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Marge gets a Canyonero
The song (edit: about the Canyonero)has become a catch-phrase in our house, every time we see someone driving a giant, monstrous SUV, who clearly has no chance of ever taking it off-road but is merely driving it to look cool.
Along the same lines...I always say "Malibu Stacy, with NEW HAT!!!*" whenever we run across some product which is just a clever re-packaging of an older product, with no improvement in performance.
* Referring to the Simpsons episode where Lisa helps design a non-sexist Barbie-type doll, and when it first goes on sale, it is promptly upstaged by a stack of "new" Malibu Stacy dolls (the "mainstream" Barbie-type doll in the Simpsons Universe) which are identical to the "old" Malibu Stacy dolls but have a new hat. And so the little girls rush to buy the Malibu Stacy doll, sexist comments and everything, just because she has a new hat, and better marketers. It is one of my all-time favourite Simpsons episodes.
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