posted 01-10-2002 07:55 PM
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.
Ed beck Member
Posts: 227 From: Florida Registered: Aug 2000
posted 01-10-2002 09:37 PM
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!
Ben Member
Posts: 1935 From: United States Registered: May 2000
posted 01-10-2002 10:23 PM
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.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53188 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-09-2011 10:22 AM
From @Smithsonian (via @airandspace):
Anyone catch our cameo in last night's Simpsons intro?
p51 Member
Posts: 1785 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 02-07-2012 08:58 PM
"In rod we trust"!
rwhite502 Member
Posts: 29 From: Reading, PA Registered: Apr 2008
posted 02-08-2012 07:56 AM
"Careful, they're ruffled!"
AstronautBrian Member
Posts: 310 From: Louisiana Registered: Jan 2006
posted 02-12-2012 04:55 PM
"You fool! Now we'll never know if ants can sort tiny screws in space!"
and
'Those golden grahams! Those tasty golden grahams..."
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53188 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 03-15-2016 04:46 PM
Sunday'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 Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53188 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-27-2017 09:41 AM
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.
posted 01-10-2002 07:55 PM
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