tonights couch gag

can anyone tell me what tonights couch gag was i missed it.

Once Upon A Summertime, Just A Dream From Yesterday Ryan Usenet Voots wrote:

They did an endless zoom-out from the Simpson's living room (showing Springfield to be located somewhere near Michigan on the way) showing the universe to be an atom located inside Homer's brain. Homer: "Wow!"

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Captain Infinity wrote in message news:...

I say "Men In Black", but nobody will agree with me!

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Once Upon A Summertime, Just A Dream From Yesterday Aaron Hirshberg wrote:

"Time Bandits"

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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:44:37 -0500, Captain Infinity wrote:

The "big pullback" has been done a number times. In addition to those, I can think of "Powers of Ten" and "Contact", not to mention Futurama's "Godfellas".

However, I can't think of a film that used the idea that our universe is an atom in a bigger universe. It shows up in science fiction stories often -- "He Who Shrank" is one I can think of, though it did a zoom in rather than out. (Futurama also made a joke about this -- "Nope, we're on top.")

I remember seeing a movie back in the 1970s where they did this. What was it called, .... hmmmm .... oh, now I remember! "Uncle Doobie, Goodtime Slim, and the Great Frisco Freakout".

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"Powers Of 10" was the first thing I thought of.

I have an astronomy book somewhere published in the mid '90's that uses similar "our universe may be just a subatomic particle in another universe" imagery, doing pretty much the same thing pictorally as the pullout, except of course the last image was a dandelion, and NOT Homer's forehead...

CHRIS COMTE

Alan Hamilton wrote in message news:...

In article , Alan Hamilton wrote:

The "Contact" pullback was interesting because of the audio (although the most interesting film work in "Contact" was probably the mirror thing, not the pullback thing).

Eames: Powersof10.com http://www.powersof10.com/ California Academy of Sciences - Powers of Ten http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/powers_of_ten/

Others are:

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Quarks to Quasars, Powers of Ten http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm

Swiss site http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/microcosm/P10/english/welcome.html

Miami Museum of Science - The pH Factor / Powers of Ten href="http://www.miamisci.org/ph/lpextend1.html

A View from the Back of the Envelope http://www.vendian.org/envelope/"

"The ASCII Artful Dodger" wrote in message news:c4l2u4$2ktobg$[email]...

universe. -------- Could there be a universe inside something that is inside a quark? Maybe our universe is inside something that is inside a quark of some piece of matter in another universe too. Perhaps that "greater universe" is where scientifically inexplicable things like heaven and hell are located?

Man, that would be several googols of universes!

Eames: Powersof10.com http://www.powersof10.com/ California Academy of Sciences - Powers of Ten http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/powers_of_ten/

Others are:

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

Quarks to Quasars, Powers of Ten http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm

Swiss site http://microcosm.web.cern.ch/microcosm/P10/english/welcome.html

Miami Museum of Science - The pH Factor / Powers of Ten http://www.miamisci.org/ph/lpextend1.html

A View from the Back of the Envelope http://www.vendian.org/envelope/

Source: http://www.theagelesswisdom.com/Fun/Fun.html

Jay LaRochelle wrote:

In alt.tv.simpsons, on the "Re: tonights couch gag" thread, Jay LaRochelle wrote:

Joel Achenbach tackled this question in his "Why Things Are" column. Basically, he noted that as you divide things into smaller and smaller particles of matter, the particles become less and less complicated. This rules out the possibility that there's a mini-universe at the edge of your thumbnail.

Conversely, our planet is part of a solar system, which is part of a supercluster of stars, which is part of a galaxy, which itself is a part of a cluster of galaxies. Achenbach's conclusion was that, if anything, *we're* the tiny universe at the edge of a thumbnail.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:11:40 -0500, Captain Infinity wrote:

It has to be one of the best cough gags I can remember, definitely in my top 10. Surely its also the longest ever? It really stretched the title sequence to much longer than usual, I started to wonder whether we'd gone straight into the episode from the couch gag or something!

That doesn't seem so funny to me. It's obvious that THE SIMPSONS is well past its prime if it is relying on hackneyed gags like this.

Dean wrote:

Did you actually see it? According to others in this group, including me, that was the best couch gag ever. So it is obvious to whom?

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:19:21 -0600, Robert Bindler wrote:

Yeah it definitely had to be seen to be appreciated, it can't really be done justice in words. I thought it was pretty funny just how long it lasted, and it looked great. As I think I said already, it's probably one of my favourite couch gags that I can remember.

As for The Simpsons 'past its prime', yeah it probably is, but it's still some of the best new TV around. Every new episode there's plenty of stuff I like, even if the earlier seasons had more integrity with their approach to the characters and stories.

Captain Infinity wrote in message news:...

This makes me wonder if this gag is going to be used on syndicated versions of the episode(s) that have this? They did a real chop job on the original Simpsons shorts when they syndicated the 100th Episode(?) special :\

(sort of)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html