| The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265920] |
Mo, 15 Mai 2006 02:37 |
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No review here, although it's obvious that the Simpsons is running
out of ideas by reusing one from nine years ago (science vs. religion)
and having it air in one the Sunday between two Sundays in which the
plot involves "Homer and Marge's marriage is on the rocks".
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-Jimbo playing a PSP when the nerds try to figure out who "L.M.S."
is?
Refs.
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
-Title
-Plot (court case over religion vs. evolution)
-Whole "controversy incident" done in order to get attention
(Scopes trial to put a small Tennessee town on the top, Springfield in
order to boost church attendence)
-Southern lawyer in the case spoofs Clarence Darrow
The Natural
-The fireworks going off when Bart hits the game-winning home run
Men in Black
-Summer film Bart sees
Get Smart
-Puzzle piece fades similar to the ones used in the last two seasons of
the show
Goofs.
In the original case, Darrow, who is spoofed with the Southern lawyer,
sided for evolution, not religion (in fact, one of his key moments in
the case involved him calling rival laywer William Jennings Bryan to
the stand and trying to prove, through his testimony, that various
events in the Bible just couldn't happen in real life).
Comments
MUSIC ALERT
-"What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers (music during the
Myth of Creation part of Hall of Man exhibit)
Joe Klemm
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| Re: The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265933 ] |
Mo, 15 Mai 2006 14:39 |
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The baseball team that Bart played for spoofed that movie about those
Bears that were bad news, but I can't seem to remember the name of the
movie! And the manager was Walter Matthau, who joins the curse, if he
wasn't there already.
Ralph doesn't know where the Earth goes when you close the drapes (the
fake kidnapping episode, which I saw in syndication over the weekend),
but he knows who George Will is?
Didn't Homer once prove that G-d doesn't exist?
That "expert witness" had a Ph. D. from Christian Tech.
The jigsaw puzzle segue was a spoof of "Get Smart".
"Bear with pants on." Smokey the Bear?
Aaron Space Museum
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| Re: The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265942 ] |
Di, 16 Mai 2006 09:32 |
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On 14 May 2006 17:37:30 -0700, "Joe Klemm" <tnadct1 [at] aol.com> wrote:
>-Southern lawyer in the case spoofs Clarence Darrow
I don't think so (but having never seen Clarence Darrow I can't say
for sure. I did see Spencer Tracy in the movie though.)
You know, the lawyer reminded me very much of the chicken lawyer we
used to see in Futurama. I think the voice was exactly the same.
>In the original case, Darrow, who is spoofed with the Southern lawyer,
>sided for evolution, not religion (in fact, one of his key moments in
>the case involved him calling rival laywer William Jennings Bryan to
>the stand and trying to prove, through his testimony, that various
>events in the Bible just couldn't happen in real life).
WJB was a 'populist' Democrat and just extremely popular. He is said
to have been one of the greatest speakers of the century. He ran for
president three times in a row and lost each time. I heard a
recording of him once, made in the early 1900s when he was probably
past his prime.
The recording was a speech about how the watermelon proves that God
exists. The watermelon weighs many pounds, has a fairly complicated
structure with seeds and all, but is constructed through a stem as
narrow as a pencil. To Bryan this was a proof that God existed. Like
Lisa said (one of the greatest lines in the episode) the answer to
every question on the test was 'God did it.' The other great line was
'More meat in the seats'. 8^)
I think the Southern lawyer was more like Bryan than Darrow, who was
very clever and urbane. Also the Southern lawyer was on Bryan's side,
arguing for creation.
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| Re: The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265945 ] |
Di, 16 Mai 2006 12:25 |
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Joe Klemm wrote:
> -Southern lawyer in the case spoofs Clarence Darrow
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was a reference to Inherit the Wind by
[someone, I'm blanking on the name and don't have a copy around] and
Robert E. Lee (Not the general in the Civil War). The play is basically
a dramatization of the Scopes monkey trial, and the character who argues
for God is named Brady, which was that name they mentioned of this
character.
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| Re: The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265950 ] |
Di, 16 Mai 2006 16:43 |
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Joe Klemm wrote:
> No review here, although it's obvious that the Simpsons is running
> out of ideas by reusing one from nine years ago (science vs. religion)
> and having it air in one the Sunday between two Sundays in which the
> plot involves "Homer and Marge's marriage is on the rocks".
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> S
> P
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> I
> L
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> S
> P
> A
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> DYN'S
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> -Jimbo playing a PSP when the nerds try to figure out who "L.M.S."
> is?
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> Refs.
>
> Scopes "Monkey Trial"
> -Title
> -Plot (court case over religion vs. evolution)
> -Whole "controversy incident" done in order to get attention
> (Scopes trial to put a small Tennessee town on the top, Springfield in
> order to boost church attendence)
> -Southern lawyer in the case spoofs Clarence Darrow
Why not Wm Jennings Bryan?
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| Re: The Monkey Suit Capsule Submission [message #265951 ] |
Di, 16 Mai 2006 16:55 |
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blazing laser wrote:
> On 14 May 2006 17:37:30 -0700, "Joe Klemm" <tnadct1 [at] aol.com> wrote:
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>>-Southern lawyer in the case spoofs Clarence Darrow
>
> I don't think so (but having never seen Clarence Darrow I can't say
> for sure. I did see Spencer Tracy in the movie though.)
>
> You know, the lawyer reminded me very much of the chicken lawyer we
> used to see in Futurama. I think the voice was exactly the same.
>
>>In the original case, Darrow, who is spoofed with the Southern lawyer,
>>sided for evolution, not religion (in fact, one of his key moments in
>>the case involved him calling rival laywer William Jennings Bryan to
>>the stand and trying to prove, through his testimony, that various
>>events in the Bible just couldn't happen in real life).
>
> WJB was a 'populist' Democrat and just extremely popular. He is said
> to have been one of the greatest speakers of the century. He ran for
> president three times in a row and lost each time. I heard a
> recording of him once, made in the early 1900s when he was probably
> past his prime.
Bryan gave his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, first delivered at the Dem
Natl Convention, 1896, when WJB got his first nomination as the Dem
candidate, across the US. Remember this was before radio & TV.
There's some controversy over the election with some claiming it was
stolen by big $$$ folks, Morgan, Rockefeller & the like, to insure a
McKinley victory.
http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/bryan.htm
> The recording was a speech about how the watermelon proves that God
> exists. The watermelon weighs many pounds, has a fairly complicated
> structure with seeds and all, but is constructed through a stem as
> narrow as a pencil. To Bryan this was a proof that God existed.
An early reference to "Intelligent Design"? What might he have concluded
if he'd contemplated a baby whale?
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