In the “The Simpsons” episode “The City of New York against Homer Simpson” (September 21, 1997), Homer (Dan Castellaneta) drinks in his local diving with his buddies. Everyone has a good time, except Barney (including Castellaneta), an alcoholic who was selected for the night as the proven driver of his group. Barney is already nervous and screams that he will soon need beer when the Dulcet trunks of Yelless “Oh yes” interrupt his thoughts. Outside, the Duff beer party car pulls up and the mascots of Duff-Branded mascot are submitted to Moe’s Tavern. The party clearly begins as a company play. In the middle of the fight is Duffman (Hank Azaria)A superhero with beer motifs that enters the room and asks if everyone is ready, “Duffed!” He distributes free beers to everyone. He offers Barney a free barrel with duff extra cold. Barney has to refuse. He is in hell.
When Barney drove his drunk friends home, he finally grabs. He lets everyone off, then he drives in Homer’s car. The next morning, Homer receives a call from the New York police department, several countries. It seems that his car is illegally parked, with a boot … in the heart of downtown Manhattan. Homer has to fly to New York to get his car back. Homer notes that his car was deposited directly between the buildings of the World Trade Center. As you can imagine, your efforts to free the vehicle, exhausted, dirty and filled with crab juice and Khlav Kalash to the edge.
It is certainly Not the best episode according to fans on IMDBBut it is likely because many of them have not seen it. Since a large part of “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson” is determined directly between the World Trade Center Towers, the episode was tastefully drawn from the syndication after the events of September 11, 2001. Author/producer Bill Oakley on the DVD commentary “New York”.
That means Duffman’s debut was not available.
Duffman’s debut! Was forbidden! For reasons of TaaaaAste!
It should be noted that Duffman became a regular character for “The Simpsons”, which was always used when the authors needed an exaggerated mascot to ensure a scene exterminating punctuation, or if jokes are necessary via Shill-Hood company were. So far, the character has been published in 24 episodes.
On the DVD commentary for “The City of New York”, Bill Oakley found that the episode had to be pulled out of rotation after the attacks on September 11th. The audience was simply not ready to see a comedy series in which the towers were still stood and the objects of the jokes. In fact, there is a scene in “New York”, in which an office worker in Tower #2 leans out of the window and shouts a worker in Tower No. 1. He says that he “wants to glue it to the idiots in the tower”. This joke was funny in 1997, but became less funny in 2001. Bill Oakley said that the episode worked back into repetitions after about five years and returned to some markets in 2006.
For a few years, the newer “Simpsons” fans may have wondered where Duffman came from. Of course, his appearance in “New York” doesn’t explain much; Its existence as a corporate mascot is quite clear.
An additional and very strange coincidence. In a moment in the episode, Bart (Nancy Cartwright) Points on a brochure that offers 9 dollar -taxi tours through the city. The “$ 9” is located right next to an exhibition of the World Trade Towers, so it looks like “9-11”. However, this was only a scary coincidence.
Of course, this was not the last time that “The Simpsons” had concerns about the aging of the content. In 2011, Producer Al Jean was interviewed by EW In order to talk about the outstanding location of the show of a nuclear power plant (in which Homer works) in a world damaged by the collapse in Fukushima, Japan. Jean noted that the “Simpsons” damper would take up a little less Homer’s workplace for a few years.
