Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" (HABF06)

3/19 - Bart Has Two Mommies (HABF07) ...specifically, Marge, who is busy watching the Flanders brothers (in exchange for a computer Ned won but won't use) while Ned is away at a left-handers convention, and Homer, who has to watch Bart and Lisa while Marge is watching Rod and Todd - and ends up watching Bart get himself held hostage by a monkey at an animal retirement home

3/26 - Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife (HABF08) Ricky Gervais (of the BBC version of "The Office") not only wrote this episode, he guest voices as a man who trades wives with Homer after Homer wins a trip to Fox Studios (in a contest he entered to win a plasma TV after seeing Lenny's new one) and joins a new Fox reality series

4/2 - Million Dollar Abie (HABF09) When Grampa causes the NFL to change its mind about putting a new team in Springfield, the stadium built for it is changed to a bullring, and a botched suicide attempt gives Grampa a new lease on life, which he decides to live to the fullest - starting with fighting a bull.

STUFF for "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" (HABF06)
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Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham
Directed by Raymond Persi
Blackboard: none
Couch: The couch enters on a conveyor belt; Homer is added by a
       mechanical clamp
Special Guest Voices: Maurice LaMarche, Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
               Karl Wiedergott
Additional Vocals By Michael Dees (the vocalist on "Fly Me to the
    Moon", most likely)
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
TV rating: TV-14-DL (the only reason I can think of: the "Munch My
    Butt" message Bart sprayed on the wall)

REVIEW: B-plus - usually, I really like the "many-story" episodes, but this one's stories were just so outrageous in terms of established characters and continuity that I couldn't really get into it. It would have been better had it turned out that Bart really did make all of it up...

REFERENCES "The Never-Ending Story" (title) Carlsbad Caverns ("Carl's Dad Caverns") "Wooly Bully" (Burns called the ram one) "Panic Room" (Burns had one) "Commander McBragg" (member of the Excluders Club) Monopoly (Rich Uncle Pennybags was a member of the Excluders Club) 7F09 (Beethoven's 6th Symphony played) 1F04 (Maggie waves at a bat) BABF10 (Frank "Grimey" Grimes's tombstone appears)

DYN
...Lisa doesn't say anything to Homer before he tries to remove a
   piece of the stalactite?
...Mr. Burns's attic looks a lot like Homer's?
...Burns claims to have been born in Pangea (the single land mass that
   eventually split into the continents)?
...Burns forgot that he made money from oil in "Who Shot Mr. Burns,
   Part 1"?
...the Excluders Club included Kent Brockman, the owner of the
   Shelbyville power plant, Ranier Wolfcastle, Commander McBragg, and
   Rich Uncle Pennybags (aka Mr. Monopoly)?
...apparently, they couldn't get Frank Welker to voice the ram, as
   Maurice LaMarche is credited instead?
...one of the items Burns had was Frank Grimes's tombstone?
...apparently, Snake's last name is Jailbird?
...Maggie waves at the bats?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT How did Lisa get onto the Burns Manor grounds?

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Don Del Grande wrote:

Is it necessarily implied that he didn't make any of it up? Surely he could have embellished a great deal of it, but I guess there is at least some amount of truth to Moe/Edna and the gold coin story (without, for example, the "Professor Jailbird" backstory being real).

I hope I'm not getting into another FABF04-Snowball-type debate, though...

Point of clarification: Maurice LaMarche voiced Commander McBragg. - ML

Don Del Grande wrote: (snip)

In article , [email] wrote:

if this is really you, Mr. LaMarche, I really, really admire your work. :)

It is me, and thank you. ML

Daniel Dreibelbis wrote:

Seconded. YheESS!

[email] wrote:

Quite.

My bad; for some reason, I thought MLM voiced Furious D in "Saddlesore Galactica" (I may have been confused with Jim Cummings, although the SNPP capsule doesn't credit anybody as the horse), and I seem to recall he voiced Abner the pig in at least one episode of "Hey Arnold!", so I assumed he did the animal voices when Frank Welker doesn't.

-- Don

Don Del Grande schrieb:

As he is credited as "KARL WIEDERGOTT LOVES... THE SUPER FURRY ANIMALS" in THOH XVI, maybe he provides the voices of most of the animals now.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the ram "Mr. Bighorn Sheep" was Dan Castellaneta.

On the other hand, I'm almost never positive if Karl Wiedergott does *any* of the roles I give him credit for. His voice is kind of a mystery to me...

Tobias

Don't know if it counts but during the Mexican Stand-off at the end Maggie can be seen making a gun with her fingers and pointing it around.. refrenceing her shooting of Burns and Driving off the Mob..