special ships

[Dave Monroe]

And let us not forget ...

Homer:  All that counts is that we're alive and
        rubbing elbows with the greats.  Ooh, there's
        Ross Perot, Dr. Laura, Spike Lee.
Bart:   Wait a minute, they're not so great.
Homer:  Okay but there's Dan Quayle, Courtney Love,
        [increasing panic] Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton,
        Ah! Tom Arnold! What the hell's going on?
Bart:   [looking out porthole] Wait!  Only that
        ship's going to Mars.  Ours is headed for the
        sun.
Arnold: Yeah, ain't that a kick in the teeth?
        I mean, my shows weren't great but I never
        tied people up and forced them to watch.
        And I could've, because I'm a big guy and
        I'm good with knots.
Homer:  So we're all going to die?
Arnold: 'Fraid so, but, hey, the grub's pretty good,
        huh?  [chuckles, and then pours a can of
        peaches in his mouth]
Homer:  The sun?  That's the hottest place on Earth.
Shore:  Gonna work on my tannage, buddy.
Arnold: Pauly Shore?  Wow!  Hey, we should do a show
        together, man.  That's a sure cure for the
        blues!
-- The cure's worse than the disease, "Treehouse of
Horror X"

Rosie O'Donnell appears, and implores the ship's
passengers to sing along to "Clang, Clang, Clang."
Everyone breaks into song, and Bart reassures his Dad
that they'll be dead in five minutes.  "Not fast
enough," says Homer, and pushes the seat's eject
button.  As he and Bart float through the vacuum of
space, their heads inflate like balloons.  Offscreen,
they pop.  But at least the don't have to hang out
with Pauly Shore.

The Halloween credits roll.  Instead of the normal
Gracie shush, we hear a scream.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF01

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> Well, ships are a hobby of mine, so I'll hope you
> will excuse some, uh, free-floating associations:
> 
> Kai wrote:
> 
> >  ~~~ witnessing the pequod's fate chapter by
> > chapter, i came to think about, well,
> > s p e c i a l  s h i p s. by this i mean ships
> > which are not of mere military and/or economic
> > character.

So when is an extensive knowledge of "Simpsons"
allusions going to be a prerequisite for "cultural
literacy" ((c) E.D. Hirsch)?  Or is cultural literacy
already a prerequisite for an appreciation of "The
Simpsons"?  And what would Richard Rorty say about all
this?  Hm  ...

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