Its my favorite Simpsons game again!!! All you gotta do is mention something specific that has happened twice, and ONLY twice. The more specific, the better. Whomever gets one right gets to post the next one.
I just keep catching more and more of these. Heres a few new ones to get y'all started:
- Burns goes bowling
- Homer takes a cannon shot right in the belly
- An entire scene from The Godfather is reenacted
I just keep catching more and more of these. Heres a few new ones to get y'all started:
- Burns goes bowling
- Homer takes a cannon shot right in the belly
- An entire scene from The Godfather is reenacted
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Re: Double Parallels Is Back!
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 10:26 AM"- An entire scene from The Godfather is reenacted"
When Moe is sitting for Maggie and tells her a story using her toys as characters
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When Marge has bulked up and beats up the guy who mugged her?
I haven't actually seen the Godfather, so these are guesses.
(The other two really happened in more than one episode? I'm wracking my brain on those)
I have noticed a DP:
Burns calls a Simpson "ragamuffin."
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Re: Double Parallels Is Back!
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 10:36 AMYou're a fiend, QP. I love it.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, because I honestly don't know whether my second example is a godfather parody:
1.) Mob Boss, after tasting Louie's poor attempt at replicating Bart's bartending skills:
"What did I do to deserve this flat, flavorless Manhattan?"
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2.) Don Vittorio Dimaggio, after witnessing Homer and Krusty the Clowns perform the mini-bike-loop-trick:
"Grazie, grazie. You have a brought great joy to this old Italian stereotype."
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Re: Double Parallels Is Back!
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 11:54 AMJames Caan gets shot at a toll booth by Cletus and the Hillbillies after he runs off with Brandine.
And somewhere, way back in the simpsons archive a horsehead ends up in someone's bed. -
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Re: Double Parallels Is Back!
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 1:20 PM"When Moe is sitting for Maggie and tells her a story using her toys as characters
and When Marge has bulked up and beats up the guy who mugged her?"
The best part of of the DP game is being proven wrong!
By the phrasing of the question, you guessed right. The mugger beating was one, and Moe using the toys wasnt in my mind, but is correct too.
"I haven't actually seen the Godfather, so these are guesses."
Go rent the DVD RIGHT NOW!!! Arguable the best movie EVER MADE. Of course, growing up in a Sicilian household makes me quite biased.
"James Caan gets shot at a toll booth by Cletus and the Hillbillies after he runs off with Brandine."
THATS the other one I was thinking of. Everybody wins!
"And somewhere, way back in the simpsons archive a horsehead ends up in someone's bed."
When Lisa gets her pony (with body attached).
Huh. The show's writers really must like that movie.
Here's what weve got left to solve:
- Burns goes bowling
- Homer takes a cannon shot right in the belly
- Burns calls a Simpson "ragamuffin."
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Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 1:43 PMOkay, I was stretching. BUT, the mob boss DID give Louie the kiss-of-death after his highly unsatisfying manhatten. -
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Thu, September 13, 2007 - 3:03 PMTrue dat, tho the movie does not hold the copyright to The Kiss of Death (tm). I dont remember if the term was even used in the movie... just a prelude to "I know it was you, Fredo."
A rare quadruple! Something is usually done twice, or countless times.
"Homer and eye-injury"
Lasic surgery in the mall creating crust-over
Prescribed cannabis for crow-pecking (really Dub, just what IS your obsession with that episode? ...oh yeah)
Next: Barney pilots a helicopter. -
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Thu, September 13, 2007 - 4:10 PMQP, Siciliano, eh? Me-ah too!
;^)
I haven't seen the lasic episode. Does that count for injury? (who's keeping track anyway)
The other instance I had in mind transcended the television series into the movie. Homer appears as though he's about to hammer his thumb, only to pull back and slam the hammer's claw-end into his eyeball. -
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Thu, September 13, 2007 - 4:50 PM"QP, Siciliano, eh? Me-ah too!"
HEY, PAISAN!!!
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Thu, September 13, 2007 - 4:16 PMBarney Pilots a helicopter
1 to save Bart and Lisa during a wildfire, with Homer who drinks all the beer so Barney remains sober. Right after he gets his pilot license
2 to save Lisa and that reporter woman friend of Marges after they go to the volcano. The reporter is Barney's exgirlfriend in high school and it is suggested that her leaving led him to greater depths of alcoholism.
There are a couple more because Barney flying a chopper is a great gag in post-drunk Barney Simpson's episodes.
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 3:12 PMYou got 'em!
But can ya get these:
- The entire town of Springfield is flooded
- Homer falls into Springfield Gorge
- Burns tries to blackmail Homer into pulling cruel pranks on the townspeople
- Burns hires people to impersonate members of the Simpson family
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Fri, September 14, 2007 - 3:31 PMI've got another for you. When Michael Fattonyson (forget the actual name) tells Lisa never to ask about his work again and shuts the door after her. Or does that not count as an "entire scene?"
And I disagree on the merit of the film. Just more of the American shoot em up macho obsession with outlaws. In fact, the best scene of the movie is when the door gets shut in Diane Keaton's face, because at least, to me, it shows how empty the whole damn thing was. Of course that was negated by the very existence of GF II, although I swear they had Robert DeNiro standing in the shadows the whole time so Marlon Brando could voice over his lines. -
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Tue, October 2, 2007 - 12:53 PMMy husbands says that if I ever see the Godfather, I'm very likely to side with Crypto on it.
Though I'm inclined to trust her judgement unreservedly anyway.
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Thu, October 4, 2007 - 4:01 PMBack to matters at hand...
yet another Double Parallel
- Nelson steals a hood ornament -
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Thu, October 4, 2007 - 5:42 PMOne is off Skinner's Hyundai -
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Mon, October 8, 2007 - 9:28 AMHow about the episode I've only seen once: when the town is dark all of the time, and they get in trouble with Fat Tony & Co. ?
I think that was hood-ornament related trouble.
Here's more:
-a man is put into an electric chair, but does not die in it
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Mon, October 8, 2007 - 9:55 AMBurns turns the power off and Snake goes free...
Quimby in the chair and Ralph saves him.
Another Godfather reference is during Homer's union kingpin days. He imagines himself as the Don in Godfather part 2...
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Mon, October 8, 2007 - 10:51 AMSnake died in the chair in a Halloween episode, then H got his hair.
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Mon, October 8, 2007 - 2:24 PM<How about the episode I've only seen once: when the town is dark all of the time, and they get in trouble with Fat Tony & Co. ?
I think that was hood-ornament related trouble. >
Yes, and the trouble starts when Nelson steals the hood ornament off Skinner's car. Or maybe Superintendent Chalmers'. And it may have been a Honda and not a Hyundai. But it's STILL the episode I was thinking of.
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-someone falls asleep while smoking and fire ensues<
When HOmer started his own religion in the first season. -
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Mon, October 8, 2007 - 7:20 PMJust because it's been a few days doesn't mean that I remember the 2nd yet. -
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Sat, October 13, 2007 - 8:48 PMHere's one: Willie tangles with a canine.... -
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Sat, October 13, 2007 - 9:14 PMOne has got to be that wolf. "...since your sucking on your mother's teet."
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Sun, October 14, 2007 - 12:49 PMThat's one....the other should be fairly obvious.... -
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Sun, October 14, 2007 - 4:05 PMOh, duh!
When he catches Santa's Lil Helper in the heating duct.
A new one:
Homer rides down a hill on a vehicle out of control. -
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Sun, October 14, 2007 - 4:09 PMSkateboard...and a bucket truck
here's aother: Homer takes over Flander's job -
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 7:38 AMTown Crier... (jebidiah was a pirate)
President of Neighborhood watch...(cat burglar episode) -
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Thu, October 18, 2007 - 8:03 PMoooo..missed the neighborhood watch...was thinking of being the Peewee football coach... -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 8:56 AMLooks like y'all found a triple!
Weve still got these left to solve:
- Burns goes bowling
- Homer takes a cannon shot right in the belly
- The entire town of Springfield is flooded
- Homer falls into Springfield Gorge
- Burns tries to blackmail Homer into pulling cruel pranks on the townspeople
- Burns hires people to impersonate members of the Simpson family -
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 11:02 AMOkay, I've got half the answers:
- Burns goes bowling--The Bowling Team episode, where they win a trophey and burns takes it over. They are called the Pin Pals. (Side trivia. When do we see Homer's shirt again.)
- Homer takes a cannon shot right in the belly--The one where Homer joins the Freak Show, sorry Pagent of the Transmundane and goes on the road with Smashing Pumpkings.
- The entire town of Springfield is flooded--Homer becomes a conceptual artist, and floods springfield by putting welcome mats over the storm drains
- Homer falls into Springfield Gorge--Fjirst season "Daredevil" episode when Bart is going to jump the Gorge on his skateboard, so Homer does it to dissuade him. (Bonus points: When else does Homer ride a skateboard?)
- Burns tries to blackmail Homer into pulling cruel pranks on the townspeople--Wait, I know them both! Pie Man episode and the one where he's Mr. Burns' "monkey" for money.
- Burns hires people to impersonate members of the Simpson family--the one where Bart is Burns' heir. With the midget actor playing Lisa and the Homer actor says B'oh! instead of D'oh. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 12:19 PMNo partial credit for partial answers! Engage those mental archives! The answers are likely stored in the places where you've forgotten more important information. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 12:41 PMburns hires people.
Burn's heir
and....
When Smithers, him and the assassin dress up to kill Granpa. (Flying Hellcats) -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 12:44 PMI can't remember if he fell but doesn't the movie show the ambulance that crashed at the bottom of the Gorge? -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 12:49 PMburns bowls with the Pin pals and with Snake's girlfriend.
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 1:28 PMQuasi, that list is maddening! I've got half of each of them...
And y'all have only found half of my
-electric chair survival (if only briefly afterward- hint, hint)
-H on vehicle out of control going down a hill (not just a skateboard)
and the two "ragamuffin"s.
The name Asa appears in two different episodes, but that's so nitpicky, you'd probably only know those if you'd just seen them back to back (and have a family member of the same name ;) -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 1:30 PMoops... I've had this window sitting open for a while... I haven't seen the Hellfish episode in forever! -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 1:32 PM"Side trivia. When do we see Homer's shirt again."
On John Waters!!! and it's somehow no longer ripped to shreds from the attack of the hounds. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 1:43 PMIn at least one other ep, the Pin Pals jacket is also in the closet with many other infamous jackets.
Lisa, wearing the country-western octopus outfit:
"If y'all dont like my song, Ill spray ya with ink."
"The name Asa appears in two different episodes"
Name of dead husband of (Mrs. Glick?) old lady who paid Bart 2 quarters for a week of labor. Held onto a grenade too long.
Asa Phelps was also the name of a Flying Hellfish. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 2:39 PMHa! He was her brother not her husband, mr no partial credit for partial answers. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 3:40 PM...held a grenade too long... -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:04 PM"-electric chair survival (if only briefly afterward- hint, hint)"
The Mayor, thinking it wasnt on... & Snake. "Duuuuuuuuddde."
"-H on vehicle out of control going down a hill (not just a skateboard)"
Searching for Lisa in a telephone truck bucket, head gets stuck in closing bridge.
Homer: "Ill just walk it off."
In a float that Grimey Jr. 'fixed' the brakes on, heading straight for the Museum of Swordfish.
Marge: "That museum's been nothing but trouble since it opened." -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 4:37 PMNiiice.
But Snake was already mentioned- and didn't he die? In the Halloween episode when Homer gets Snake's hair transplanted onto his head?
Or is there another one I missed?
In the other one I'm thinking of, we don't know the man's name. He doesn't die in the chair itself, but soon afterward. -
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Re: Re Godfather QUADRUPLE parallel:
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 5:43 PMBecause the Hurricane blows him into electric wires.
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Sun, October 21, 2007 - 7:35 PM"Homer falls into Springfield Gorge "
Homer falls in it twice in one episode.(Daredevil)..does that count? Once on a skateboard, the other on a gurney.
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