D'Allah!
Posted on 10/14/2005 3:26:42 AM PDT by aculeus
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- When an Arab satellite TV network, MBC, decided to introduce "The Simpsons" to the Middle East, they knew the family would have to make some fundamental lifestyle changes.
"Omar Shamshoon," as he is called on the show, looks like the same Homer Simpson, but he has given up beer and bacon, which are both against Islam, and he no longer hangs out at "seedy bars with bums and lowlifes." In Arabia, Homer's beer is soda, and his hot dogs are barbequed Egyptian beef sausages. And the donut-shaped snacks he gobbles are the traditional Arab cookies called kahk.
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Few shows have more obsessed fans than "The Simpsons," and their vast online community is worried about whether classic Simpsons dialogue can even be translated. One blogger wrote, "'Hi-diddly-ho, neighbors!' How the h -- are they going to translate that? Or this great quote: Mr Burns: Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese."
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That works for them!
*GROAN* That is bad...very bad...
Hmmmm.....Springfield has a nuclear plant.....security seems very lax.....
ALLAH AKBAR! instead of HAH HAH!?
I the character, "Apu", now a white gut named "Al"?
Hindus are simply killed out of hand, in'shallah... The convenience store is now run by a guy named Mohamad.
"The convenience store is now run by a guy named Mohamad."
Wow, just like in America. ;)
Krusty's Jewish, so he's definitely out of the picture. For that matter, Homer's an atheist and Lisa's a Buddhist. Maybe instead of the Danny Elfman theme, they should play "Everyone Must Get Stoned" over the opening credits.
Waylon Smithers also enjoys kahk.
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