The funny side of grunge
I know, I know..
There, in north Am / Canada, everything’s already been said and written about the Simpson series episode “That 90’s Show” (season 19), the one where a younger Homer goes grunge.
But this episode was broadcasted in Italy yesterday for the very first time.
It was kind of.. disturbing, and funny at the same time.
Disturbing because.. well, I am more than thirty, now, but I think that a part of me is still there, 9th of April, saturday morning, when my dad woke me up saying “Sergio, come see the news! they’re saying that the singer of Nirvana committed suicide”.
Anyway.. (how pathetic, how pathetic..)
One of the funny sides was to listen to Homer destroy Nirvana’s hits, and his clothes and poses.
This episode also reminded me that there was a time when you could watch Bush on Tv without feeling the need to take one of your shoes off and throw it.
Bush - Glycerine (1996)
(Homer actually turned it into “Margerine”)
Posted by Sergio
Share on Facebook
February 5th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
yeah, this bush was/is way better than the other later one.
haven’t seen the episode in question (not a big simpson fan and don’t have a tv) but maybe i should. sounds like sweet nostalgia to me. anything to bring back dear old 90s.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
i don’t know anyone who has tv. except my friend lisa. i don’t thinks she watches the simpsons though…
anywayz, when i was nine and this video came out, i was so in love with gavin rossdale. coincidentally, i was also in love with gwen stefani at the time. who knew they would both turn so lame and find lameness with each other?
February 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
“I don’t know anyone who has TV”? Seriously?
oh my.. here it’s far way different from there, then..
I think you should give the Simpson a chance, Jenny. they do have some sparkles of pure genius, here and there.
I love Simpson episodes with rock bands appearances.
and “Homerpalooza” is one of my favourites.
with the best quote ever about genX issues and “emo before emo was invented” alt 90s music.
Homer talking to the Smashing Pumpkins:
“You know, my kids think you’re the greatest. And thanks to your gloomy music, they’ve finally stopped dreaming of a future I can’t possibly provide”.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
most people do watch tv here, sergio. just not me and my cheap friends who pretend that we’re too pretentious for cable when in reality we just don’t want to pay for it. i get my tv from the internet.
and, for the record, i love the simpsons. but not nearly as much as south park.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
remember the time homer had a spirit animal, and his spirit animal was voiced by johnny cash?!
although i suppose in italy it would be all voice-overs, so you probably would have missed the beauty of that. alas.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
it’s different, anyway.
Tv appeared in Italy in 1954, and since then.. er.. we have never had “cable tv service”.
just few attempts to create a cable tv net in the 70s, but.. nothing else.
here, if you get sick of “soup-like” channels (every single channel offers its own news, movies, series, sports, shows..) you can ask the only one “digital satellite television platform” to bring you this to get “satellite” channels (similar, I suppose, to cable tv channels: sports only channel, series only channels, etc..).
Something has changed in the last few years. but, however, people who watch tv via internet are veeeery few.
(I LOVE South Park. I sometimes think “uuuhh.. they shouldn’t have said that! sooo offensive”, but I love it anyway)
(and yes.. no johnny cash)
February 8th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Homerpalooza’s other great GenXer quotes:
Lisa: The crowd is really getting into the music!
Bart: Big deal. Making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.
and also
Concert-going Male 1: Oh, here comes that cannon guy. He’s cool…
CGM 2: Are you being sarcastic dude?
CGM 1: (pauses) I don’t even know anymore…