If you where a writer for the show, what would you have written?

Bart was digging a hole in the last episode. If you were a writer for the show and you continued with the hole digging story how would you have finished it?

I don't know--I suppose you could have done something where Bart develops OCD, but that might be similar to the Focusyn episode. Another choice would be to turn it into a subplot, and use that to fill the 3 minutes ruined with the ridiculous hunting scene. It's a great opening, but it's too bad it was just the lead-in to a weak episode.

Brian

Justin wrote:

Drunk and full of pie, Justin <> wrote:

Ask Homer. It was _his_ story. :)

<Justin> wrote in message news:[email]...

New swimming pool.

<Justin> wrote in message news:[email]...

He finds Lincoln's real gold?

Bart would find a picture of me, and the rest of the episode would be my biography.

"EDF" wrote in message news:...

After several hours of digging, Bart finds a metal detector.

Justin wrote:

he finds the decaying remains of mike scully?

Jake Lennington wrote:

How very ironic :). But, that would mean Bart and LIsa now have 2 metal detectors. I forget what they found w/ the first one.

Greg Bair

He hears digging, but he doesn't hear chopping.

Chop, chop, dig, dig, chop, chop, dig, dig

he finds the money homer dropped in the ground a few years ago.

In article , Justin <> wrote:

instead of Homer the one telling the story, have it be Grampa....

Drugs. Illegal hidden narcotics. And it ends up like a psychadelic episode like that one with the chili cook-off.

"Hans Moleman" wrote in message news:[email]...

"If it's about laying off the insanity peppers, I'm way ahead of you."

i wish i had some insanity peppers.....

-j

<Justin> wrote in message news:[email]...

It was odd because there were a whole bunch of good storylines there that just got abandoned.

The hole thing was interesting but left behind. The oddest part about that was Moe complaining if the story was going anywhere. It would make sense if he asked it when it was just the digging but Homer was talking about a Chinese super soldier in a spy satellite.

Homer as a bartender was a good concept to but we get very little of it.

Moe at bartending college getting his faith back with the help of an old teacher who's dying. Again lots of room for both humor and pathos but abandoned for a plot with Moe's place becoming hip and Moe a snob to his regulars. This was already done with the Flaming Moe episode.

Homer setting up a bar in his garage is also a good idea but it was sidelined for a hunting scene.

I do improv comedy and it was like a scene where other players keep jumping in and changing things without letting the scene develop.

I respect the writers and producers trying to keep pushing the envelope and risk taking but it's also risk taking to slow down a bit, relax and let a story find it's feet. If it's gag, gag, gag then you're Family Guy. Nothing wrong with that if you ARE Family Guy but Simpsons is more than that.

Ian Boothby

Drunk and full of pie, Ian Boothby wrote:

That's what I got out of it. Many new conflicts were created, and just left there. Conflict->plot->story...

I got that feel, too.

I have no problem with Family Guy. IMO pushing the envelope is fine, if that's what's happening (Nim thinks so). If this show appeals to a smaller and smaller crowd, then why mess with it? Is the audience growing? Is it a great show simply because they push the envelope, and try new things? Will everything they try be great? Why do people care about this show, anymore? Are we allowed to criticize it?

This can of worms brought to you by one stubborn man vs. those who would shut him up :)