Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Blunder Years" (CABF21)

12/16 - She of Little Faith (DABF02)
    Richard Gere guest voices as himself as Mr. Burns turns the
    cash-strapped First Church of Springfield into a business,
    complete with selling advertising space on the podium and in
    the sermons, prompting Lisa to convert...to Buddhism

12/23 - Homer vs. Dignity (CABF04)
    While Smithers is away, a cash-needy Homer decides to take a
    second job - as Mr. Burns's "prank monkey"

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes ----------------------------------------------------------- 12/16 - A Fox NFL doubleheader day; stations in the Mountain and Pacific time zones will get "Mother's Day"

12/23 - SPECIAL TIME - DOUBLE FEATURE 9:00 - Xmas Story (2ACV04) He doesn't need lists - He doesn't think twice - And he won't care if you're naughty or nice - Santa Claus will kill you this year, if you're out after sundown on Christmas Eve...which is where Fry is, trying to do some last-minute Christmas shopping

9:30 - A Tale Of Two Santas (3ACV03) In the long-awaited-but-considered-too-violent-for-7:00 second Christmas episode, Fry, Leela, and Bender deliver Children's letters to Santa to his headquarters on Neptune, where they help the elves take over the factory, but they need a robot to deliver the toys, so Bender dresses up as Santa and makes his rounds...to an Earth that still treats Santa as evil

(Note that a "King of the Hill" repeat will air at 7:00)

STUFF for "The Blunder Years" (CABF21) -------------------------------------- Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham Directed by Steven Dean Moore Blackboard: I AM NOT CHARLIE BROWN ON ACID Couch: Everybody stops in mid-air as the camera pans "The Matrix"- style before they land on the couch (repeat of BABF17) Special Guest Voice: Joe Mantegna, Paul Newman Special Guest Singer: Judith Owen Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Rating: TV-PG Overseas Animation: Rough Draft; Chang, Myung Nam

REVIEW: B - I think I singled out the problem with this episode: not enough go, too much Moe. Every time Moe got involved, it seemed like another "rake scene". To make it worse, he droned on over the ending...

REFERENCES "The Wonder Years" (title) Pat Carroll, "the hip hypnotist" (Mesmerino's title) 7F06 (Homer jumping Springfield Gorge) "Stand By Me" (flashback to kids walking on railroad tracks) "Murder Most Foul" (what Lisa said)

"SO WHO'S ERNEST K. SMITHERS?" I don't know - I think somebody sent me a Fox press release listing this episode to air in November and that name was mentioned as the body, but presumably that was from an earlier script.

SELF-REFERENCE Bart has multiple copies of his red shirt and blue shorts

DYN ...the Simpson typewriter had a one-color ribbon? ...Barney sort of looked like a drunk again? ...Maggie was asleep in her high chair at the Pimento Grove? ...Mesmerino sounds like Carl? ...when Mesmerino told Homer to become Emily Dickinson, he became Angie Dickinson instead?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The story has the nuclear plant already built when Homer is 12, but in "The Way We Was", the plant either hadn't quite been finished yet or had just been completed when Homer was a senior in high school.

I think Moe "droning on" over the credits was hilarious. Great mini-spoof on murder mysteries.

Don Del Grande wrote:

What else was in the envelope after the shell that looks "like a helmet for a mouse"? That's when the credits here went split-screen.

=v= Since Waylon is an anagram ("wants him sorely"), it seems
that Ernest should be, too.  "Met stern shrieks"
comes to mind ...                                        .--.
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