Things I enjoyed about "Marge's Son Poisoning"

• All the singing, particulary the SKINNERS' duet and the trio at the end.

2) For some reason, the shot of Ed and Lou riding the back, pulling the chief in his red wagon over the crest of the hill. It was kind of a 3/4 angle, a little unusual.

• Homer singing to Marge when he got home. (See #1).

4) Marge & Bart's singing "Southern Man," then later singing "Sweet Home Alabama" (to provide balance?) in this episode (See #1).

Did I mention I actually liked the singing this episode?

Yes, three times.

XINO

PS Don't forget your prepositions.

You failed to mention the bullies singing at the end. It was another display of their lighter side. 1. Nelson discussing how to eat raspberries. 2. Nelson likes Andy Williams. 3. Nelson reminiscing about his dad. 4. Jimbo likes Bart's ballet.

I don't remember the episodes for any of these references.

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Nathan

Re: Things I enjoyed about "Marge's Son Poisoning"

Don't forget Jimbo watching the soap operas with his mum.

And when the bullies (Nelson really isn't part of the gang or shouldn't be) all sit around night after night listening to "The Tension And The Spark."

R Flowers wrote:

It wasn't southern man they were singing - it was just the verse from Sweet Home Alabama which references southern man. although it would have improved the episode no end if they had sung southern man.

good ending and great couch gag though :)

neil

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I could have sworn they sang "Southern Man" earlier in the episode. Or was it that they just were talking about Neil Young? Damn, now that I think about it, I think you're right.

As I pointed out elsewhere, "Sweet Home Alabama" is a reaction to Neil Young's "SOuthern Man".

"Southern Man" includes lyrics like:
    Now your crosses
    are burning fast

I have no idea of what the story behind the song is, and if he says something in Decade, his writing on the liner notes is so hard to read that I've always had problems deciphering his notes. The song was released in the late sixties, where the lyrics do seem a bit dated, because there had been change since the early sixties. But it was less than a decade before that people were being killed in the South for wanting change (and of course, Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman were killed on June 21st 1964 because they were doing advanced work for Freedom Summer which set out to get blacks registered to vote, and it was just this year that one of the killers was convicted of the crime).

Lynard SKynard, being from the South didn't like the lyrics, so they
wrote a response.  Basically a song about Alabama, but it includes the
lyrics:
     Well I heard mister Young sing about her
     Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
     Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
     A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

So when Bart asks who Neil Young was, he's wondering why the guy's name
appears in a song.  That strikes me as a joke because Neil Young has
continued to record and perform all these decades, lasting a lot longer
and being more prolific than many from the sixties.  But the line suggests
Bart thinks he might be a historical figure, kind of like if you see
these lyrics:
     Please, Governor Neff, Be good 'n' kind
     Have mercy on my great long time...
in a Leadbelly song.  But that Leadbelly song is seventy years old, and
few would know that Governor's name except because of that song.  But
if Bart doesn't know "Sweet Home Alabama" other than it's a song from
before he was born, then he'd not know the story, and perhaps not
know who Neil Young is.

And as I said earlier, I think it was deliberate, to bring Neil Young into the show, because his sixtieth birthday was last week.

Michael