Review: DABF07 [TRUCKASAURUS]

A trailer with "DABF06" on the side overturned on the Matlock Expressway. Truckasaurus rolls its headlights, whistles, and traces a circle in the dirt with its front tire...

The DABF06 trailer will be reloaded, and its cargo will be replaced. Failing that, I'll use a cool, wet sack. I can't stress that enough, people.

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Episode DABF07 "The Lastest Gun In The West" Writer: John Swartzwelder

LOLs(13):
--Milhouse: Finally I'll be the dominant one.
  Ralph: Be quiet.
  Milhouse: Yes, sir.
--Bart: Phew! Safe at last. Now, I'll just turn around
        and confirm that safety.
--Marge made a running Bart biscuit for the vicious dog
--Junior Buckaroo 2nd class... little Grampa Simpson
--Six Gun Lullaby lunchbox; shooting bandits while they
  slept...
--Buck's movie: handstand on horse, shooting
--Announcer: (McTrigger) Tonight's episode--"'Scuse me...
             while I kill the sky"
--Buck: Yeah... in the 70s, westerns were out and detective
        shows were in. Seems like all I did was shoot hippies.
--McTrigger offs a few hippies
--We don't take kindly to transvestite chimpanzees here in
  Pine Corners! [Mr. Teeny's acting job]
--Homer: My son lost his hero. This should be the greatest
  night of my life. [cutting players is a coach's easiest job]
--Homer: How come I'm not happy?
  Marge: You care about Bart's feelings.
  Homer: Stop saying that!
--The GOLD-crazy cowboy/prospector... "GOOOLLD!"
--Buck: Good bye, Bart! Never bother me again! Yee haw!

Mildly funny (The "chuckles")(18):
--Bart: Mom! A dog ate my clothes!
  Marge: Nice try, but we're still going to Riverdance.
  Bart: D'oh!
--Bart: "Eat my short stories!"
--Bart: These animals are stuffed! [pinch] Except that one.
--Buck: I quit after fourth grade, and I ain't not no
        un-dummy SPIT!
--Buck: Most people just _mutter_ that.
--Horse pounds hoof, to get Buck to tell Bart about his film
  credit
--Drinking, fighting, tripping horses with wires
--Marge: I guess you're not going to have an adventure this
         week.
  Homer: Heh! Just you wait!
--Look on Homer's face after Bart says "That's great, champ.
  I know you've been wantin' that"
--Bart: We can have showdowns at the schoolyard, and use
        NERDS as Indians!
  Lisa: G'Ohhhh... [nervous necklace tug]
--Milhouse: [to Martin] Hey! You're not fun, you're fat!
--Brockman: I guess you COULD say... this barely qualifies
            as news. I'm Kent Brockman.
--Krusty: I want my show to have a TIMELESS quality.
  Aide: Here's your hanging chad sketch, Krusty...
  Krusty: Heh heh heh... oh good. You worked in Judge Ito.
--"In case of comeback, break glass"
--Homer's "poster"
--Doc: If you walk out that door, you'll be branded a quitter
       forever... (QUITTER BRAND!)
--Marge: I just naturally assumed it was some of my business.
--Buck: I'm a movie cowboy. and you're no Howard Hawks!
  Homer: That HURTS!

Satirical Content: --Westerns became popular during that long considered wholesome decade... the 50's. But these shows weren't any more wholesome than today's violent TV. Bart's idea is ironically like schoolyard violence today, with "showdowns" and whatnot.

First laugh (0:51): --Bart: Mom! A dog ate my clothes! Marge: Nice try, but we're still going to Riverdance. Bart: D'oh!

Laughed hardest at: --Buck: Yeah... in the 70s, westerns were out and detective shows were in. Seems like all I did was shoot hippies. --McTrigger offs a few hippies... [still laughing during this bit, and it made me laugh harder]

Un-funny jokes(1): Krusty getting shot

Unnecessary Exposition(2): --Bart: Is that horse vacuuming? (looked like it) --Bart: [after clock chimes] 5 o'clock? (you heard the bullets)

Overt Social Commentary(2): --Lisa: Gee, Buck. Your old films are as violent as today's! --Marge: I'm not sure I approve of selling whiskey to children.

Comments:

Stealing Homer's bit, there must be some hair-brained... half-assed way I can review "Lastest Gun In The West"... aha, here it is:

A dog menaces Bart. Well, it provided good conflict for a shortish Act I, though little humor in and of itself. The dog show? Dog breath on the window? Lunchlady Doris says "whatever." Homer's line "sometimes dogs or people hate you for no reason" was really good, however; I like it when Homer culls wisdom out of idiocy. The ironing is delicious.

The dog show? Hmmm... this episode had some chuckles, and some forgettable gags. It saved itself and a little more, though, with "McTrigger". I laughed harder at that sequence than at anything Simpson for a few years. Those kinds of "gags in a row", mixed with references were all over the place in the first five years of the show. It made a mediocre episode good.

Dennis Weaver's voice was funny. His delivery of the hippie line, and his gargling "yee haw" at the end were great. It compares well to Donald Sutherland's work in "Lisa the Iconoclast", with a little more "gravel" and lilt. The guy can do comedy.

The crits:

The dog show? A "most vicious" sash? Did anyone laugh at that? Will anyone remember that gag in a month? I can't imagine that being someone's favorite new Simpsons gag, anyway. </high horse>

Lisa leaving Bart to a dog attack seemed a bit harsh. Other than that, the episode dried in the desert sun... with a few puddles here and there, and an oasis in the form of a hippie joke. Not much to hang a 10-gallon hat on, or to hitch your horse to. Maybe I've been spoiled by the recent jump in quality we've had here in Season 13. Or, maybe this ol' prairie poop's got some prickly pears up his tailpipe.

--Making Milhouse cry is not a science project...

...it's a math project! Make him do long division, Bart.

--Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?

Quite a lot of overdubs, again. It was interesting to see if characters' lips synced at all with the audio... did they re-dub any George W. Bush/Texas jokes?

Prediction:

"Lastest" won't be rewatched much; when we do see it again, it will seem new, as if we're seeing a lost episode.

-Chad Lehman

"You crazy car. I don't know whether to eat you, or kiss you."

--John Truckasaurus

DYN...
     ...the dog bites from the opposite side of the mail
        slot one might expect? [coming from a mailman...
        this hits home]
     ..."I ain't not no un-dummy" means "I'm a dummy"?
        (ain't not = am, no un-dummy = a dummy)
     ...Bart calls Homer "Homer" and Marge "ma'am"? Bart
        hasn't called Homer "Homer" for a while now. It's
        good to hear that, again
     ...dead criminals hanging out of the windows, as in
        old western movies?

Previous episode refs:

[7F16], [9F01], [9F05], [9F15], [4F22], [5F02], [BABF22], [CABF20] Homer relieves himself... of urine [9F05], [2F07] Homer's half-assedness [9F05] Bart attacked by canine; no one believes him [8F18], [9F21], [1F10], [3G02], [3G03] Apu sings [1F04], [DABF05] mummies [4F11] idea that Hawaiian shirts make fat guys "fun" [BABF17], [CABF20] clothes torn off in one pull [DABF05] ostrich attacks someone

Movies (and other) references:

+ Big Valley, The (TV Western)
+ Bonanza (TV Western)
  -House looks like the house from The Big Valley &
   the Ponderosa
  -Music similar to that of "The Big Valley" plays at
   the end

~ Matrix, The It's a stretch; but when (young) Buck does the handstand on the saddle while firing, it looks like a stationary (matched) shot of Neo firing while doing a cartwheel

+ Purple Haze (song, Jimi Hendrix Experience) "'Scuse me while I kill the sky"

+ Terminator, The As it gets closer, the eyes turn red

S P O I L E R

S P O I L E R

S P O I L E R

I like I enough.

That that but I was attracted by of the I surrender it is: 1) the form in that it is faced the desire to convert homero in the hero Bart. They didn't already abuse of resources used and the touches were subtle, without complicated arguments. 2) for equals reasons that the previous ones, the history is very simple, it understands toward where the history goes, there are not moments where he/she becomes tedious to see the I surrender. 3) toward a lot that I didn't see a sequence of presentation of the program of Krusty.

I don't like :

1) as they give him characteristic human to the animals, in this case to the one dog. 2) the form in that it solves the problem in the bank. Very silly

*Milhouse believing that because Bart left he can choose to its new ones friendships and this way to occupy a dominant place, obviously ralph puts it in its place. * The poster that this beside the cabinet with the suit of Cowboy "in case of comeback break glass" * I like the scene of the end, with the bottom music while Mccoy goes to his house, notices if there is mail, it ties to its horse, mountain the blinds, it takes out the garbage, and it begins to spy from the window. I found comic * I believe that they were very well used the characters Milhouse, Ralph, and Snake.

It can be that this it is an I surrender forgettable, but in any event it would be among the forgettable of the first seasons.

I hope the next one improves, and that of March 17 Such from the Public Domain is not the bad thing that I think that it can end up being.

for all this I give him a B

Ariel

I know those words, but that post makes no sense.

Sounds like it belongs in a hipcrime newsgroup.

p.s. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about and would like to, go to google and search "hipcrime"

Kevin

Actually, it seems more like the original poster typed it out in another language (I'm assuming Spanish, since it's from Argentina...although it may be German) and then fed it through an online translator before posting it here. Hipcrime posts are normally just a bunch of random words thrown together.. this one seems to at least be following the events of the latest espisode.

• mirilidium

Funny you should say that. I thought the exact same thing when I first (tried to) read that.

I figure someone wrote it in Spanish, converted it to German, converted that to French, then converted that to English and posted it.

Maybe THAT'S what we can do to the constant barrage of "what's the name of the song that lisa plays while standing next to Homer in the hospital bed" posts.

don't be so literal!