Soon they will tell us Planet of the Apes does not end with Charleston Heston singing “I hate every monkey I see, from chimp-a to chimp-z!”
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If your only exposure was to great works of American stories by the best of them all, The Simpsons would make you think many incorrect things about many classics. A surprising number earlier today Twitter users admitted that, since the episode “Homer Loves Flanders” premiered in 1994, they thought for years that Louisa May Alcott timeless coming-of-age novel Little women ended with the line uttered by a tearful Tired Szyslak to a group of homeless men: “And then they realized they weren’t little girls anymore: they were little women.”
The iconic line was meant to comically illustrate the soft side buried beneath Moe’s cynical and suicidal appearance, but it inadvertently deterred an embarrassing number of readers from touching the novel that continues to inspire Hollywood adaptations to this day . These self-proclaimed illiterates will lose their minds if they learn that Al Gore actually never wrote a book called Healthy planning, sensible tomorrow.
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