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| From the Red to the Black (and White)
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| Tapped Out Quest Information
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From the Red to the Black (and White) is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Into the Simpsonsverse content update.
Dialogue[edit]
| After completing Reading the Room
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Sir, it looks like your plan is working. The Alternate Universe Computer has opened a portal to the 1930s and there's no shortage of people looking for work.
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Excellent. What trades do you follow, my good men?
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Steam-fitter!
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Hod-carrier!
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Hod-loader!
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Hmm. If you don't mind my asking, what exactly is a hod?
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Beats me, mac. Do I look like a hod-knower?
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Are any of you computer systems engineers, software developers, or radiation technicians?
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I sold pencils on the sidewalk.
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I carried a sign that said "will work for food".
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I owned a radio, until I wrecked it so the martians wouldn't find me.
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I sold pencils on the sidewalk.
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I see. And what are your salary requirements?
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Three hots and a squat would do it for me.
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Keep the railway bulls away and I'm your man.
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Have some self-respect, fellas.
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A dime a day or nothing doing. And I speak for us all!
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In a sense, isn't all business "selling pencils"? You're all hired.
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Task: "Collect Rotary Phones" (x115).
Task: "Make Burns Think of New Things to Exploit". The job takes place at the Cooling Towers, Control Building, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Smithers is owned: Task: "Make Smithers Read the Room". The job takes place at the Cooling Towers, Control Building, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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Working in a radio station ain't all it's cracked up to be. When do we meet Charlie McCarthy? I'm dying to find out what he really thinks of Edgar Bergen.
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It's not a radio station, you mug, it's a radiator factory.
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Whatever it is, it's making me sick. I carried eight hods of uranium into the core and now my hair is falling down faster than Max Schmeling in the ring with Joe Louis.
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I lugged fifty buckets of wastewater out to the river and now my skin is as red as FDR's heart.
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Let's make a break for it!
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Quest reward:  100 and  10
Alternate Universe Computer
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| After completing Pt. 1
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We've got to round them up before the government cracks down on us for using time-migrant labor!
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Won't your "campaign contributions" assure you "access" to "present your point of view" to the government?
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*sigh* Life was so much easier when we just called them bribes.
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Sadly, today's Republican party cares more about bashing outsiders than they do about undermining American labor. We're on our own.
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A Burns and Smithers detective duo parody?
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Smithers, the whole point of being rich is to not have to do the work yourself.
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And to be able to afford inter-dimensional portals through which you can bring cheaper labor?
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That is a nice bonus, yes.
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Task: "Collect Rotary Phones" (x115).
Task: "Make Burns Bring a 1930s Detective Through the Portal". The job takes place at the Cooling Towers, Control Building, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Smithers is owned: Task: "Make Smithers Imagine a Burns/Smithers Detective Duo". The job takes place at the Cooling Towers, Control Building, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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*whistles* Swell place ya got here.
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Really? You think so? I picked out the paint myself. It's called institutional grey.
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Are you kidding? This dump is depressing. And I came from the Great Depression, so that's really saying something.
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Anyways, I hear you got a job for me. What's the gig?
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A few of my workers have run off. I want you to use your hard-boiled detective skills to find them and bring them back. Here are pictures of them.
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In black and white? I thought you had color photos in the future.
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Those ARE color photos. The workers are black and white. Speaking of... *hands him a mirror*
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*looks in mirror* Huh. You do know that we're not actually black and white in the 1930s, right?
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It's best not to think about it too much. Probably some strange physics properties of the portal.
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You've got yourself a gumshoe. But I'm not exactly a cheap date. I get a dollar a day. Plus expenses.
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What are your expenses?
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Bullets, beer, and three bags of peanuts per day. Take it or leave it.
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That's highway robbery!
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What's a highway?
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You know. The inter-state highway system. Built in 1956? Oh, right.
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Quest reward: 100 and 10
Paddy Wagon
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| After completing Pt. 2
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Mr. Simpson, is it? Your boss said I should come talk to you.
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It wasn't me. Somebody else used the office fern for lettuce in their sandwich, and switched the core video monitor to ESPN9, and did everything else I did.
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What? No. Mr. Burns said you were the last person to see the fugitives before they fled. Did you see where they went?
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Those funny-talking guys? Well, first they asked where they could "lie low", and I said that I usually do it behind my desk, but they didn't like that answer.
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Then they asked where was the nearest "flop house" and I suggested Fox Studios, but they didn't like that either.
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Then they asked where they could get some "shut eye" and I actually understood that and said that I always got a good nap at church, so I think they went there.
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Come on, you're driving.
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Woohoo! Second lunch break!
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Task: "Collect Rotary Phones" (x155).
Task: "Make Homer Drive Noir Homer to the Church". The job takes place at the First Church of Springfield, Mega Church, Springfield Episcopal Church, Springfield Buddhist Temple, Cut-Glass Cathedral, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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Well, here we are. See ya!
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You're not coming?
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You mean you're deputizing me? I've always wanted to be a detective! I promise I won't let you down.
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Deputizing you? I'm no sheriff. I'm a noir detective. The only jobs I have to offer are gal friday, femme fatale, and sidekick.
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Are you open to non-traditional casting?
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I have no idea what that is, so I'm gonna go with no.
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I guess I can do sidekick. I've still got the tights from the update where I dressed as Robin Hood.
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I would very much appreciate you not wearing the tights.
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Quest reward: 100 and 10
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| After completing Pt. 3
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We're looking for three dangerous fugitives that may have come through here.
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Good Lord. What did they do?
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They're suspected of favoring workplace safety regulation. They're extremely dangerous to the corporate profit margins.
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What did they look like?
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Average builds, average height, average...averageness.
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This is a house of God, detective. Many lost sheep come through our doors. You'll have to be more specific.
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They were in black and white.
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Oh, you could have led with that. Yes, I know which individuals to whom you are referring.
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They said they didn't have a place a stay, so I let them sleep in our basement last night. Helen, could you show the detective the way?
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We'll also be needing this. *takes bottle of wine off desk*
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That's for communion!
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Reverend, we're the police. We're already doing the Lord's work, okay? *winks at Noir Homer*
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Well, that's a new record for the fastest I've ever regretted deputizing someone.
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There's just one more thing, Reverend...
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I've been more than patient, but, please, go on.
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This counts as church!
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Task: "Collect Rotary Phones" (x155).
Task: "Make Homer Look for More Things to Confiscate". The job takes place at the First Church of Springfield, Mega Church, Springfield Episcopal Church, Springfield Buddhist Temple, Cut-Glass Cathedral, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
If Helen Lovejoy is owned: Task: "Make Helen Escort Noir Homer". The job takes place at the First Church of Springfield, Mega Church, Springfield Episcopal Church, Springfield Buddhist Temple, Cut-Glass Cathedral, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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I'm so glad you're here, detective. I feel so much safer with a real man in the house with those fugitives.
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*narrating* Her tone lit up every light on the switchboard, and I knew I was in danger. One long look into her tiny black eyes and I'd be a goner.
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Are you talking to me?
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I'm narrating. It gets a bad rap these days, but in my time it was as common as a femme fatale trapped in a dead-end marriage to a holy Joe.
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It is helpful.
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Do you have other ideas about writing? Perhaps we should get together sometime and you can tell me all about them.
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It's tempting. But I've got a black-and-white lady waiting for me at home and I'm not going to screw that up even for a chance to go on about myself and my writing.
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Does she have to know?
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My narrating makes it hard to keep secrets. Besides, Noir Marge is the only dame for me.
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*narrating* He said with finality, closing the subject for good.
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Fine, they're in here.
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Oh, no, it's the fuzz!
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We didn't do nothing, we swear!
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Save it, fellas. I'm just here to bring you back to the power plant.
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There's no way I'm going back there. They don't even allow cigarette breaks!
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Hold it. They don't let you two smoke while you're working?
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That's just the tip of the iceberg. You wouldn't believe what goes on in that place.
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Hmm. It seems there's more to this story than meets the eye. Okay, new plan, we're heading back to my office to sort this whole thing out.
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Hang on. I'm not quite done with communion.
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Quest reward: 100 and 10
Private Investigator Office
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| After completing Pt. 4
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So, you're saying you're in physical danger working at Mr. Burns' plant?
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When I get home, I'm so beat I have to put my feet in a basin of cold water.
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That doesn't sound too bad.
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My feet make the water boil!
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I got a toothache!
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Are you sure that's the plant's fault? Do you brush regularly?
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It's in the new face growing in my chest. And of course I brush its teeth!
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Yech.
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This whole time I've been working for the bad guy. Who could've seen that coming?
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I think it's time we all get back to an era when things made sense.
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Like the Great Depression?
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Exactly. Now I'm gonna go reverse the portal that brought us all here so we can go back home. Homer, are you sober enough to drive?
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Eh, sober enough for the '30s.
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Task: "Collect Rotary Phones" (x195).
Task: "Make Homer Take Noir Homer Back to the Plant". The job takes place at the Cooling Towers, Control Building, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours.
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Are you sure you wanna do this? There's a lot of great things about the future that you haven't seen yet. Did you know they can fry Oreos, now?
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Also our phones connect us to all of the world's information, plus its misinformation AND its disinformation!
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Save it. I'm reversing this portal and that's all there is to it.
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Well, it was nice knowing you. I'll never forget the time you believed me when I framed Lenny for stealing the company donuts.
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Farewell, Homer. I hope you can steer this town back on track. *flips switch*
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Hmm, I think something is wrong. And is that music I hear?
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Oh no, something's definitely wrong. Someone is coming through the portal!
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Ooh, a big reveal just before the end of the first part of the story! I can't wait to see who it is.
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I'm glad we avoided the classic Hollywood crutch of using cliffhangers. Man are people fed up with those. We need instant gratification.
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What's a "cliffhanger"?
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Oh you know, it's that cheap gimmick where you cut things off right before the big reveal.
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Oh, right, like if we just stopped talking now and didn't show who it was that came through the portal?
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Exactly.
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Quest reward: 200 and 20
Noir Homer
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Currency-earning jobs[edit]
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| Check Museums for Rotary Phones
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Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Lenny, Carl
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4h
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Museum of Natural History, Knowledgeum, Brown House
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| Ask to Borrow Gimbel's Rotary Phone
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Noir Lisa
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Gimbel's Department Store, Brown House
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8, 70
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