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From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Return of "Where is Springfield?"
Date: 8 Jan 1993 13:29:56 -0500
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OK, folks, watching "Homer the Heretic" last night, I noticed that when 
Homer's taking a shower and listening to the radio, he's listening to radio 
station KBBL.  Is there any possibility that that's a real radio station 
somewhere?  Does somebody have access to a list of radio call letters and 
where they're located?

*Usually* (in fact, in the vast majority of cases), radio stations whose call 
letters start with "K" are west of the Mississippi.  I know this isn't a hard 
and fast rule, but it is for most stations.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: R:NOT GOING TO KILL HOMER
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess)
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-> From: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller )
-> Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
-> Subject: not going to kill Homer
-> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:06:01 GMT
-> Sender: mueller@b30.ingr.com (Phil Mueller)
-> Organization: Intergraph
->
-> Uh, people, Homer *is* the show.  No Homer, no show.  Therefore
-> they're not going to kill him.
->
-> --
-> Phil Mueller                  Telephone:  (205) 730-3231
-> Intergraph Corporation        FAX number: (205) 730-3453
-> Mailstop: GD3000              Internet: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com
-> Huntsville, AL 35894-0001     UUCP address: bogus.dont.use

Actually, I think the show is more than Homer. Bart has his role, as do
Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Moe, Krusty, Barney, Lovejoy, Flanders, and a whole
bunch of other folks. If Homer left, then I think the show would still
continue. Look at "Happy Days" -- Ron Howard left the show, and he WAS
the show (well, Tom Bosley did his role quite well), and the show still
carried on. Granted, it wasn't as good as when Howard was on, but it was
still a good show. ALso, look at "Good Times", where the father died
(can't remember the actor's name right now), and the show still carried
on. Although, I think that was because of the blossoming career of the
kid who played J.J. as a comedian. But anyway, hopefully you get the
point that one person does not make the show -- for the most part
anyway.

End sermon. :)

Chris Burgess
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From: dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa)
Subject: Re: Nietschze (sp) on the Simpsons
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:47:41 GMT
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In article <1229.49.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us> amitava.biswas@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Amitava Biswas) writes:
> 
>After his first heart attack on Homer's Triple Bypass, Homer asks Dr. Hibbert,
>"Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger, right?"
> 
>Homer quoting Nietschze? Where did that come from?
> 
>Well, here's my theory.
> 
>He's not quoting Nietschze, he's quoting Lisa.
> 
>In Dancing Homer, when they're deciding whether or not to go to Capital City,
>the kids are ambivalent until Marge convinces them, at which point Lisa
>says....
> 
>	"Whatever doesn't kill me will make me stronger!"
> 
>So, Homer must have internalized that and coughed it up from the dark reaches
>of his subconscious at the appropriate time. 
> 
>Whadda you think?
> 

Actually, I think Homer is just quoting Nietschze, not Lisa.  Homer has
been known for pulling intelligent words and quotes seemingly out of 
nowhere.  I remember in one episode, Homer actually used the word "trenchant"
in a sentence.  Hearing that really blew me away.  I think the writers put
in stuff like that, and the Nietschze quote, just for the shock value
because we viewers just aren't prepared to hear Homer talk that way.

Darren


>Ami
>ami@leland.stanford.edu
> 
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From: pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn)
Subject: Re: Homer the Heretic
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:31:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.022828.12964@oracle.us.oracle.com> dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.014151.22604@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>>Just something from tonight's episode:
>>
>>How many out there in net land keep oily rags....
>>
>>
>>                         ... in a box labeled "OILY RAGS"?
>>
>
>Where else would one keep them?  In a box labeled "SOILED LINEN"?
>
>>
>>
>>Incedently, two things occurred to me in the closing scene where God starts
>>to tell Homer the meaning of life.
>>
>>First, when Homer wanted to know, then God said that he'ld have to wait
>>unitl his death, then Homer replied, "I can't wait that long", then God
>>said that it would only be six months (we all know the treads that
>>resulted from this), as God said, "Well alright..." and proceeded to tell
>>Homer, this could imply that the *plans* for Homer's future had been changed.
>>After all, if He decided to postpone Homer's death, then He would have
>>reason to tell Homer the meaning of life.
>>
>
>No, this just implies that God changed his mind about telling Homer the
>meaning of life while he was still alive.  Why would God postpone Homer's
>death AND tell him the meaning of life?  If God's plans for Homer had
>changed, the most logical thing to do would have been to tell Homer, and
>then kill him right away.  As it is, I think we can assume that Homer will
>still die 6 months from that point even though he now knows the meaning
>of life.
>
First of all, that was a joke! A JOKE!!! Why do people still believe God
was serious in telling Homer he would die in 6 months???
Second, it wasn't even God--it was a dream by Homer in church, just like
the first scene with God in it. I think we can safely assume Homer will
NOT die in 6 months nor any time for the next few seasons!

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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: MARGE VS. THE MONORAIL: Nimoy Confirmed
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:47:32 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>
>And I've heard from a reputable source that Leonard Nimoy will
>voice in this episode, in a role originally written for George
>Takei.  Takei wanted a few too many changes to the dialogue, so
>the writers asked Nimoy instead, and to their complete surprise,
>he agreed.
>
Nimoy will indeed be present at the opening of Springfield's new monorail
in the episodes this Thursday. And Homer is the conductor!  

-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
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.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Groening's kids 
Keywords: Heap on the humor
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:58:38 GMT

>>Groening, whos name rhymes with raining, lives
>>with his wife and two sons in Venice, a beach community near Los Angeles.  He
>i heard his first kid was named homer, after the kid's grandfather.  anyone
>know the second kid's name?

A "Life in Hell" cartoon seems to indicate that it is "Abe," presumably
short for Abraham.

>-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us

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From: jeffw@cs.tamu.edu (Jeffrey A Waller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F09] Butchered in Oz,,
Date: 10 Jan 1993 02:40:01 GMT
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In article <1518@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken) writes:
|> 
|> 	Did Itchy ever lose a cartoon sequence, ie get bombed, stabbed,
|> burned....?


I don't remember seeing one, however, in Itchy, Scratchy, and Marge,
the producer gives Marge a call after she and the rest of the screwballs
have successfully "lobbied" aginst the violence in the cartoon
about an proposed story line:

[ pharaphrased ]

Producer: ... Itchy steals one of Scratchy's Cream Pies.  Naturally
          Scratchy is mad that Itchy has stolen one of his pies ...
 
          < Story board depicts mad Scratchy and Itchy running away >
          < with stolen pie.                                        >

          ... so he throws him into a bucket of acid.

          < Next frame in story board shows Itchy flailing and      >
          < dissolving in a bucket of acid.                         >


Marge:    Oh my Lord!


Producer: But we thought that might be considered violent < said 
          through clenched teeth >, so we called to see if you
          had any ideas.


Marge:    Well, let's see ... Oh, I know!  Have Scratchy ...


Producer: Yea?


Marge:    ... share some of his pie with Itchy ...
          Then they'd both have pie!


Producer: Well I'll say this much, it's different.


							-Jeff
From: chris.burgess@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: HOMER'S BYPASS REFERENCE?
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:12:00 GMT
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Reply-To: chris.burgess@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Chris Burgess) 

From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Date: 2 Jan 93 01:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588
 
I just rewatched "Homer's Bypass" again tonight, and during it, thought
of a possible refernce it in to the movie "Wayne's World," when Homer is
in the hospital, and is praying and the nurse directs him to a sign
saying "No Praying," which correlates with Wayne's playing "Starway to
Heaven" at the music store, and being directed to the sign saying the
disallowance of playing "Stairway to Heaven"... anyone else agree?
Disagree?
 
chris burgess
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From: broyles@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com (Brad Broyles)
Subject: Re: maggie movie reference
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:27:01 GMT
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In <1i8806INN6hc@agate.berkeley.edu> annie@garnet.berkeley.edu  (Anne Jessop) writes:
>
>
>                              The scene where Homer picks her up and sees
>all the babies sucking their pacifiers, staring at him, I think is a lift
>from The Birds.)
>
>Annie
>
>
>
That's definitely a reference to "The Birds".  Did you notice Alfred
Hitchcock making a cameo right after that by walking some dogs past the
school?  I still laugh out loud at that one.

Cheers,
Brad
From: phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Back in Germany
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:42:25 GMT
Organization: King Ralphs Palace , Munich


Hi OFF-Fans!


I just wanted to express my joy to you. The Simpsons are back in
german television with 24 new and 14 old episodes, starting today.
For some foolish reason they are broadcasted at 2.30 pm each day
(children's prime time). The people in Germany didn't catch the
meaning of the show (same thing as with ST:TNG), so it went to the
children's hour. But the rest of the german Simpsons-Fans will
hopefully record every episode on the VCR, so do I.


Stephan.


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From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Yes, it was obvious!!!!
Date: 3 Jan 93 06:33:45 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

> Too young to remember the '84 olympics?!?!?!  Assuming the youngest age of
> a reader of this newsgroup is 17 (which is probably even younger than the
> actual youngest age), this would still put the youngest reader around
> age 9 in 1984, which is plenty old enough to remember the olympics.  In any
> case, anyone over 20 should definitely be old enough to remember the 
> boycott controversy surrounding the 1984 olympics.  I remember the controvers
> 
> 
> Darren

Well, no, I'm 16, but I do remember the boycott very well.  Especcially 
since back then everyting was simple, the Russians were the embodiement 
of all evil, and we were always right.  It was probably the best olympics 
I've seen(of course I can only remeber 3)

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From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: That damned penny again
Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:44:28 GMT
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Keywords: eat more 93 moose

In article <1ikn3eINNk8u@cs.widener.edu>, beppe@ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) writes:
|> Something interesting in the Homer the Heretic rerun last night.  You may
|> remember when it first aired, Homer found his lucky penny and said "Ooooh --
|> 1991."  This was because (I assume) it was the first time he had seen a
|> penny with the new year's date on it, which made it doubly lucky.  If you
|> remember back to third grade or so, that used to be a big thrill.
|> 
|> Anyway, it wasn't a very good joke (the episode was aired in 1992, after
|> all).  A few people posted, saying they didn't get it.  
|> 
|> So last night, they cut this line out!  Maybe some postings do trickle
|> through to production people after all.  
|> 
|> Am I imagining all this?  I taped the rerun but not the first airing.  Can
|> anyone compare?  Does anyone know of any instance of any show being edited
|> by its production company for prime-time reruns?
|> 

well, I was among those asking "why is it such a big deal that it was 
*specifically* a 91 Penny?"  I recall asking about it because people were
making such a big deal here about spotting it, not because Homer referred to
it.  I don't think he did.

And dammit, the dude with Hendrix *did* have glasses, despite what people
have said to the contrary here.  But alas, it wasn't Alfred Hitchcock or
Ayn Rand.

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From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 23:14:44 GMT
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glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu says:

[Q/A musings about the unequal distribution of wealth and power as a 
 reflection of race (loved the parts about "Asiatic Types" and Bart's
 dreadlocks) in Springfield, U.S.A. deleted]

>Now, I ask the question again, are the Simpsons really just a cartoon, or do
>the Simpsons describe something much greater?

The Simpsons are really just a cartoon.

 -Bucky "Reefer Bassoon" Whaley

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From: james.willer@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (James Willer) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: `official' spellings of some names
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:09:00 GMT
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Reply-To: james.willer@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (James Willer) 
Summary: The Night of the DYNs

From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:24:46 GMT
<1i6q6aINN6us@cs.widener.edu>
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
 
c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird) writes:
 
 
>I was under the impression that the only irrefutable source of
>information would be the half-hour show itself, but after checking
>``Principal Charming'' and ``Homer at the Bat'', even they can't
>decide on the name of Homer's brown co-worker.  (7F15: Homer scans
>"Karl"; 8F13: "Carl" was signed on the softball sign-up.)
 
I think we can assume that Carl knows the correct spelling of his own
name. (And it's not hard to believe that Homer doesn't. Maybe he was
confusing Carl's name with his former secretary's.)
 
>Btw,, the spelling of the name for Homer's one-time secretary was
>never made clear in 7F02, but "Karl" was accepted by the newsgroup
>when the episode aired to avoid confusion.
 
I previously posted that I thought it would be the other way around,
but after sleeping on it I thought Karl was the secretary's name. (Maybe
because "Karl" is a more 'Dutch' version of the name and the secretary has
a certain 'Aryan' look to him, my wife points out.)
 
Of course Carl's name is obviously "Carl" since that's how he spelled
it on the sign-up sheet....
 
					Jamesa Willer
[it was like that when i got here]
 
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From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Simpsons picture in the New York Times Magazine
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 15:11:04 EST

   For those of you with access to New York Times Sunday edition for
today (Jan. 10), there is a nice little Simpsons picture accompanying the
article "Down and Out : Can the Middle Class Arise Again?" in the
New York Times Magazine.  It is drawn by Matt Groening, and it shows the
entire Simpsons clan gathered around the kitchen table, emptying their
money jar and finding only one penny.
   Of course, it makes you wonder whether the picture is really appropriate,
since in the best of times, I doubt Homer can find any more than one coin
in the money jar anyway. :)
 
    Junsok Yang
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From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Arc-y (Noah) song?
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:57:34 EST


If you have the lyrics to the arc-y warc-y (Noah) song please
send them to me.

Thanks very much.


Software Engineering Institute		bjz@sei.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
From: marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:46:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge, Ma, USA

Oh, Doctor!  A 98-yard triple-reverse ties the score at 63--63!
We have seen nothing but razzle-dazzle here today, three visits from
Morganna the Kissing Bandit, and the surprising return of Jim Brown!
-- Frank Gifford calls the football game, ``Homer the Heretic''

===

I believe that this was supposed to be a Keith Jackson impression.  Of course,
since Keith Jackson does college football (Saturday afternoons), and Frank
Gifford does Monday Night Football (Monday nights), neither is accurate,
since Homer is watching football on Sunday.


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From: JKWASHNA@pearl.tufts.edu (J.J. Kwashnak)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: January 21 Episode
Date: 12 Jan 1993 08:44:31 -0500
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>>According to TV Guide (which, as I recall, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who
>>also owns Fox, and also, theoretically, the rights o OFF), the 1/21

>Umm, Rubert Murdoch doesn't own anything.

>He's dead.

>(or am I *really* confused?)

Well, you're not *really* confused, but Rupert Murdoch is very much alive.
Robert Maxwell. late of the New York Daily News among others is worm food,
and turns out to be a "Creative Financing" kinda guy.

				J.J. Kwashnak
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From: alex@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Forst)
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Distribution: lrz
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:01:36 GMT

In article <t9613aa.726481933@sun1>, t9613aa@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Karl Wild) writes:
|>  
|> I'm glad that the Simpsons are back on German TV, too. On the other hand I'm
|> disappointed that ZDF is broadcasting only castrated episodes of the Simpsons.
|>       
|> Especially I'm missing the original language. Isn't it possible to broadcast
|> the Simpsons in stereo mode so you can choose between English or German?
|> I have no idea how complicated and costly this is. But maybe German Simpsons
|> fans can convice ZDF to broadcast the Simpsons in stereo.
|> 
|> 
|> Karl

I think ZDF doesn't have the rights to broadcast OFF in english. The only
way in Europe to hear the original voices is over the ASTRA-Satellite.
Sky One shows The Simpsons every sunday at 1830 GMT in Dolby Stereo.

Sorry, it seems there is no other way...  :(

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