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[alice wellintown]

"They were the first family of American laughter . . . surfing a tidal
wave of hilarity. . . onto the sands of Superstar Bay. But behind the
chortles, this funny fivesome was trapped in a private hell."

     - Opening narration from 'Behind the Laughter' (2000)


Ned Flanders: "I'd see them on that couch all day long, just staring
at that Hollywood hogwash."

Homer: "Our favourite show was 'Hollywood Hogwash,' but we also loved
'The Dreck Squad.'"

Marge: "'The Malarkeys,' 'Dumbin' It Down,' . . . "

Lisa: "'Sheriff Lowbrow.'"

Bart: "'Home Improvement.'"

Homer: ". . . but we never saw people like us on TV."

    - from 'Behind the Laughter'

Krusty the Clown: "Yeah, I've seen all the overnight sensations . . .
Brad Hall, Rich Hall, Rich Little, Little Richard . . . but the
Simpsons blew 'em all away. They even had a hit record! Meanwhile,
'Krustophenia' sits on the shelf."

     - from 'Behind the Laughter'



On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:21 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's important to remember that we are reading a TV. That is, all of
> the characters are actors or wanna-be actors or were actors or are
> collecting SAG money or aping they favorite star or swagger. They all
> talking like them Tube-headed dudes, those Thanatoids.  This novel, if
> that's what it is, is Pynchon on the Simpsons--a TV Program about TV
> and how TV and biography and history and the reel/real pornographic
> karmic wheel just keeps turning out fortunes for the 500. So, we're
> lookin at TV and people who work on, or for, or at, or in, TV. So the
> black chic who does the Soul Surfer Chick high heel flip flop shuffle
> is up on a split screen next to this Cheese Pimp. Doubles. You gotta
> read these two as doubles. Jason, he wants to be cool, but he don't
> even know how to pick a cool pimped out name, Cheese? Government
> Cheese? The dude's a fuckin virgin and he's trying to hustle some
> street bitches who been round the block more times than and in and
> outf of the joint and are livin under real fake names that actually
> have earning potential. This boy just been readin Pimp by Iceberg, no,
> no, not reading it, but consuming the shit, but not in paper form, but
> in plastic form--film--TV film. He's got the blax thang goin but his
> seeds be poppin and he's paying too much for that shit cause he ain
> never seen no Shinola. Dig?
>