Assuming that you’ve already made up your mind about giving away a copy of the Simpsons Movie DVD as a gift to someone, allow me to suggest that your gift would not be complete unless it includes a hilarious Spider-Pig T-Shirt. These t-shirt are not available in stores. So, here is a link to an on-line store that prints high quality, nicely inspired Spider-Pig T-Shirts in dfferent colors, sizes for kids, adults in women and men sizes. Your best bet is to order them early as these items tend to run out without a warning. They have kids, men and women’s t-shirts. Here is a sample of a t-shirt available in my favorite color, charcoal:
SIMPSONS TRIVIA
Spider-Pig is not the first animal to appear on The Simpsons, here is an interesting list of minor animals that have appeared through the years:
* Bart Junior (frog), “Girls Just Want to Have Sums”. This frog was caught by Bart Simpson and kept as a pet. When Bart and Lisa’s school was segregated by gender, Bart commented that he could now walk down the hall with Bart Junior “hanging out”. He then reaches into his pocket and pulls out a frog which he identifies as “Bart Junior”. The frog states (through subtitles) that he thought Bart was talking about his penis. (Another Bart Junior was one of Bart’s two lizards that he mothers in “Bart the Mother”, as described above.)
* Bitey, “Marge vs. the Monorail”, an Opossum who lives in the monorail with her babies. Homer’s statement “I call the big one Bitey” is Matt Groening’s all-time favorite Simpsons line[4].
* Buttercup, “Jazzy and the Pussycats”, a former circus tiger adopted by Lisa; after being startled, Buttercup bites into Bart’s “drumming arm”, causing nerve damage and leaving him unable to play the drums. Buttercup is later sent to live in a wildlife preserve.
* Buttercup (Pony), “Springfield Up”, A pony mentioned by Lisa that can jump very high and was owned by her when Homer borrowed Mr. Burns’ mansion in order to pretend to be rich and impress Declan Desmond.
* Canary M. Burns, “C.E. D’oh”, a canary that C. Montgomery Burns uses as the legal owner of the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant to take punishment for any crimes the powerplant is responsible for.
* Captain Jack, “Kill the Alligator and Run”, an alligator that represents Florida and The Simpsons accidentally kill. In the end it turns out he is alive.
* Cinnamon, “I, D’oh-Bot”, Marge’s childhood pet guinea pig, who died after chewing through an extension cord. She is apparently still quite tearful about the incident. Mentioned by Marge when Snowball II dies. It is also the name of a rat, amongst many others, two of which are named “Lefty” and “Rizzo”, being forced out of the nuclear power plant by Chief Wiggum in preparation for the Olympics, as seen in “The Old Man and the “C” Student”.
* Control hamster, “Bart the Genius”, Bart cheats his way to be in a school with no boundaries, at which a legitimate student is running a test with one hamster which has a staphylococci virus and another with no virus, ‘the control’.
* Esquilax, “Lisa’s Wedding”, that is described by Chief Wiggum as a legendary chimera, a horse bearing the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit, to Lisa when she visits a medieval-themed fair run by the townsfolk. Lisa is shown a live “esquilax”, which she chases when it “gallops” away, causing her to find the fortune tent.
* Fantastipotamus, “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder”, a fictional animal that Ron Howard’s daughter claims will only sing twice per day. They see this animal because they state that they “don’t go to the regular zoo”.
* Furious George, “The Mansion Family”, a monkey owned by Mr. Burns who is injured in a monkey knife fight started by Homer. His name is a play on the fictional monkey character, Curious George.
* General Sherman, “The War of the Simpsons”, a legendary catfish. He lives in Catfish Lake, which is the place where Marge’s and Homer’s marriage counseling is being held. Homer catches him, but Marge sees him thinking he doesn’t care about their marriage. To prove this is not the case, he releases him. He is named after the Civil War era Union general.
* Henry, “Jazzy and the Pussycats”, a yellow bird briefly adopted by Lisa after she sees the animal shelter manager threaten to put him down. This is due to the bird’s knowledge of the manager’s darkest secret: she likes putting animals to sleep. He is later adopted by Professor Frink.
* Lincoln Squirrel, “Radio Bart”, As Dave Shutton writes a story about Bart being trapped in the well, he discovers a bigger story. Kent Brockman announces that a squirrel that resembles Abraham Lincoln has been found. Later in the episode, the townspeople hurry with shovels to dig Bart out. Simultaneously, it is announced that the squirrel has been assassinated, with Kent saying that they will stay with the story all night. The Lincoln Squirrel also makes a cameo appearance on a newspaper in The Simpsons Hit & Run.
