Powerplant & the crow

When the outside of the Nuclear power plant is shown from overhead, usually in an establishing shot, a crow can be heard letting out a single 'caw'

What is the significance of this, if any?

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:16:40 -0400, "Frink" wrote:

None, just a bit of a running gag, if it can even be called that.

I say that on the authority of the producers' commentary on the Season One DVD set. ;)

TTYL

"Frink" wrote in message news:...

For some reason I am thinking of the segment based on Poe's classic "The Raven", but I don't think that's it.

"Frink" wrote in message news:a9khkr$o3v$[email]...

usually

presumably the same as the shopping cart rolling out of the shopping mall carpark

"Shweeney" wrote in message news:...

When I asked this question about a year ago someone said it was "ambience". Lousy French sounding words!

Space Museum

"Aaron Hirshberg" wrote in message news:[email]...

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'caw'

mall

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

uh uh, en francais*: hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu hu!

*however the hell you spell that.

"Shweeney" wrote in message news:wEvv8.8518$[email]...

And the oil stain on Homer's driveway.

Yours truly, Some bozo

My favourite running gag of all time.

It's one of the defining elements of the Simpsons, IMO.

Frink wrote:

Probably just making it more foreboding. It is the fortress of an evil twisted vampire after all.

It's along the same lines as the way every car that pulls away has to lay rubber for some reason.

"Frink" wrote in message ...

usually

The significance is that there are crows nesting at/near the plant. That's why you can hear their calls. Seems obvious enough to me. Of course, they'd have to be immune to the effects of Burnsie's cricket poison.

Did you know that flocks of birds are often attracted towards certain industrial plants because of the warmth of the steam they emit?

Becks (U.K.) http://www.toontalents.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Montgomery Burns -- "Oh, meltdown. It's one of those annoying 'buzzwords.' We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus." ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~:

"Becks" spewed forth in news:a9smuh$g1g$[email] on 20 Apr 2002:

Yes I did. I also know that's why sparrows are often found nesting in chimneys and why those damn pigeons kept flying down ours last year.