Ketchup Logic

Ketchup LogicLevel 4
Type	Collect/Avoid
Next	Return of the Nearly-Dead
Previous	Redneck Roundup
Forced Vehicle	Pickup Truck
Required Costume	Inmate

Ketchup Logic is a mission from the fourth level of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, where the player plays as Marge.

Summary

After driving around Springfield in the previous mission and stopping at the gas station near the Kwik-E-Mart, Cletus snaps out and recognizes Marge, and he'll tell her about the crop circles as long as Marge helps him collect the harvest, and Marge changes clothes in order not to get her dress dirty.

Transcript

Marge: You've got to help me. I have to find out what happened to my baby boy.

Cletus: Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you was a city slicker, but I ain't telling you nothing, unless you help us with the harvest.

Marge: Harvest? If I'm gonna be doing yard work, I better change or my next "mission" will be to get mud stains out of green rayon.

(Marge changes into her Inmate costume, then meets back with Cletus to prepare for the harvest)

Cletus and Marge will spout dialogue when collecting the packets in this order:

Cletus: We need them ketchup packets people done thrown out, to feed on during the long winter. Help me fetch em.

Cletus: Hey, I know another in the dumpster's 'round here somewhar's. I can feel it in mah stank bone.

Marge: Hmmph, why don't we go to the supermarket? They'll have ketchup.

Cletus: They have ketchup?

Marge: In bottles!

Cletus: Now I've done heard of everything.

(Marge and Cletus collect all the ketchup that was needed for the winter and go back to Cletus's shack, avoiding a government agent car along the way.)

Cletus: Now 'bout your query, my granpappy done seen one of dem corn drawings once but he's wth ala now. You might'n should ask some other folks 'bout it. Maybe try around the graveyard.

Marge: Thanks, Cletus!

Cletus: T'weren' nothing.

Trivia

• The mission name is a reference to the song "Pretzel Logic" by the group Steely Dan.
• In the mission, the player would have to collect 18 ketchup packets, but in the level's m3i file in the game files, there is an unused 19th ketchup packet. Re-enabling it causes the game to crash, though, because there is no location set for this unused ketchup packet.
• If the Pickup Truck is called at a Phone Booth before Marge "enters the vehicle", it will spawn in the parking space where vehicles usually appear when called. Because Marge doesn't technically need to get in the vehicle to start the mission, it only starts when the player presses the Action button on the marked location near where the Pickup Truck was before its called.
• When the mission ends, the player can get into the Pickup Truck and drive it. If the player activates the next mission, the Pickup Truck will despawn. Restarting the mission will spawn a vehicle for the player to use.

Gallery