3/21 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 8:00 - Co-Dependent's Day (FABF10) After Homer gets drunk at Oktoberfest (how was Marge supposed to know it wasn't just a German cultural event?), there's a drunk driving arrest and a trip to rehab...for Marge, who gets framed by Homer
8:30 - The Fat and the Furriest (EABF19) When Homer gets mauled by a bear at the city dump, he doesn't get mad, he doesn't get even, he gets his bear-hunting suit
STRANGE THOUGHT OF THE DAY: In the video game "Simpsons Hit & Run", you can run over pedestrians and smash into other cars without much of a problem...but in the last level, if you go through the shortcut near Evergreen Terrace (the one where you go straight from the Simpson house on the way to the Kwik-E-Mart), the writing on the walls says "NO TV MAKE HOMER GO CRAZY" - without mentioning "AND NO BEER".
STUFF for "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (FABF08)
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Written by Deb Lacusta & her husband whose name escapes me at the
moment - you know, he was in Cartoon Network's "Party Wagon", he
voiced Arnold's grandfather on "Hey Arnold!", oh, um, I remember -
Dan Castellaneta
Directed by Nancy Kruse
Blackboard: I WILL NOT SPECULATE ON HOW HOT TEACHER USED TO BE
Couch: The couch scene pans out until it reaches intergalactic space,
where the galaxies are replaced with atoms, which pans out
to Homer's head and then the couch scene again
Special Guest Voice: Jon Lovitz
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom
TV Rating: TV-PG-DLV (what, no S for Homer and Marge's bed scene?)REVIEW: B - the first act might have been better had I not already known what was making the noises in the Simpson house. This one turned into a rollercoaster; it got better when they got to Moe's, fell again with the whole "Homer is arrested" bit, and went up a bit with Artie and Selma, but the ending fizzled out when the whole squirting scene went on a little too long. (I was almost expecting the prisoners to thank Artie for helping them kick their smoking habit.)
REFERENCES
"The Wild Thornberrys" ("The Wild Dingleberries Movie")
"The Matrix" ("A Matrix Christmas")
"Peanuts" ("You're in the Matrix, Charlie Brown")
"From Justin to Kelly" ("From Justin to Kelly 4")
"The Passion of the Christ" ("The Fashion of the Christ")
"Finding Nemo" ("Eating Nemo")
"The Piano" ("The Piano Goes Hawaiian")
"Kojak" (mentioned by Homer and Marge in bed)
"Cannon" (mentioned by Homer and Marge in bed - say, did you know that
Cannon was played by the narrator of the Rocky & Bullwinkle TV
series cartoons?)
"Barnaby Jones" (mentioned by Homer and Marge in bed)
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (supreme court decision that
said schools had to be desegregated - "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Board
of Education")
7F18 (Prof. Lombardo is at Moe's)
8F18 (Llwellyn Sinclair is at Moe's)
8F04, 8F13 (the owner of the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant is at
Moe's)
2F31, "The Critic" (Jay Sherman is at Moe's; Artie makes the same
coughing noise Jay does)DYN ...there's no Wild Dingleberries version of "The Wild Thornberrys'" Darwin the chimpanzee? ..."The Wild Dingleberries Movie" has a running time of 47 minutes? (Most animated movies run under 80 minutes) ...Matt Selman registered "lisathemovie.com" 11 days before the episode first aired? ..."What Would Jesus View" is written by Michael Medved? ...Bart is actually afraid of a movie? ...Krusty is on a federal grand jury?
WHERE IS SPRINGFIELD THIS WEEK? ...based on the opening, Springfield is in the midwest USA this week?
LIST OF THE WEEK - The eight movies on the Springfield Googleplex marquee Return to Ape Valley The Fashion of the Christ Ghost Frat Eating Nemo