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Homer Simpson Runs Into Time’s Flat Circle

There has been a lot of old TV shows playing in my house lately.

Our cable provider reshuffled the channels, and my wife now consistently finds those ancillary networks built on recycling catalogs of old shows: Cozi TV, Antenna TV, Laff TV.

There has been so much Miami Vice, Night Court and Murder, She Wrote in this house. So much.

Then there’s the always-easy, just-leave-it-on favorite The Golden Girls on Hallmark Channel, and The Facts of Life and Alice on Logo. It may as well be 1986 in here. Add my propensity for still watching The Rifleman Saturday mornings on AMC, and I may as well be my parents.

Strange enough, nobody is airing It’s A Living. Give me some Ann Jillian at peak glorious hair. Now!

There’s another old TV show that I still find myself checking out when I’m just wiling away the time: The Simpsons.

Yes, people. The Simpsons is old. If you’re still making Simpsons references, nobody under 25 will understand you. Go ahead, try it. The onetime scourge of conservative America is now a beloved parody of itself, like Ice Cube.

Even though it’s still on the air, The Simpsons is old as hell now. It started in 1989, when gas cost $1.12 a gallon on average, George H.W. Bush was president, the Internet didn’t exist, the Soviet Union was still around, and Nelson Mandela was still in prison.

On Labor Day Monday, a Simpsons marathon of run-ins with Monty Burns on FXX helped me wind down from a day at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire with the wife and dog.

And that’s how I ended up watching “Last Exit To Springfield,” the 17th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. First airing March 11, 1993, it’s the Homer-becomes-union-chief episode.

It’s the one that gave us the Don “dat’s a nice-ah donut” Homer as imagined crime boss, the Book of British Smiles, Lisa going full Joan Baez at the power plant strike, and the silliness of “Dental plan / Lisa needs braces. ”

Toward the end of the episode, Mr. Burns proposes to restore the plant workers’ dental plan in exchange for Homer resigning as union chief. Upon hearing this offer, Homer drops to the floor and does the floor spin made famous by Curly Howard from The Three Stooges.

Time froze for me at this moment, watching Homer lying on his side, running around in a circle.

I suddenly had so many questions and thoughts.

When the writers sent the script off to South Korea to be animated, did they have to send a videotape of Curly doing the floor spin so that the animators knew what they meant?

Imagine a room of Korean animators reading the script and saying, “What the hell is a Curly? What is a floor spin?”

Did they have to send more than one Three Stooges episode? Did they send a supercut — done by slicing videotape with razor blades and literally taping frames together, as you did in 1992 — of Curly floor spins so the animators could get a whole bunch of different angles and vantage points?

And remember, all this mess was hand drawn. How many times did that one sequence have to be animated before they had something satisfactory?

How frustrated was everybody on how being able to get the perspective right? That while the “camera” panned down to the floor, Homer doesn’t look like he’s in proper dimension to the background? Because while I do laugh a lot watching Homer do Curly’s floor spin, I also notice the technical imperfections.

It immediately made me think about the chair spinning gag from “The Handoff,” the second episode of Archer season seven. We get the ultimate chair-spining gag in this episode as Cheryl, Ray and Pam all spin round and round, grating on Cyril’s nerves as well as his precious ball bearings.

A show entirely built on hyperrealistic 3D animations and computer modeling, Archer went for the mega-flex on its technical animation prowess. And it is very, very, very good! Not just the movement on the chairs, the differences in the body types, but capturing Cheryl, Ray and Pam’s facial expressions of extreme boredom met with the primal urge of spin, spin, spin, combined with the delight in getting on Cyril’s nerves.

However, touchscreen computers and all, even Archer couldn’t get it perfectly despite the animators’ 2016 arsenal.

Will I have to wait another 23 years to get the perfect spin animation? Maybe it will be Homer once more, in The Simpsons’ 50th season. Because the show is never dying, is it?

Homer Jay Simspon of 2040, please make time a flat circle for me, by running in one.

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Michail Antonio’s funniest celebrations and social media posts at West Ham from John Cena to The Matrix, Carlton Dance, Homer Simpson spin and that cardboard cut out

Michail Antonio just loves his life and appears to enjoy every second of playing Premier League football.

The West Ham forward, already the king of goal celebrations, is also incredibly entertaining on social media.

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Antonio has a history of delighting supporters with his moves such as recreating an iconic scene from The Matrix in West Ham’s 1-0 win against Tottenham earlier in the season.

After the match, he tweeted: “Must be a glitch in the Matrix, I’m getting deja vu! Another big big win!!!!!”

And he later explained the origin: “Well, last week I put a picture up on Instagram marked ‘AntoNEO’ and it went well to be fair so I thought ‘you know what I’m going to have to do it today!’

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“When I was doing it I worried someone was going jump on me and I’d tear my ACL. Someone pulled me up before they jumped on me so it was decent.”

And this week likened his display against Watford to WWE superstar John Cena when posting a video of him ‘wrestling’ Francisco Sierralta complete with music.

Sometimes you just gotta handle business… 👋🏾 #YouCantSeeMe pic.twitter.com/r24gkG9WXI

— Michail Antonio (@Michailantonio) December 28, 2021

It’s not the first time he’s given us an iconic moment either…

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The Hip Thrust (May 2019)

Antonio marked the Hammers’ first match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium by scoring the winning goal, followed by a rather odd jumping and hip thrusting move.

He said: “There’s this guy on Instagram, Danrue, that does crazy dance moves.

“I saw it the other day and I’ve been busting it out in a couple of clubs so time to bring it out on the pitch. It lets me show my personality.”

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Homer Simpson spin (February 2016)

When Antonio scored the winner against Sunderland, his celebration will have struck a chord with fans of The Simpsons.

Antonio spun around on the floor, much like Homer when he won the battle of wills with Mr Burns to restore employees’ dental plan at the Springfield nuclear power plant.

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Carlton Dance (May 2016)

What a way to say farewell to the Boleyn Ground – a tribute to Carlton Banks from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

West Ham ended their 112-year stay at their iconic home with a 3-2 win over Manchester United, Antonio making it 2-2 before Winston Reid scored the winner.

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Doing the Carlton went down a hit but that wasn’t actually what he had planned.

He said: “I completely forgot my celebration that I had planned. I had planned it so much and it was going to be the worm, but the emotion of scoring got to me and I ended up doing the Carlton Dance.”

The Worm (September 2016)

Fans didn’t have too wait long for the Antonio to bust out his worm celebration though.

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He scored two goals against Watford early on in the 2016/17 season to the delight of the Hammers fans at the London Stadium.

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Running Man (December 2016)

Antonio pulled out this move at Anfield as his goal gave West Ham a 2-1 lead against Liverpool.

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In fact, it went down such a hit that he decided to do the ‘Running Man’ on more occasions afterwards.

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Magic carpet (April 2019)

A new carpet donning West Ham’s claret colours was placed around the London Stadium in between the pitch and the fans.

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So when Antonio gave the east London side the lead over Leicester, he couldn’t resist giving it a little stroke.

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Dirty Dancing (August 2021)

He scored twice in the final ten minutes of West Ham’s 4-1 win over Leicester in August.

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After slamming in his first and West Ham’s third, Antonio danced with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of himself to recognise becoming the club’s top Premier League goalscorer.

That time he was inspired by Dirty Dancing, saying: “I wanted to be Baby!”

Explaining this celebration, he added: “Live on Sky Sports, I got distracted and said it was ‘Save the Last Dance’! Obviously with all the emotion of everything, I said the wrong movie! 

“I wanted to be Baby [from Dirty Dancing] and I wanted to run to someone and for them to lift me up. 

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“94kg? I don’t really see it! Instead of getting someone to lift me up and make me Baby, I decided to lift myself up and treat myself as Baby, you know!”

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EDGE: Michail Antonio adds 'The Matrix' to list of brilliant celebrations - check out the best of West Ham man's theatrics so far!

9 circles of hell according to Dante. Infographics | Infographics

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The exact date of birth of Dante Alighieri is unknown. However, there is evidence that on May 26, 1265, he was baptized in Florence under the name Durante.

Dante is an Italian poet, one of the founders of the literary Italian language. In his work, the poet repeatedly raised issues of morality and faith in God. nine0005

AiF.ru recalls one of the most famous works of Dante Alighieri - "The Divine Comedy", which deals with the mortal essence of man, as well as the afterlife. Dante subtly and skillfully describes hell, where eternally condemned sinners go, purgatory, where they atone for their sins, and paradise, the abode of the blessed.

According to Dante Alighieri, just before entering hell, you can meet people who have led a boring life - they have done neither evil nor good.

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The first circle of hell is called Limbo. Its guardian is Charon, who transports the souls of the dead across the River Styx. In the first circle of hell, babies who have not been baptized and virtuous non-Christians experience torment. They are doomed to eternal suffering of silent sorrow.

2nd circle

The second circle of hell is guarded by Minos, the intractable judge of the damned. Passionate lovers and adulterers in this circle of hell are punished with twisting and tormenting by a storm. nine0005

3rd circle

Cerberus is the guardian of the third circle, where gluttons, gluttons and gourmets live. All of them are punished by rotting and decay under the scorching sun and pouring rain.

4th circle

Plutos rules in the fourth circle, where misers, greedy people and wasteful persons who are unable to make reasonable expenses fall. Punishment by them is an eternal dispute when confronted with each other.

5th circle

The fifth circle represents a gloomy and gloomy place guarded by the son of the god of war Ares - Phlegius. To get to the fifth circle of hell, you need to be very angry, lazy or dull. Then the punishment will be an eternal fight in the swamp of Styx. nine0005

6th circle

The sixth circle is the Walls of the city of Dita, guarded by furies - quarrelsome, cruel and very evil women. They mock heretics and false teachers, whose punishment is eternal existence in the form of ghosts in red-hot graves.

7th circle

The seventh circle of hell, guarded by the Minotaur, is for those who committed violence.

The circle is divided into three zones:

• The first zone is called Flageton. Those who have committed violence against their neighbor, their material values ​​and property, fall into it. These are tyrants, robbers and robbers. They all boil in a moat of red-hot blood, and centaurs shoot at those who emerge. nine0073
• Second belt - Forest of suicides. There are suicides in it, as well as those who senselessly squandered their fortune - gamblers and spendthrifts. Spenders are tortured by hounds, and unfortunate suicides are torn to shreds by Harpies.
• Third belt - Combustible sands. Blasphemers who have committed violence against deities and sodomites are here. The punishment is staying in an absolutely barren desert, the sky of which drips on the heads of the unfortunate with fiery rain. nine0073

8th circle

The eighth circle of hell consists of ten ditches. The circle itself is called Evil Slits, or Evil Slits.

The Guardian is Gerion, a giant with six arms, six legs and wings. In the Evil Cracks, deceivers bear their hard fate.

9th circle

The ninth circle of hell is the Ice Lake Cocytus. This circle is guarded by stern guardians-giants named Ephialtes, the son of Gaia and Poseidon - Antaeus, half-bull, half-snake - Briares and Lucifer - the guard of the road to purgatory. This circle has four belts - the Belt of Cain, the Belt of Antenor, the Belt of Tolomei, the Belt of Giudecca. nine0005

Judas, Brutus and Cassius languish in this circle. In addition to them, traitors are also doomed to fall into this circle - the motherland, relatives, relatives, friends. All of them are frozen in the ice up to their necks and experience eternal torment in the cold.

Charon - in Greek mythology, the carrier of the souls of the dead across the river Styx (Acheron). Son of Erebus and Nyukta. nine0005

Minos — Dante has a demon with a serpent's tail wrapping around a newly arrived soul and indicating the circle of hell into which the soul is to descend.

Cerberus - in Greek mythology, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a three-headed dog with a poisonous mixture flowing from its mouths. Guards the exit from the realm of the dead Hades, preventing the dead from returning to the world of the living. The creature was defeated by Hercules in one of his labors.

Plutos is an animal-like demon guarding access to the fourth circle of Hell, where misers and spendthrifts are executed. nine0005

Phlegius - in ancient Greek mythology, the son of Ares - the god of war - and Chris. Phlegius burned the temple of the god Apollo and, as punishment for this, was killed by his arrows. In the underworld, he was condemned to eternal punishment - to sit under a rock, ready to collapse every minute.

Dit is the city of Hades, the god of the underworld.

The Minotaur is a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, which originated from the unnatural love of Pasiphae, the wife of King Minos, for the one sent by Poseidon. nine0005

Geryon - in ancient Greek mythology, a giant from the island of Erithia, who had six arms, six legs and wings, and the body consisted of three human bodies. He held three spears in three right hands and three shields in three left, three helmets on his heads.

Ephialtes - the son of Poseidon and Ifimedea, had superhuman strength and violent temper.

Gaia is the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, the mother of everything that lives and grows on it, as well as the mother of Heaven, the Sea, titans and giants.

Poseidon - in ancient Greek mythology, the god of the seas, one of the three main Olympian gods, along with Zeus and Hades. nine0005

Briareus - in Greek mythology, the son of the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia. A monstrous creature with 50 heads and 100 arms.

Lucifer is a fallen angel identified with the Devil.

Brutus Mark Junius - in Ancient Rome led (together with Cassius) a conspiracy in 44 BC. e. against Julius Caesar. According to legend, he was one of the first to stab him with a dagger.

Cassius Gaius Longinus - the murderer of Julius Caesar, organized an attempt on his life.

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