From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:48:35 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug27.225510.26425@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>So was this the long-awaited Maggie's first words?  If so, the joke's on us!
>
>I liked this one quite a bit, personally.  Lots of good jokes, and several
>four-letter words (if one includes "ass").  Lots of little things to notice!
>

Ditto.

>Favourite moments / DYNs (in chronological order):
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>
>Around the fire, one of the hobos was eating a boot.
Was that the Charlie Chaplin hobo making a reference to the classic scene in
the movie, "The Gold Rush"?

>
>Herb called his car "Tempura", ha ha
>
>I liked that bit about "new Coke": Hobo #n: "*I* designed new Coke!"
>
>I liked Bart's looking up after his bullshit about the sofa, looking to see
>whether or not Homer was buying it.
>
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>Lisa: This award is the biggest farce I ever saw.
>Bart: What about the Emmys?
>Lisa: I stand corrected.
>[her all-time star line]
>
>Smokin' Joe Frazier: Webster's dictionary defines "excellence" as "the quality
>or condition of being excellent."
>This was AMAZING, especially because here at the University of Toronto they
>throw around this word "excellence" a lot, in a really pretentious and really
>stupid way.  We in the unions on campus, etc always go around making fun of
>their use of this word.  Such a definition in the dictionary appears to be of
>little substance; it's a reasonable dictionary definition, but to quote it as
>containing a significant amount of information just shows how shallow those
>awards, and the beliefs espoused by the current University of Toronto
>administration, really are.

The dig on the Emmys was I think very intentional.  "The Simpsons" have always
been nominated, if I'm not mistaken, for Best Animation or some other category,
never Best Situation Comedy.  This might have been the writers getting back at
not only the ridiculousness of most of these award ceremonies, but also speci-
fically at the Emmy nomination system.

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>
>Homer: Give me full power.
>Salesdweeb: But sir!
>Homer: Damnit, I said full power!
>This seems like it must be right out of a Star Trek episode or something.  It's
>a typical bone-headed Kirk kind of thing to say.  But next, the way that light
>comes out in the middle and Bart's and Lisa's faces melt is out of Star Wars.
>We then switch to a 2001 reference, which is fairly detailed, from the colours
>of the strange shapes, to that vertical vortex-like line, the reflections on
>Homer's face, and the kinds of sounds we here.

No, this was right out of "Brainstorm" which had lots of 2001-like effects.  I
couldn't stop laughing throughout this whole sequence.

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>The washer and dryer moving around was a good one.  However, they probably
>didn't need replacing if that was their only flaw.  First of all, let me say, I
>have never seen a dryer move around in that way.  I don't think they can; they
>move the clothes parallel to the ground, not perpendicular to it like a washer
>does, and the clothes shift around a lot more.  But secondly, when a washer
>moves around like that, well either your load is really unbalanced which is
>easily solved by shifting around the clothes and I'm sure Marge knows that, or
>if it does it always, your washer is not balanced right.  These days, they
>build them with a release so that you can balance the rear feet simply by
>releasing them so that they touch the ground and level.  The front two feet
>have to be balanced against each other first by hand, but the front is
>accessible.  I think that I've got it right; I must admit that it really would
>be beneficial for me to balance our washing machine at this point but I keep
>putting it off.

Those machines are probably as old as the couch, which Homer picked off of
Flanders' front lawn.

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