Fat Man and Little Boy Capsule Submission

S16E05 Fat Man and Little BoyliveDec 12, 2004, 8:50 PM ET48 minutes after the credits2 posts by 2 posters
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Joe Klemm

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S P A C E

DYN's

Homer's reactor has "nuclear holocaust" for it's medium setting?

References

Dust in the Wind -Song playing when Bart heads out to give his toys a Viking funeral

I'm Too Sexy -Music when Bart shows off his t-shirts

Mood Rings -Mood Lollipops

Austin Powers, Spongebob Squarepants, Osama Bin Laden -Variations of the Itchy and Scratchy t-shirts

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -Goose Gladwell is dress up like Willy Wonka

Pink Panther -Music when Homer steals some Plutonium

Comments:

Even though Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson is very much against licensing his characters to be used for merchandise (with the only official Calvin and Hobbes product being the collection of comics in book forms), that doesn't stop bootleggers from using them for their own merchandise. Two main bootleg Calvin and Hobbes products come to mind, both of which are referenced by Chief Wiggum. The first one is t-shirts featuring the two title characters (one example of these that I've seen involves the two with Bart Simpson drinking beer and eying Lisa, with it being accompanied by the caption "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder"). The other type is car stickers that feature Calvin peeing on the logo of various car companies (with each sticker featuring a different logo).

META HUMOR ALERT: After Homer makes a comment about quality of animation, his mouth moves to the right of Homer's head and is floating in mid-air.

Joe Klemm

Steve PortigalJoe Klemm

The Sea Captain reads Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" as Bart is giving his toys a Viking funeral.

Here's a version of the poem - don't know how the broadcast version may have differed

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.