Titanic on the Simpsons

[Jack Coburn]

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 The Old Man and the "C" Student

 

[Inger Sheil]

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]

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]

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]

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:-

Can't get enough Futurama: Framegrabs: A Flight To Remember

 

[Bill Wormstedt]

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]

Thanks for the giggle Bill...I can see it in my head too.

 

[David F. Smith]

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]

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]

And Bart would have been selling tickets or insurance...

 

[Jack Coburn]

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]

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]

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.

 

[David F. Smith]

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]

How about Marge as Molly Brown?