Was last night’s Simpsons a re-run?
By a staggering coincidence, of which I’m sure the odds are a lot less than the phone numebr of some Islington flat, I went to a midnight showing of Run Lola Run on Saturday night at the Inwood, bought the soundtrack the next day, and then all of a sudden, here’s this Simpsons episode I’ve never seen that is a parody of Lola.
Was that funny or what?
Pete
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Yes, it was a rerun.
Ned: And then Harry Potter, and all his wizard friends, went to hell for practicing witchcraft.
Todd: YAY!
IMHO, that was the best episode this season. Pure genius. The hunger strike one comes in a close second.
Two thumbs, oops, I mean one thumb up for last night’s episode.
Don’t forget it’s just as much (if not more) a spoof of Go–and I too was surprised how good it was compared to the relatively disappointing past season.
There’s something interesting about that episode that I don’t think that most people know about.
I’m rather hard of hearing. As such, I often use the Closed Captioning on my TV, especially when watching cartoons (hard to read lips on cartoons). During the scene when Bart is going through keys to find Lisa’s bike key, he says outloud “Skinner’s house, your [Milhouse] house,” etc.
However, the close captioning was apparently written before the scene was actually read by the actors. Instead of the above lines, when going through the keys, the closed captioning says that Bart is saying “Gun cabinet, ammo cabinet” or something like that. I didn’t have it on last night, but I remember it from last time it was on.
This isn’t the first time. Most gun references are changed in the dialogue, but are included in the closed captioning. I remember another episode where someone (I believe it’s Mayor Quimby) is offering someone “Booze and Broads,” but the captioning stated “guns and broads.”
Interesting, n’est pas?
Anyone else ever notice this?
You could argue its also a Pulp Fiction spoof. Because its all one story and you slowly figure out why what happens happens- and by the end, all is clear.
I thought it was good. Linguo rocked.
“That’s ALSO a fragment.”
“Must be related to low battery…”
And…
“Linguo…dead?”
“Linguo is dead.”
I also loved the whole Fat Tony thing.
Hey Moebius- Here’s something else, in the Superbowl episode, there’s one part where a scalper says something to the guys to the effect of “No way.” But when his lips move it looks more like “F-ck you.” Kind of like when TV edits things out, it could be a reference to that. I didn’t notice this myself, it was from snpp.com.
Not really. All three acts of PF can stand by themselves with little being lost (except a few ironic touches), whereas all three acts last night were necessary to fill out essential plot details in the other strands. And PF is not consciously referenced at all in the episode, while Go and Lola are.
I will admit, though, that the film Go owes more than a little bit to the Tarantino film.
I see absolutely no connection to Run, Lola, Run. It looked more like a loose parody of Rashomon. In RLR, the same story is taken through several possible alternate versions. In Rashomon, the same events are viewed from the perspective of each of the participants.
Nah, the Pulp Fiction spoof was the Simpsons Spin-off Episode, with Chief Wiggum and the boys at Krusty Burger.
Well, I haven’t seen RLR in a while, but isn’t the scene with Lisa running along the street, and the music that’s playing in the backgroud, pulled directly from the movie?
Perhaps, as was alleged on one of the Troy McClure clip shows (the 137th Show Spectacular?), those captions are some of “the many right-wing references Groening slips into the show each week.” Remember the “NRA4EVER” they said was on the cash register? hehehe…
Jester is right–multiple long shots of Lisa running with techno music in the background is an obvious reference to the Tykwer film. As for Rashomon, it doesn’t apply since this isn’t the same story from multiple perspectives, but three very different stories that intersect for brief moments.
And JustAskAnyone, I think you’re thinking of the 22 Shorts Films about Springfield episode, not the spin-off one.
Marge: You liked Rashomon.
Homer: That’s not how I remember it.
Drat, you beat me to it Fin!
Chas, you must have missed the part in my OP where I said I purchased the Lola soundtrack Sunday afternoon. I know what I’m talking about.
The music clip they played during the scenes where Lisa is running is from “Running One,” the third track on the Run Lola Run soundtrack.
Pete
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Officer Lou: “You know, I went to the McDonalds in, uh, Shelbyville on Friday night.”
Chief Wiggum: “The Mc-what?”
Lou: “Uh, McDonalds restaurant. I uh, I never heard of it either. They have over 2,000 locations in this state alone.”
Officer Eddie: “Must have sprung up over night…”
Lou: “You know the funniest thing, though? It’s the little differences.”
Wiggum: “Example?”
Lou: “Well, at McDonalds you can buy a Krustyburger with cheese, right? But they don’t call it a Krustyburger with cheese.”
Wiggum: “Get out! What do they call it?”
Lou: “A ‘Quarter-Pounder with cheese.’”
Wiggum: “‘Quarter-Pounder with cheese?’ Well, I can picture the cheese, but… uh… do they have Krusty Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum-Based Beverages?”
Lou: “Mm-hmmm. They call 'em ‘Shakes.’”
Eddie: “Huh… ‘shakes’… you don’t know what you’re gettin’!”
Wiggum: “Well I know what I’m gettin’: some donuts! Uh… help me outta the booth, boys.”
Pete
Long time RGMWer and… d’oh!