Ext User(mf1@project1221.com)
08-11-2005, 02:53 PM
"Only in America" file:
A particularly interesting note are the cars. Homer has a pink sedan
Zastava 128 Skala made by Yugo in Yugoslavia, and Marge has a large
orange station wagon also made in Yugo of about equal vintage.
Simpsons second car- also a Yugo Both of these cars appear to have been
made in the mid–1970s, and when the show was new in 1989-90, this
would have been a jab at the family's income (that they could not
afford anything newer). However, after seventeen seasons on the air,
both vehicles are legitimate antiques, although both appear to be in
rather poor condition. It has become a question of where the family
gets spare parts, as both cars have been badly damaged (sometimes
virtually reduced to scrap metal on wheels) over the course of the
show, usually by Homer.
In one episode Homer Simpson test drives a car from a country that the
dealer tells him "no longer exists", but the car "gets 400 hectares to
a tank of kerosene." As Homer attempts to push-start the car, the
dealer shouts: "Put it in 'H'!" In the Serbian language (officially
written in the Cyrillic alphabet), the word for 'Neutral' is
'Neutralan'. In Cyrillic, the word would be written
"Неутралан" with an H, which does indeed look exactly like a
Roman H. This fact is also used in Murder on the Orient Express. This
effectively proves that the car is from a country using the Cyrillic
alphabet.
In the United States there were 300 automatic-transmission units sold,
known as Yugo GV Plus. The used gear-boxes were taken from the Renault
5. Obviously they wrote "N" and not "H"... but this was the joke. Homer
bought this car and drives it now as his current car his 'famous pink
sedan'. A Zastava 1100 a.k.a. 128 Skala. His wife Marge also drives a
Yugo. The version was called Florida a.k.a. Sana a.k.a. Sana.
Homer has enjoyed repeated hirings by Mr. Burns, has been fired at
least once and has quit several times. In one episode, he is fired,
becomes a used car salesman and ends up as an ambulance driver in the
space of twenty-two minutes plus commercials.
?
A particularly interesting note are the cars. Homer has a pink sedan
Zastava 128 Skala made by Yugo in Yugoslavia, and Marge has a large
orange station wagon also made in Yugo of about equal vintage.
Simpsons second car- also a Yugo Both of these cars appear to have been
made in the mid–1970s, and when the show was new in 1989-90, this
would have been a jab at the family's income (that they could not
afford anything newer). However, after seventeen seasons on the air,
both vehicles are legitimate antiques, although both appear to be in
rather poor condition. It has become a question of where the family
gets spare parts, as both cars have been badly damaged (sometimes
virtually reduced to scrap metal on wheels) over the course of the
show, usually by Homer.
In one episode Homer Simpson test drives a car from a country that the
dealer tells him "no longer exists", but the car "gets 400 hectares to
a tank of kerosene." As Homer attempts to push-start the car, the
dealer shouts: "Put it in 'H'!" In the Serbian language (officially
written in the Cyrillic alphabet), the word for 'Neutral' is
'Neutralan'. In Cyrillic, the word would be written
"Неутралан" with an H, which does indeed look exactly like a
Roman H. This fact is also used in Murder on the Orient Express. This
effectively proves that the car is from a country using the Cyrillic
alphabet.
In the United States there were 300 automatic-transmission units sold,
known as Yugo GV Plus. The used gear-boxes were taken from the Renault
5. Obviously they wrote "N" and not "H"... but this was the joke. Homer
bought this car and drives it now as his current car his 'famous pink
sedan'. A Zastava 1100 a.k.a. 128 Skala. His wife Marge also drives a
Yugo. The version was called Florida a.k.a. Sana a.k.a. Sana.
Homer has enjoyed repeated hirings by Mr. Burns, has been fired at
least once and has quit several times. In one episode, he is fired,
becomes a used car salesman and ends up as an ambulance driver in the
space of twenty-two minutes plus commercials.
?