The Read Menace!

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The Read Menace!
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US Publish NumberX04
UK Publish Number(s)017
Written byN/A
Art byN/A
Title captionNone
Published (US)March 23, 2005
Title referenceReference to the 1949 movie, The Red Menace.

The Story

Act I

The characters from books have taken over New New York and the Planet Express crew and the Simpsons attempt to escape in the Planet Express ship but are attacked by spaceships. To go faster they paint flames onto the ship and Bender throws a beer towards Homer but it misses and blows up the ships. They are then abducted by the Nimbus which is has been taken over by Smithers who is living his dream of being a space pirate. Leela asks for help to save earth but Smithers disagrees until he is told Mr. Burns is dating Mom. Smithers presses the wrong button and everyone falls out of the Nimbus into a crowd of fictional characters. The Simpsons are attacked by characters from their favorite books until Bart tells them that they are also fictional allowing the Simpsons to escape.

Act II

They escape to the Planet Express building and look through the Professor’s inventions for ways to stop the fictional characters. Lisa uses the What-If machine to ask what if they knew how to stop the fictional characters. They go to Fry’s apartment and take a page out of the first Simpsons Comic and put in the vortex where the fictional characters came out. This causes the giant Homer from the comic to come out. They offer him a beer if he stops the fictional characters which works but then they have the giant Homer to deal with. They hire vortex movers who are able to send giant Homer and the rest of Springfield into the vortex. Mom then creates a clone of Mr. Burns.

Additional Info

Trivia

  • The What-If machine only allows three questions a year.
  • This is the first time the Space Pope has spoken.

Quotes

  • Zapp: Leela what a sexy surprise.
    Smithers: Did I give you permission to stop go-go dancing?
  • Bart: Why are you all standing in shadow?
    Spider Man: Copyright protection!
  • Lisa: This must be so odd for Dad. I can't even imagine what he's thinking.
    Homer: [thinking] Hmmm...so that's what the inside of my nose looks like.
  • Lisa: That's a great picture! So realistic!
    Fry: Yeah, so much so that Leela crashes into it almost every week.
  • Leela: It's working! Now he's hugging the TV. Now he's kissing the TV.
    Bender: Now he's...ew! Well, that's one building I'm never going into again!

Continuity

Outside References

Goofs

  • Hattie's clothes are the wrong colour.
  • When Bender falls apart, his eyes are balls instead of long bulbs
  • Morbo and Linda appear to have once more been placed in New New York rather than Los Angeles.
  • Leela requests twelve parachutes but only eleven are used as Marge is carrying Maggie.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

The Simpsons Characters

(In alphabetical order)

  • Bart Simpson
  • Hans Moleman
  • Homer Simpson (issue #87 and issue #1 variants)
  • Lisa Simpson
  • Maggie Simpson
  • Marge Simpson
  • Mr. Burns
  • Smithers

Other Fictional Characters

Comic Credits