The Simpson/Stanley Kubrick Connection
Wallace
I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
point out any other episodes that have a connection.
Ceri Stagg
I'd have thought the most obvious is the "2001" stuff in the "Homer
the averagenaut" episode.
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Stovers
Wallace wrote:
>
> I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
> and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
> from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> point out any other episodes that have a connection.
Strangelove and the War room from Dr.Strangelove appears in a sideshow
Bob episode, along with professor Frink as Dr Strangelove
cobweb
Ceri Stagg wrote:
>
> In article <342833E5...@interaccess.com>, Wallace <gro...@interaccess.com> writes:
> |> and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
> |> from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> |> point out any other episodes that have a connection.
>
> the averagenaut" episode.
And in the episode where Sideshow Bob takes the nuclear bomb from the
airshow there are a few references to Dr Strangelove.
cz...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Wallace (gro...@interaccess.com) wrote:
: I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
: and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
: from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
: point out any other episodes that have a connection.
The episode where Sideshow Bob steals the nuke overflows with Kubrick
references. Most notably Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
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K Gnome
> Wallace (gro...@interaccess.com) wrote:
>
> : I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
> : and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
> : from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> : point out any other episodes that have a connection.
>
> The episode where Sideshow Bob steals the nuke overflows with Kubrick
> references. Most notably Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
In One of the Simsons Comics, Wiggum yells "You can't let a cilvian in
here! She'll see everything! She'll see the BIG BOARD!" almost an exact
quote from Dr Strangelove.
Karen Trinkaus
On 26 Sep 1997 gr...@wstf.nasa.gov wrote:
> I think it's the one where Santa's Little Helper is at the
> obedience school....his eyelids are clipped back while he's forced to
> watch a movie.
>
>
It's not obedience school. It's when he becomes Mr. Burns' guard dog and
they're trying to make him mean. The movie shows dogs being beaten
and kicked, Nixon's dog being held up by the ears, a cat, and a zepplin
crashing.
Arvind Vashisht
gr...@wstf.nasa.gov wrote:
>
> I think it's the one where Santa's Little Helper is at the
> obedience school....his eyelids are clipped back while he's forced to
> watch a movie.
not to mention the billion other Kubrick references...
gr...@wstf.nasa.gov
BenC100
Karen Trinkaus <bir...@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> writes:
>On 26 Sep 1997 gr...@wstf.nasa.gov wrote:
>
>It's not obedience school. It's when he becomes Mr. Burns' guard dog and
>they're trying to make him mean. The movie shows dogs being beaten
>and kicked, Nixon's dog being held up by the ears, a cat, and a zepplin
>crashing.
Actually, the dog being held by the ears was Lyndon B. Johnson's. His two
beagles were called Little Beagle Johnson and Little Beagle Junior.
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Steven Swenson
Karen Trinkaus wrote:
>
> On 26 Sep 1997 gr...@wstf.nasa.gov wrote:
>
> > I think it's the one where Santa's Little Helper is at the
> > obedience school....his eyelids are clipped back while he's forced to
> > watch a movie.
> >
> >
> It's not obedience school. It's when he becomes Mr. Burns' guard dog and
> they're trying to make him mean. The movie shows dogs being beaten
> and kicked, Nixon's dog being held up by the ears, a cat, and a zepplin
> crashing.
The best one is when Lisa conditions bart to not touch cupcakes.
There's
a scene (with the same camera angle) where bart is reaching up for two
cupcakes
with cherries on top and keels over. This mimmicks an identical scene
in clockwork orange
where alex is reaching up for a woman's breasts and falls in pain.
BTW it was president Johnson that did that to his dog, not Nixon.
The press had a field day over animal cruelty and Johnson's
popularity plummeted.
Steve
Larry Guzman
On 25 Sep 1997 14:06:57 GMT, cz...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
>Wallace (gro...@interaccess.com) wrote:
>
>: I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
>: and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
>: from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
>: point out any other episodes that have a connection.
>
>The episode where Sideshow Bob steals the nuke overflows with Kubrick
>references. Most notably Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
One not so obvious Kubrick reference in Side Show Bob's terrorist plot
is the casting of R. Lee Emery as Col. Blapapap (sp?). Emery played
the drill instructor in "Full Metal Jacket."
P.J. Gladnick
> >: I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks
movies
> >: and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as
Alex
> >: from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> >: point out any other episodes that have a connection.
> >
> >The episode where Sideshow Bob steals the nuke overflows with Kubrick
> >references. Most notably Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
>
> One not so obvious Kubrick reference in Side Show Bob's terrorist plot
> is the casting of R. Lee Emery as Col. Blapapap (sp?). Emery played
> the drill instructor in "Full Metal Jacket."
>
Most obvious of all was in one of my favorite episodes when Homer went into
space and they did a takeoff on 2001 with Homer munching chips to the tune
of "Blue Danube" and the Star Baby Homer at the end.
Brian E. Jones
Larry Guzman <ljgu...@sprintmail.com> wrote in article
<3432ac5d...@nntp.a001.sprintmail.com>...
> On 25 Sep 1997 14:06:57 GMT, cz...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
>
> >Wallace (gro...@interaccess.com) wrote:
> >
> >: I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks
movies
> >: and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as
Alex
> >: from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> >: point out any other episodes that have a connection.
Another reference is in the episode (I forget the name, but...) where Lisa
is testing who is smarter, the hamster, or Bart. He has been so
traumatized from the shocks he's received from the cupcake test earlier,
that he falls on the floor shaking after reaching up for two cupcakes on
the counter. An obvious connection from A Clockwork Orange! The y are
even playing the music from the movie.
Brian
Andrew Gill
Another Kubrick ref is the "traB pu kciP" thing as a Shining ref. I
thought everyone was crazy until I saw it again--Note Milhouse's finger
and voice...
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Brian E. Jones <bej...@netmcr.com> wrote in article
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In the episode where Bart and Lisa go to military school, the voice of the
commander is (I believe) R. Lee Ermey, who played the sadistic drill sgt in
Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket."
Mike Sauter
Col. Hapablap (the Ermey-voiced character) even uses the same line from
"Full Metal Jacket": "what's your major malfunction?"
leigh
you are all forgetting the "space " episode where it is 2001 at the
beginning and the end .
Barts pen flies up......music swells.....
pen as object in space......bumps space fetus Homer on the head
.....D'oh
the apes around the monolith is the beginning
but I've said too much already.....over and out.
Mike Sauter <msa...@injersey.com> wrote in article <
James Anthony Musgrave
In addition the episode where Santa's Little Helper goes to obedience
school has a great refrence to Clockwork. SLH is strapped into a chair
with his eyelids peeled back.
On 25 Sep 1997 cz...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> Wallace (gro...@interaccess.com) wrote:
>
> : I know there have been some connections between Stanley Kubricks movies
> : and The Simpsons (like the Halloween episode of Bart dressing up as Alex
> : from a Clockwork Orange and the Shining spin-off). Could you please
> : point out any other episodes that have a connection.
>
> The episode where Sideshow Bob steals the nuke overflows with Kubrick
> references. Most notably Dr. Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
>
Dunsmore
That wasn't R. Lee Ermey in that episode. It was just one of the
regulars doing a pretty good imitation of him. Ermey did voice Colonel
Hapablap in the Sideshow Bob episode where he threatens to detonate a
nuclear device in Springfield.
Andrew Gill
Justin Mando wrote in message <344fef5c...@news.velocity.net>...
>Good observations, but it really isn't a Simpsons/Stanley Kubrick
>connection. It is a Simpsons/Anthony Burgess connection. The book
>version of A Clockwork Orange was far superior to the film. If you
>haven't read it, you really should. I guess, the Kubrick connection
>could be the camera angles and technical aspects, but lets not forget
>about Burgess. I think that Kubrick gets too much credit for ACO.
>Burgess is the genius behind A Clockwork Orange, not Kubrick.
>Anyways, thats my two cents.
In that case, I want a refund! Saying that Kubrick was not the genius
behind ACO is like saying that the remake of _The Shining_ was better than
the original. The major exception to this Kubrick goled rule is 2001:ASO.
Clarke told the story much more clearly, but this is largely because it was
a Sci-Fi novel rather than a bizarre story of insane people in an insane
culture.
Of course, I'm not really in a position to say any of this, as I have
neither seen nor read ACO.
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Ah, off-topicism. But I do suppose that everyone has a Kubrick movie that
they can relate to this...
Justin Mando
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 03:34:08 -0400, "Steven Swenson"
<sswe...@runet.edu> wrote:
>In the science fair episode where Lisa tries to prove her hamster is
>smarter than bart, she conditions bart using electrical charges.
>Later in the episode he is reaching for two cup-caks (with cherries
>on top) and falls to the ground in a sickening fear. This is note-for-note
>out of clockwork orange when Alex is reaching up to grab a woman's
>breasts, and convulses into pain. The camera angles are all identical.
>
>In the episode where Homer got Smithers fired.... at the end when
>Smithers is feeding peanuts to Mr. Burns is similar to a scene in
>clockwork orange when some man is feeding Alex while in bed.
>
>A more obvious one is when Mr.Burns brainwashes SLH.
>
>Steve
>
Good observations, but it really isn't a Simpsons/Stanley Kubrick
connection. It is a Simpsons/Anthony Burgess connection. The book
version of A Clockwork Orange was far superior to the film. If you
haven't read it, you really should. I guess, the Kubrick connection
could be the camera angles and technical aspects, but lets not forget
about Burgess. I think that Kubrick gets too much credit for ACO.
Burgess is the genius behind A Clockwork Orange, not Kubrick.
Anyways, thats my two cents.
--Quinn The Eskimo
Mikey
Justin Mando wrote in message <344fef5c...@news.velocity.net>...
I don't remember the episode, but I know there is also one where Bart says
he has a "horrible pain in me gulliver"; also directly taken from A
Clockwork Orange. As far as Kubrick goes, they're practically countless. I
have seen references from 2001, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal
Jacket, but Clockwork Orange does seem to be referenced most...