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Dark Simpsons episode that mocked Jane Goodall resurfaces after death
The Mirror (U.S.) ^ | 10/1

Posted on 10/01/2025 7:22:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Joan Bushwell's Chimp Refuge (Episode about Goodall.)


She has a sense of humor, she later appeared on the show:

Lisa Meets Dr. Jane Goodall | Season 31 Ep. 5 | The Simpsons

She even allows them to make fun of her as pretentious.

1 posted on 10/01/2025 7:22:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 I remember Goodall saying something to the effect that ‘’ We must continue to care for the environment’’ and some such nonsense.

3.000 Americans slaughtered and she was worrying about the monkeys.


2 posted on 10/01/2025 7:25:56 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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her tragic death at 91.

Goodall died due to natural causes while she was in California on a cross-country speaking tour, according to The Jane Goodall Institute.

This is hardly tragic.

3 posted on 10/01/2025 7:29:54 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Leftists tell the truth?


4 posted on 10/01/2025 7:31:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway
“after reading Doctor Dolittle and Tarzan, she dreamed of…”

A old to me rancher I worked for as a kid had two inch scars at each corner of his mouth.

Said as a kid after watching Tarzan movies, dived off a dock with a knife in his mouth.

It was not the best of bad ideas.

5 posted on 10/01/2025 7:50:12 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

There was also a Far Side cartoon mocking her, and Gary Larson was all set to be sued by her Institute, except they never bothered to ask her. Turns out she loved the cartoon.


6 posted on 10/01/2025 7:56:09 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Now all those chimps are orphan. Probably to be adopted by some gay Canadian throuple.


7 posted on 10/01/2025 8:15:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: coloradan

I wouldn’t describe it is mocking her. The joke is that the the chimp couple is acting like humans, and that someone who dedicates her life to researching an animal, would do things.


8 posted on 10/01/2025 8:17:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Her Institute thought so, but apparently she just thought it was funny.


9 posted on 10/01/2025 8:43:42 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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at age 91 how was her death tragic? Did she lose weeks off her life by dying in an accident? Other than anyone cashing in their chips an be considered tragic for the one dying I cant see how this is particularly tragic


10 posted on 10/01/2025 9:12:20 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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at age 91 how was her death tragic? Did she lose weeks off her life by dying in an accident? Other than anyone cashing in their chips an be considered tragic for the one dying I cant see how this is particularly tragic


11 posted on 10/01/2025 9:13:54 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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She was crazy green idiot.

All in in green grift agenda.


12 posted on 10/01/2025 9:15:04 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I respect both her willingness to laugh at herself and that when she observed hunting and carnivore behavior among the chimpanzees she observed she reported it. She was shocked and saddened, and that’s an understandable emotional reaction. But she didn’t act like so many defend-my-paper-to-the-death researchers and academics and ignore or cover up something that seemed to contradict so many of her preconceptions and prior work.


13 posted on 10/01/2025 9:31:33 PM PDT by katana
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She was a researcher not a military person


14 posted on 10/01/2025 10:10:56 PM PDT by Cronos
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It was a very insensitive and self-centred thing to say at such a time for a supposed intelligent woman.


15 posted on 10/01/2025 10:25:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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She left her husband and her young child to go live in the jungle. She may have been a dedicated researcher but she was a crappy wife and mother.


16 posted on 10/01/2025 11:30:43 PM PDT by Prince of Space (I hate the media!)
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Wasn’t there a movie about this lady? Gorillas in the Mist or something like that.


17 posted on 10/01/2025 11:40:53 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”.)
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That was a movie about Dian Fossey, who studied gorillas, and was murdered for her troubles.

Jane Goodall studied chimps.



Fossey was two years older than Goodall, but she was murdered at 53, supposedly by her assistant, but some people think poachers.

18 posted on 10/01/2025 11:45:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Prince of Space

Even worse, she named her son Grub. Isn’t that something a chimp eats? Seems significant.


19 posted on 10/01/2025 11:48:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Thanks for the info. A shame about Fossey.


20 posted on 10/01/2025 11:50:13 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”.)
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