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Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 6:29 am: |       |
A few weeks back i was watching the simpsons. On it Bart and Lisa were on a party boat with a whole lot of old people when the boat suddenly collides with Mr. Burns yacht and starts to sink.
A man tries to rescue the boat by grabing a rope tied to the boat and swiming for the shore, intending to beach the boat. However all he succeeds in doing is breaking the boat in half, carrying the front half with him while leaving the back half with all the people on board behind. The back half floods and goes vertical, then goes under the water, like the Titanic. Of course, no one dies as the back half comes back to the surface due to there being loads of springs on the seabed which pushes it back up. To read script go to http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF16.
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Inger Sheil
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Username: isheil
Post Number: 2273
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 1:45 am: | |
There are a few Titanic references I've noticed in The Simpsons, Jack, although I haven't seen the episode you mention above. In one, the characters are watching a version of Titanic on tv ('now I can get out of this stifling bikini!' declares one well-endowed starlet in a rowboat, before the ship launches itself out of the water again, complete with a Jaws-like row of teeth). In the opening credits of one episode, the family race for a floating couch only to have a passing iceberg drift past and sink them. |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 20
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:26 am: | |
Also has anyone seen the episode of south park where it's independence day and as part of the celebrations south park is planning to light a giant snake (don't exactley know what that is). Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Cartman are part of the orchestra that preforms at the event. After the boys play "the star spangeled banner" (which sounded terrible) the crowd lights the snake. However, the plans backfire with the snake going out of control and killing everyone. The "titanic" part is with chaos unfolding around them, the boys begin to play a tune. The tune happens to be Nearer My God To Thee (which also sounded terrible). |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 4:17 am: | |
I did see the reference you just mentioned Inger (the one where titanic comes back to life). Did you notice how the two people in the lifeboat looked a lot like Jack and Rose? |
Robert Thompson
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Username: rmhthompson
Post Number: 35
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 12:21 pm: | |
Related to the Simpson's Titanic reference, Futurama by the same people had a complete episode paridying the 1997 JC movie. It is in series one and is titled 'A Flight To Remember' and it deals with the maiden voyage of a new Starship Titanic.
The roles of Jack and Rose are played by Bender (in Steerage) and a nice Lady Robot in first class.
Ships captain Zap Branigan Decides to liven the cruise up by taking the Ship through a field of comets, The Icebergs of the sky.
One of the funniest episodes of Futurama made.
Check it out at:-
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameGrabs/1ACV10/ |
Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 636
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 4:40 pm: | |
I've had this mental image of Homer as Murdoch, on the bridge when the three bells ring. An overhead view from the height of the second funnel, as the iceberg strikes, and we hear First Officer Homer say "D'oh!"
Yeah, kinda twisted, but that's the way my mind works. What can I say? |
Deborah Russes
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Username: violet
Post Number: 290
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 2:48 am: | |
Thanks for the giggle Bill...I can see it in my head too. |
David F. Smith
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Username: davidinhartford
Post Number: 89
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 10:01 pm: | |
ok, lets take that one step farther, how about putting Barney (the drunk) up in the crows nest, Mayor Quimby as Bruce Ismay, Mr.Burns as Ben Guggenheim and Mr.Smithers as his manservant? |
Dennis Smith
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Username: kildaman
Post Number: 92
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 11:27 pm: | |
Whoa Dave,
This is getting silly, obviously Barney being in the crows nest would have helped, his humungous burps would have set up echos from the offending ice berg and warned everyone.
Monty Burns would have been trying to get money off the passengers for keeping the lights on - as is his wont, Smithers would have stayed by his side and gone down like a gentleman.
As for Mayor Quimby ..... Yes I think you're right.
Happy New Year
Best Wishes and Rgds
Dennis |
Deborah Russes
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Username: violet
Post Number: 291
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 11:57 pm: | |
And Bart would have been selling tickets or insurance... |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 31
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 6:33 am: | |
I reckon Lisa would be good as Thomas Andrews. She'd be the first to figure out that the ship would sink. What about Captain Smith? |
Joshua Andersen
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Username: titanicteen
Post Number: 40
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 3:52 pm: | |
Auto the bus driver would make a good Captain Smith. He played the Captain in there version of King Kong it was called "King Homer". He was the captain the ship that took Mr. Burns to ape island to capture a giant ape. |
Brandon Whited
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Username: andrews
Post Number: 985
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 12:56 am: | |
I think we need to contact the creators of The Simpsons and get them to make this episode!
As for other cartoon references to Titanic, I saw one once via Nickelodeon. I don't know if any of you have ever watched that show Rugrats, but I caught an episode once where they took a trip to some place that resembled Sea World. There was an enormous model of the ship in one of the areas of the park.
The entire park eventually flooded because the babies managed to break the fish tanks. When the water came spilling into the room where the model was, the babies and their parents all clambered onto the stern. The model dove bow-first, broke in half, and then sank.
All the best, 
-B.W. |
David F. Smith
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Username: davidinhartford
Post Number: 90
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 1:43 am: | |
I think I'll revise my original Casting. Instead of having Barney as the lookout, he should play the Baker Charles Joughlin, drunk and hanging off the fantail as the ship sinks. Lets put Homers' friends Carl and Lenny up in the crows nest. They would be arguing over something trivial and not see the Iceberg! |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 32
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 2:04 am: | |
How about Marge as Molly Brown? |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 33
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 2:10 am: | |
I also think Captain Mcallister (who runs an oil tanker aground in an episode) would be good as Captain Lord on the Californian. |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7594
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 5:19 am: | |
>>I also think Captain Mcallister (who runs an oil tanker aground in an episode) would be good as Captain Lord on the Californian. <<
Bad comparision for two reasons.
1)Captain Lord was not drunk whereas Captain Mcallister was at least past legal minimums.
2)Californian prudently stopped after a heart thumper of a close call with the ice.
The rest is open to debate.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 5
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 2:55 pm: | |
"One fateful night..." (it looks horrible, but it took only a few minutes to make ;)
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7611
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 2:39 am: | |
Look out! Homer's at the helm. We're in biiiiiiiiiigggggggg trouble now! 
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 647
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 4:47 am: | |
D'oh!
(see above) |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 6
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 5:49 pm: | |
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Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 649
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 1:26 am: | |
Lenny: Hey, Carl, is it time to go to Moe's yet? It looks like your eyeballs have frozen up!" |
Kyrila Scully
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Username: childstar413
Post Number: 1320
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 1:47 am: | |
"Forget Moe's - just grab a glass and some brewski- we've got free ice coming our way!"
Kyrila
"Now, bring me that horizon!"
www.titanicimpact.org |
Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 650
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 3:59 am: | |
Hahahaha! Good one, Kyrila!
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David F. Smith
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Username: davidinhartford
Post Number: 94
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 2:48 pm: | |
There is a scene in Camerons Titanic showing Benjamin Gugenheim sitting in a chair at the Grand staircase with his manservant standing behind him hold a lifejacket over his arm. (Mr.Burns and Wayland Smithers? )
DavidinHartford |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 7
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 5:48 pm: | |
Do you mean this scene? (sorry, didn't have time to draw the chair & lifejacket; and I had to 'borrow' the grand staircase from 'Adventure out of Time')
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David F. Smith
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Username: davidinhartford
Post Number: 95
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 1:17 am: | |
Bravo Timothy! Bravo! |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7624
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 5:44 am: | |
Mr. Burns: We are dressed in our best and prepared to go down as gentlemen.
Boot Licking Toady(Also known as Mr. Smithers): What's this "we" Mr. Burns??? I'm outta here!!!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Tracy Smith
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Username: tracy
Post Number: 1353
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 1:26 pm: | |
OK, a few more. "Bleeding Gums" Murphy as part of the orchestra, Principal Skinner as Lawrence Beesley, Rod and Todd Flanders as the Navratil brothers.
Any more?
"Swift, vigilant, and bold" |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 8
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 2:21 pm: | |
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David F. Smith
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Username: davidinhartford
Post Number: 96
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 2:45 pm: | |
Reverend Lovejoy leading the Sunday morning service "for those in peril on the Sea" |
Bill Wormstedt
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Username: wormstedt
Post Number: 653
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 4:36 pm: | |
Bart as the boy spinning the top of the aft boat deck. However, in that case, I don't think it would be as 'calm' as the original picture showed! |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 9
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 5:26 pm: | |
"I believe you may get your headlines Mr. Quimby!"
Chief Officer Wiggum - Lisa Andrews - Bruce Quimby |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:02 am: | |
Nelson Muntz as Quartermaster Hichens. The boy who works at krusty burger (what's his name?) can be 6th officer Moody. Can't think of any others. Any thoughts on Lightoller or Lowe? |
Tracy Smith
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Username: tracy
Post Number: 1354
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:39 am: | |
Nelson is the bully kid who says, "HA ha!", right?
"Swift, vigilant, and bold" |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7629
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:46 am: | |
Bruce Quimby: When do we get underway, dammit!!!!
Lisa Andrews: That's five compartments, sir! The water is coming in at up to seven tons a second while our pumps can only pump out 1800 tons per hour! The watar will rise up, go over the tops, flow forward as we go down by the head, flow back into other compartments, impose bending loads of up to 66,000 pounds per square inch leading to eventual structural failure of the hull girder, the collapse of the mid-section and the foundering of the ship!
Bruce Quimby (Blinks glazed over eyes. Looks to Chief Officer Wiggum) What did she say???
Chief Officer Wiggum: We're screwed!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Jaime Croft
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Username: jaime
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 7:25 pm: | |
Completely off topic, but this has been the worst day, so thank heavens for this thread. Of course, no one else in the office "gets" my interest in Titanic, so explaining the laffing may be difficult...
Thanks all... |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7675
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 - 4:08 am: | |
Sorry you had such a bad day, but I'm glad we brightened it a little!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Tarn Stephanos
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Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 1058
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 2:45 am: | |
I am a Titanic buff first...
A Beatlemaniac second
and a Simpsons fan third.....
Timothy, your image of Smithers and Mr Burns by the grand staircase is quite funny...
Shouldnt there also be a shot of Homer there, totally out of place, eating a large sub sandwhich, as horrified gentlemen in tuxedos look on?
The one Titanic scene I recall in the Simpsons was during the opening sequence, or the 'couch trick' as they call it.
The family sits on the couch, which suddenly hits an iceberg and sinks...
Plus there was an episode where an old politican who died was said to be a Titanic survivor...
regards
Tarn Stephanos |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 10
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 9:03 am: | |
I slightly updated 2 of the old images:
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Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 11
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 9:04 am: | |
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Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 12
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 9:31 am: | |
I know there are quite a few Titanic references in the Simpsons: the sinking couch; a ship breaking in two and the stern staying afloat; Captain McAllister's (that's his name right?) ship hitting a rock (with a hard'a starboard order, right?); but I didn't know the one about the politician.
The Simpsons' Titanic references remain funny, imho, because they try to have a laugh at the James Cameron movie (or at the the impact of this movie on popular culture) rather than at the event itself.
regards,
timothy
ps: if I find the time, I'll have a go at a Homer-with-sandwich-in-the-smoking-lounge image |
Alex McLean
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Username: alex_mclean
Post Number: 368
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 8:26 pm: | |
I really like those images, they are fantastic.
I love the Futurama episode, 'A Flight to Remember', and I remember, it was the first episode I ever watched. I think it is what got me hooked.
My best, still laughing, 
Alex
Maintain speed and heading,
Second Officer Alex McLean, 15, Namur, Belgium |
Tarn Stephanos
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Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 1063
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 8:38 pm: | |
Great images, but it just occoured to me posting them might be a copyright violation...
So be careful...
mmm,pointy...
regards
Tarn Stephanos |
Timothy De Paepe
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Username: johanmatheson
Post Number: 13
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 9:55 pm: | |
Dear Tarn, all,
A copyright violation? In a way, of course, you're absolutely right. But on the other hand these (entirely unofficial) pictures were made just for fun; I didn't made them for profit or personal gain, quite on the contrary; they might be considered a sort of tribute to the continuing popularity of the Simpsons (and of the Titanic disaster in popular culture).
Of course I don't want to damage the reputation of this site or forum, so if anyone else considers this illegal, perhaps these pictures should be removed(?)
regards,
timothy |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 8061
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:23 am: | |
Timothy, I personally don't mind them, but the people who own the rights to The Simpsons just might. Phil Hind made his concerns clear in the Encyclopedia Titanica/Message Board Information folder where he announced the revision to the rules. It is treading mighty close to the line. Might be a good idea to let it go for now.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 1:30 pm: | |
Sorry I know this thread has been dead for a while now but i couldn't resist posting this. Hypothetically, if the Simpsons creators did make a Titanic episode, parodying the Cameron film I think the casting would appear something like this:
Jack: Homer
Rose: Marge
Cal: Mr. Burns
Ruth: Patty/Selma (Their strong dislike of Homer matches perfectly IMO with Ruth's opinion of Jack)
Molly Brown: Maude Flanders
Fabrizio: Barney
Lovejoy: Smithers
Captain Smith: Chief Wiggum (nothing to do with the real Captain)
J. Bruce Ismay: Mayor Quimby (same, nothing to do with the real one)
Thomas Andrews: Lisa
If I think of any other characters, i'll fit them into the episode in some way, there are still heaps i want to put in.
"The result was she sank" - Charles Lightoller |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 10624
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 3:03 am: | |
Somehow, I just can't see Smithers as Spicer Lovejoy. It's just out of character for the boot licking toady!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
Jack Coburn
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Username: jack_c
Post Number: 81
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 2:17 pm: | |
>>Somehow, I just can't see Smithers as Spicer Lovejoy. It's just out of character for the boot licking toady!<<
Yeah, neither can I really, but this is comedy. I don't think any of my selections are in character with the roles i've given them, especially Homer and Marge, acting as the main protagonists (although i have come across a picture of Homer and Marge in the "i'm flying" position on the Internet). As you've probably figured out, i've just drawn parallels from the tv show with the characters in the movie, such as Mr. Burns/Smithers, Cal/Lovejoy.
"The result was she sank" - Charles Lightoller |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 10629
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, July 31, 2006 - 4:25 am: | |
>>Yeah, neither can I really, but this is comedy.<<
Well, if that's the case, we can just have Smithers stripped to the waist a la Rambo with a huge belt of ammunition chasing "Jack" and "Rose" through the dining room with a heavy machine gun that never runs out of bullets.
That's entertainment!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon |
brigitte coonie
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Post Number: 65
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 3:56 am: | |
I've had this mental image of Homer as Murdoch, on the bridge when the three bells ring. An overhead view from the height of the second funnel, as the iceberg strikes, and we hear First Officer Homer say "D'oh!" - i can picture that, and Monty Burns as J.B.Ismay,Lisa as Thomas Andrews, as Father Thomas Byles, the Flanders' as a steerage family, Marge simpson as molly brown,
brigitte |
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