Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Rednecks & Broomsticks" (LABF19)

12/6 - SPECIAL TIME IN THE EAST: 8:30 Eastern, 8:00 Pacific - Bart Gets a "Z" (LABF15) When Bart spikes Mrs. Krabappel's coffee (in retaliation for her taking away her students' cellphones), she ends up drunk, fired, and replaced with a "hip" teacher * Fox is airing the announcement of the BCS bowl game matchups at 8:00 Eastern (and 5:00 Pacific), so the episode airs at 8:30 Eastern, 7:30 Central, but at its normal time in the rest of the country

12/13 - O Brother, Where Bart Thou? (MABF01) When Lisa tells Bart that he'll never have the bond that she has with Maggie because he doesn't have a brother, he decides to solve the problem by going to the orphanage

STUFF for "Rednecks and Broomsticks" (LABF19) --------------------------------------------- Written by Kevin Curran Directed by Bob Anderson & Rob Oliver Opening flyby: a stork carrying Maggie Billboard: Grampa - Springfield Retirement Castle / Get Me Out Of Here! Blackboard: TEACHERS' UNIONS ARE NOT RUINING THE COUNTRY Couch: Marge serves a turkey at the dining room table; everyone, including Patty and Selma, grab food and then go into the living room to watch a football game on TV Special Guest Voice: Neve Campbell Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG-DV

REFERENCES ---------- "Bedknobs & Broomsticks" (title) "Wifey" (Chief Wiggum has a copy of the book) "The Crucible" (Principal Skinner mentions it) Wikipedia (Wiccapedia) "Bop It" ("Bonk It") "Bambi" (deer and rabbit on ice) "Bewitched" (someone has a "Bewitched Was a Terrible Movie" sign)

DYN ...Ned has "Nipple-Slip Hotline" on speed dial? ...nobody pointed out that nobody was blinded by the moonshine before the Wiccan "spell"?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT In the close-up of Homer stamping on the Bonk It, the brake pedal is missing.

There may have been an actual Wiccapedia site at one time, but apparently it has changed to something called Wizdem.

The US Government recognized Wicca as a religion, to the point where soldiers buried at Arlington National Cemetary may have the pentacle (a five-pointed star inscribed in a circle) inscribed on their tombstones.

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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:55:15 -0800, Don Del Grande wrote:

Also, Bart referred to a pentagram when he saw it on the Wiccapedia homepage, but I'm pretty sure that was a pentacle (star points downwards on a pentagram, up on a pentacle). I was surprised that line wasn't followed by Lisa correcting him.

-lugnut

lugnut wrote:

I have never heard that. I think a pentagram is just another word for a five-pointed star, while a pentacle has something circumscribing it (for example, a circle, or a pentagon), but I am not sure.

-- Don

"Don Del Grande" wrote in message news:[email]...

They're actually the same thing - neither has to be circumscribed to be called either pentram or pentacle. The main difference is that pentacles are tangible things like a talisman, where pentagrams could be just a drawing.