The MOST obsucre reference ever!

Oskar Homolka

He's used as an exclamation by Krusty in some episode that I can't even remember.

Look him up. I dare you.

evan

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Aren't you afraid that someone will sabotage this thread?

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

[email] (Richard Schultz) wrote in message news:...

HEY EINSTEIN!

Directly from: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF17

Comes the following information:

Aaron Hirshberg: Oskar Homolka is a European actor. Check out the Internet Movie Database for his credits.

Stephen Gutknecht did, and found this:  Oscar was adept at playing villains.
   Of medium height, rotund and stocky with dark hair, squinty eyes, bushy
   eyebrows which gave him a menacing look and sinister looking smile he was
   perfect for those parts.  Born August 12, 1898 in Vienna, Austria he began
   his career on the German and Austrian stages and progressed on to film.  He
   left Europe as Hitler came to power and began his film career playing
   foreign character roles.  The pinnacle of his career came with an Oscar
   nomination for his role as Uncle Chris in "I Remember Mama" (1948).  He
   died on January 27, 1978 of pneumonia in Sussex, England at age 79.
   [Someone named "falloutboy" notes, "Oscar's most famous role was probably
   as the one-eyed creep 'Krull' in 'Mr. Sardonicus'"]

   Now, I don't know his films.  I suspect one of the pictures that Krusty
   looks at is a shot from a film?  What about the picture of the clown in an
   Electric Chair?

[Mr. Gutknecht goes on to add ...] I think I found it.

   Hitchcock move "Sabotage".  Oskar Homolka plays Mr. Victor.  This web site
   says: "Mrs. Verloc, repelled by the truth, kills Verloc with a carving
   knife."  So There is a scene in this movie where Oskar Homolka is killed
   with a carving knife!

www.snpp.com has everything. This is the worst "MOST obsucre (sic) reference" ever!

BTW, I am the "Aaron Hirshberg" in the reference above.

Space (AKA Aaron "Space Museum" Hirshberg)

I didn't quesiton whether it's on snpp.com or not. The question is, did YOU know about Oskar Homolka before you looked him up?

evan

In article , Park Luck wrote:

I did. I even knew who Sylvia Sidney was.

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

Anybody who's seen a Tim Burton film should know who she is.

evan

"Park Luck" wrote in message news:[email]...

The first Mrs. Carlson?

Aaron Hirshberg wrote:

IIRC OH was in at least one of the Michael Caine spy movies from the 60's, e.g., "The Ipcress File" or "Funeral in Berlin".

I'm not sure it helps. I just looked, and he was (at least) an actor, but none of the shows listed on tvtome seem memorable. Is that the joke, that it was just someone nobody knew?

Michael

I suggest that you do an IMDb search for movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

obsucre?

Yeah, obsucre. You got a problem with that?

evan

In article , Park Luck wrote:

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In the Christmas episode with Gary Coleman, at one point, Lisa brings her parents and Chief Wiggum to the "broom closet" that's actually a room where they are secretly filming her class. When she opens it, naturally, it's just a broom closet, and when a mop falls on her head and she says that she really did see what she saw, Chief Wiggum responds, "Sure, Mop-top. And I'm Ed Sullivan." I don't think that that joke was particularly obsucre, but I wonder what percentage of the audience got it.

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

On 7 Oct 2003 19:45:43 GMT, donutbandit wrote:

Obsucre. It means "backwards sugar."