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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = The Waste Race
|image = [[File:Tapped Out The Waste Race Sidebar.png|x100px]]
|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|For All Rich Mankind}}
|requirements =
|characters =
|optional =
|internal = TheWasteRace
|id = 268001 - 268005
|previous = [[Aim for the Czars]]
|next = [[Write it Off]]
|event = yes
}}

'''The Waste Race''' is an event-exclusive questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|For All Rich Mankind}} content update.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing [[Aim for the Czars]]|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|So Augustus, I assume since you want to make your trip to space as uncool as possible…}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|You're gonna dress up and act like an astronaut on your spaceship even though you're not actually doing anything to operate the ship?}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|Oh, I'm not going on the spaceship.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Curious}}
{{TB|Really? Who would be more uncool to have on your spaceship than you?}}
{{Tapped Out Rasputin the Friendly Russian Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Hello comrades!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|No. You are NOT using Rasputin the Friendly Russian as your astronaut.}}
{{Tapped Out Rasputin the Friendly Russian Icon}}
{{TB|Da! He is! In Russia, spaceship flies YOU!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Space Helmets|115}} {{Task/Optional|Make Augustus Laugh at Reworked Yakov Smirnoff Jokes|4 hours|[[Redstar Headquarters]]|char=[[Augustus Redfield]]}} {{Task/Job|Make Lisa Suspiciously Eye Rasputin|4 hours|the [[Simpson House]], [[Future Simpson's House]], [[Simpson Houseboat]], [[Outlands Simpsons House]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I know you billionaires are competitive, but when it comes to having an uncool astronaut for his spaceship, I think Augustus has got this locked up.}}
{{Tapped Out Aristotle Amadopolis Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Think again!}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Eye Roll}}
{{TB|Oh come on. An astronaut more uncool than Rasputin the Friendly Russian? Uh-uh. Doesn't exist.}}
{{Tapped Out Comic Book Guy Icon|Pain}}
{{TB|This spacesuit is a bit snug. Isn't there any size larger than XXXL?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Nagging}}
{{TB|I stand corrected.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Gold Bars]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 1|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I've gotta hand it to you billionaires, you really know how to be uncool. You've managed to find the only two characters people wouldn't like as astronauts more than you.}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon|Diabolical}}
{{TB|Ha…the ONLY two?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|I literally just read through the entire character list on Tapped Out. There's no one else uncool enough to be your astronaut.}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
{{TB|How about…you?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Shocked}}
{{TB|Me? But I've dedicated my life to trying to make the world a better place by pointing out the flaws and inequities in everyone else's plans!}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|And you think that's cool?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Thoughtful}}
{{TB|Okay, I see it now. Maybe I'm not as cool as I thought…}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|But at least I'll be going to space! Woo-hoo!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Space Helmets|115}} {{Task/Job|Make Lisa Prep a "One Small Step For Woman" Speech|4 hours|the [[Simpson House]], [[Future Simpson's House]], [[Simpson Houseboat]], [[Outlands Simpsons House]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|Man, my competitors have really stepped it up with their picks of uncool astronauts. I gotta find someone who can top them.}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Snobby}}
{{TB|Ahem. Ahem, ahem.}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Skeptical}}
{{TB|Homer…you're bumbling, you're pitiful, but you're also lovable! You're just not uncool enough to fly my spaceship.}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Listen, Mister Level forty-five update! If you wanna be back here before Level forty-five hundred, you'll do the right thing.}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon}}
{{TB|Well, I suppose I HAVE always wanted to send you into space. The only difference is in this scenario you'll be coming back. Maybe.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Redstar Helicopter]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 2|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|So Rasputin, you ready to begin training for this amazing space journey?}}
{{Tapped Out Quimby Icon}}
{{TB|Sorry, but Rasputin isn't allowed to work in Springfield. His green card expired.}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|So did my housekeeper's. That doesn't mean she's not still cleaning my toilets!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Space Helmets|155}} {{Task/Optional|Make Quimby Fine Augustus for Illegal Hiring|4 hours|the [[Court House]], [[International Court of Justice]], [[Town Hall]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}|char=[[Quimby]]}} {{Task/Job|Make Homer Get a Bargain on Rasputin's Spacesuit|4 hours|the [[Court House]], [[International Court of Justice]], [[Town Hall]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Aristotle Amadopolis Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|With Augustus out of the competition, winning this thing should be a breeze. Comic Book Guy, let's get you in this spaceship!}}
{{Tapped Out Comic Book Guy Icon}}
{{TB|How? Through that little hatch? It's smaller than the car door of a Miata!}}
{{Tapped Out Comic Book Guy Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Doesn't this space capsule come in any size larger than XXXL?}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Augustus Redfield's Mansion]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 3|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Milhouse Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|Lisa, you seem weirdly excited to fly into deep space to help out a billionaire tomorrow.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|That's because when I'm up there, I'm going to record a series of TikToks showing the fragility of the Earth…}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Which thanks to my credibility with the under-10 set will ensure the outlawing of fossil fuels by 2063.}}
{{Tapped Out Skinner Icon|Stern}}
{{TB|Sorry Lisa, but tomorrow you won't be in space. You'll be in detention.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Shocked}}
{{TB|What? Why?}}
{{Tapped Out Skinner Icon|Stern}}
{{TB|For making other children feel discomfort, guilt, and psychological distress for their position on the environment.}}
{{Tapped Out Skinner Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Liberals don't have a monopoly on feeling triggered!}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Space Helmets|115}} {{Task/Job|Make Lisa Sit in Detention|4 hours|[[Springfield Elementary]], [[Springfield High School]], [[Shelbyville Elementary]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|All the other astronauts are eliminated! That means I, Homer Simpson, am going to space!}}
{{Tapped Out Comic Book Guy Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Again!}}
{{Tapped Out Ned Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Don't forget your carbon rod!}}
{{Tapped Out Bart Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|And watch out for those ants!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Curious}}
{{TB|Guys, no one knows what you're talking about.}}
{{Tapped Out Marge Icon}}
{{TB|Well I'M talking about floating potato chips!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|GUYS. No one is getting the references. "Deep Space Homer" was season five…from NINETEEN NINETY-FOUR!}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Skeptical}}
{{TB|There is no one playing this game who was alive when it aired. Now let me prepare for my space flight in peace!}}
{{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon}}
{{TB|You gonna listen to some James Taylor to get in the mood?}}
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|ENOUGH!}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Redstar Barge]]|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After completing Pt. 4|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Heh, I'm the last one with an astronaut. Nothing can stop me now from winning the billionaire deep space race!}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|Except not reading the fine print on your spaceship lease.}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Skeptical}}
{{TB|Excuse me?}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|"ABC Spaceship Leasing reserves the right to revoke the lease anytime." I know it well 'cause I wrote it.}}
{{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|YOU own ABC Spaceship Leasing? Argh! I knew a $79 spaceship lease was too good to be true.}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|I'll take the keys to the spaceship now. And can you remove the Club from the steering wheel?}}
{{THT|{{Task|Collect Space Helmets|195}} {{Task/Optional|Make Artie Ziff Remove the Club|4 hours|[[ZiffCorp Office Building]], [[Space Training Center]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}|char=[[Artie Ziff]]}} {{Task/Optional|Make Augustus Redfield Give Artie a Free Pen|4 hours|[[ZiffCorp Office Building]], [[Space Training Center]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}|char=[[Augustus Redfield]]}} {{Task/Job|Make Homer Prep For Launch|[[Redstar Headquarters]], [[Space Training Center]], or a {{TOG|Home Visitable|Visitable Home}}}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Deep Space Homer Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|Augustus, I've put on that impressively fake-looking spacesuit you got, and I've used the bathroom. I'm ready to go to deep space!}}
{{Tapped Out Deep Space Homer Icon|Confused}}
{{TB|Where's the spaceship by the way?}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|It's right in front of you.}}
{{Tapped Out Deep Space Homer Icon|Sad}}
{{TB|All I see is a pile of carbon fiber composite debris.}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|That's what happened when we tried to tow it here on the back of a truck. Just imagine what it would look like if we actually tried to launch it.}}
{{Tapped Out Deep Space Homer Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|So I'm not going to deep space? And you don't get to be the uncoolest billionaire in the world?}}
{{Tapped Out Augustus Redfield Icon}}
{{TB|Eh, it was wishful thinking. But no matter how uncool I became, I was never gonna be as uncool as {{Ch|Elon Musk}}.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}} [[Space Station]]|colspan=2}}
}}

{{Tapped Out Quests/For All Rich Mankind}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waste Race, The}}

@@ Line 21: / Line 21: @@
 {{THT|After completing [[Aim for the Czars]]|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
-{{TB|So Augustus, I assume since you want to make your trip to space as uncool as possible…}}
+{{TB|So Augustus, I assume since you want to make your trip to space as uncool as possible...}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
 {{TB|You're gonna dress up and act like an astronaut on your spaceship even though you're not actually doing anything to operate the ship?}}
@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 {{TB|I've gotta hand it to you billionaires, you really know how to be uncool. You've managed to find the only two characters people wouldn't like as astronauts more than you.}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon|Diabolical}}
-{{TB|Ha…the ONLY two?}}
+{{TB|Ha...the ONLY two?}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Confused}}
 {{TB|I literally just read through the entire character list on Tapped Out. There's no one else uncool enough to be your astronaut.}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|How about…you?}}
+{{TB|How about...you?}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Shocked}}
 {{TB|Me? But I've dedicated my life to trying to make the world a better place by pointing out the flaws and inequities in everyone else's plans!}}
@@ Line 64: / Line 64: @@
 {{TB|And you think that's cool?}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Thoughtful}}
-{{TB|Okay, I see it now. Maybe I'm not as cool as I thought…}}
+{{TB|Okay, I see it now. Maybe I'm not as cool as I thought...}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Happy}}
 {{TB|But at least I'll be going to space! Woo-hoo!}}
@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 {{TB|Ahem. Ahem, ahem.}}
 {{Tapped Out Artie Ziff Icon|Skeptical}}
-{{TB|Homer…you're bumbling, you're pitiful, but you're also lovable! You're just not uncool enough to fly my spaceship.}}
+{{TB|Homer...you're bumbling, you're pitiful, but you're also lovable! You're just not uncool enough to fly my spaceship.}}
 {{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Angry}}
 {{TB|Listen, Mister Level forty-five update! If you wanna be back here before Level forty-five hundred, you'll do the right thing.}}
@@ Line 106: / Line 106: @@
 {{TB|Lisa, you seem weirdly excited to fly into deep space to help out a billionaire tomorrow.}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
-{{TB|That's because when I'm up there, I'm going to record a series of TikToks showing the fragility of the Earth…}}
+{{TB|That's because when I'm up there, I'm going to record a series of TikToks showing the fragility of the Earth...}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Happy}}
 {{TB|Which thanks to my credibility with the under-10 set will ensure the outlawing of fossil fuels by 2063.}}
@@ Line 131: / Line 131: @@
 {{TB|Well I'M talking about floating potato chips!}}
 {{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Annoyed}}
-{{TB|GUYS. No one is getting the references. "Deep Space Homer" was season five…from NINETEEN NINETY-FOUR!}}
+{{TB|GUYS. No one is getting the references. "Deep Space Homer" was season five...from NINETEEN NINETY-FOUR!}}
 {{Tapped Out Homer Icon|Skeptical}}
 {{TB|There is no one playing this game who was alive when it aired. Now let me prepare for my space flight in peace!}}

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 |name = The Waste Race
 |image = [[File:Tapped Out The Waste Race Sidebar.png|x100px]]
-|level = 5
+|level = 15
 |update = {{TOCU|For All Rich Mankind}}
 |requirements =

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 |update = {{TOCU|For All Rich Mankind}}
 |requirements =
-|characters =
+|characters = [[Lisa]], [[Homer]]
-|optional =
+|optional = [[Augustus Redfield]], [[Quimby]], [[Artie Ziff]], See [[#Currency-earning jobs|Currency-earning jobs]]
 |internal = TheWasteRace
 |id = 268001 - 268005
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 {{TB|Eh, it was wishful thinking. But no matter how uncool I became, I was never gonna be as uncool as {{Ch|Elon Musk}}.}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}<br>[[Space Station]]|colspan=2}}
 }}
 {{Tapped Out Quests/For All Rich Mankind}}
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Waste Race, The}}