In the classic season four episode of The Simpsons, “New Kid on the Block” (though, to be fair, every season four episode of The Simpsons can be considered a classic), Homer is forced to vacate the Frying Dutchman before he’s had all the seafood he can eat. It’s the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since The NeverEnding Story. His plight sounds a lot like the one Donnie Edgemon, a contestant on Thursday’s Jeopardy, went through.
During Alex Trebek’s favorite part of the show (talking to the contestants), Donnie told the host about how he, too, was removed from a seafood restaurant before he was finished dining on lobsters, plastic or otherwise. His story even ends the same way as Marge’s recap: “We may have gone fishing.”
Now, I’m not implying Donnie Edgemon is ripping off The Simpsons, but later in the episode, he did claim that in the 1980s, David Crosby presented him with the Grammy Award for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word, or Barbershop Album of the Year, and that during the afterparty, he asked George Harrison where he could find a brownie. Sounds suspicious, is all I’m saying.
Anyway, Donnie ended up losing, which is a shame. He really could’ve used the money after he forgot to sell his pumpkin futures.
