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 Friday, May 08, 2009

Dominique on The Simpsons

By Diana Hsieh @ 1:34 PM

I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, but this Sunday's episode promises to be of interest, according to the description in TV Guide:
Sunday, May 10: The Simpsons (8pm): Oscar winner Jodie Foster lends her voice as Maggie, who portrays the girl-power protagonist from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
(Via Randex.)

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Friday, May 8, 2009 at 13:02:53 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Andrew Baker

I expect they will not be flattering judging by previous mentions of Ayn Rand on The Simpsons and Futurama.

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 17:26:01 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Jason Crawford
E-mail: jasonc(at)alumni.cmu.edu
URL: http://www.jasoncrawford.org

Yeah, did you see the episode with the "Ayn Rand School for Tots"?

Besides: "girl-power protagonist"? AR must be spinning in her grave.

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 18:34:37 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Richard

I'm going to guess that they will stick strictly to a very loose, vague, and concrete version of the story. It should be interesting to find out what they do with it.

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 20:05:45 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Matt F.
E-mail: amicusaristoteles(at)yahoo.com
URL: http://sleepisthebrotherofdeath.blogspot.com

This worries me a bit. Oh well, this is what TiVo is for.

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 21:13:29 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: Ashley King
E-mail: atking(at)mtaonline.net

Foster would be a fantastic Dagny.

Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 23:29:10 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: John Harris
E-mail: John.harris00(at)gmail.com

A Streetcar Named Marge
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F18.html

One of my favorite eps.

I doubt that they will treat the story very well; it's one of four for the ep. So we know there won't be much time.

Oh well, at least some people might go buy the book because of the reference and name.
John.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 17:52:29 mst
Comment ID: #7
Name: djr
E-mail: dan.rohr(at)yahoo.com

After having just seen it, I'll proclaim - I expected far worse.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 20:45:35 mst
Comment ID: #8
Name: John Harris
E-mail: John.harris00(at)gmail.com

As did I.
Although it had a point, Creativity = Good; some jerkwad named Toothy = Bad.

But Mom that's the book loved by Crazy right-wingers!

The Elizabeth the I had no point, set fire to your ship because of a mistake, and it just happens to burn down the others (although the horse swimming out to keep from being ridden was good.)
The MacBeth story had no point; you end up killing everyone else...and kill yourself?
The Snow white and the seven....smaller men.... at least made me laugh.
The Fountainhead though they could have been done better, far better... They should've just dropped the first two and fleshed out the latter ones (in my list, not in the order they aired.)

then again I just got an IM asking about the book; guess it worked.
John.

Monday, May 11, 2009 at 4:46:27 mst
Comment ID: #9
Name: Richard

The weird thing was the theme of the show was great women in history. Yet Maggie was playing Roark. I don't get how the idea got proposed for a show based on women. Maybe they're subtly implying Rand.

Monday, May 11, 2009 at 5:06:47 mst
Comment ID: #10
Name: Apollo
E-mail: gateway8507024(at)hotmail.com

No, I think the Ayn Rand segment started off with a dismissal of Ayn Rand herself with the insult to her and the "But Mom that's the book loved by Crazy right-wingers!". I think what they were trying to do is distance themselves from Rand but sort of embrace some aspects of the ideas they agreed with.

I thought it was bad.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 22:56:53 mst
Comment ID: #11
Name: Doug H.
E-mail: radiotheatre[at]gmail[dot]com

I believe this turned out to be the least watched episode of The Simpsons ever. Tho, it seems Season 20's numbers are all fairly low relative to previous seasons of The Simpsons.

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