Disco Dan: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' features Disco Stu, a recurring joke character who is eternally stuck in [[The Seventies|the mid-1970s]] (though he [[lampshade]]s it in a moment of [[Character Development]]).

** C. Montgomery Burns, whose values and [[Have a Gay Old Time|vocabulary]] are still stuck on October 27, 1929 (just before Black Tuesday and the start of [[The Great Depression]]). His antiquated demeanor and ideas are a recurring source of humor in the series, as is his on-again off-again ignorance of history after the 1930s; (he still thinks there's a Negro League in baseball...).

*** Even more bizarre, he scoffs at the idea of ''non-WASPs'' in the major leagues. (He's taken aback, for example, by a vintage baseball card showing Joe DiMaggio as a New York Yankee.)

*** There was at least one instance where Burns's Disco Dan tendencies were so extreme that they actually turned him a full 180 degrees! In a recentone episode, he decides to emulate Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban by purchasing a pro basketball team for Springfield, and as cheerleaders he hires women whom he dresses in demure [[The Gay Nineties|1890s]] attire and forces to perform to ragtime music. The cheerleaders "entertained" the crowd in the arena by [[Parasol of Prettiness|twirling their parasols]] and lifting their floor-length skirts to reveal their ankles. The crowd hated the act....and Mr. Burns agreed with them - ''because he found it too obscene''!