The Simpsons: Radioactive Man
Episode score
8.8
Great
Radioactive Man
- 130.
- Season: 7
- Episode: 2
- First Aired: 9/24/1995
- Prod Code: 2F17
- Ad in Variety: "FLIM SPRINGFIELD" edit »
- Moe reveals he was one of the original Little Rascals. edit »
- This is the second time that someone messed up saying Radioactive Man's name, by saying "Radio Man." The first was Mayor Quimby in, "Three Men, and a Comic Book", and Principal Skinner in this episode. Also both are followed by the line "Radioactive Man, stupid!" edit »
- Bart wears platform shoes, a striped suit, and walks a chihuahua in an attempt to appear taller so he could get the role of Fallout Boy. edit »
- Springfield Shopper headline: "Milhouse Disappears! Movie On Hold" edit »
- Bart: George Burns was right… show business is a hideous bitch-goddess.
Lisa: Cheer up, Bart. Milhouse is still going to need a true friend, someone to tell him he is great. Someone to rub lotion on him. Someone he can hurl whiskey bottles at when he's feeling low.
Bart: You're right, Lis. I can suck up to him, like the religious suck up to God. edit » - Helicopter Pilot: Hurry, Mr. Rooney! We've got a disenchanted little girl in a Jell-O Pudding commercial!
Mickey Rooney: I could play that. edit » - Mickey Rooney: Jiminy-jillikers. Jiminy-jillikers. Jiminy-jillikers!
Director: We're shutting down production.
Assistant: Yeah, well, we only have $1,000 left anyway.
Mayor Quimby: Uh, there's a $1,000 leaving town tax. edit » - Editor: Thanks to modern editing techniques, we can use existing footage to complete the film without Milhouse! (the assistant and director stare at him blankly) … Watch.
(Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy are surrounded in a dark cave)
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Looks like we're in trouble, Fallout Boy.
(scene switches to bright field)
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Jiminy-jillikers, Radioactive Man.
(back to cave)
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): We'll have to fight our way out. Are you ready?
(scene switches to Milhouse on a couch)
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Yes.
(scene switches to Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy fighting alien slugs)
Editor: Seamless, huh?
Assistant: (pause)… You're fired.
Editor: And with good cause! edit » - Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Ach! I can't believe Silly Sailor beat us both up and imprisoned us in his floating Aquaworld.
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Jiminy-jillikers!
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Uh, now there's no need for profanity, Fallout Boy. edit » - Assistant: Oh, here he comes. What is it now, Quimby?
Mayor Quimby: Nothing, nothing. Only the, er, city has just passed another tax on puffy directing pants.
Director: But I don't wear puffy pants!
Mayor Quimby: I meant a tax on not wearing puffy pants.
Assistant: Oh!
Mayor Quimby: I'm sorry. edit » - Director: That was perfect! Let's do it again.
Milhouse: Uh, these aren't real X-rays, are they?
Director: Good question! We'll check into that. OK, X-ray machine to full power, and … action! edit » - Homer: Hey! Didn't you direct Unnatural Discretion?
Director: (modestly) Yes, I did.
Homer: (holding his nose) Phew-ee! Woo! Oh! You know, I never walk out of a movie, but … yecch! edit » - Bart: Good news, gentlemen, I've grown that extra inch you wanted plus several feet more.
Director: We've found our new Fallout Boy! (Bart gasps)…And he's right over there. (camera pans to Milhouse)
Milhouse: Huh? edit » - Lunch Lady Doris: At last the world is safe, eh, Fallout Boy?
Bart: Watch out, Radioactive Man!
Director: Brilliant reading! Again?
Bart: Watch out, Radioactive Man!
Director: Fantastic! One more time?
Bart: Watch out, Radioactive Man!
Director: Congratulations, Bart Simpson: you're our new Fallout Boy! (Bart gasps) That's what I'd be saying to you if you weren't an inch too short… Next! edit » - Moe: (smashing Alfalfa's head into the ground) You stole my bit! That's my bit…ooh! Ooh! You stole my bit!
Man: Cut! Oh my God! He's killed the original Alfalfa.
Moe: (in the present) Yeah. Luckily, Alfalfa was an orphan owned by the studio. edit » - (Moe explains he was one of the original Little Rascals)
Barney: Whoa! You mean, you were one?
Moe: Yeah.
Homer: Which one were you? The ugly one? (Moe glares at Homer)… Were you the ugly one? edit » - Comic Book Guy: Well I suppose you know, then, that Hollywood is planning a feature film about Radioactive Man. (Bart and Milhouse gasp and their hats shoot up off their heads)… I have got to do something about that air conditioner suction. edit »
- Wolfcastle: My eyes! The goggles do nothing! edit »
- Luanne: (to Milhouse) I'm sorry, I can't hear you, son. I'm wearing a jacuzzi suit! edit »
- Lunchlady Doris: At last the world is safe, eh Fallout Boy?
Ralph: What's for lunch tomorrow?
Director: Next!
Ralph: Chicken necks? edit » - Man: Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
Bart: I will. (walks away)
Man: No you won't. edit » - Chief Wiggum: Okay, we can all stop worrying now. These dogs never fail.
Kirk: But will they just find Milhouse, or will they find him and kill him?
Chief Wiggum: Well, they'll... when they find him, they'll, um... (mumbles)
Kirk: Uh, excuse me. You didn't answer me. You just trailed off.
Chief Wiggum: Yeah...yeah, I did kind of trail off, there, didn't I? Heh. edit » - Bart: Wow, you really got it made now, Milhouse. This is living!
Milhouse: Is it, Bart? Is it really?
Bart: Yeah.
Milhouse: Ever since I became a movie star I've been miserable. I had to get up at 5 A.M. just for makeup. I like the way the blush brings out my cheekbones, but it's not worth it. And making movies is so horribly repetitive: I've said "Jiminy jillikers" so many times the words have lost all meaning! (the director comes in)
Director: We've got to do the "Jiminy jillikers" scene again, Milhouse.
Milhouse: (quietly but angrily) But we already did it. It took seven hours, but we did it. It's done!
Director: Yes…but we've got to do it from different angles! Again and again, and again and again and again!
Milhouse: Aaaaah! (gets dragged out screaming) edit » - Martin: Uh, Sir, why don't you just use real cows?
Painter: Cows don't look like cows on film. You gotta use horses.
Ralph: What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?
Painter: Eh, usually we just tape a bunch of cats together. edit » - Milhouse: Hey! I think I'm lying on a broken bottle.
Director: Beautiful! Use it. edit » - Principal Skinner: (on P.A. system) Students, I have an announcement. One of your favorite comic book heroes, Radio Man--
Nelson: Radioactive Man, stupid!
Principal Skinner: (on P.A. system) Strange, I shouldn't have been able to hear that. edit » - Man: Get me two plane tickets to the state that Springfield is in. edit »
- (producers look for a place to film the movie and see a small ad that says "FLIM SPRINGFIELD")
Man: All right, this place must be hot. They don't need a big ad, or even correct spelling. edit » - Man: I don't see why Rainier Wolfcastle should be the star. I think we should bring back Dirk Richter. Kids will want to see the original Radioactive Man.
Assistant: I keep telling you, he's 73 years old and he's dead. edit » - Director: Okay, listen up everybody: this is the hardest, most expensive scene in the movie, and we only get one shot at it, so we have to do it just right. Fallout Boy will untie Radioactive Man and pull him to safety, moments before he's hit with a forty-foot wall of sulfuric acid that will horribly burn everything in its path. Now that's real acid, so I want to see goggles, people.
Wolfcastle: Real acid? edit » - Scoutmaster: Don't be afraid to use your nails boys! edit »
- Moe: (recalling his days as a Little Rascal) We had good writers. William Faulkner could write an exhaust pipe gag that'd really make you think. edit »
- Nelson: (pointing at himself in the mirror) Haw-Haw!... Hey that hurt, no wonder no one came to my birthday party. edit »
- Bart: Look behind you, Radioactive Man! The sun is exploding again!
Marge: Bart, why are you talking like that?
Homer: Marge, are there other men in this house? Radioactive men? edit » - Homer: I've always wanted to be a teamster; so lazy and surly. edit »
- Coach: Up and atom!
Wolfcastle: Up and at them!
Coach: Up and atom!
Wolfcastle: Up and at them!
Coach: (annoyed) Up and atom!
Wolfcastle: (much louder) Up and at them!
Coach: (covers his eyes)… Better. edit » - Lionel Hutz: Milhouse, baby, Lionel Hutz - your new agent, bodyguard, unauthorized biographer, and drug dealerrr...keeper-awayer. edit »
- Director: He's going to be big! Gabby Hayes big!
Gabby Hayes was an actor who appeared in several cowboy movies during the 1940s. edit » - Waterworld
The scene where Radioactive Man (Rainier Wolfcastle) and Fallout Boy (Milhouse) are hanging upside down in a cage as prisoners in "Aquaworld" is a direct reference to the 1995 Kevin Costner film Waterworld, at the time the most expensive movie ever made. The film's opening was highly anticipated, but it turned out to be a complete flop, mostly due to the fact that it had an incredibly bad storyline -- with a huge budget, nonetheless. Very much like the film being made in this episode of the Simpsons, making this a rather subtle double allusion. edit » - Bart: Now is the winter of our discontent.
This is the opening line of William Shakespeare's Richard III. edit » - Batman
The campy 70's Radioactive Man is identical to the campy 1966 Batman series with Adam West and Burt Ward. edit » - Bewitched
Radioactive Man's enemy, The Scoutmaster, sounds a lot like Paul Lynde. Lynde played Uncle Arther on the television show Bewitched. The Scoutmaster also says, "Lynde one ear and out the other." Bewitched is also mentioned in the blackboard joke for this episode. edit » - The Brady Bunch
Bart trying to stretch himself to become taller references The Brady Bunch episode "Big Little Man." edit »
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