In the DVD commentary, the creators also state that some of the effects in the film, such as the time lapse and the music, are a nod to the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi.The song heard throughout Barney's film is "Un Bel di Vedremo," ("One fine day we'll see") from the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini.Several parts of Pukahontas are based on the 1945 classic film The Lost Weekend, which is about an alcoholic writer.The film's title is a reference to the historical person Pocahontas.Ironically, the grand prize turned out to be a lifetime supply of Duff Beer. After a night of soul-searching, Homer concurred, and Pukahontas won the grand prize, having earned the votes of three of the five jury members. She looks like Barney in drag and talks similar to Barney, even having similar belching habits. Later, when the jury cast their votes for the film festival's grand prize, Jay described Barney's movie as "sensitive, yet unfortunately-titled." He and Marge Simpson immediately voted for it to receive the grand prize. Movie critic Jay Sherman immediately said, "I think we have a winner." In the closing shot, the curtains billow as "Fin" appears on the screen.īarney's film drew wild applause, and more than a few tears, from the entire audience. Barney says, in voice-over, "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead." He puts the rose in the Duff bottle on the windowsill, and the petals slowly fall off, scattering in the breeze. The scene changes to a record player, then back to Barney on his couch, holding a rose to his nose. Gumble, this is a Girl Scout meeting." Barney replies, "Is it? Or is it that you girls can't admit you have a problem?" Ralph Wiggum, for example, wasn’t Chief Wiggum’s son until season 4’s 15th episode I Love Lisa, though he was referred to by his last name of Wiggum in season 4’s first episode, Kamp. In the next scene, Barney, seated in a chair, apparently for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, says, "My name is Barney Gumble and I'm an alcoholic." The camera zooms out to show that Barney is sitting in a circle with several girls wearing Scout uniforms. The Simpsons has gone through a lot of changes even after the series premiered, and some characters have undergone some last minute changes. A tear leaks from his eye and rolls down his cheek. The shot changes back to Barney, who is now old, bald, and toothless, lying in the same gutter. The narration continues: "There's a line in Othello about a drinker: 'Now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast.' That pretty well covers it." Next, in a time-lapse sequence, clouds in the sky pass by as the day changes to night and back to day again. He collapses and lays the bottle down with some beer still in it, and beer spills out and pours into a sewer grating. The scene shifts to Barney lying in a gutter drinking another Duff. Barney, narrating in voice-over, says, "My name is Barney Gumble. The shot changes to a view from above, now showing that Barney is lying on a couch. A hand reaches up, turns the bottle upside down, and the shot zooms out to reveal that Barney is drinking the beer. Coincidentally, both he and his son share similar names to dinosaur hosts of children's programs (namely, Arnie's name is similar to that of the character Arnie the Dinosaur from the film Nine Months, which was released a year prior to his debut episode's airing, while Barney's name is similar to that of Barney the Dinosaur, whom the aforementioned Arnie the Dinosaur was partially based on).Pukahontas opens with a shot of a Duff Beer bottle sitting on a windowsill with curtains billowing around it in the breeze.He may have been a Stonecutter since his son was a Stonecutter. The hoax was perpetuated by users photoshopping the character into various Simpsons scenes and recalling non-existent scenes with Gumbly. In a season 26 episode, a young Barney could be seen along with his parents at the Springfield Town Hall in a flashback to 3 decades ago. Gumbly or Graggle Simpson refers to an internet hoax that The Simpsons added a new character named 'Gumbly' to the show in the latest seasons. While in France him and his Sergeant Abe where helped by Meaux and Genevieve Bouvier.īefore the Army, Arnie was in The Naval Reserve where he met his wife Nurse Gumble. 2 In the episode, Springfield decides to hold a film festival, and famed critic Jay Sherman is invited to. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 5, 1995. ' A Star Is Burns ' is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. He had the same voice and bad burping habits as his son, except he burps without drinking beer. The Simpsons (season 6) List of episodes. Apparently, Arnie desired to buy his way into high class society when he took part in the tontine. He was one of five members of the group to die in a parade float accident in 1979. Along with the rest of the unit, he took part in a tontine where the last surviving member would take sole possession of a group of paintings they liberated. He was in charge of watching his unit's backs inside a tank.
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