Plot Which Has No Name

[Daniel Julius]

On Nov 13, 2007 9:51 AM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> . . . .of course, to get the full effect you have to open the links. . . .
>           Daniel Julius:
>           What does The Simpsons have to do
>           with Death to Smoochy, or The Daily
>           Show?  I'm sorry if this is incredibly
>           obvious, I just don't follow!
>
> Sure Danny! This link :  http://tinyurl.com/ywxf54
> goes to:
>
>           The Evolution of the Daily Show
>           "The Daily Show: Ten Fu@#ing Years (The Concert)"
>           16 November 2006, NYC
>           The Evolution of the Daily Show
>           By Thomas Pynchon


B-b-b-b but I did open the links!  And so the connection is, as I
suspected and wanted you to confirm, is that Pynchon is funny in that
piece, and obviously aware of popular culture, and therefore prolly
involved in "the planning stages" of The Simpsons... Okaaaaaaayy
yikes...  Uh, wait, but also because of the following Mayorial
evidence


> Now, if you will be pleased to note, this
> essay clearly has much in common with
> the content and style of the Simpsons.
> But wait---there's more:
>
>          Then again, I think it's time we considered other
>          implications for this town of Springfield:
>
>          http://tinyurl.com/28hj56
>
>          At the same time, Springfield Massachusetts is the
>          first Springfield and vocally and visually speaking,
>          Mayor Quimby is a Kennedy clone.
>
> Quimby is a fake Teddy but he still has a Massachusetts
> accent, thus [by the power invested in me by profound
> paranoia] I figure they must be pointing at the town
> famously founded by Jebediah Pynchon, uh, I mean
> William Slothrop, I mean. . . .

Hmmm.  And see but every other character has a flat, totally non-New
England affect.  Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel has a hick moan, even,
and the show has often intentionally and hilariously changed its
possible real-world geographical counterpart/antecedent.  I just think
you are nuts here, is all.  But at least you recognize the source of
it!  (profound paranoi)

--
Daniel J.  (the "J" stands for Homer Jay Simpson)