Hidden "McBain" movie secreted in multiple Simpsons episodes

It turns out that if you stitch together all the little over-the-top McBain movie clips shown in several seasons' worth of Simpsons episodes, they form a coherent mini-feature -- a little Easter egg planted by the fun-lovin' Simpsons writing staff!

McBain: the Movie (Thanks, Teapot, via Submitterator!)

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Emo Pinata

This is why the Simpsons used to be so great. The animation, the satire, etc. were just better.
Jeff Soesbe

Ah yes, McBain. Way back, ages ago, we early Simpsons-heads figured out on rec.arts.tv.simpsons that the McBain clips actually made sense together. (Specifically, it was clips number 1, 2, 3 and 5 of those in the video – “that makes two of us”; Sully w/ “Get Mendoza”; “Bye Book”; and “…another meeting, in bed.”)

Of course, this was before Google and YouTube and Flash video. Back when the Simpsons Episode Guide was a document you ftp’d from a server, and “The Stellar Acting Career of Troy McClure” was a list on my whiteboard at work.

Am I really that old? You kids get off my e-lawn!

- yeff
Anonymous

In this case, Ze Goggles don’t count! They were part of the “Radioactive Man” movie, not the McBain movie, although Rainier Wolfcastle starred in both. :)
Anonymous

Anyone have a youtube link?
Brainspore

I love how this character was conceived as an over-the-top tribute to cheeseball Schwartzenegger movies and yet somehow the real-life Arnold managed to one-up his own parody. I think he even stole that cringe-inducing “ice to see you!” line for “Batman Forever.”
franko

there’s got to be more than this. what about ZE GOGGLES??
- Nash Rambler
  
  As we all know, the goggles do nothing.
- Anonymous
  
  That’s Radioactive Man, not McBain. Get your Rainier Wolfcastle movies straight!
g0d5m15t4k3

Awesome. It all makes perfect sense now.
Jesse M.

Fun seeing the clips together, but I don’t know if I’d call that a “coherent mini-feature”, more like a series of random vignettes based on the simple idea that McBain was going after the drug-trafficking Senator Mendoza. Aside from the last clip where Mendoza dies and they show the end credits, you could put the clips in any order and it would make about the same amount of sense!
- Anonymous
  
  How is the different from a real Schwarzenegger movie?
jfrancis

McBain actually was a movie. I still have a prop missile from it on a shelf.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102422/
robulus

Solid Gold.

“I’m thinking about holding another meeting. In bed.”
erg79

Get…Mendoza!

I haven’t watched the clip yet, but does it have “McBain: Let’s Get Silly” in it?
Philip Storry

It’s kinda sad. A few years ago, the complaints about Simpsons’ quality were fresh, witty, and pertinent. But now they’re just going through the motions, as if they’ve said everything they have to say, and are just repeating themselves over and over again.

I think these comments should not be made anymore, so that we have space for new comments that could help us pass the time in new ways.

That way, our memories of when those comments were fresh and funny will be preserved, rather than be tainted with their continued and growing banality…
- Anonymous
  
  Well played sir.
Anonymous

Bring it back please :(
Johnny Justice

Thanks to censorship, I’ve only ever seen the scenes including the chief.
teapot

Anyone have a youtube link?

I think it was up on YT before, but it got taken down by Fux. I’m sure they’ll remove this one as well, so be sure to download it before it’s gone.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Anonymous

To human misery!
skeletoncityrepeater

Last season was pretty good, especially the Sideshow Bob finale. Not so great this year. Too much character focus.
teapot

Dont know when this link will expire but you can also give it a shot:

http://4.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/78/25/a934c7043df09746aacf749e4c52b50f.mp4

If your office firewall is messing with the URL, you should be able to get it through http://www.youareanonymous.com with the above link.
adwkiwi

Haha, that’s awesome :)
Anonymous

McBain movie > Simpsons movie
- someToast
  
  In before the complains about Simpsons’ quality.
  
  Oops.
Anonymous

Mind = Blown
ADavies

Sounds something out of a William Gibson novel.
Ratherder

It’s a perfectly cromulent film.

(I can’t believe no one has yet made that comment.)
speedreeder

Wow, that’s some sharp Simpsons watching! After all these years, I would have never thought that it was the same movie, but looking back it’s obvious!
It’s like one of those bad action movies always playing on USA network!
Anonymous

The rules that constrain other men
Mean nothing to McBaaaaiiiiin!
The punches that bring pain to other men
Do nothing to McBaaaaiiiiin!
McBaaaaiiiiin!
Guysmiley

Bye, book. Awesome!
branko

“Ten times more addictive than marijuana.” :-)
Anonymous

Boo! Looks the video has been taken offline :(
Casper

Ze goggles are from the Radioactive Man movie, not from the McBain movie.

There’s tons of other Rainier Wolfcastle scenes, but I don’t know about other McBain scenes than these.

Seriously, don’t you know the difference between McBain and Schwarzenegger? I mean, Wolfcastle? Do you also think Johnny Depp is secretly a deranged 18th century pirate? (Actually, that one may be true.)
- CANTFIGHTTHEDITE
  
  There was the clip from “McBain – Let’s Get Silly” from the The Critic cross-over episode. But that was a separate movie from “You Have The Right To Remain Dead”, obviously.
freshacconci

Plus it has a huge continuity error, just like a real movie! Doesn’t he kill his boss in an early scene? But there he is, telling him to go by the book.
- Anonymous
  
  The boss fell into a fountain so clearly survived.
- MrJM
  
  If action movies have taught us nothing else, they have taught us that falling from a height is never, ever fatal provided you land in water, e.g. Commando.
bex

from when the simpsons was worth watching and they weren’t just going through the motions