This is basically a parody of Cobsy himself, and not his recent diatribes against modern popular and black culture. And if we’re going to mention Bill Cosby parodied on the Simpsons, you can’t forget:
Cosby (as Mr. Huxtable, on the set of The Cosby Show): Hey kids, meet your grandpa Murphy!
His Youngest Kid (either Rudy or the one Raven-Symone played): But we have three grandpas already.
Cobsy: But this one’s a famous jazz musician!
Kid: They all are.
Cobsy (to Bleeding Gums): You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin’ and the hoppin’ and the bippin’ and the boppin’, they don’t know what the jazz…is all about. You see, Jazz is like a Jell-O Pudding Pop…no, it’s actually more like Kodak film…no. Jazz is like the New Coke- it’ll last forever. (chuckles to himself)
Seeing as this was a show from the 1970s, this looks to me more like Family Guy material. Perhaps Peter himself, in a striped sweater, as part of the cast. What would the joke be? I don’t know. “Well, uh, what about Naomi? And if you tell me you don’t know who she is again…” I got nothin’.
A really funny South Park episode is simply called **Simpsons ** Already Did It
Butters, in his role as “Professor Chaos,” has been trying to figure out a way to bring disarray to the town; however, his assistant, General Disarray, keeps pointing out that each of Butters’ plans (aside from being ridiculous) have also already been done by the TV show The Simpsons. Butters finally goes insane, seeing the entire town as if it were the **Simpsons’ ** town of Springfield.
When Butters sees the Sea People, and discovers that they believe Cartman to be a god, he screams that it is a copy of the Treehouse of Horror short “The Genesis Tub,” where Lisa **Simpson ** brings to life a civilization to life in her tooth which think that SHE is a god. It is then pointed out that The **Simpsons ** have done everything, so worrying about that is irrelevant. Butters recovers from his paranoia.
I thought the Simpsons was supposed to be hip and relevant?
There are few things less hip and more irrelevant to pop culture today than comic books. The CBG character himself is a clue that the Simpsons finds all things comic book to be lame and for losers.
“But look at the great comic book movies and how popular they are!” you might say. But realize that their popularity isn’t driven by comic book fans. Hell, I never read a comic book in my life, but I was quite excited for Spiderman:
Spiderman, Spiderman
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size
Catches thieves, just like flies
Look out!
Here comes Spiderman
I think only X-Men had no tv audience to draw from, but at least it sucked in all the trekkies with Picard. Batman, Spiderman, the Hulk; they are drawing in the Gen-Xers with tv nostalgia, not comic book fans having nerdgasms.
<Comic book guy>
“Last night’s “Itchy and Scratchy” was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured that I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world.”
</cbg>
Not true. There was a pretty well known cartoon series in the 90s. Anyone of a certain age would have been very familiar with the X-men characters before the movie came out without ever having picked up a comic.
There’s also a Simpsons episode with Stan Lee as a guest star. Although he’s become reasonably well-known to your average TV viewer because of the recent Marvel movies, I think his appearance still counts as a nod to the comic book fans in the audience.
The same episode sees Bart creating ‘Angry Dad’, an internet cartoon based on Homer. It’s no “when come back, bring pie”, but it’s certainly a reference to the popularity of net toons in general.
In the original airing of the “Party Posse” episode (WEE!), Burns saying: “You call yourself a Chinaman?” was in later airings dubbed to “You call yourself
Chinese?” Does that count?
This line was actually changed because Chinese-Americans were offended by the use of the word “Chinaman.” (It was supposed to be one of those antiquated things Mr. Burns always says, but “Chinaman” is considered an offensive term.) I don’t think it references anything in particular.
Truth be told, I haven’t seen the episode myself. All I have to go on is a screencap I got somewhere, and is probably sitting on one of my archive DVDs. I’m on lunch right now, but I’ll dig through 'em after work and post a link.
As an aside Zoom is still on PBS …http://pbskids.org/zoom/
And I know it is the same show because they still recite the address as I remember from my childhood (Zoom, Box 350 Boston Mass 02134 - this address permanently etched in my memory) and they do Ubbi Dubbi talk and Zoom do’s. I want to do the trick with her arms that Bernadette could do). I’ve watched the current show a few times with my step daughters,
