"The Scorpion's Tale" Simpsons episode about the creation of LSD ?

[huolesoh]

so Lisa accidentally discovers this drug that makes scorpions friendly to one another as oppose to hostile

German scientist named Hoterhoffer then isolates the main active ingredient and sends it out, whilst advising the Simpsons "don't let it escape into the black market" - as with Albert Hoffman and Delysid

salesman Bart gets hold of it and sells it to old people - similarly to it becoming available to young people ?

Grandpa Abe becomes unusually cheerful and optimistic, has wonderful effect on a large number of people - just as in the 60s

i find the interview with Abe after being administered the drug in the lab strangely similar to watching this interview with Jimi Hendrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk0jNWxoLfY

then some side effects - equal to the "bad trips" that began to surface ?

throughout the episode Lisa gives different opinions on the ethics of the drug "it's not a real happiness" vs. Grandpa's "who cares, it's taught me a new love of life"

Milhouse even finds a hippie skeleton and freaks

a shark eats this potion and turns from predator to prey

i could just be making a vague link or maybe Matt Groening was trying to create this analogy

you can watch the episode here:
http://www.wtso.net/movie/498-2215_The_Scorpion039s_Tale.html

 

[greenmeanies]

i'm pretty sure the link is deliberate, i really enjoyed that episode until the side-effects hit them

 

[socalBUD]

Wow great find, that was sweet. I definitely see parallels, but you'd think that perhaps they'd have attempted to show some psychedelic effects if it was an analogy to LSD. The old people just got really happy, it reminded me more of xanax or something. Anyway, thanks for the link!

 

[thoughtsUnThought]

i saw the eyes popping out being a vague reference to psychedelic effects...lol, no doubt in an exaggerated manner.
something along the lines of 'one's perceptual apparatuses falling away from the self' lol, a stretch, but you never know

 

[ChronicHD]

Don't know if it's specifically focused on LSD but it was an entertaining ep.

 

[|>R()|)!G/-\|_]

I thought it had more to do w Big Pharma than anything. I'm surprised the pharmaceutical co. didn't create a new medication to counter the side effects of the MusBeNys. I'd happily try the chem that had Homer smelling music.