Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (HABF18)

9/24 - Please Homer Don't Hammer 'Em (HABF20) Nobody trusts a couple of kids - er, a woman, - to write for television - er, to do carpentry repairs - so Bart and Lisa get Grampa - er, Marge gets Homer - to front for them while they do - er, front for her while she does - all the work; Bart discovers that Principal Skinner is allergic to peanuts (Once again, from 7 to 8, the east gets the end of that day's NFL coverage plus the post-game show. while the west gets a Nanny 911 repeat from two seasons ago)

10/1 - DOUBLE FEATURE 7:00 - The Wettest Stories Ever Told (HABF11) While waiting for a reluctant octopus to let the Frying Dutchman cooks make dinner, the Simpsons regail us with tales of famous ships: the Mayflower (Lisa), the Bounty (Bart), and a certain fictional ship named for a god of the sea that flips over but isn't the Posiedon (Homer) * NOTE: Some cities in the Eastern and Central time zones (for example, Detroit - and if the Rams sell out, St. Louis again) will get this episode in progress (the map will be at GribbleNation sometime during the week before the episode airs - look under week 4 on Fox) 8:00 - Bart Has Two Mommies (HABF07) ...Marge, and a monkey at a museum for retired TV animals who misses her son (Mr. Teeny) and finds Bart as an acceptable substitute

10/8 - PRE-EMPTED for a baseball division series game

10/15 - PRE-EMPTED for a baseball League Championship Series game (I think AL Game 4 and NL Game 5 are that day)

10/22 - PRE-EMPTED for baseball World Series game 2

10/29 - if the World Series goes seven games (or game six is rained out), a World Series game airs; otherwise, a repeat (to be announced) airs

11/5 - Treehouse of Horror XVII (HABF17) Homer as "The Blob"; Kang and Kodos invade Springfield in the late 1930s, but it is right after the famous "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, and nobody is buying it; (third story to be announced)

11/12 - G.I. <D'oh> (HABF21) Homer has to enlist in the Army to get Bart out of a deal he made with an Army recruiter

5/20 (possibly) - 24 Minutes According to a press release, the 400th episode will have Jack Bauer and Chloe from "24" (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub) in it (note Fox could be using some of its "creative accounting" to air this before what should be the real 400th episode, especially as (a) the season finale of "24" probably airs the previous Monday and (b) the last episode of the season could be some sort of lead-in to the movie)

STUFF for "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (HABF18) -------------------------------------------- Written by Daniel Chun Directed by Steven Dean Moore Blackboard: none Couch: "King Homer" grabs Marge from the couch and climbs a building Special Guest Voice: Jack White, Meg White Also Starring: Larina Jean Adamson, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG-L

REVIEW: A-minus - the "music video" scene made this episode rise above the "ho hum, yet another go-through-the-motions" episodes of late.

REFERENCES "Josie and the Pussycats" (title) Seigfried & Roy (Bart, like Roy Horn, was mauled by a tiger) 9F04 ("King Homer" appears) 1F08 (Gunther & Ernst were also mauled by a tiger; they also appear at the funeral) AABF06 (Homer's Vegas wife is mentioned)

DYN
...Homer's Vegas wife's name was Amber PaiGow Simpson?
...when Homer and Marge tell Bart about the Jazz site, Bart's alarm
   clock says 3:00?
...Bart's Jazz group includes Data on string bass, Uter on trumpet,
   and Martin on piano?  (That's now five instruments for Martin)
...Lisa didn't care that the jazz musicians knew who she was?
...the Simpsons' attic is strong enough to hold an elephant?
...the tiger that mauled Bart was an orange one, even though "The
   White Stripes" guest starred and Gunther & Ernst, which were mauled
   by a white tiger, also appeared?
...the Springfield General Hospital sign now has a message area, like
   the First Church of Springfield sign?
...at the benefit, the soprano saxophone sounded like a clarinet?
...the performers included Richard Sakai and The Chubb Group?
...Bart didn't ask Lisa to perform at the end of the benefit?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Laser pens don't leave impressions on faces, the way Bart's did on Reverend Lovejoy.

When the musicians pointed out the chair to Lisa, it was right next to the stage and alone, but when Lisa was sitting in it, it was next to a table, and there were tables in front of it.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 But Bart knew what jazz was in "Do the Bartman"...

I wonder if this was a subtle but intentional pun: having Database on... bass.

I thought this was some attempt to animate persistence of vision.

If you swirl a laser point around, you'd see the circle while it swirls. They weren't accurate with how they were doing it, but I wondered if that was the effect they were uh referencing.