collectSPACE: Messages - Reply to Topic

Space News
space history and artifacts articles

Messages
space history discussion forums

Sightings
worldwide astronaut appearances

Resources
selected space history documents

Forum:	Free Space
Topic:	Space memorabilia spotted on The Simpsons

Want to register?

Who Can Post?	Any registered users may post a reply.
About Registration	You must be registered in order to post a topic or reply in this forum.
Your UserName:
Your Password:	Forget your password?
Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ben: [B]That helmet is supposed to be from "Deep Space Homer," the episode where Homer goes into space and Buzz Aldrin has a cameo. That's Homer's helmet, in other words. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091014a-buzz-aldrin-simpsons-figure.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-091014d-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
Options	Disable Smilies in This Post. Show Signature: include your profile signature. Only registered users may have signatures.
*If HTML and/or UBB Code are enabled, this means you can use HTML and/or UBB Code in your message.

If you have previously registered, but forgotten your password, click here.

<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>music_space</TD><TD>I just happened to be watching an old rerun of The Simpsons, the episode where Lisa finds what looks like an angel fossil... Eventually Homer goes to put the fossil in the closet where he keeps his most precious possessions... and there, on a shelf, sits what looks like an Apollo helmet.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Ed beck</TD><TD>If Homer Simpson collected it, it was likely Don Knotts helmet from his movie "The Reluctant Astronaut". Only Homer Simpson would believe that it was actually flown in space!</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Ben</TD><TD>That helmet is supposed to be from "Deep Space Homer," the episode where Homer goes into space and Buzz Aldrin has a cameo. That's Homer's helmet, in other words.<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091014a-buzz-aldrin-simpsons-figure.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-091014d-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>From @Smithsonian (via @airandspace): <BLOCKQUOTE>Anyone catch our cameo in <A HREF="http://ow.ly/4QfvI" TARGET=_blank>last night's</A> Simpsons intro?</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/simpsons_nasm01.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="225"></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>contra</TD><TD>Seen in the latest Simpsons episode:<center><a href="http://pic80.picturetrail.com/VOL2138/10189206/18312011/400915518.jpg" TARGET="AirLock"><img src="http://pic80.picturetrail.com/VOL2138/10189206/18312011/400915518.jpg" WIDTH="400" BORDER="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>p51</TD><TD>"In rod we trust"!</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>rwhite502</TD><TD>"Careful, they're ruffled!" <IMG SRC="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif"> </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>AstronautBrian</TD><TD>"You fool! Now we'll never know if ants can sort tiny screws in space!"and'Those golden grahams! Those tasty golden grahams..."</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>Sunday's (March 13) episode of The Simpsons, "The Marge-ian Chronicles," saw the series spoof Mars One. <BLOCKQUOTE>Lisa volunteers for a future one-way journey to Mars, much to Marge's chagrin. As she searches for a way to convince Lisa not to go, Marge hits upon the most devious strategy of all, and volunteers to go along for the ride. Will the Simpsons girls be mankind's first residents of the Red Planet?</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dHh9I80kxfs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Robert Pearlman

Jalopnik explores the reasoning "Deep Space Homer" featured a more Hermes-like space shuttle than the U.S. space shuttle in its depiction of the Corvair spacecraft.

What interests me here, though, is the spacecraft that took Homer into space. When the episode aired in 1994, NASA was still launching the Space Shuttle orbiters into space on a fairly regular basis. These spacecraft were very well known to Americans, and visually they had a distinctive look that most American television viewers would recognize and understand instantly. You'd think representing the Space Shuttle as it was known to most people would be the way to go for the episode.
For some reason, that's not what happened.

Contact Us | The Source for Space History & Artifacts