'The Simpsons' 🎥 Featured a Classic Solar Eclipse 🌚 Joke in 1993

Millions in America 🇺🇸 are watching the total solar eclipse 🌚, viewable Monday for the first time in this part of the world 🌍 since 1979.

It will be a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, but in the world 🌍 The Simpsons, it happened already in one of the most beloved episodes, "Marge vs. the Monorail."

First airing Jan. 14, 1993, the 30-minute cartoon revolves around Springfield getting a sudden influx 💸 of money 📈 after Mr. Burns is fined for illegally dumping nuclear waste.

While deciding what to do with the cash 💸, a fast-talking Music Man-like 🎤 salesman named Lyle Lanley (the late Phil Hartman) convinces the townspeople they need a monorail 🚅.

Of course, the construction of the monorail 🚅 (running on solar energy) is done poorly, and the train 🚅 begins to fall apart on its maiden voyage.️

And that is when a solar eclipse occurs and stops 🚫 the train 🚫 for a few moments, to passengers' relief. Guest Leonard Nimoy, playing a kooky version of himself, steals the scene.

"A solar eclipse, the cosmic ballet goes on," Nimoy says.

UCJ, UNILORIN.