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- From: rdutt@mksol.dseg.ti.com (richard f. dutt)
- Subject: Re: official spellings of some names
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.212653.6895@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <null@article.for.inn.inews> <1hvj39INN5na@cs.widener.edu> <1hvloiINNeg3@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:26:53 GMT
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- In article <1hvloiINNeg3@agate.berkeley.edu> annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop) writes:
- >In article <1hvj39INN5na@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^
- >>Who are Karl and Carl?
- >>
- >
- >I can't remember two C/Karls, but one of them was the mysterious
- >secretary/guy Friday that Homer got when he was promoted a few seasons ago
- >(the one where he gets the key to the executive washroom). He sort of ran
- >interference for Homer -- wrote speeches, remembered anniversaries, stuff
- >like that. I remember thinking when I saw this episode that there was
- >some thinly veiled homo-(Homer-)erotic affection on Carl's part, which in
- >turn reminded me of the ambiguous relationship between Smithers and Monty
- >Burns. That's where the similarity stops, tho, because Carl was
- >definitely not a bootlicker. (wonder what else Smithers licks...)
- >
- >How 'bout adding Santa's Little Helper and Snowball to that list?
- >Sideshow Bob?
- >
- >-- Annie
- >
- >
-
- I definitely remember reading an article about plot subjects for the
- "new season" just prior to the season the C(K)arl episode appeared.
- One of the topics was that Homer would get a new gay co-wroker.
- So when the C(K)arl episode apppeared I made the natural conclusion
- that C(K)arl was gay (of course C(K)arl turned out to be Homer's
- secretary, not a co-worker per say). BTW, C(K)arl is my favorite
- character on the show. I wish they'd bring him back (he was in the
- Do the Bartman video).
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- As for Smithers and Mr. Burns, I'm still trying to figure that one
- out. (Very confusing).
-
- -Rich
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