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The Pizza Van
The Pizza Van is one of the traffic vehicles in Level 2 of The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It is related to the Surveillance Van that is unlockable in level 1.
The Pizza Van was first alluded to in the first level, where it is called the "Surveillance Van". On the news, Kent Brockman noted they were appearing all over town. Homer notices one outside the house just after the news report, and concludes it was spying on them. After stalking the van long enough, he discovers it was headed to Mr. Burns' Mansion, causing Homer to suspect Mr. Burns was responsible for the spying vans. Later, Homer accused Mr. Burns of spying on Springfield with the vans, although Homer learned to his chagrin that the suspicious vans were only Pizza vans, and was quickly fired.
The vans reappears as part of the traffic of level 2. This time it has a new appearance, and is now actually called "Pizza Van" instead of "Surveillance Van". The mission "Bart 'n' Frink" in level 2 requires for the player to follow the van to Herman's Military Antiques, though it is unclear how the Pizza Van actually ties in to the mission's plot. The van may have simply been put in the mission to give the player something to do while driving halfway across the level to Herman's.
The van's actual purpose is still unclear. It may not actually be a pizza van, as even though Mr. Burns isn't spying on Springfield, Kang and Kodos are, and the van's cameras may be one of the ways they are doing it. Although, it still could just be a legitimate pizza van, and it was just designed to look as suspicious as possible for the joke.
Behind the laughter[]
- The Van is possibly a reference to Bart the Murderer, which dealt with a similar premise about a poorly disguised surveillance van acting as a pizza van in an attempt to monitor Bart (although in that case, the owners were implied to be the FBI).
