Trash of the Titan

actual title: A Big Piece of Garbage written by: Lewis Morton

alternate titles:
 - Trash of the Titan
   [a {titan} rocket launching a ball of garbage,
    a city overflowing with garbage, oh never mind]
 - I Can Smell Clearly Now

DYN
 - Ogden Werntrom sounds like Marvin the Martin
 - Wernstrom is in his 120's
 - waiter at the banquet is carrying drinks in various
     lab containers, such as test tubes
 - the Earth's population in Y3K is still in the billions,
     even after the cyborgs and alien spacecraft attacks
 - NYC 2000 is the most wasteful society in the history of
     the galaxy
 - name of the trash barge is "Fun in the sun"
 - Bender scratches his shiny metal ass
 - Prof. Farnsworth is 149 years old
 - the smelloscope has a funkometer
 - the City of NNY Seal features a human and a robot.

We already have Tress MacNeille as a Simpsons/Futurama voice actor cross-over. Tonight's clip of the Bart doll saying "Eat my Shorts" brings in Nancy Cartwright, and next week will feature Dan Castellaneta as the Robot devil.

Previous Episode similarities
 - [1ACV01] "Bad President"     "bad fish"
 - [1ACV04] weakness of the human brain mentioned
            [your soft human brain] "your tiny inferior brain"
 - [1ACV05] celestial object splats like a bug
            [hologram of trashteroid] [planet on the windshield]

Piecing together the Solar System from Sugar Packets: - Jupiter smells like strawberries - Saturn smells like pine needles - Uranus renamed Urectum - Neptune is inhabited by english speaking humans - Mars has a distiguished college, Mars University - Mars has been inhabited for centuries

Academy of Inventors [AOI] Official Seal | light | the bulb | wheel ------------------ mouse | spray-on trap | toupe

Trashteroid Cartography
 - mass of coffee grounds
 - deposit of America Online floppy disks
 - weak faultline between the two [above]
 - hypodermic ridge
 - items seen
   -- beanie baby
   -- Mr. Spock collector's plate
   -- pile of Bart Simpson dolls

Ron Popeil's inventions - Mr. Microphone - Spray-on Toupe - head-in-a-jar technology

Fortified Wine List - 71' Hobo's Delight - 57' Chateau Parte - 66' Thunder Shewitz

pornocumentary "The Great Garbage Crisis of 2000"

Urban Folklore?
 - a barge full of garbage once actually went from seaport
   to seaport along the east coast trying to find someplace
   that would receive it, but was repeatedly turned away.

I was hoping that Prof. Frink would have been mentioned for some groundbreaking invention he created before he died.

Dave Sweatt wrote:

I took a trip to New York after the barge had returned to the City. The tour guide on the Circle Line actually pointed out the barge in the harbor as part of the tour (and mentioned it was sinking.)

In article , Ryan Paige wrote:

http://www.lihistory.com/9/hs9garb.htm

Barging into a Trashy Saga A plan to send Long Island garbage south becomes a national joke -- but helps solve a problem

                               By Shirley Perlman
                               Staff Writer

It was 1987 and America was awash in trashy news, most notably the sex scandals involving former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and television evangelist Jim Bakker. [...] The partners envisioned leasing four barges to haul 10,000 tons a day -- at a profit of $200,000 a day.

[...]

On March 22, the Break of Dawn pulled out of New York with 3,186 tons of baled Islip trash in tow. At the helm was Duffy St. Pierre, a soft-spoken Cajun sea captain from New Orleans, with a crew of three men. Three days later, the barge docked in North Carolina, where Harrelson had verbal agreements with a few farmers to use some of their land for dump sites. And then . . .

"There were these two little old ladies in Morehead City living in a house near the dock where the barge pulled up," Hroncich recalled recently. "They called the mayor's office, and one thing led to another. They really started it."

The mayor called the governor. The governor barred the barge from docking anywhere in the state. The same thing happened in Louisiana (where Harrelson had written agreements to dump the trash in landfills), Texas and Florida. By then, nobody wanted Long Island's garbage, but everyone was talking about it.

[...] Cuba said no, and so did the little country of Belize. Mexico said it would dispatch gunboats if the barge tried to approach the Yucatan Peninsula.

[...] On May 16, after two months at sea, the beleaguered garbage barge sailed back into New York Harbor under police escort and then dropped anchor in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay. There it became a tourist attraction for almost four months while state and local officials battled in court about what to do with the trash, [..]

Finally, in August, after four months of legal wrangling, an agreement was reached to burn the trash in Brooklyn and bury the ash at the Islip landfill. On Sept.1, the first truckload of ash was deposited atop the landfill without protest or fanfare. [...]

Dave Sweatt wrote:

But Frink is just a cartoon character in Futurama.

Dave Sweatt wrote:

I'd spell the second word either 'Partay' or 'Par-tay', but that's just me.

CountV

I saw his name in the credits, but just to check, was that MadTv's Dave Herman as Werntrom?

Raul

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I can't believe no one's pointed this out yet, but a DYN is that all the Bart dolls had blue shirts on. Bart always wears an orange shirt. Loved the Bender bit where the doll said "Eat my shorts," so he did! "Mmmmmm, shorts."

It wasn't mentioned in the show, but didn't he also invent (or maybe just distributed) the Popeil Pocket Fisherman?

Not quite. Bart does wear light blue shirts from time to time, and much of the available merchandise (especially where Bart is in his "Bartman" persona with purple cape and cowl) show Bart in a blue shirt. I still have an old Bartman poster from that time period.

Peace, Vince Yim

Frederick J. Barnett Jr. wrote in message news:1Gf_2.1546$[email]...

No, the Pocket Fisherman was invented by Ron's father. (Sorry, but I don't know his first name.) I know this because of the Weird Al Yankovic song Mr. Popeil, about Ron's dad, which featured backup vocals by Lisa Popeil, Ron's sister. I really know much more than I sould about the Popeil clan, don't I?

Mikael

on Wed, 12 May 1999 08:49:52 -0500 in article in alt.tv.futurama, Frederick J. Barnett Jr. was compelled to write:

That was probably his father (whose name escapes me at the moment). Ron's father started Popeil, but after a falling-out, Ron left his father's employ and started his own TV-marketed-products firm: Ronco.

More New Jersey bashing on Futurama:

"New York City, the year 2000--the most wasteful society in the history of the galaxy. And it was running out of places to bury its neverending output of garbage. The landfills were full...New Jersey was full."

You'll remember the "Technically, the apartment is in New Jersey/Not one place even remotely livable!" quote from 1ACV03.

Ah, we can just grin and bear it--and take pride in knowing, hey, at least we're not Cleveland!

• Leigh 13

Leigh 13 wrote:

<clearing throat> Blarg!

Dave Sweatt wrote:

Obviously a play on "House party".

A piquant blend of Thunderbird (drink of choice for the stereotypical Sterno bum) and Manishevitz (Cheap wine imbibed at Bar Mitzvahs and other essentially Jewish functions).

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Dave wrote:

I would say it is a play on how some people will proclaim 'Time to par-TAY!', and since it sorta sounds vaguely French, the adding Chateau to it makes sense.

CountV

You may be right but Chateau *is* French for house, and 'house party' *is* a common enough phrase, I think there might have even been a film with that as the title.

Maybe House Par-TAY?
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Dave wrote:

Ehm, no. Chateau is french for 'castle'. It is a common preface to many wine names, as vineyards are often appended to castles.

I think it was (like the other two examples) a mix of high and low - the 'chateau' part indicating culture, and the 'par-tay' indicating lack of such.

CountV

In article , "CountV" wrote:

Yeah, Chez Parte would've been house party.

-Alexis (thinking that this is an entertaining debate)

[email] wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't familiar enough with French architectural terminology.

But your comment reminds me of an old, but cute, joke:

Know what my favorite French restaurant in NY is?

Chez Stadium.

:)

Certainly more entertaining that that silly "Family Guy on Sunday" thread.

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Dave wrote:

wine

Yeah, let's not talk to them. *g*

CountV

Fortified Wine List - 71' Hobo's Delight - 57' Chateau Parte - 66' Thunder Shewitz

I thought this referred to cars, 57 Chevy, 66 Thunderbird, (no idea what 71 is though)

"Michael D. Hovde, Jr." wrote:

You _are_ aware that wines have vintages, right?

CountV

CountV wrote:

Night train and Mad Dog 20/20 are timeless...... Didn't know that fortified wines had vintages....

However, it was the *inflection* given to the names that made me think about cars.

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Michael D. Hovde, Jr. wrote:

But not all fortified wine is swill. Port is fortified, and vintage Port certainly exists.

Damn, now I'm all thirsty.

Having just recently seen an episode of Modern Marvels (History Channel) dealing with garbage disposal, I can safely say this was no urban myth. From what I can remember, it wasn't, however, quite a case of "no one would take it". Apparently someone in charge of disposing of this particular batch of NY garbage hit on a scheme to ship it to a landfill that was charging very little to take it, allowing either this guy or his department to pocket a lot of the disposal budget. Once the barge was on its way, though, some media guy latched on to the plan and made a big stink (so to speak) about it, leading a politician in the area of the landfill to make a big deal out of turning away the barge (even though the landfill operator was quite enthusiastic to receive; apparently they were making a lot of money off of this too). After that, the barge became somewhat famous for floating from harbor to harbor, looking for a taker, and finding none.

I likely have several details wrong here; I wasn't paying huge attention to the documentary. Perhaps someone else can help clarify.

I saw a similar documentary, except that the barge was from Iceland and not NY. The barge travelled the world for 6 months or so before they sent it back and burned all of the garbage on the barge in iceland.

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