Okay, so Bart is writing butt dot com is not an e-mail address. (only he didn’t write dot).
Well, so Smart Ass Me decides to check it out.
It’s not an email address.
Sounds like Mr. Groening is really getting into cross-merchandising. These days, it’s just all about the money.
Hmm. I thought they changed this. IIRC, the original address was butt.com, but then the writers were informed it was a real (porno) website, so for the reruns they changed what Bart wrote to something else.
Ah! I just found it:
“My e-mail address is not butt.com” was changed to “My e-mail address is not butt.butt” when the show’s producers discovered there was a real site at “butt.com,” which was of, shall we say, an adult nature.
I saw butt.com.
(I didn’t put that, because I do NOT want to link to a porno site.)
Wasn’t the domain in question registered after the Simpsons episode aired?
I seem to remember seeing this somewhere and laughing. I’m still waiting for the butt.butt version to air here. I remember when the original was on.
At the aformentioned butt.com. They can’t even spell amateur right, but they certainly have figured out pop-up windows.
Well, they’ve since wised up. Immediately after Lisa referred to http://www.whatbadgerseat.com last year, I tried to register it, but it already redirected to a rather nifty site on http://www.thesimpsons.com
I have to say that that’s one of the most amusing sites I’ve seen in a while.
[semi-related hijack]
In an episode of “King of the Hill,” conspiracy-nut Dale mentioned that he checked the newgroup (IIRC) “alt.conspiracy.black-helicopters.” Within a few days that newsgroup was established as a fan group for KOTH. Except that after a (short) while, it started to get taken over by actual conspiracy nuts. I wonder if it’s still active.
–Cliffy
It just shows to go ya, Cliffy. You can’t keep anything nice.
True enough. Although right on the cusp of the change we did have some good times making fun of the nuts.
–Cliffy