Okay, some friends and I were talking about various film ideas and we came up with this idea for a game. Fox has decided to greenlight a Simpsons movie (not really, just for the purposes of this game) and because Rupert Murdock is such a tightwad he’s decided to cut a lot of corners on the deal. The first is the director, he’s hired a total unknown (that’s you) and the second is that rather than pay the writers to create a script, they’re simply going to do a shot for shot remake of some other movie with the Simpsons characters as the actors. No changes to the dialoge, plot, etc. whatsoever. Fox has also decreed that if the film does well, they’ll simply make another Simpsons movie the same way. Given that, the rules of the game are thus:
No Simpson character can play multiple roles unless the actor who’s role they’re assuming did so in the original film.
Any Simpson character is fair game, except for guest stars who played themselves in the episode(s) in which they appeared.
Any character voiced by an actor who is no longer living may not be used.
Male characters can’t portray female actors unless it was done so in the original film (the reverse is also true).
If the film spawned a sequel, the same Simpson characters can only appear in the sequel if their counterpart did so as well. (i.e. you can’t do all 20-odd James Bond films with Marge as the Bond girl in each one).
You don’t have to cast every role or Simpson character to play.
Scoring: 5 points for every film idea, 1 point for every Simpson character you use, 5 bonus points for using more than ten Simpsons characters. I’ll give an example film to get the ball rolling (feel free to use it, for yourself, but for it to count, you’ll have to do the prequel and cast more of the characters): The Empire Strikes Back
Luke – Bart
Leia – Lisa
Han – Milhouse
Obi Wan – Grandpa Simpson
Yoda – Moe
Vader – Smithers
Emperor – Burns
Chewie – Homer
Vincent: Bart
Jules: Milhouse
Ringo: Homer
Honeybunny: Marge
Marsellus: Mr. Burns
Butch: Apu
Mia: Lisa
Zed: Krusty
Maynard: Sideshow Mel
The Gimp: Flanders
Drug Dealer: Reverend Jones
The Wolf: Sideshow Bob
Lance: Moe
Marsellus (in Dr. Seuss style sing-song): And what happens in the second round?
Butch: Dot is wheen my ahss goes down
Marsellus: And what happens if my plan goes flop?
Butch: Into my ahss a cap will pop.
Lisa: I’ll have the five dollar milkshake.
Waiter (Corey Feldman): You want it Arnold & Willis or Wally & Beaver?
[later]
Vincent: Cowabunga— that’s a good milkshake. You should have one. PSYCH!
Jules (Milhouse): The path of the righteous man is best on… no, it’s set… it’s… oh man, I wrote it down but having to read it just kills the mood.
Lance: Ivana Bigcock? I SAID, IVANA BIGCOCK! WHY DOESN’T ANYBODY ANSWER WHEN I SAY IVANA BIGCOCK! No, there’s no Ivana Bigcock here… wait… are you calling me on a cell phone? Prank Call! Prank Call!
Honeybunny: I love you pumpkin!
Ringo: I love you too honeybunny! Nobody move this is a robbery!
Honeybunny: Any of you fckin’ pricks MOVE and I’m gonna execute every motherfckin last one of you!
[Alright, the last one is the same as in the movie, but I’d still love to here Marge say it.]
The Princess Bride
Westley/The Man in Black - Bart
Princess Buttercup - Laura Powers (voiced by Sarah Gilbert)
Prince Humperdinck - Jimbo Jones
Fezzik - Nelson
Vizzini - Martin
Inigo Montoya - Otto
The King - Homer
Count Rugen - Kearney
Miracle Max - Principal Skinner
Valerie (Max’s wife) - Mrs. Krabappel
Yellin (the head of the guards) - Dolph
The Albino - Groundskeeper Willy
The Boo-ing Woman in Buttercup’s dream - Jackie Bouvier (Marge’s mother)
The Clergyman - Rev. Lovejoy
The sick boy - Rod Flanders (or Todd Flanders, either one would work, and I forget which is which)
The grandfather - Grandpa Simpson
The sick boy’s mother - Maude Flanders