They had one on Futurama last week - Someone pulls at her disheveled robot son and says “No more hanging wires!”
This echos the line in Mommy Dearest of Faye Dunaway: “No more wire hangers!”
nitpick. Carlos Castaneda wasn’t brazilian.
Well, Casteneda claimed to be from Brazil.
Castaneda. And “I’m the first non-Brazilian to travel backwards in time!” immediately suggests him, even if the details are incorrect.
I thought Castaneda was born in Peru. Then became an American citizen.
He was, but he claimed to be from Brazil on several occasions.
I think the Simpsons Forever episode guide suggests the joke was about Castaneda, but apparently it’s not. Homer’s original line was “I’m the first cartoon character to travel backwards in time!” and then Mr. Peabody and Sherman appear. Get it? Well, the writers didn’t think it was funny enough, so they changed it to non-Brazillian. I’m trying to find a cite for this; I’ve seen other fans mention it around here.
Not entirely true. Two children appear in Atlas Shrugged, the sons of Ragnar Danneskjöld and Kay Ludlow. They are described as being as fearless as kittens (?) because no-one has tried to destroy their human spirit, or some such.
Actually, the Simpsons episode incorrectly uses the bottle example (i.e. a baby is saying “I am a leech”), as far as Ayn Rand is concerned. During the somewhat interminable speech by John Galt in the closing chapters of Atlas Shrugged, he gives as an example giving a bottle to your baby as not a sacrifice (being instead a moral duty). Giving the bottle to your neighbor’s baby and letting your baby starve, however, is a sacrifice, and a society that demands such from its citizens is evil.
I read a few snippits of the book “Me.” “me” is just about the longest word she uses in the book. I swear it read like a 5 year old wrote it, it’s like she never heard of complex sentence structure.
“It was Prohibition. Dad refused to buy scotch. Mother was desperate.”
Truly a painful book to read. I’m sure fans overlook it because of the interesting stories, but it was in serious need of a ghostwriter. You can check out some sample pages on amazon.com
Huh? From the movie or the story? Where?
Still waiting for someone to explain Homer’s longwinded (yeat amusing, natch) rant about his fast-paced, sugar-related lifestyle.
Catfight, I think it has been determined that that line is not a reference to anything, but merely a sugar-crazed Homer spouting non-sense. Maybe it was there for the sheer purpose of making us think it is from something, thus driving us Simpsons fans further to the brink of insanity. No where on snpp.com (THE definitice source) does it seem to mention this as a reference to anything.
I don’t think that rant is a parody of anything in specific, just a parody of the generic “unconventional guy takes on the Establishment” speech found in countless works of fiction.
It has the sound of a play from the turn of the century as an unconventionaly loer class character rails against those who would look down upon him.
OK, I have one, from the episode where Homer starts SpringShield security force and makes a commercial featuring a monster breaking into an old woman’s bedroom. After they grab it, it says “friend?” in a very distinctive voice, before they all start punching it. It feels like a reference, but I have no idea to what.
This would be very useful information, since I spend a lot of time saying “Friend?” in the same voice to Mrs. Giraffe.
Pretty sure that’s an E.T. reference, Giraffe.
So, Ernest Hemingway wrote it. What’s wrong with that?
I don’t know – the tone of voice seems all wrong for that. I could be out to lunch, though.
Could be me. Haven’t seen E.T. in… Christ, twenty years? So my memory of the film is more than a little spotty.
The Eight commandment episode, where Homer informs Lisa she didn’t pay for her clothes or her breakfast. Homer thinks his point is proven and says ‘So run to the hills Ma Baker, before I call the feds’
Ma Baker?
Not “Ma Barker,” a famous gangsteress?