2 + 2 BASHED!!

[Sloats]

From Fox News: Link

"...fictional movie star Troy McClure (best remembered for the faux educational filmstrip: "2+2 = Negative Fun")."

Convert, all of you Simpsons fans to South Park. The Simpsons do not like you. (OK, that is the worst obscure reference I could come up with.... I just got a chuckle when I read 2+2...)





:Maverick Punching Out:

[jagoff]

Convert??? NEVVVVEEEERRRRR! Just remember that the Simpsons have done everything South Park fans!

[spacemonkey57]

That's not right. It's 1-2=Negative Fun.

Yes, I am a dork.

[Sloats]

And the Simpsons got their ideas from the Twilight Zone....

[Sponger15SB]

you guys are all wayyy off...

[ QUOTE ]
% The film starts. "The Meat Council Presents: `Meat and You: Partners
% in Freedom'. Number 3F03 in the `Resistance is Useless' series."
% Open on cattle country.

Troy: Nothing beats a stroll in cattle country. Hi, I'm Troy McClure.
You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus
Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".
Jimmy: Mr. McClure?
Troy: Oh! Hello Bobby.
Jimmy: Jimmy. I'm curious as to how meat gets from the ranch to my
stomach.
Troy: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down Jimmy. You just asked a mouthful.
It all starts here, in the high density feed lot. Then, when the
cattle are just right [swipes his finger along the top of a cow
and licks it] Yum...it's time for them to graduate from Bovine
University.
-- Summa cum laude, "Lisa the Vegetarian"



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http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F03

[Homer]

Not posting the entirety of the best Troy McClure short in Simpsons' history is just wrong...

% The film starts. "The Meat Council Presents: `Meat and You: Partners
% in Freedom'. Number 3F03 in the `Resistance is Useless' series."
% Open on cattle country.

Troy: Nothing beats a stroll in cattle country. Hi, I'm Troy McClure.
You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus
Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".
Jimmy: Mr. McClure?
Troy: Oh! Hello Bobby.
Jimmy: Jimmy. I'm curious as to how meat gets from the ranch to my
stomach.
Troy: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down Jimmy. You just asked a mouthful.
It all starts here, in the high density feed lot. Then, when the
cattle are just right [swipes his finger along the top of a cow
and licks it] Yum...it's time for them to graduate from Bovine
University.
-- Summa cum laude, "Lisa the Vegetarian"

% A klaxon blares out a siren and the cattle begin moving up a conveyor
% belt into the meat packing plant.

Troy: Come on Jimmy, let's take a peek at the killing floor.
Jimmy: Ohhh!
Troy: Don't let the name throw you Jimmy. It's not really a floor,
it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice
through so it can be collected and exported.
-- Troy nearly got in at Hendon, "Lisa the Vegetarian"

% They walk throught the door of the plant accompanied by the sounds of
% moo-ing and startled cows. Electricity noise sparks in the background
% as the camera pans down the length of the factory to a truck marked
% "Meat For You" being loaded with raw chunks of meat. Troy and Jimmy
% emerge, with Jimmy visibly pale and queasy.

Troy: Gettin hungry Jimmy?
Jimmy: Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says its wrong
to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: Nooo, just ignorant. You see your crazy friend never heard
of "The Food Chain". [Flash to a picture of "Food Chain",
with all animals and arrows pointing to a silhouette of a
human.] Just ask this scientician.
Scientician: [Looking up from a microscope.] Uhhh...
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably
eats another creature to survive.
[Images of various wild carnivores attacking and eating
others appear.]
Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance,
he'd eat you and everyone you care about! [Image of a cow
quietly chewing cud.]
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a grade A moron to ever question
eating meat.
Troy: [Laughs.] Yes you were Jimmy, yes you were. [Briskly rubs
his hand on Jimmy's head.]
Jimmy: [Timid] Uhh...you're hurting me.
-- Troy McClure, the silent hurter, "Lisa the Vegetarian"

% Film's over.

[Sloats]

ah,

but Fox put 2+2=negative fun.

so:

1) does this call into question Fox's fact checking. (please, no right wing left wing Moore Bush Kerry debating/tangents)

2) Was that an intentional Inaccuracy and I got an inside joke (2+2=-EV)

3) Fox slipped in a 2+2 plug but Raymer/ESPN doesn't.

[spacemonkey57]

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you guys are all wayyy off...


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D'oh! I can't believe I got that wrong. I still got closer than fox though.

[Vehn]

Those little asides from snpp e.g. "-- Troy nearly got in at Hendon, "Lisa the Vegetarian"" make me want to punch people in the face over the internet.

[spacemonkey57]

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Those little asides from snpp e.g. "-- Troy nearly got in at Hendon, "Lisa the Vegetarian"" make me want to punch people in the face over the internet.

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Amen to that. The episode reviews at the end of the capsules make me feel the same way.