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From: irwin@galton.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin)
Subject: Dec 31 Episode?
Summary: What is it, a repeat? 
Organization: Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:17:06 GMT

Does anybody know what episode will be shown on Dec 31st?  I've been
able to find out that Lisa's Pony is on Christmas Eve but I want to find
out if I have to set my VCR for New Years Eve.

Mark

Mark Irwin     Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago
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From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:30:42 GMT
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex

In article <BALDWIN.92Dec11101535@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>
>Once again: the cartoon in question is "Operation: Rabbit."  The
>Coyote *never* used the words "Super Genius" in the presence of Bugs,
>merely "Genius," which also was printed on his business card.  The
>Coyote became convinced of the "super" nature of his particular
>"genius" only toward the end of the picture, and he was talking to
>himself (he did a lot of that).
>
>And he first chased the Road Runner in 1947.  "Operation: Rabbit" was
>50's-vintage; late 50's, I think, for that matter.  It was, to my
>knowledge, the only meeting between the two.

Wile E. met with Bugs on two other occasions: one where the closing gag
was Wile E. saying his name was Mud, and another where Bugs was filling
in for the Road Runner.  I'm afrad I don't remember the names of these
two...

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From: york@oakland-hills.lucid.com (Bill York)
Subject: [not about] Marge's Pregnancy
Reply-To: York@Lucid.COM
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:45:31

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?
From: zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:26:17 GMT
Organization: Temple University
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Seth Bookey (sbookey@ep.ieee.org) wrote:
: There are many take-offs of scenes from "Citizen Kane" in every few episodes over the

: past three seasons.  When Mr. Burns hosts the retirement party (in episode where Marge

: works at the plant), the song Smithers sings is a parody of a song sung to Kane at a

: party at the newspaper office

A real subtle one...I wonder how many people noticed this.  In an earlier 
episode, when Mr. Burns was dying (I forget why), the window and curtains 
behind his death bed were those in the death scene at the beginning of Kane.


John
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From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: 2 Cars In Every Garage, 3 Eyes On A Sperm (was Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius)
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:03:47 GMT

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?

First, I believe that was definitely a three-eyed Homer-sperm. (A Hosperm?)
I'm not absolutely certain, however. (But if it is, is this a reference to
``Two Cars In Every Garage, Three Eyes On Every Fish'' [7F01]? It probably
isn't a ref, but it's fun to say so and watch the flames fly! :-) :-)
If it *didn't* have three eyes, then it would have been a normal sperm, no?

Second, I don't think it was meant to be a vibration effect. The impression
I got was that it was supposed to be a *focusing* effect--the Hosperm 
started off as being slightly out of focus, then were brought into focus
in fits and starts, which is what you'd expect with a microscope. 

Note, though, that the Smithersperm were in focus, with no focusing effect.
(Hmmmmmmmmm...I wonder why Smithers seems to have gone out of his way to
show his sperm to Burns. :-) :-)
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From: barcheta@admiral.uucp (Alec Cornell)
Subject: Re: Continuity error spotted.
Reply-To: barcheta@admiral.uucp (Alec Cornell)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:33:30 GMT

> 
> 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, the way I see it, he must have gotten married between seasons, 
lived in the Lower East Side of Springfield for while, had Bart, and 
moved to the "new" house, all between the airing of the episode where 
JR was shot (a season ender) and one where you found out who shot him ( 
a season premier).  Except Bart was two when they moved to the new house, 
wasn't he? 

Maybe it was rerun, or maybe he was watching it off his so far 
unmentioned extensive Beta tape collection.


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From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 2 Cars In Every Garage, 3 Eyes On A Sperm (was Re: Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius)
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:47:44 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
In-reply-to: mhammond@bnr.ca's message of 11 Dec 92 14:03:47 -0400

I wrote:
>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?

Both mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) and pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr.
Vincent Vaugn), in articles <1992Dec11.180347.3385@bmerh85.bnr.ca> and
<Bz3u2r.Kp0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, respectively, wrote to correct me.

After a second viewing, I must agree.  I didn't freeze-frame long
enough to catch the "swim-on" just before Smithers took the slide out
of the microscope.  That little guy did indeed have three eyes.
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From: FELSON_ADJ@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Date: 13 Dec 1992 07:58:27 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
! 
! 
! ^    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.
! 
! Write to archie-server@cs.widener.edu, Subject: send simpsons movie_refs
! 
! ..which lists most of the popular allusions noted in alt.tv.simpsons'
! three year history. (Up until the late 3rd season.)
! 
! ^ This last episode also contained a parody that I think was from the
! ^ movie Brainstorm ... Did anyone else notice?
! 
! Only about several billion others (I exaggerate) posted this immediately
! after the premiere a few months ago.
! 

I saw it the first time this week.  The movie being parodied during Homer's
hallucination was "2001: A Space Odyssey."  I especially like the bit
with homer's eyes blinking in different colors.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@worldlink.com>
Subject: Montgomery Burns-isms
Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:20:11 GMT
X-Mailer: WORLDLink (3.11)

Is there a list of the phrases Burns has used to describe his employees? 
A recent post mentioned "Johnny Lunchpail" and "Sally Housecoat," and I 
can remember (I think...) "slack-jawed troglodytes," "jackanape," 
"lollygaggers," and "noodleheads." Others, anyone?

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From: travgod@next06wor.wam.umd.edu (Travis R. Whiting)
Subject: {Bad} Cops in Springfield
Keywords: The Lyrics to the theme
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:55:32 GMT


Just a modest request:

When the weekly summery of the newest episode is made, could you please  
include the lyrics to the theme to "Bad Cops In Springfield?"

I was trying to watch "Cops" earlier, & I couldn't stop laugh when I  
started to think about this weeks Simpsons opening.
From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Commercials
Date: 10 Dec 92 18:31:25 GMT
Organization: Boston University

In article <1g5a18INN714@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
+mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Murphy) writes:
+>In article <1992Dec7.194113.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> tmeehan@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
+>>I don't mind a little bit of product endorsement, but WHY does Global here 
+>in>Ontario run a lot of the Simpsons' Toyota and Butterfinger commercials at 
+>the >breaks?  Is it the same elsewhere?
+>
+>Nope.  I'm in Chicago and I have yet to see either commercial aired during 
+>theSimpsons.  
+
+Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that there was a Federal Trade Commission 
+ruling (which, of course, would only apply to the United States) that 
+characters appearing in a particular TV show can't be used in commercials 
+during that same show.

Gee...I wonder if anyone has ever told Willard Scott about this?  (For
our readers outside the USA, Willard is a weatherman [of sorts] on
"Today" ---a popular national morning news show--- and often pitches
products on commercials during the show).

ObSimpsons: Why hasn't Willard Scott guested on OFF? His birthday
greetings to centenarians are annoying enough to compete with a "Mr. Plow"
spot. 

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From: juvirtan@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jukka A Virtanen)
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in how many countries?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:22:19 GMT

In <1992Dec13.060628.16763@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> a74k110@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Peterson) writes:

>  I was just reading the interview in Spin magazine with Groening, and he was
>saying how there's all this neat Simpsons items around the world, i.e.
>Australian bread, Indonesian soda, Israeli babywipes, etc.  It got me thinking,
>in how many countries can people watch the Simpsons? I had no idea that 
>they had gone worldwide.  Anyone have a list of countries?
 
You may count in all of Europe except the Eastern block. I'm not sure
about Asia or South America but I guess we're dealing with at least 50
countries worldwide.
 
Let me see... I have a Bart-poster hanging on my wall, my sister's wearing
Bart-socks and there's some Bart-soap in the bathroom. :)


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From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Mindless patriotic drivel
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:59:30 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:

> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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!
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *I* don't understand what's so wrong with patriotism.  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.  It's 
> not like they do it in every episode.  It happened ONCE, for G*d's sake!

Besides, the day I think of the Simpson's as a patriotic show is the day 
that rivers flow with blood and all that.  Its unthinkable, esepccaily 
after reading Life in Hell books long before the simpsons came out.

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From: pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn )
Subject: Re: Snowball I
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:54:24 GMT

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?
>>MS
>>-- 
>>			Revenge is a dish best served cold, Smithers!
>>Internet: mxsst1@pitt.edu,       Anonymously: wi.6194@n7kbt.rain.com        :)
>
>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.
>

Hey! No reason to flame someone just because they didn't read the FAQ!
Maybe the poster doesn't know where the FAQ is--I know I couldn't find
it for a while after I started reading the Simpsons newsgroup. I find a lot
of discussions here a lot more trivial and wasteful of bandwith than simply
asking what happened to a cat. Get off your soapbox and relax!
			-stressed out soapbox rebutter now gets off HIS
				soapbox and tries to relax! :------)

		
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From: ipgrier@compass.uwaterloo.ca (Iain P. Grier)
Subject: Re: Prank calls to Moe: a starter list
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:27:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.160116.5768@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>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

	Al Coholic
        Jacques Strap
        Bea O'Problem
From: dufortm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Dufort Michel)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Baby talk translator
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:49:42 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


        It is know that when then automobile was invented, we tought
        that it was an invention worth to be used by everybody. But
        now it's a major poluant and has become an other big society
        problem. Altough the intension in building the automobile was
        a good one right?

        How about the baby stranslator? Would it's devellopement do
        any dammage to the education of the baby and young children?
        I mean the intention is good but would people get the habit
        to use the baby transator rather than teaching the children
        to "talk realy"?

        This is not for homework. I'm just suggesting this as a new 
        topic for the newsgroup.

                                                Mike
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: barcheta@admiral.uucp (Alec Cornell)
Subject: Re: Movie Parodies
Reply-To: barcheta@admiral.uucp (Alec Cornell)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:41:58 GMT

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?
> 
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> 

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

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From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: HELLO, JOE!
Date: 10 Dec 92 23:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

> In article <1g3aelINNs0n@morrow.stanford.edu>,
AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Pat
> com Team) writes:
>>
>>   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! "
>>

boo@willow25.cray.com (Pete Bucheger) writes:

> Isn't it a reference to the witch from the hit musical Damn Yankees?
>
> Boo

I've never seen/read/heard "Damn Yankees," but another possibility
(although a EXTREMELY unlikely one) could be that song from way back
when, about Joe DiMaggio, in which there is the line "Hello Joe, whaddya
know?"

chris burgess
chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: slewis@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (scott.b.lewis)
Subject: Query about Simpsons sounds in WAV format
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:30:53 GMT
Keywords: Windows MSDOS Simpsons Homer Groening

Does anyone have some Simpsons sounds in MS-Windows' WAV
format?  I'm particularly interested in the (now famous)
[Homer] DOH! 

I tried the archives listed in the faq, but no luck.

Please respond to slewis@hound.att.com via email.

Thanksinadvance,

Scott