‘Simpsons’ Irish Episode Airing 17 March - in the UK

Mar 13, 2009, 11:23 AM ET5 posts by 5 posters
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R Flowers

And maybe in the EU, too, some articles imply that.

http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4281965&tpl=archnews

I'm not mad - just as long as they broadcast their Independence Day show here in the USA before those across the pond get to see it.

-- R Flowers

Don Del GrandeR Flowers

R Flowers wrote:

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but it's supposed to be in the UK on 3/17 as well. (Is Sky available in mainland Europe?)

No...you're not mad.

No...you're not mad.

No...you're not mad.

R Bouvier kept writing:

What, no crack about "airing the Halloween Special before Halloween"?

-- Don
Paul HyettR Flowers

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 at 08:23:53, R Flowers wrote in alt.tv.simpsons :

So we'll be able to spoiler you, for a change... :p

Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett
It's MePaul Hyett

Excellent!

Whenever they travel to a foreign country (Japan, China, Brazil, Africa, England) now Ireland, it's always a great episode.

Oh, and Australia.

weary flakeR Flowers

R Flowers wrote:

The Simpsons Irish Episode was in season eight, when Prohibition was enforced and repealed by layers of parchment dust.

"What are you looking at"

"What are you looking at"

But this new episode takes place in Ireland, and again perpetrates the stereotype that the Irish drink. Yet Ireland led the wonderful Father Mathew's temperance movement and Ireland has always been known for freedom from alcohol and still is (if you look hard enough). Here I watch a children's television show to be educated about world cultures, and what do I get? Tired stereotypes. Maybe I'm wrong, and the new episode is really about the glorious Temperance Movement; I can't see it yet, I'm not in Ireland.

"What are you looking at"