The Italian Bob/References - Revision history

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‎Cultural references

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SolarBot: replaced: The Great Louse Detective → "The Great Louse Detective", Missionary: Impossible → "Missionary: Impossible", "" → " (2)

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replaced: The Great Louse Detective → "The Great Louse Detective", Missionary: Impossible → "Missionary: Impossible", "" → " (2)

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LetsPlayNintendoITA: Pompei is the italian name of the city

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Pompei is the italian name of the city

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Solar Dragon at 12:07, February 22, 2020

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 *The song Lisa chants as the cheeses bounce towards the Fasterossa is to the tune of "Italiano Calypso", a song on ''The Seven Hills of Rome''.
 *Lisa mentions {{W|Jean Valjean}}. Both Bob and [[Seymour Skinner]] have worn Valjean's prison number in the past.
 *This episode marks the first cameo appearance [[Stan Smith]]. He, like fellow "plagiarismo" [[Peter Griffin]] is shown with their regular skin color rather than yellow skin.
 *After temporarily escaping from Sideshow Bob in Rome, Marge states that she feels like the {{W|Bourne Identity}}.

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 *Bob becomes the "Il Mayore" of Salsiccia but the correct Italian word would be "Sindaco". "Mayore" is probably an intentional Italianization of the term mayor, as the word doesn't even exist in Italian.
 *When the family is at the Lamborgotti assembly line, the sign shows "Limea Montaggio No. 1". The correct word would be "LiNea". Plus, "No." is the English abbreviation of "Number", in Italy that would have been "N°", "Num." or simply "N.". "#" is not used in Italy.
-*When the Italian Police searches the book of American criminals, Sideshow Bob is listed under "omicidio attentato multiplo". The correct Italian term would be "Tentato Omicidio Multiplo". ''Attentato'' is a wrong, although largely intelligible, translation of ''attempted'', as the word in Italian means more or less "act of terrorism", and not the act of attempting to do something. Snake is listed under "invasione di casa", whose correct Italian term would be ''Invasione di domicilio''.
+*When the Italian Police searches the book of American criminals, Sideshow Bob is listed under "omicidio attentato multiplo". The correct Italian term would be "Tentato Omicidio Multiplo". ''Attentato'' is a wrong, although largely intelligible, translation of ''attempted'', as the word in Italian means more or less "act of terrorism", and not the act of attempting to do something.
 *"Plagiarismo" is a Spanish translation from the English "plagiarism". The correct Italian word is "plagio".
 *When Homer says to Lisa, "It's called a hangover, sweetie," the collar of Homer's shirt teleports from in front of the seatbelt to behind it.

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 *Bob becomes the "Il Mayore" of Salsiccia but the correct Italian word would be "Sindaco". "Mayore" is probably an intentional Italianization of the term mayor, as the word doesn't even exist in Italian.
 *When the family is at the Lamborgotti assembly line, the sign shows "Limea Montaggio No. 1". The correct word would be "LiNea". Plus, "No." is the English abbreviation of "Number", in Italy that would have been "N°", "Num." or simply "N.". "#" is not used in Italy.
-*When the Italian Police searches the book of American criminals, Sideshow Bob is listed under "omicidio attentato multiplo". The correct Italian term would be "Tentato Omicidio Multiplo". ''Attentato'' is a wrong, although largely intelligible, translation of ''attempted'', as the word in Italian means more or less "act of terrorism", and not the act of attempting to do something.
+*When the Italian Police searches the book of American criminals, Sideshow Bob is listed under "omicidio attentato multiplo". The correct Italian term would be "Tentato Omicidio Multiplo". ''Attentato'' is a wrong, although largely intelligible, translation of ''attempted'', as the word in Italian means more or less "act of terrorism", and not the act of attempting to do something. Snake is listed under "invasione di casa", whose correct Italian term would be ''Invasione di domicilio''.
 *"Plagiarismo" is a Spanish translation from the English "plagiarism". The correct Italian word is "plagio".
 *When Homer says to Lisa, "It's called a hangover, sweetie," the collar of Homer's shirt teleports from in front of the seatbelt to behind it.

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 *After temporarily escaping from Sideshow Bob in Rome, Marge states that she feels like the {{W|Bourne Identity}}.
 *The rake-to-the-face gag is recycled from "Cape Feare".
-*The Italian police book features [[Snake Jailbird|Snake]] as ''Invasione Di Casa'' (Home invasion|home invader), [[Mayor Quimby]] as ''Drinko Drive-O'' (drunk driving), [[Peter Griffin]] from ''[[Family Guy]]'' as ''Plagiarismo'' (plagiarism), [[Stan Smith]] from ''American Dad'' as ''Plagiarismo Di Plagiarismo'' (plagiarism of plagiarism), and Sideshow Bob as ''Omicidio Attentato Multiplo'' (Multiple attempts of Homicide), even though none of them (except Sideshow Bob) were in Italy or even visited Italy at that time.
+*The Italian police book features [[Snake]] as ''Invasione Di Casa'' (Home invasion|home invader), [[Mayor Quimby]] as ''Drinko Drive-O'' (drunk driving), [[Peter Griffin]] from ''[[Family Guy]]'' as ''Plagiarismo'' (plagiarism), [[Stan Smith]] from ''American Dad'' as ''Plagiarismo Di Plagiarismo'' (plagiarism of plagiarism), and Sideshow Bob as ''Omicidio Attentato Multiplo'' (Multiple attempts of Homicide), even though none of them (except Sideshow Bob) were in Italy or even visited Italy at that time.
 *The two year old town drunk looks and sounds like a young [[Barney Gumble]]. He may actually be one of Barney's innumerable children, thanks to the Springfield sperm bank.
 *When Homer gives an Italian woman a mug with Kentucky emblazoned on it as a peace offering, this may be a reference to "Behind the Laughter", in which the Simpsons are referred to as a "Northern Kentucky family."

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 *On mayor Bob's balcony, Lisa tells Homer, when he thinks he's impersoning [[Donald Trump]], that he's impersoning [[Benito Mussolini]].
 *When the family visits Pompei, there are the remains of a Roman family strongly resembling the Simpsons, which Homer refers to as "savages."
-*The PBS logo has the Simpsons' overbite, which was also featured in ''[[Missionary: Impossible]]''.
+*The PBS logo has the Simpsons' overbite, which was also featured in "[[Missionary: Impossible]]".
 *In Sideshow Bob's flashback, he is wearing the same clothes as he was at the end of his last appearance, in "[[The Great Louse Detective]]".
 *On Sideshow Bob's globe, Tuscany looks like it is a city, but it is actually a region.
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 == Goofs ==
 *Homer did attend college—later in life, though, however, he could forget something like that.
 *The Italian language/Italian spoken in the show is a quite literal translation of the English phrases shown as subtitles. It's not grammatically and phonetically correct sometimes, but the literal translation of the English idiomatic expressions would sound nonsensical to an Italian native.

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 *"Mortadella" falls out of a cheese transporter and is therefore referenced as a cheese in this episode, even though "Mortadella" is a large Italian sausage (or cold cut) with pistachios.
 :*It does appear as a meat. The reason for it being with the cheese is likely because cheese and sausage platters are a common hors d'oeuvre.
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