3/5 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "Bad Boys 2" (it's Academy Awards night - even NASCAR's Nextel Cup takes the weekend off)
3/12 - The Seemingly Never-Ending Story (HABF06) While Homer is trapped in a cave, Lisa helps him pass the time by telling a story, which turns into "22 Short Stories About Springfield"
3/19 - Bart Has Two Mommies (HABF07) ...specifically, Marge, who is busy watching the Flanders brothers (in exchange for a computer Ned won but won't use) while Ned is away at a left-handers convention, and Homer, who has to watch Bart and Lisa while Marge is watching Rod and Todd - and ends up watching Bart get himself held hostage by a monkey at an animal retirement home
STUFF for "My Fair Laddy" (HABF05)
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Written by Michael Price
Directed by Bob Anderson
Blackbaord: none
Couch: everybody rolls around as a clay ball, then become normal and
end up on the couch - along with Gumby (repeat of GABF16)
Special Guest Voice: Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom
TV rating: TV-PG-DLSVREVIEW: B - this had some good ideas, but the main story seemed to have a non-ending (instead of an "everything is back to normal" BBQ, they had a dessert cart instead), and the pants story didn't go anywhere at all, except for a lame joke about ads on Homer's body. It might have been better had it strayed a little more from "My Fair Lady".
REFERENCES "My Fair Lady" (title; also, plot of making someone refined, and the songs are based on songs from the musical) "Gentle Ben" ("Genteel Ben's Guide to Etiquitte") "Late Show with David Letterman" ("Worldwide Pants") 2F19 (Mrs. Pummelhorst) EABF10 (Skinner mentions a sense of "once again everything is back to where is started", similar to the "everything's back to normal BBQ")
DYNs ...Janey's last name is Henderson (as opposed to Hagstrom or Powell)? ...the Go-Kart track spells it "Go-Cart"? ...the coach's date planner had six-day weeks? (Normally, Saturdays and Sundays share a "space") ...when Marge puts the retainers down the disposal, she doesn't turn on the water? ...based on the Coach's date planner and Lisa's calendar, the episode starts in December and lasts through at least January? ...Lisa has tic-tac-toe carpeting? ...the Simpson house now has a bathroom below the stairs? ...Lisa's sports wall had nothing to show for it from when she played hockey? ...Selma is at the science fair, but Patty isn't? (Maybe Patty is watching Ling while Selma is on the prowl for men?)
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Martin's surprise-measuring machine has a red-shaded zone at first, but not when the needle is shown going all the way to the right in the close-up.
Lisa's saxophone shouldn't fit into the freezer when it is put together.
The patches on Homer's pants disappeared when he was at Moe's.
LYRICS to songs (titles appear in the closing credits) (all songs credited to Alf Clausen and Michael Price) ----------------------------------------------------- ADEQUATE All I want is a place somewhere... Oh, to have my shack rebuilt Get my rotten teeth all drill't Something on underneath me kilt Oh, wouldn't it be adequate? Matching shoes for both me feet Dining on untainted meat A toilet what still has its seat Oh, wouldn't it be adequate? Adequate - adequate Wouldn't it be adequate?
NOT ON MY CLOTHES What flows from the nose Does not go on my clothes (I think he's got it Oh yes, he's got it) What flows from the nose Does not go on my clothes (Gah! A talkin' mirror! Gah!) Where is that ghastly flow? The nose - the nose! And where should it not go? Blue pants - blue pants!
BLUE PANTS ALL MORNIN' I'm gettin' blue pants in the morning Ding dong, the zipper's gonna shine
INDOORS ALL NIGHT I feel like I... Could be indoors all night Could use a fork and knife And never soil my suit I could be so polite Start not a scene nor fight And still not feel like a fruit How very nice that there's no lice in my hair And my toenails I don't bite Now that I've reached the stage Where I'm not full of rage I could be indoors Indoors all night
LONGING FOR THE SHACK I've a fancy suit And a clean white shirt But I miss the days When tractor fumes blew off my skirt I was freezing cold And I slept in mold But I long for the shack where I lived She was true to me My old home of wood And when I passed out from turpentine She understood Life was so sublime Well, boo hoo, 'cause I'm Hanging ferns in the shack where you lived
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 Looks like the Uncensored Family Album, Bart Simpson's Guide to Life, and at least one of the card sets, were all wrong about Janey's name