#Simpsons this is where i come to cry plus#

As comedian Lenny Bruce pointed out, the equation for comedy is вЂњlaughter = pain + time.вЂќ The website TV Tropes collected no less than 30 parodies of the Crying Indian commercial, putting them under the headline, вЂњSomewhere, an Indian is crying.вЂќ But something struck a nerve, and when AmericansвЂ™ nerves get struck, we start making jokes.

#Simpsons this is where i come to cry plus#

Sure, the commercial was hokey - 40 years later, littering no longer rates as a notable environmental transgression, plus it starred an Italian-American actor, not a native one. He cheers up, though, when he sees Wayne and Garth picking up the mess. On Friends, while Chandler and his pals are stranded at a rest stop, he gets caught throwing an empty cigarette pack on the ground, and protests, вЂњI thought maybe if I littered, that crying Indian might come along and save us.вЂќ In WayneвЂ™s World 2, Jim MorrisonвЂ™s Naked Indian Friend sheds tears upon seeing the scattered trash left over from Waynestock.

It was repeated move-for-move on The Simpsons. But surely youвЂ™ve seen the parodies that followed the original Keep America Beautiful ad. So maybe that wasnвЂ™t what you were reminded of when you saw the new crying-Indian photo thatвЂ™s been popping up around the Interwebs lately - the one who is ostensibly lamenting a rainforestвЂ™s ruin. He disembarks, stands at the side of the road, has litter thrown onto his moccasins from a passing car, and turns to the camera with one tear rolling down his cheek. Maybe youвЂ™re too young to remember the 1971 TV commercial featuring the Native American guy in the fringe suit canoeing into the industrial heart of, letвЂ™s say, Cleveland.