5/11 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 7:30 - Midnight Towboy (JABF21) Homer becomes the new tow truck driver in Springfield, but he does his job a little too well as far as his friends are concerned, so they devise a plan to put him out of business
8:00 - Mona Leaves-a (KABF12) Homer finds out that his mother died (of course, we've heard that one before), and decides to honor her final request - that her ashes be scattered over Springfield Monument Park
5/18 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 7:30 - I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (JABF19) Marge is taken hostage in a bank robbery, but agrees to visit the robber in prison if he gives himself up; however, when she can't go through with it, he can - by escaping
8:00 - ** SEASON FINALE ** All About Lisa (KABF13) Lisa goes from being Krusty's assistant to star of her own show to Springfield Entertainer of the Year; Homer and Bart get involved in coin collecting
5/25 - PRE-EMPTED for the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 race (stations in the west will get local programming after the race in the show's regular time slot)
STUFF for "Any Given Sundance" (KABF11) --------------------------------------- Written by Daniel Chun Directed by Chuck Sheetz Blackboard: none Couch: The couch is inside a pop-up book (repeat of JABF17) Special Guest Voice: Jim Jarmusch, John C. Reilly Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG-LSV
REFERENCES "Any Given Sunday" (title) "The Simpsons Movie" (Lisa is making a movie about The Simpsons) Sundance Film Festival (Lisa's movie is shown there) "Ain't It Cool News" ("Ain't I Fat News")
SELF-REFERENCE The Simpsons Movie ("No more Simpsons movies - one was plenty!)
DYN ...Sideshow Mel supports Springfield U, while Carl supports Springfield A&M? (And why wasn't Marge, an SU graduate, wearing SU colors?) ..."Do Not Feed Ben Affleck"? ...Comic Book Guy posts to "Ain't I Fat News"? ...apparently, Nelson's family has reached the point where they had to sell the house and now live in a trailer? ...either Hans Moleman was very hungry, or he was expecting others to mooch off him, as he had five steaks on his grill? ...in the movie, Lisa's editing credit is read out? ...the Springfield Elementary band does a surprisingly good job without Lisa in it?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The croquet hoops that Bart put around Homer's ankles weren't big enough while Bart was holding them.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M46 And in order to pay for this Simpsons movie, we are, er, postponing "24" and cutting the Family Guy season short by two episodes