Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Half-Decent Proposal" (DABF04)

2/17 - DOUBLE FEATURE
8:00 - The Bart Wants What it Wants (DABF06)
    "The Simpsons are going to Toronto!" so Bart can follow Ranier
    Wolfcastle's daughter (voiced by Reese Witherspoon), who he's in
    love with, but she only has eyes for Milhouse
9:00 - Brawl in the Family (DABF01 - repeat)
    Just when Homer's life returns to something resembling normal
    after a game of Monopoly causes a simmering Simpson house to come
    to a boil, he gets twice the family he had when his second wife
    (from "Viva Ned Flanders") shows up

2/24 - TRIPLE CHOCOLATE!!! - er, TRIPLE FEATURE
7:00 - A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love (CABF18 - repeat)
    Julia Louis-Dreyfuss guest voices as the new love in Mr. Burns'
    life, something that is not particularly pleasing to her
    ex-boyfriend - Snake
8:00 - The Lastest Gun in the West (DABF07 - note correction in title)
    Dennis Weaver guest voices as an aging movie cowboy Bart and Lisa
    try to help regain some of his former glory by getting him on the
    Krusty the Clown Show
9:00 - The Blunder Years (CABF21 - repeat)
    Homer is hypnotized and goes back to his childhood, where he
    recalls an incident involving discovering a dead body which may
    unravel a 25-year-old unsolved murder

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes
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2/17 - Leela's Homeworld (4ACV02)
    Thanks to Bender's toxic waste dumping, he, Fry, and Leela are
    captured by underground mutants - but there's somebody else
    watching Leela's back

2/24 - PRE-EMPTED...for a Simpsons repeat ("maybe they don't want to
       waste a Futurama episode against the closing ceremonies of the
       Winter Olympics"...trouble is, the closing ceremonies don't
       start until 8:00)

STUFF for "Half Decent Proposal" (DABF04) ----------------------------------------- Written by Tim Long Directed by Lauren Macmullan Blackboard: I WILL NOT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS ME BUTTERFINGERS Couch: Two "Repo Depot" men take the couch away Special Guest Voice: Jon Lovitz, Marcia Wallace Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom Rating: TV-PG-LV

REVIEW: B - well, it felt like a B-plus, but that was after one of the better episodes of "Futurama" (even if it did have one of those "looks like Fry and/or Leela are going to die again" plots). Just take one of the "average episode" reviews from previous capsules and stick it in here.

REFERENCES
"Indecent Proposal" (title; rich man offers a couple $1,000,000 if the
                     wife will spend time with him)
7F12 (Marge's prom)
9F16 (Artie Ziff offers $1,000,000 to be with Marge)
9F09 (Homer has a facial seizure)
3F17 (Bart drives the car)
BABF02 (Homer's 300 game mentioned)
BABF07 (Funzo appears)
DABF03 (the blackboard opening appears to be a response to the "even
        the fire doesn't want them" joke)
"Star Wars" (Jar Jar / posters of Mark Hamill)
"The Three Stooges" (Homer's "ebebebebebe" while snoring)
"Sex & the City" ("Nookie in New York")
"Arli$", HBO (Arliss is on "BHO")
"M*A*S*H" (the message on the ground read from the helicopter)
"James at 16"
"The Partridge Family" (Skinner dresses like Keith Partridge)
"Taxi" (an "innocent kiss" turns into a make-out)

COMMENTS "James at 16" (about a boy who moves from the suburbs to downtown Boston, if I remember correctly) is one of very few shows to change its title in the middle of its run - it started out as "James at 15" (in fact, the "16" episodes have the "James at 15" title, with the 15 then crossed out and 16 drawn in).

DYN ...Comic Book Guy has two autographed pictures of Mark Hamill? ..."Arli$" is now on "BHO"? ...Patty and Selma's computer has a "Send" button? ...at the "prom", Principal Skinner is dressed like Keith Partridge of "The Partridge Family" in his "performing" suit? ...Homer and Lenny ride the "Suck-U-Bus" (succubus) bus line? MAGGIE ALERT ...there's a Maggie fall, when she runs out to the helicopter? ...Maggie reaches for Lisa's "pancakes"?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Lisa and Milhouse don't seem to have any effect on the car when they push down on the accelerator and brake.

The helicopter blows the flames away when it first arrives, but then it seems to have no effect.

When Homer wrote "Do It For Free" on the card, you couldn't see what Dr. Hibbert had written on it, yet Homer wrote it on the same side of the card.

Isn't krusty retired?

Drunk and full of pie, [email] wrote:

*sighs*

[email] wrote:

For the fifth and final time.