One Dead Ape?


In the episode "The Football" Episode: #2.1 - 29 September 1999, Parker has to retrieve the nuclear launch device normally carried near the President of the United States. The episode ends with the "football" in the possession of a gorilla, and Parker has to con the gorilla into giving it up in time to stop an accidentally programmed launch.

Can someone explain to me why Parker didn't simply shoot the gorilla? (Aside from the obvious lack of drama and knee-jerk negative reactrions from the sudience.) He's carrying a gun in the scene. Millions of dead people versus one dead ape? Now I may have missed something, but what?

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by all means blow the ape's brain out

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Killing an animal on tv or in a movie gets the 'hippies' worked up. I imagine killing the "Damn dirty ape" would have been the final solution. LOL

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Yeah, kill 'im! Kill 'em all, before we humans devolve and they take over the planet!! ;-). I mean, I don't know about you, but I have even less interest in being some ape's b**ch than in worshiping a thermonuclear device.

Sometimes evil is just applied stupidity-Ronar

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Has anybody ever heard of Tranquilizer Darts???

I guess the writers didn't!

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Because Parker is the heroe he doesn´t need to kill a gorilla.

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Same could be said with the football players in the strip club, if he would of shot one they most likely would have given him the card he wanted.

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That was only slightly more ridiculous than an ape launching a nuclear bomb.Of course the nuclear football doesn't launch anything. It has the codes and encrypted communication device that confirms with silos and nuclear subs. It was a really stupid episode.






Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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