Could The Simpsons' C. Montgomery Burns be based on 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney? The idea first occured to me while doing research for my first entry about how much Andy Rooney grinds my gears. On the CBS/60 Minutes website, they have a link to transcripts of recent Andy Rooney tirades. One particularly funny one is on milk, where Rooney goes off about how there are too many types of milk "nowadays". Included is a snippet that we should really be calling it "skimmed milk" instead of "skim milk". This brought to mind a Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns tries ice cream for the first time and calls it "iced cream".
The look alike: Compare their pictures. Come on.
They think alike: The ramblings of Andy Rooney are obviously those of a man who wishes it were still 1950. He hates computers (Rooney does it typewriter-style), anything but whole milk, the metric system, stamps, and every president after Truman. He probably drives a hulking antique car that gets "40 rods to the Hogshead".
The talk alike: Besides the oh-so-obvious skimmed milk and iced cream reference, I'm sure if you called Andy Rooney, he would also answer his phone "Ahoy hoy" like Mr. Burns, and that he refers to his on-air ramblings that are featured on the "jumping box".
Basically, it's funny because they both think they are living in 1903. Click here for a hilarious wikipedia commentary on Mr. Burns' state of mind.
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FFF units rule!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlongs_per_fortnight#FFF_units
If only I could somehow get this blogiola to republicate! It seems that its proprietress is screenulating her feedbackery.
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