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Homer Becomes Omar
geekster writes "With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television.
But in order not to risk offending an Arab audience, the characters in Al Shamshoon, as the show is now called, have modified some of their most distinguishable traits." And you thought internationalization was hard for software!
[comic book guy voice]Worst...Adaptation...EVER![/comic book guy voice]
Come on, you all were thinking it, Homer without the H or beer or hot dogs or bacon- eeeew.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
D'oh has now been changed to lâ ilâha illâ allâh
The also must be asking what evil people use nuclear power instead of that delicious arab oil! Is the nuclear power plant digitally edited into a oil refinery?
So instead of Apu the Quik-E Mart guy you have... Joe... The Scumy cashier at the Adult Bookstore... Omar : Yes I'd like some lube, gay porn magazines, vibrating finger rings, Goatse DVD 2 and some Illegal fireworks.. Joe : Sir, we don't have any fucking illegal fireworks... *whispers* right this way... */whispers*
Lisa is stoned to death when Badr steals her burka while playing in a park and Omar is pummeled when he is found with contraband spare ribs and a copy of Maxim
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That's why they're Homer -genizing it!
Vuja De: That sinking feeling that this is going to happen again. Often occurs in meetings with Product Managers.
some sort of cookie instead of a donut
For the record, it's a kahk.
He's a kahk-gobbler.
Omar al-Shamshoon loves the kahk.
Dare to Hope. Prepare to be Disappointed.
"Don't have a camel, man!"
Heh.
Rev. Lovejoy: The lesson is that all of God's children can come together and help their fellow man, whether they be (motions to Flanders) Christian, (motions to Krusty), Jewish, or (motions to Apu).....Miscellaneous!
Apu (annoyed): Hindu. HINDU! There are 600 million of us, you know.
Rev. Lovejoy: Oh, that's super!
Paraphrased, but you get the idea.
See, it's funny because he's an unsuccessful suicide bomber.
"Oh! Now I'll never get my 72 virgins..."
That wacky Omar! How will he screw it up this week?
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I, for one, welcome our new American overlords.
Okay, I'm sorry. That was insensitive and I should never have pressed the submit button.
Look, I know we don't have a "Racist" moderation option, but it turns out that "Funny" is not a close enough approximation.
The problem with a watered-down Simpsons is that the subversive nature of the show is the only thing that makes it worth watching.
It's (some would say deliberately) poorly drawn, cheaply animated, and while the voice cast is now famous, they used to be relative nobodys (with maybe one exception). The story arc is your basic sitcom family living a basic life. The subversive twists are what make it funny.
I think they ought to leave the shows exactly as they are. They would give foreign audiences a pretty good idea of what life is like over here.
Plus, it would be fun to watch Mall of America tourists look around for the "Leftorium."
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You can touch a dog everywhere
:o)
Wow, that's well... progressive of them..
I thought it was only the Danish that did that.
When the American 60's TV situation comedy "Hogan's Heroes" was finally able to be shown in Germany, there was the delicate issue of the various 'Heil Hitler' salutes done by the various Nazi officers. Delicate because this gesture is illegal (as I understand it) on television shows in the post-war German Republic.
So, (I'm been told) whenever anyone makes a stiff arm salute, the voice-over dubbing says "Look how high the corn grows!".
I wonder if young Germans ever insult their bosses and superiors by calling them 'corn growers' as an oblique reference to their acting like fascist assholes.