real thing.
>
>So, trivia question for all you TV-fans:  Who was the first TV-show
>couple to be shown sharing the same bed?  

		Carol and Mike Brady. 

Sharon
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From: mcardle@src.dec.com (Selena McArdle)
Subject: Re: going through Bart's First Crush with on finger on PAUSE
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 00:16:35 GMT

>>The scene where Homer puts a message in a tube and through a hole in the wall
>>is an obvious reference to Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Some hospitals/medical facilities still use this tubing system to transport
patients charts, etc. to doctors offices, O.R. & emergency rooms in an efficient
manner.
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From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
Subject: Continuity error spotted.
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:47:21 GMT

I don't know if anyone has noticed this before, but since Globas shows
two episodes on Thursday night here in Canada, I noticed this last night.

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)?


Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE          | "...My brain IBM"
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From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Hello, Joe!
Date: 15 Dec 1992 16:24:42 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
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>
>boo@willow25.cray.com (Pete Bucheger) writes:
>
>> 
>> In article <1g3aelINNs0n@morrow.stanford.edu>, AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (
>> > 
>> >   Mighty alt.tv.simpsons Reference Queens:  None of you has
>> > told the rest of us where "Grandma (Hello, Joe!) Flanders"
>> > comes from.  Now, I know what you're thinking:  "Oh, you
>> > just look for references *everywhere*, don't you"?  But I
>> > don't, really.  I just feel, deep down in my bosom, that that
>> > old lady must exist in literature, film, TV, *somewhere*!
>> > (Besides the Flanders' attic.)
>> > 
>> > -- Mark (Not a Reference Queen, but trying. Okay: a princess.)
>> > " Read the bosom part again, dad! "
>> > 
>> 
>> Isn't it a reference to the witch from the hit musical Damn Yankees?
>> 
>
>A certain Bogart/Elton John cola commercial comes to mind.
>


But didn't the commercial jsut include this clip, which was from a
Bogart movie? The way he was dressed, and from some brief memory in the
back of my head, I believe this clip was from Casablanca!

And since everybody LOVES to repeat lines from Casablanca, Grandma Flanders
would, too!


-- 

"All the good signature file quotes are taken."

					-- responses to tina@rjlg.com


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From: pki@ipsa.reuter.com (Phil King)
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Organization: Reuters Information Services (Canada) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:07:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.083305.24070@leland.Stanford.EDU> ami@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amitava Biswas) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.185354.5133@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923459@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>To Mr John P Connolly
>>
>>Wyle E. Coyote would announce himself, usually to Bugs Bunny (whom he chased
>>before moving on to the Road Runner) as "Wyle E. Coyote, SUPER GENIUS!!!" in a
>>matter in which he was very full of himself.  Not unlike this addition.
>>
>>						----Todd
>
>
>Sorry to correct you, todd, but you're off on this one.
>
>At the first meeting, Wile E. comes up to Bugs' hole with a door, sets up the
>door, and knocks on it. Bugs arises, opens the door, and at that point Wile E.
>hands Bugs a card and says "Permit me to Introduce myself. My name is Wile E.
>Coyote, Genius...". Bugs looks at the card, which says, "Wile E. Coyote,
>Genius"
>
>Much later in the cartoon (strange to be using "much later" for a 7 minute
>time span...), Wile E. is in a shed of explosives concocting an explosive
>carrot. He muses, "Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius...I like the sound of that,
>Wile E. Coyote, SUPER GENIUS" while Bugs is pulling the entire shed onto
>railroad tracks.
>
>After that explosion, a battered coyote limps up to Bugs' hole with the same
>door (establishing closure as we remember the first scene). This time, there
>is no card, and Wile E. just says, in a goofy just-been-blown-up voice,
>"Permit me to introduce myself, my name is mud." And collapses.
>
>Bugs' punchline, "And remember, mud spelled backwards is D-U-M.", was not as
>good as the rest of the cartoon.
>
>And are you sure that Bugs was his first foil?
>
>Ami
>ami@leland.stanford.edu
>

Well, this thread has got to be about the D-U-M-best I've seen for a while.
However, we can put this high-brow argument to rest now, as I saw the classic
episode yesterday and can confirm that Ami has it right.

I'm only 99% sure that Bugs was not Mr. Coyote's first foil.  Surely that was
the Road Runner.  Or was it Hendrix?  Or Bach......

/Phil

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From: ST201714@brownvm.brown.edu (L. Eduardo Romo III)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Any other cartoons depicted pregnant? YES!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:36:42 EST
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In article <1992Dec14.180859.16621@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike
Hammond) said:
  [Deleted Material]

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

     I seem to recall Wilma Flintstone being depicted pregnant with Pebbles.
It wasn't very obvious though.   Are there any others?

                          Hasta Luego,
                                      L. Eduardo Romo III
                                      st201714@brownvm.brown.edu
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Ben Johnson (was Re: Maggie Talks (with
Date: 4 Dec 1992 19:29:43 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez) writes:
> In article <1foat8INNsri@cs.widener.edu>, KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil 
> writes: |> mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:
>
>|> >|> Carl Lewis ran for the 84 US team in the olympics? 
>|> >
>|> >Yep, and I think he won the gold for the 100-metre dash, too. (I 
>*think*.) |> >I seem to remember that after the 1988 Olympics, he became a 
>two-time holder
>|> >of the Gold. (Or something like that.)
>|> 
>|> That was after Ben Johnson of Canada was caught using steroids and had 
>his |> gold medal taken away.  Carl Lewis actually came in second to 
>Johnson, but |> inherited the gold medal.
>
>Uh, about 4 years before, actually.  This event transpired after the 1988
>olympics. 

I *KNEW* somebody was going to misconstrue what I was trying to say.  Right 
after I sent the posting, I realized that my words were ambiguous.  I was 
responding to Mike Hammond's comments about the *1988* Olympics.  Hey, I 
*know* my Olympics! (Of course, the fact that I put the Lake Placid Winter 
Games in 1984 doesn't count, of course.  Obviously, they were 1980!)
:-) :-)
From: ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu ()
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: cars in ""Homer's Bypass""/Flanders Out of
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:15:03 EST
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>>noel@umbc2.umbc.edu writes:
>
>>>      Flanders in the hospital donating a kidney and a lung "To the highest
>>>bidder'!?!?!?  That is WAY EXTREMELY out of character for Ned Flanders.
>>>Donating for free yes, but for money?  Its as bad as Marge in the Maggie

The line was one hundred percent definitely "First come, first serve"
(I think)
J
From: sbookey@ep.ieee.org (Seth Bookey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Montgomery Burns-isms
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:41:12 GMT
Reply-To: sbookey@ep.ieee.org
Organization: IEEE, New York, NY


Wasn't there also a "Eddie Paycheck"?
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