[sub]My first Pit rant! And I wrote this before I noticed a similar tread in Café society, and I want to see shit fly![/sub]
Simpsons in trouble in Rio:
The Rio tourist board and the president of Brazil really have no fucking sense of humor. Yes, those bad things do not happen to tourists (really?), but is the absolute truth that many people in Brazil (and in many Latin American nations) are under constant treat of violence, kidnapping and extreme poverty. By golly! Roosevelt was right, how many of your citizens would be middle class and driving a dynamic economy and not giving even the time of day to extreme leftists if you and your past motherfucking felching, with a dash of margarita salt, plutocratic leaders had organized REAL social justice measures for the nation? And you spent 18 million dollars to promote the city abroad and many of the favelas (the slums in Rio) that create the biggest show on earth, (Sorry Ringling Bros, and Rams) the Carnival, get virtually shitted rum scented crumbs of nothing in exchange?
And you complain now that a cartoon show will ruin everything?
Fuck that! Go solve those problems before you complain an animated show is more powerful than your happy go orgy propaganda at changing perceptions.
But I see not all is bad news, at least you guys solved the monkey problem already, but shit! Looks like the penetrada dance will have to wait :).
[sub][WB Looney Tunes sign:]
The board member will like to apologize to the good and honest Brazilian and other good and honest South American leaders in the audience.
Argentinan leaders excluded, that is.
[/WB Looney Tunes sign] [/sub]
no shit! Cartoon presents distorted view of reality! Film at 11…
I suppose next they’re going to tell us that water swirls round the toilet the same way in both hemispheres, and the Australian PM doesn’t actually have a ceremonial boot to kick snarky little boys with.
D’oh!
So, if Brazil wins, can we get a share of the loot???
Hmm…they don’t say The Simpsons presented a distorted vision of their children’s programming…maybe because the rest of Latin America has already make fun of that.
I feel curiously obliged to point out that Tony didn’t get shot in Copacabana, but in THE Copacabana, which (as everyone knows) is somewhere north of Havana.
I have read that this is not actually correct. The direction of the swirl depends considerably on the precise shape of the bowl. The water can swirl in either direction in both hemispheres.
IIRC the city of New Orleans got pissed at their song about “rotten, stinking New Orleans” in the Streetcar Named Desire musical and they had to make a cash settlement, so there is precedent.
New Orleans! Land of pirates, drunks, and whores!
New Orleans! Tacky overpriced, souvenir stores!
If you want to go to Hell, you can take a trip
To the Sodom and Gommorah of the Mississipp’!
They did get angry, but I never heard about a cash settlement. Bart himself, however, was punished to apologize in one opening sequence:
I wonder if this case will go through, and, if so, if Fox will have to pay Rio all those pinks and purples. (Their money sure is gay.)
While Extreme Poverty is a fact of life for many in Brazil, I don’t think that many people are living under the threat of violence and kidnapping in Brazil.
Yes, Rio is a large city and like many large cities it has a crime problem and you would not feel safe walking in the favelas at night. However, I would not feel safe walking in parts of Washington D.C and New York either.
BTW I enjoyed the Simpsons episode although their was one Scene I do have issues with. When they were eating in the churrascaria, they had the skewers on their plates. In real life, the waiters come around and slice the meat onto your plate.
