The Return Of Sideshow Bob and Dinosaurs
Michael James Gebis
I took the comments of the Simpsons to mean that Matt Groening and gang felt
that DINOSAURS really _IS_ just like they took their lives and put them on
screen...as in dinosaurs plagarizes the simpsons, at least to a degree.
Or did I mis-interpret this?
Mike Gebis mjg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc OR m-g...@uiuc.edu
"AIM MY SMILING SKULL AT YOU"
LaNelle Ohlhausen
-Am I the only person who noticed the slam against DINOSAURS in this episode?
-I took the comments of the Simpsons to mean that Matt Groening and gang felt
-that DINOSAURS really _IS_ just like they took their lives and put them on
-screen...as in dinosaurs plagarizes the simpsons, at least to a degree.
-Or did I mis-interpret this?
-
-Mike Gebis mjg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc OR m-g...@uiuc.edu
-"AIM MY SMILING SKULL AT YOU"
I didn't think that at all. "Dinosaurs" is nothing like "The Simpsons."
If anything, it seemed to me to be a compliment to "Dinosaurs."
LaNelle
Steve Stelter
>Am I the only person who noticed the slam against DINOSAURS in this episode?
>I took the comments of the Simpsons to mean that Matt Groening and gang felt
>that DINOSAURS really _IS_ just like they took their lives and put them on
>screen...as in dinosaurs plagarizes the simpsons, at least to a degree.
>Or did I mis-interpret this?
It's definitely a slam. Note all the similarities mentioned "Look, Maggie,
they have a baby too!" and the fact that they used Nancy Cartwright's
voice (and a prehistoric version of Bart's motto "Don't have a cow, man!")
for the Bart-dinosaur. "Dinosaurs" isn't all that blatant a ripoff of
the Simpsons, IMHO, but the fact that the writers obviously think so is
pretty cool.
--Steve "It's like they took our lives
and put it right on the screen" Stelter
Scott Amspoker
>In article <1992Apr14.0...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mjg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis) writes...
>-Am I the only person who noticed the slam against DINOSAURS in this episode?
>
>If anything, it seemed to me to be a compliment to "Dinosaurs."
I agree. At first I thought they were slamming "Dinosaurs". Then I
remembered that "Dinosaurs" really doesn't resemble "The Simpsons" much
at all. (Sure there are *some* similarities.)
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Scott Amspoker |
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | I'm Scott's *good* twin.
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Stephen Wayne Miller
In article <1992Apr14.0...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mjg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis) writes:
>Am I the only person who noticed the slam against DINOSAURS in this episode?
Nope. As I said in an earlier message, when I saw that scene, I thought
"suhhh-LAMMM!!"
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Stephen Wayne Miller
Exqueeze me? It's totally like "The Simpsons"! A working-class family,
cartoonish, comedy, sitcom-style, slobbish father, totally normal mother,
three children (oldest boy, middle girl, plus a baby).
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Katherine Stewart
Dinosaurs strikes me more as a prequel to the Flintstones with more kids. I
*did* enjoy seeing it satarized though. :-) Another reason why I keep comming
back again and again to The Simpsons. Thanks Matt!
--
Starguard yo...@agora.rain.com
"I can't change my mind, I only have one."
GREGORY NICHOLS
>Subject: Re: The Return Of Sideshow Bob and Dinosaurs
>Date: 14 Apr 92 15:26:00 GMT
>LaNelle
i think that they were taking a lame show, "The Dinosaurs", and using it to
slam other shows on TV that are even worse.
Homer says something like, "I wish other shows on TV were as realistic as
this."