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T O P I C R E V I E Wmusic_spaceI 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.Ed beckIf 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!BenThat 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.Robert PearlmanFrom @Smithsonian (via @airandspace): Anyone catch our cameo in last night's Simpsons intro? contraSeen in the latest Simpsons episode:p51"In rod we trust"!rwhite502"Careful, they're ruffled!" AstronautBrian"You fool! Now we'll never know if ants can sort tiny screws in space!"and'Those golden grahams! Those tasty golden grahams..."Robert PearlmanSunday's (March 13) episode of The Simpsons, "The Marge-ian Chronicles," saw the series spoof Mars One. 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? Robert PearlmanJalopnik 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.
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.
Anyone catch our cameo in last night's Simpsons intro?
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'Those golden grahams! Those tasty golden grahams..."
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?
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.
For some reason, that's not what happened.
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