Doh! Rio blames it on The Simpsons (Brazil plans lawsuit against FOX)

The Guardian ^ | 4/09/02 | Alex Bellos

[Wolfie]

I L'dMAO when the cabbie/kidnapper flipped on his roof light that read "HOSTAGE".

[aomagrat]

HA! Ha!

[jalisco555]

I've always wanted to visit Rio. However, because of this lawsuit I won't go. I guess the tourist board will have to sue itself over my lost business.

[coydog]

WAAAH-WAAAAH!!

Will someone change these guys' diapers? I can smell them all the way up in Canada.

[Blackyce]

no one has ever been attacked by a monkey on Copacabana

Whew, good thing that they cleared that up ; )

[Fred Mertz]

I enjoyed the show Sunday evening.

[Dog Gone]

Uh, Brazil, why don't you get in line to sue right after the nuclear industry, the beer industry, the NEA, oh hell, just get in line.

[randog]

I was in Brazil (Sao Paolo, not Rio) several years ago on business, and here are my observations:

1) Bars, gates, high fences, electric wire, and/or broken glass embedded in walls around every building;

2) Private guards at every building/neighborhood that could afford it;

3) Graffiti everywhere;

4) Did I mention that guns were banned?

5) Drop-dead gorgeous women;

6) Some of the best food I've ever eaten abroad, especially the beef.

[jadimov]

Rio is in deep trouble if it is attempting to attract the kind of tourist who takes the Simpsons seriously.

[nunya bidness]

Do you still have that link to Simpsons episodes with monkeys in them?

[Calvin Locke]

Had other things to do. Sorry I didn't just start recording at the commercial break when I left.

I liked the "I'm distracting...rob you", but hostage sign was great too.

Maybe the Tourist board could have a class action suit. Ted Kennedy could join it.

Ooops, Teddy got slapped by the USSC about Rupert and bills of attainder once already.

[billorites]

Help me out if you can.

How do you say "bite me" in Portugese?

[chachacha]

I was in Brazil on Business. The stay was three weeks. I stayed in my Rio Hotel room most of time. From about the 30th floor you can watch out over the street and beach. I've seen kids stealing tourists cameras, handbags and everything else they could get their hands on. Even in broad daylight they attacked my partner and stole his wallet. Tore the back pocket right out of his pants. There was a shooting on the hotel steps. I did set out one day under the Hotel canopy only to get hit in the face by a child that was being held by a pregnent women. The reason was because I didn't give them a hand out. The Hotel staff instructed me not to. Fox has it right again. I was neve rso glad to leave any place in my life.

[Dacus943]

Figured that Brazil would have to get in line behind the Japanese. I remember that Homer tossed (head first) the Emperor of Japan into a laundry bin filled with SOILED Sumo Wrestler Thongs! I'm still laughing at that!

[buzzyboop]

And I had thought that with its Carnivale atmosphere, Rio had a sense of humor. Moreover, if anything, Rio will gain because of the exposure (not the beach variety), and ought to end up paying FOX for the advertising.

Heck, if any country/city has the justification to sue, it's Canada, for the continuous (and funny) beatings from South Park, TV and movie.

[Calvin Locke]

Give Rio a break. When it was the only city that kept Marion Barry's Washington, DC from being THE murder
capital of the world.

DC had to settle for the murder capital of CAPITAL CITIES of the world.

[Shooter 2.5]

The only thing that this has proven to me is that Brazil is such a screwed up place that they have to sue a cartoon comedy show to stay afloat.

[Shooter 2.5]

I think it's "Morder Mim".

[LarryLied]

Simpsons episodes with monkeys in them. . .

Others have notice too. There is a deeper, hidden meaning to the "chatter", the facial expressions, what the monkeys are holding and when and where the monkeys appear.Been working on it for two years now and I'm very close to putting it all together.