The Simpsons POSSIBLY in my US History class...<G>
Frogurt
formed and its constitution. However, the part we are on now is how a bill
becomes a law.
One of my classmates had Schoolhouse Rock <snicker, snicker> and brought in
the tape and we watched this one short song about how a bill becomes a law.
"I'm just a bill..."
My good friend has many, many episodes taped of the Simpsons and immediately
what came to our minds is the segment on the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa
are watching the TV, and a parody of Schoolhouse Rock is on it. It is about
amendments. <G>
You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
informed! <G>
-Frogurt
Jessi Cuellar
My good friend has many, many episodes taped of the Simpsons and
immediately what came to our minds is the segment on the Simpsons where
Bart and Lisa are watching the TV, and a parody of Schoolhouse Rock is
on it. It is about amendments.
Me;
Growing up in the 70's,I was subjected to many hours of Schoolhouse Rock
while I was watching "The Groovy Ghoulies"and "Jabberjaws".(I thought t
was cool though).When I saw that episode,I just died.They did an amazing
job of it,it was almost perfect,with the exception of the song
lyrics(which were fabulous).Even the bill's voice was right on.The
writer who came up with it must have really loved Schoolhouse Rock.
It has to be one of my favorite parodies.
Jessi
JEdraw
"Frogurt" <Goul...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
>let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
>episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
>Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
>informed! <G>
If it's any help, that episode will be shown tomorrow in national
syndication, so you'll probably see it anyway. It's not the same as getting to
show it to your classmates in school, but maybe you could convice your teacher
it's a much easier way to survey it (i.e., make sure it's not 2 minutes of
hard-core sex footage). The downside is he'd end up sitting through tons of
irrelevant material before reaching the Schoolhouse Rock bit whereas a tape
could be preset to the exact place.
That reminds me; just last month my Biology class had begun dealing with
genetics, so I told the teacher that the next Sunday's Simpsons episode ("Lisa
the Simpson") would deal primarily with them. Still never got a response. :-/
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> Well, right now in my US History class we are studying the how America
was
> formed and its constitution. However, the part we are on now is how a
bill
> becomes a law.
>
> One of my classmates had Schoolhouse Rock <snicker, snicker> and brought
in
> the tape and we watched this one short song about how a bill becomes a
law.
> "I'm just a bill..."
>
> My good friend has many, many episodes taped of the Simpsons and
immediately
> what came to our minds is the segment on the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa
> are watching the TV, and a parody of Schoolhouse Rock is on it. It is
about
> amendments. <G>
>
> You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him
to
> let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in
the
> episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
>
> Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
> informed! <G>
>
> -Frogurt
I'll be waiting!!! Since it'll be on tomorrow as the National Episode, so,
set your VCR for that!!! The episode is "The Day The Violence Died".
Aaron Varhola
>"Frogurt" <Goul...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
>>let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
>>episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
>
>>Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
>>informed! <G>
>
> That reminds me; just last month my Biology class had begun dealing with
>genetics, so I told the teacher that the next Sunday's Simpsons episode ("Lisa
>the Simpson") would deal primarily with them. Still never got a response. :-/
I did a presentation on "The New Yellow Kids: Bart and Lisa Simpson as
Continuation of the Use of Children in Satire" my third year of law
school, and showed several minutes of clips to illustrate my point.
(All the way from Ullman shorts to the then-recent "Sideshow Bob
Roberts").
I'm wondering if there are any teachers, professors, or graduate
students who have done other studies of The Simpsons as literature
(other than in television production classes). Some of the better
episodes are as multilayered as Shakespeare, and deserve critical
analysis beyond the usual Sunday night "Worst Episode Ever" reviews.
:)
Aaron
Gabesdbest
>Date: Thu, Dec 10, 1998 03:25 EST
>Message-id: <366f82d2...@news.aracnet.com>
> Some of the better
>episodes are as multilayered as Shakespeare, and deserve critical
>analysis beyond the usual Sunday night "Worst Episode Ever" reviews.
>:)
Yes, I agree. There are some very conceptually complex and in-depth episodes
that really make you think. I dig the show for that aspect nearly as much as
the comedic (which is multilayered as well a lot of the time) but still, some
episodes just aren't as inciteful as others and some are just plain humorous
without a point.
Gabe
Jake Lennington
a friend of Simpson's music composer, Alf Clausen.
Alf called him up when "The Day the Violence Died" was in it's planning
stages to sing the School House Rock parody. It was probably the easiest
guest voice recruit the show ever had.
Jake
Bill
getj...@webtv.net (Jake Lennington) wrote:
Yeah, the guy's name is Jack Sheldon. I remember him as the trumpet player in the band on the
old Merv Griffin show.
Bill
Terry Pulver
>
> On 10 Dec 1998 03:11:42 GMT, jed...@aol.com (JEdraw) wrote:
>
> >"Frogurt" <Goul...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> >>You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
> >>let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
> >>episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
> >
> >>Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
> >>informed! <G>
>
> >
> > That reminds me; just last month my Biology class had begun dealing with
> >genetics, so I told the teacher that the next Sunday's Simpsons episode ("Lisa
> >the Simpson") would deal primarily with them. Still never got a response. :-/
This is probably the third time of mentioned this, but my English
teacher paid good money to get a copy of "Das Bus" to show to his class
during his "Lord of the Flies" unit (I'm working on getting the
"Monkey's Paw," "Telltale Heart," or "The Raven" parodies). Also, in a
discussion in my Communications class, I used Lisa's reference to "A
Separate Peace" as preschool instead of freshman level reading as an
example for our school's low standards (we read it sophomore year). I'm
also thinking about asking my social studies teacher (ironically named
Marge) to let us watch either "Much Apu About Nothing" or "Homer vs. the
Eighteenth Amendment" in US Class.
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<Goul...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>My good friend has many, many episodes taped of the Simpsons and immediately
>what came to our minds is the segment on the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa
>are watching the TV, and a parody of Schoolhouse Rock is on it. It is about
>amendments. <G>
>
>You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
>let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
>episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
My high-school government class did the same thing last year, while some
students held a debate on flag-burning (I supplied the tape). I also gave my
English teacher "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" because of the poem recited in
the military academy English class. So I guess my obsession with The Simpsons
isn't just a pointless time waster.
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Aaron Varhola
>"Frogurt" <Goul...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>You can guess what we did...we went to our teacher and pleaded with him to
>>let us watch it (it is educational, you know <G>). My friend brought in the
>>episode that has it on and the lyrics to the Amendment song.
>
>>Now we just have to wait and hope we get to watch it. I'll keep you all
>>informed! <G>
>
> That reminds me; just last month my Biology class had begun dealing with
>genetics, so I told the teacher that the next Sunday's Simpsons episode ("Lisa
>the Simpson") would deal primarily with them. Still never got a response. :-/
I did a presentation on "The New Yellow Kids: Bart and Lisa Simpson as
Continuation of the Use of Children in Satire" my third year of law
school, and showed several minutes of clips to illustrate my point.
(All the way from Ullman shorts to the then-recent "Sideshow Bob
Roberts").
I'm wondering if there are any teachers, professors, or graduate
students who have done other studies of The Simpsons as literature
(other than in television production classes). Some of the better
episodes are as multilayered as Shakespeare, and deserve critical
analysis beyond the usual Sunday night "Worst Episode Ever" reviews.
:)
Aaron
KissNeroli
>students who have done other studies of The Simpsons as literature
>(other than in television production classes). Some of the better
>episodes are as multilayered as Shakespeare, and deserve critical
>analysis beyond the usual Sunday night "Worst Episode Ever" reviews.
Well, I had a professor for a Humor class (English dept.) who let me write
about Homer Simpson. I listed snpp.com as a reference and also turned in six
videotapes with my paper. She asked to keep the tapes over the summer to study
my theory further! I may have made a fan out of her...or at least I hope so.
When I first proposed the paper she thought Bart was the father. <g>
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school; our english teacher was going over a unit on edgar allen poe and
i ask her if i could bring in the simpson's version on the raven...
well, expectly she said NO, but i convinced her under the condition that
i brought it to her before school to preview it... and well, she loved
it so much that she kept the tape for a couple of days to make a copy
for the english department! lol
KWIK
Jim
with units of measure. I brought up a quote of Grandpa saying "I get 40 rods
to the Hogshead and that's the way I likes it!" Well, we are gonna have
problem on a worksheet where we convert rods per hogshead to miles per
gallon. The Simpsons is so edcuational.
Jeff Dean
> problem on a worksheet where we convert rods per hogshead to miles per
> gallon. The Simpsons is so edcuational.
I did that calculation a while ago just out of curiousity, and the
result I got was VERY surprising. A rod equals 5.5 yards, or 16.5 feet.
So 15 rods is 247.5 feet. A hogshead isn't a fixed volume; according to
my dictionary, it varies from America to England, but one definition it
gave was 63 gallons. So one mile is (5280/247.5) rods, and multiplying
that by 63 gallons/hogshead gives 1344 gal/mi. That means traveling one
mile in Grampa's car would require 1344 gallons of gas!
AlexJ33106
Ya, in class, my teacher brought up the Great Prohibition, how it
started, etc...I, for no reason, brought up "Homer VS the 18th Amendment". The
class talked about that ep for a little while, discussing the
simalarities/differences, but, unfortunatly, I was not allowed to bring it to
school :(. Good-day.
(Excuse my typos, I have the flu....)
-Alex
BONGO83
watch something this weekend, watch The Simpsons. Later in the year he showed
us "Much Apu About Nothing" and "Simpson Tide." Best teacher I ever had.
Another pointless comment from...
Bongo
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the forms of friendship were those created at work, where you forgot a
co-worker or superior when they left the job. I brought up the ep where the
Germans took over the power plant and Smithers was, one minute, crying over
losing Mr. Burns, and the next minute, learning how to bootlick in German. I
wanted to bring in a tape, and the episode aired that night, after I did my
presentation! (D'oh!)
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