Al Gore
Al Gore
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Character Information
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Al Gore is a former Vice President of the USA and a published author. He wrote the book Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow.
History
When the Simpson family went to Books! Books! And Additional Books!, Lisa bought two books: a biography of Peter Ueberroth and Al Gore's new book, Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow. She said she hoped that Gore's new book was as exciting as his previous one, Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future.
When the bookstore clerk scanned Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow at the cash register, a signal traveled to The Pentagon and Gore was notified that someone had finally bought a copy of it. When he got the news, he said, "Well, this calls for a celebration." Gore then put on an LP record and played the song "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang. When the song got to the lyric, "Celebrate good times", Gore even-tonedly said, "I will."[1]
Martin bought a talking Al Gore doll, spending his last $10 on it. When he pulled the doll's string, it said, "You are hearing me talk."[2]
Al Gore has visited Springfield at least one time, as he was once seen at Moe's Tavern wearing his Nobel Peace Prize medal.[3]
Homer once refused to pay the heating bill because he believed that global warming would fix it, and when it was still cold in the house he yelled at Al Gore.[4] When Lisa was working as Krusty's assistant, he had her edit his joke file, changing every Sophia Loren reference to Lindsay Lohan. Lisa asked if it was a global change, and Krusty sarcastically replied, "Who am I, Al Gore? Just do it."[5]
In a dream Homer had, he met Lara Croft. They talked a while before a giant Al Gore took care of him. Croft told him that he is master of his own fate. Al Gore asked Homer if he knew that the carbon-emitting choice of cars is dooming the planet and it's because of him and his wasteful ways, and that they only have five more years before they fry in a global inferno. He then ate Homer, and when he got into Gore's mouth he woke up.[6]
Al Gore is one of the many people on "Ned's List of Laudable Lefties".[7]
Behind the Laughter
- Al Gore served as Vice-President of the United States for two terms (1993-2001), under President Bill Clinton.
- The fictional books Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future and Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow are tongue-in-cheek references to Gore's real-life 1992 book, Earth in the Balance.
- In popular culture, Gore had a reputation for being bland and emotionless, as depicted when he puts on the music.
- Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 (shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).
- Krusty's and Homer's comments about Al Gore are references to Gore's environmental activism.
Appearances
Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant" (mentioned)- Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (deleted scenes)
- Episode – "Bart on the Road" talking doll
- Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (non-speaking)
- Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" (mentioned)
- Episode – "That '90s Show" (mentioned)
- Episode – "All About Lisa" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
Comic story – Pardon My Clunker 
Book – Flanders' Book of Faith (mentioned)- Quimby2000.com (mentioned)
References
Nobel Prize winners and nominees
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| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | ||
| Winner: Marie Curie • A. J. P. Martin Nominees: B. L. Feringa • W. E. Moerner • Kenkichi Sonogashira • Richard Zare | ||
| Nobel Prize in Economics | ||
| Winner: Jagdish Bhagwati • Oliver Williamson Nominees: Avinash Dixit • Elhanan Helpman • Bengt R. Holmström | ||
| Nobel Prize in Literature | ||
| Winner: Saul Bellow • Albert Camus • Winston Churchill • Bob Dylan • William Faulkner • Ernest Hemingway • Rudyard Kipling • Thomas Mann • Toni Morrison • Pablo Neruda • Boris Pasternak • Jean-Paul Sartre • George Bernard Shaw • Isaac Bashevis Singer • John Steinbeck Nominees: Assia Djebar • Umberto Eco • Ian McEwan • Amos Oz • Leo Tolstoy • Tennessee Williams | ||
| Nobel Peace Prize | ||
| Winner: Dalai Lama • Mikhail Gorbachev • Al Gore • Muhammad Yunus • Martin Luther King Jr. • Nelson Mandela • Albert Schweitzer • Desmond Tutu • Woodrow Wilson Nominees: Gandhi | ||
| Nobel Prize for Physics | ||
| Winner: Niels Bohr • Marie Curie • Pierre Curie • Albert Einstein • Guglielmo Marconi Nominees: Lena Hau • Steve Harris • Vers Rubin | ||
Ned's List of Laudable Lefties
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| 50 Cent • Douglas Adams • Buzz Aldrin • Tim Allen • Fred Astaire • Lord Baden-Powell • F. Lee Bailey • Rocky Balboa • James Baldwin • Tom Barrasso • Drew Barrymore • Jason Bateman • Larry Bird • Robert Blake • Barry Bonds • Matthew Broderick • Pierce Brosnan • Lenny Bruce • Mark Brunell • Carol Burnett • George Burns • George H. W. Bush • Brett Butler • David Byrne • Julius Caesar • Milton Caniff • Jim Carrey • Fidel Castro • Lewis Carroll • Charlie Chaplin • Marcia Clark • Bill Clinton • Charlemagne • Prince Charles • Calbert Cheaney • Winston Churchill • Kurt Cobain • Ty Cobb • Jimmy Connors • Hans Conried • James J. Corbett • James Cromwell • Tom Cruise • Robert Crumb • Dick Dale • Leonardo da Vinci • Olivia de Havilland • Robert De Niro • Albert DeSalvo • Albrecht Dürer • Oscar De La Hoya • John Dillinger • Matt Dillon • David Duchovny • Bob Dylan • Ehud • Eminem • Albert Einstein • M. C. Escher • The Everly Brothers • W. C. Fields • Bobby Fischer • Benjamin Franklin • Peter Fonda • Steve Forbes • Henry Ford • Whitey Ford • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi • Greta Garbo • Judy Garland • Bill Gates • Uri Geller • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Whoopi Goldberg • Al Gore • Cary Grant • Matt Groening • Ken Griffey, Jr. • Jake Gyllenhaal • Dorothy Hamill • Isaac Hayes • Joey Heatherton • Tippi Hedren • Jimi Hendrix • Jim Henson • Ben Hogan • Hans Holbein • Herbert Hoover • J. Edgar Hoover • Steve Howe • Carl Hubbell • Rock Hudson • Hugh Jackman • Reggie Jackson • Shoeless Joe Jackson • Peter Jennings • Angelina Jolie • Wally Joyner • Danny Kaye • Diane Keaton • Helen Keller • Caroline Kennedy • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Kermit the Frog • Nicole Kidman • Paul Klee • Ted Koppel • Ripsa Koskinen-Papunen • Sandy Koufax • Lisa Kudrow • Rod Laver • Peter Lawford • Cloris Leachman • Spike Lee • Ivan Lendl • Jay Leno • David Letterman • Greg Louganis • Shirley MacLaine • Ricky Martin • Harpo Marx • Bill Mauldin • Marcel Marceau • Paul McCartney • John McEnroe • Marshall McLuhan • Robert McNamara • Kristy McNichol • Steve McQueen • Anne Meara • George Michael • Michelangelo • Marilyn Monroe • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Martina Navratilova • Friedrich Nietzsche • Oliver North • Kim Novak • Ryan O'Neal • Pat Oliphant • Bobby Orr • Mel Ott • Sarah Jessica Parker • Trey Parker • Arnold Palmer • George S. Patton • Linus Pauling • Pelé • Anthony Perkins • Ross Perot • Joe Perry • Luke Perry • Pablo Picasso • Robert Plant • Cole Porter • Colin Powell • Pretty much any ballplayer named "Lefty" • Richard Pryor • Edward R. Murrow • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Raphael • Maurice Ravel • Ronald Reagan • Robert Redford • Keanu Reeves • Julia Roberts • Pat Robertson • David Robinson • Bill Russell • Babe Ruth • Eva Marie Saint • Deion Sanders • Gayle Sayers • Albert Schweitzer • Seal • H. Norman Schwarzkopf • Jerry Seinfeld • Monica Seles • Richard Simmons • Paul Simon • Warren Spahn • Mark Spitz • Ken Stabler • Ringo Starr • Ben Stiller • Sting • Darryl Strawberry • Emma Thompson • Rip Torn • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec • Leo Tolstoy • Harry S. Truman • Peter Ustinov • Fernando Valenzuela • Rudy Vallée • Dick Van Dyke • Queen Victoria • Otto von Bismarck • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • Bill Walton • H. G. Wells • Eudora Welty • Prince William • Ted Williams • Bruce Willis • William Windom • Joanne Woodward • Jim Zorn |
