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Thread ID: 4899 | Posts: 18 | Started: 2003-02-10
2003-02-10 01:24 | User Profile
This actually happened tonight.
On THE SIMPSONS, Homer wins a million-dollar injury lawsuit against the town church.
Rev Lovejoy nervously shouts, "A million d- your Honor, we don't have that kind of money! After all, we're not a synagogue."
Ok, it ain't Krusty Magic-Markering numbers on his arms...but it's something. I greatly enjoyed it.
2003-02-11 05:50 | User Profile
Yeah, I saw the show also, Il Ragno. Sometimes I think they let jokes like that by because in a way they are able to "brag" about the $$$$ in their hive. Then again, the goy writers of the show have a knack for being able to slip things through like this. Look at some of the remarks they've had Krusty spout - all of them making him look like a stereotypical, hateful jew. Most of the best material on that show has been writen by Scully, O' Brien, etc. The yahoodis brought more of their bretheren aboard when the show became a big hit, in order to make sure their relatives and cousins could ride the gravy train.
2003-02-13 22:59 | User Profile
More SIMPSONS prescience...and an excellent episode to boot.
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Trouble in Deep Space by Greg Davis
In Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor, Murray Rothbard highlighted the difficultly involved in attempting to parody left-wing victimology. One of Rothbardââ¬â¢s friends thought he could jokingly invent a class of oppressed victims: short people who suffer from societyââ¬â¢s "heightism." Rothbard pointed out to his friend that this had already been done, however the originator of this idea, Professor Saul D. Feldman, a sociologist at Case-Western Reserve, was serious.
Like left-wing victimology, NASAââ¬â¢s Space Shuttle program is such an absurdity, that parody is difficult. For example, one of the experiments on the Columbiaââ¬â¢s last mission was a joint effort with some high school students from Syracuse, NY. A colony of ants was sent into space to compare the antsââ¬â¢ digging habits in space against a control ant colony on Earth. Student Brad Miller, apparently with a straight face, described the scientific value of this experiment, "Someday if we colonize another planet, the results of this study will prove to be useful in determining whether living beings can adapt there."
Difficult as a NASA parody is, a 1994 episode of the The Simpsons aired that was titled, "Deep Space Homer." While the NASA parody was not the showââ¬â¢s only goal, there was no shortage of laughs at NASAââ¬â¢s expense. The plot, as it pertains to NASA, is that NASAââ¬â¢s TV ratings are falling and something must be done about it. The ratings crisis is depicted in the TV news coverage of a Tom Brokaw clone with another reporter and in the exchange between NASA executive Jack Stillwater and scientist Dr. Babcock:
Tom: It's a lovely day for a launch, here, live at Cape Canaveral, at the lower end of the Florida Peninsula, and the purpose of today's mission is truly, really electrifying.
Man 2: That's correct, Tom. The lion's share of this flight will be devoted to the study of the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws.
Tom: Unbelievable, and just imagine the logistics of weightlessness. And of course, this could have literally millions of applications here on Earth ââ¬â everything from watchmaking to watch repair.
Tom: Now let's look at the crew a little.
Man 2: They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "the Three Musketeers." Heh heh heh ââ¬â
Tom: And we laugh legitimately. There's a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician.
Meanwhile, at Mission Control...
Dr. Babcock: Sir, we've run into a serious problem with the mission. These Nielsen ratings are the lowest ever. [holds a piece of paper]
Jack Stillwater: Oh my God...we've been beaten by "A Connie Chung Christmas!"
NASA executives, to find a solution to their TV ratings problem so the tax dollars can keep rolling in, call a meeting:
Stillwater: People, we're in danger of losing our funding. America isn't interested in space exploration any more.
After watching some popular TV shows to get a feel for what the public likes:
Researcher: Why, they're all a bunch of blue-collar slobs!
Stillwater: People, that's who we need for our next astronaut.
Dr. Babcock: I suggest a lengthy, inefficient search, at the taxpayers' expense, of course.
Stillwater: I wish there was an easier way.
After a grueling three weeks of training, Homer is selected as NASAââ¬â¢s newest astronaut, or "averagenaut." Once Homer is on board the shuttle named "Corvair"* with two real astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and Race Banyon, the hilarity continues:
Buzz: Mission Control, this is Corvair. Launch sequence initiated. All systems go.
Homer: Are we there yet? I'm thirsty.
Race: Mission Control, request permission to sedate cargo ahead of schedule.
Controller: Permission denied.
Race: Payload checklist. IRS surveillance satellite ââ¬â
Buzz: Check.
Race: Ant farm ââ¬â
Buzz: Check.
Race: Children's letters to God ââ¬â
Buzz: Check.
Back at Mission Control, all is well:
Dr. Babcock: Sir, the TV ratings for the launch are the highest in ten years.
Everyone: Yay!
Stillwater: And how's the spacecraft doing?
Dr. Babcock: I dunno. All this equipment is just used to measure TV ratings.
Soon after launch, Homer opens a bag of potato chips, which in the weightless environment float all over the shuttle, threatening to clog the instruments. As Homer floats around the shuttle eating the chips to the tune of Straussââ¬â¢ "The Blue Danube Waltz," he accidentally breaks the case holding the ant colony. Buzz Aldrin is horrified:
Buzz: You fool! Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!
As the ants and the crew float around the shuttle, images of the scene are beamed back to Earth for the evening news. The ants are very close to the monitor and thus appear very large. Walter Cronkite knock-off, Kent Brockman, gives a commentary which reminds us of our own lapdog media:
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over ââ¬â "conquered," if you will ââ¬â by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
The solution to the problem ultimately comes from singer/songwriter James Taylor, on hand to play music for the crew:
Taylor: Ants, huh? We had quite a severe ant problem at the vineyard this year. I had Art Garfunkel come by with his compressor, and we created a total vacuum outside the house, and we blew the ants out the front door. But I'm sure you high-tech NASA people could care less about our resort-town ways.
In spite of Homerââ¬â¢s high jinx, the crew makes it safely back to Earth.
Throughout the entire episode, NASA is portrayed as a band of bunglers worried only about the continued flow of taxpayer money to their virtually worthless enterprise. Obviously, there are competent and dedicated people at the real NASA. However their genuine interest in science and space exploration is wasted in a bureaucratic culture that produces the antithesis to valuable science and true exploration.
February 13, 2003
Greg Davis [send him mail] writes from Arizona.
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2003-02-14 01:23 | User Profile
One episode of the animated show King of the Hill had Hank Hill scolding his young son Bobby over his bellyaching. "Look at all the Jews have been through," he says, "You never hear them complain!"
2003-02-14 17:54 | User Profile
Some Jew probably wrote that joke on the Simpsons. The same Simpsoms episode had Lovejoy holding church service in a Bowling Ally. Krusty rolls a ball over his foot and goes, "sorry to embarrass you in front of the Goyim!"
TV is full of Jewish related humor, because Jews are qwriting everything.
2003-02-15 00:30 | User Profile
Originally posted by il ragno@Feb 13 2003, 22:59 ** Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over ââ¬â "conquered," if you will ââ¬â by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earthmen or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. **
I used that quote from Kent Brockman to describe rban once on OD - substituting "Indians" for ants, with some other very minor changes. Fits him to a tee.
No, a jew did not write last week's episode with the synagogue joke. Most of the shows better episodes have been written by the non-jewish writers on the staff, with most of those writers being of Irish extraction.
2003-02-15 02:08 | User Profile
Rban,
I`m delighted to say that I have never seen an episode of Seinfeld.
Your remark about Jews being able to laugh at themselves is true. Then you also know that it is equally true that if a Gentile tells a joke about them they will hit the ceiling.
And Rban, I don`t mean the sort of jokes told here either.
2003-02-17 15:51 | User Profile
The Simpsons has gotten very pathetic. It is obvious that the producers should have bowed out gracefully about three or four years ago when it started getting stale.
I saw episodes 300 and 301 last night and they were both pathetically stupid.
2003-02-17 20:11 | User Profile
**I`m delighted to say that I have never seen an episode of Seinfeld. **
It's my all-time favorite. Solipsism, Talmudic argument -- if I didn't know better, I'd suspect it was created by Julius Streicher.
In one Seinfeld episode, Jerry describes his uncle, who apparently blames everything on antiSemetism. "Too much salt in the soup....the cook's an anti-Semite".
My favorite line, from George Costanza:
"I lie every second of the day. My whole life's a sham."
2003-02-17 21:36 | User Profile
Originally posted by heritagelost@Feb 17 2003, 15:51 **The Simpsons has gotten very pathetic. It is obvious that the producers should have bowed out gracefully about three or four years ago when it started getting stale.
I saw episodes 300 and 301 last night and they were both pathetically stupid.**
I stopped watching after they killed Maude Flanders. That really made my blood boil. :angry:
2003-02-18 10:23 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Feb 15 2003, 01:45 ** There are other examples of Jewish humour written by Jews. In one Seinfeld episode, Jerry describes his uncle, who apparently blames everything on antiSemetism. "Too much salt in the soup....the cook's an anti-Semite". **
Seinfeld had a lot of those; e.g. the episode where Jerry was necking with his date while watching "Schindler's List." He's ostracized, of course.
"I heard about you! I heeeaaardd about YOU!!!"
I almost wet myself.
Actually, Seinfeld was in large part about Jews laughing at themselves.
Walter
2003-03-05 14:21 | User Profile
Originally posted by Roy Batty@Feb 10 2003, 23:50 ** Sometimes I think they let jokes like that by because in a way they are able to "brag" about the $$$$ in their hive. **
This is exactly right. I have already read about this very line in an article about satire in the Simpsons.
This brings up the question I have wondered for some time: is Matt Groening Jewish?
I will do a search and answer my own question. YES.
Of course.
Imagine a Gentile cartoonist creating a satire strip centering around a Jewish family. Rather hard to imagine isn't it.
2003-03-05 14:28 | User Profile
A million d- your Honor, we don't have that kind of money! After all, we're not a synagogue.
This is the line of dialogue I am referring to in my previous post. Sorry, not being very clear.
2003-03-05 14:59 | User Profile
Originally posted by Bardamu@Mar 5 2003, 08:21 ** > Originally posted by Roy Batty@Feb 10 2003, 23:50 ** Sometimes I think they let jokes like that by because in a way they are able to "brag" about the $$$$ in their hive. **
This is exactly right. I have already read about this very line in an article about satire in the Simpsons.
This brings up the question I have wondered for some time: is Matt Groening Jewish?
I will do a search and answer my own question. YES.
Of course.
Imagine a Gentile cartoonist creating a satire strip centering around a Jewish family. Rather hard to imagine isn't it. **
The Simpsons aren't Jewish, the are Protestants.
The creator of the Simpsons has a reputation of being right-wing. In the opening sequence the cash register says NRA4EVER. I read in a piece of Simpsons trivia that there are other right-wing messages hidden in the opening sequence as well, but you have to view them frame by frame.
Of course there are probably a dozen other people at least who write the episodes besides Matt Groening. Groening is only the creator and it is doubtful that he has absolute control of the content.
Krusty the Clown has made lots of Jewish/Gentile jokes on the show.
2003-03-05 15:05 | User Profile
Originally posted by Javelin@Feb 17 2003, 15:36 ** > Originally posted by heritagelost@Feb 17 2003, 15:51 **The Simpsons has gotten very pathetic. It is obvious that the producers should have bowed out gracefully about three or four years ago when it started getting stale.
I saw episodes 300 and 301 last night and they were both pathetically stupid.**
I stopped watching after they killed Maude Flanders. That really made my blood boil. :angry: **
They killed Maude Flanders because they are just desperate for subject matter.
Her death has provided subject matter for 3-4 new episodes now.
2003-03-06 03:16 | User Profile
Originally posted by heritagelost@Mar 5 2003, 08:59 ** [. [/QUOTE] The Simpsons aren't Jewish, the are Protestants.
The creator of the Simpsons has a reputation of being right-wing. In the opening sequence the cash register says NRA4EVER. I read in a piece of Simpsons trivia that there are other right-wing messages hidden in the opening sequence as well, but you have to view them frame by frame.
**
Who said the Simpsons were Jewish?
Matt Groening is Jewish writing a skit around WASPs. Imagine the reverse, a WASP cartoonist developing a skit around a Jewish family of buffoons and sub-normals?
It wouldn't fly through the propasphere.
I never liked the Simpsons. Too cute and precious. Semitically clever.
2003-03-06 04:10 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Feb 14 2003, 19:45 ** Jews do not take themselves too seriously, they know how to laugh at themselves. I have heard psychiatrists state that this unique ability to laugh at their own follies is the trait that has sustained them and permitted them to survive their trials & tribulations thru the ages. **
You actually believe what psychiatrists state? They are the second biggest bunch of unholy liars the world has ever known.
2003-03-06 13:58 | User Profile
Major correction. Matt Groening is not Jooish.