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Wed 3 Mar, 2004 04:07 pm
Okay, I have no clue, but in ALL the Simpsons episodes, does anyone have any idea how many head injuries Homer has endured? Inquiring minds want to know.
Have you noticed how many times Kevin Costner hit his head in movies or how many times Sean Connery has been garrotted?
lets stay on point. Homer has been hit, pummeled, dropped on his head, (the episode where he jumps the gorge on a skateboard is a classic count of major head trauma). i think that Homer will just go on until he reaches the age of his father(whats is name) , who is , as we know, beginning to show some signs of dementia
Not to mention the radiation poisioning and his mushy stomach, the result of being used as a human sheild against cannon balls.
They actually addeded a bunch together in the episode where Bart blows him up with a shaken-up can of beer. My favourite is the one where they have rescued him from the bottom of the Gorge after bashing him against every rock and projection on the way up. He gets loaded into the ambulance, the ambulance then hits a tree- out comes Homer on his way down to the bottom of the Gorge again! Funny! Because it's not happening to me, that's why.
thats the episode where he tried to jump the gorge on a skateboard.
I'm wondering if it might be every episode....I don't think so, but it is possible.
I know he hurt his back in that one when bart signs up for the big brother program
OK FM does the Simpsons. I just attended a lecture at SMU re the Simpsons. They are going to have a class about culture and the Simpsons. It should be a hoot.
It should! There are so many classic cultural allusions in the Simpsons - plus the culture it satirizes - plus its own, internal culture!!!!!
Can you sort of summarise stuff for us??? Any links to learned papers? I love this sort of stuff!
OK will try to find something for you. I found out about the lecture from and interview on NPR so maybe I can find the link.
it dos not worry anyone that the simpsons are a college corse? why cant entertainment just be entertainment?
I regret the day when Homer stopped being a bufoon, though occasionally had excellent philosophical ideas. Now he's just dumbed down? Why? Were his insights too much for the general viewer? Were they considered provocative?
Whilst being a good,semi-entertaining, example of brain mush, The Simpsons now has little to offer other than a world wide perception of American morals, and hence their life style.
Do you Yanks not worry that this is how we see you? What, between news reports and visiting (no more due to immigration policies), I feel it it does slightly misrepresent the average american.
I can certainly recall an episode in which Homer tries to do some home improvements and ends up with a whole shelf of heavy objects (bowling ball, anvil, etc.) falling on his head.
KP
Bill de Berg wrote:I regret the day when Homer stopped being a bufoon, though occasionally had excellent philosophical ideas. Now he's just dumbed down? Why? Were his insights too much for the general viewer? Were they considered provocative?
Whilst being a good,semi-entertaining, example of brain mush, The Simpsons now has little to offer other than a world wide perception of American morals, and hence their life style.
Do you Yanks not worry that this is how we see you? What, between news reports and visiting (no more due to immigration policies), I feel it it does slightly misrepresent the average american.
I'm Canadian, and I've been to upstate New York. The characterization of 'average' Americans on the Simpsons isn't too far off.
I have lived here in America for almost 30 years, and I have yet to meat an 'average' American, do you know where any are?
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