Pink Dog

"It's Carnival!" This is a line I heard on The Simpsons in which the family travels to Brazil, and while there, they get in the middle of a huge parade that is Carnival. This allusion is for a gigantic parade that falls on Fat Tuesday in Rio, a fiestival that tries to get everyone's impulses and morally questionable descisions out of the way before the beginning of the reverant Lenten time. People sould be as crazy as possible, and get every sinnful action out of them before hand so that they can better prepare for the coming suffering. "go bobbing int the ebbing sewage, nightsout in the suburbs, where there are no lights...." (Bishop.) This line shows that even the lowly, peasents should dress up, to show God that the next day they are ready to give Him their whole attention to His suffering. It also shows how the rich try to get the poorest people to dress up as well so that they are not seen, and ruin the flamboyant festivities that will occur in the night.