Deep Space Homer Sighting
I had a movie night the other night. I watched Be Kind Rewind, which was very darling and entertaining -- I highly recommend it if you have not seen it already -- and then I watched Killer of Sheep, which is probably more for an academic more than your typical Joe Sixpack. It was then about two in the morning, and I really wasn't tired. Instead, I started looking around the gazillion cable channels and I stumbled across Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.
I had never watched the movie starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, and kind of always wanted to. Just never found the time...
Anyhoo, as I was watching Romy and Michelle..., there is a scene in which Michelle (or is Romy, I cannot keep the characters straight) goes to a garage to borrow a really hot car to impress the lame-oids she went to high school with. In that scene, Romy/Michelle enters the office of the garage, and the group of mechanics are all sitting around a small tv set, watching, yep, The Simpsons.
Holla!
Being a major Simpsons geek, it took me all of about one second to recognize the episode. Deep Space Homer, in which Homer gets accepted as an astronaut, after NASA realizes that Americans are not interested in watching Shuttle launches and clean-cut mathematicians, but instead tune in for shows featuring slobs like the Tim Allen character in Home Improvement.
It is one of my absolute favourite episodes from Season Five. I love the part when James Taylor screws up the lyrics to his iconic, Fire and Rain.
Here is my question and I wonder if anyone out there has the same question or an answer.
The episode is from 1994. Romy and Michelle's was made in 1997. That episode was five years old. So it not like it was the current episode at the time. Furthermore, it must have been in syndication by then, so was it just a coincidence that particular episode was on? Or was it planned, which is my guess. Who working on Romy and Michelle chose to have that episode playing in that scene? Lisa Kudrow appeared as a guest voice on The Simpsons in a 1998 episode, "Lard of the Dance." Was this Simpsons shout-out tied to that somehow?
Something else that is kind of interesting...a copy of "Deep Space Homer" is available on the International Space Station, according to Wikipedia.
I had never watched the movie starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, and kind of always wanted to. Just never found the time...
Anyhoo, as I was watching Romy and Michelle..., there is a scene in which Michelle (or is Romy, I cannot keep the characters straight) goes to a garage to borrow a really hot car to impress the lame-oids she went to high school with. In that scene, Romy/Michelle enters the office of the garage, and the group of mechanics are all sitting around a small tv set, watching, yep, The Simpsons.
Holla!
Being a major Simpsons geek, it took me all of about one second to recognize the episode. Deep Space Homer, in which Homer gets accepted as an astronaut, after NASA realizes that Americans are not interested in watching Shuttle launches and clean-cut mathematicians, but instead tune in for shows featuring slobs like the Tim Allen character in Home Improvement.
It is one of my absolute favourite episodes from Season Five. I love the part when James Taylor screws up the lyrics to his iconic, Fire and Rain.
Here is my question and I wonder if anyone out there has the same question or an answer.
The episode is from 1994. Romy and Michelle's was made in 1997. That episode was five years old. So it not like it was the current episode at the time. Furthermore, it must have been in syndication by then, so was it just a coincidence that particular episode was on? Or was it planned, which is my guess. Who working on Romy and Michelle chose to have that episode playing in that scene? Lisa Kudrow appeared as a guest voice on The Simpsons in a 1998 episode, "Lard of the Dance." Was this Simpsons shout-out tied to that somehow?
Something else that is kind of interesting...a copy of "Deep Space Homer" is available on the International Space Station, according to Wikipedia.
