Fatty Arbuckle
November 14th, 2006I never knew what 'fatty arbuckle was'. Thankfully, I learned through random happenstance tonight:
Fatty Arbuckle was a popular silent-movie comedian whose career was ruined after he was tried for the rape & murder of actress Virginia Rappe at a wild party. Even though he was found not guilty, he was essentially blacklisted, and his very name became disreputable. So, the writers were making fun of the Cape's name-changing by IMAGINING that it was once called Cape Arbuckle in honour of Fatty, but changed to Canaveral after the scandal. There is also an implicit comparison between Kennedy's sexual scandals and Arbuckle's.
From: http://www.westegg.com/simpsons/
There is enough interesting bits there to warrant a visit, even if you are like myself and don't paticuarly care for the Simpsons (or the Family Guy…Robot Chicken, I can get…The Family Guy? …doesn't do anything for me).
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I know what you are (might be?) thinking: (oh jesus crippled christ) The Simpsons?!?!
Give the link a try. Five minutes may have you going 'wow, that is pretty good'.
Not The Simpsons, the selected quotes from The Simpsons…







