Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "I Am Furious Yellow"

5/3 - SPECIAL FRIDAY AIRING - The Bart Wants What it Wants
      (DABF06 - repeat)
    Reese Witherspoon guest voices as Ranier Wolfcastle's daughter,
    who has a crushon Bart, but by the time Bart tries to return his
    affections, she's got a new boy in her life - Milhouse - and in
    order to win her back, Bart has to go to the set of Ranier's
    latest movie - so "The Simpsons are going to Toronto!"

5/5 - The Sweetest Apu (DABF14)
    Homer discovers that father-of-eight Apu is having an affair
    (and, despite previous mentions at snpp.com's Upcoming Episodes
    site, apparently Kathie Lee Gifford does NOT voice "the other
    woman", unless it's uncredited)

5/12 - Little Girl in the Big Ten (DABF15)
    Robert Pinsky (who?) he's the former Poet Laureate of the USA
    (what?) anyway, he guest voices as himself as Lisa tries to
    pass herself off as a college student; Bart suffers a bite from
    a rare mosquito and has to live in a bubble

5/19 - DOUBLE FEATURE - NOTE SPECIAL TIMES (because of the final
       episode of "The X-Files" at 8:00)
7:00 - Brawl in the Family (DABF01 - repeat)
    When a game of Monopoly turns into a family brawl, a family
    counselor is assigned to the Simpsons...and just when things are
    back to normal, Homer gets a surprise visit - from his second
    wife (as seen in "Viva Ned Flanders")
7:30 - The Frying Game (DABF16)
    As part of his community service for threatening an endangered
    species, Homer has to take care of an elderly lady, and when she
    dies, he is accused of killing her and threatened with the
    electric chair

5/22 - SPECIAL WEDNESDAY AIRING - SEASON FINALE
       Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge (DABF17)
    Homer causes a citywide blackout, resulting in widespread
    looting - but when Lisa's saxophone is stolen, Homer takes the
    law into his own hands (say, whatever happened to the Springfield
    Cat Burglar, anyway?)

5/26 - Pre-empted in the east for the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600; in the west, to be announced

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes
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5/5 - PRE-EMPTED for a King of the Hill episode

5/12 - PRE-EMPTED for the hour-long King Of The Hill season finale

5/19 - PRE-EMPTED for a Simpsons episode (moved back an hour because of the two-hour final episode of "The X-Files")

5/26 - Pre-empted in the east for the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600; in the west, to be announced

STUFF for "I Am Furious Yellow" (DABF13)
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Written by John Swartzwelder
Directed by Chuck Sheetz
Blackboard: (none)
Couch: Homer is picked up by the head by a clamp as if he's a prize
       in a prize grabbing machine (repeat of DABF03)
Special Guest Voice: Stan Lee; Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden; Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
               Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
Rating: TV-PG-V

REVIEW: A-minus - okay, the start was a little slow, but when Bart started drawing the cartoons, it became "Not Quite 22 Short Films About Homer Simpson", allowing for the development of a number of gags.

REFERENCES TO REFERENCES The title is a reference to "I Am Curious (Yellow)" - in fact, the movie's title was just "I Am Curious", but there were two versions, the less explicit "Yellow" version and the more explicit "Blue" one; I assume the blue one was too explicit to be as popular as the yellow one.

A recent episode of "Futurama" also had a gag about worthless stock as toilet paper.

DYNs
...the animation speaker said "All I ever did (in school) was sit in
   class and doodle", something Matt Groening has more or less
   admitted to doing as well?
...Stan Lee puts an "X-Men" (Matrvel) comic in front of a "Superman"
   (DC) one?
...when Stan was moving the comic books around, he was humming the
   1960s "Spider-Man" theme?
...Comic Book Guy says that in Bizarro World, Stan Lee likes him,
   forgetting that Bizarro World is part of the "DC Universe"?
...Dolph has "dads"?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Maggie's hair ribbon turned from blue to red and back to blue again in the hospital.

Bart's drawings were in color, but he only had a pencil.

Why didn't the paint turn Homer's pants green?

As of April 28, 2002, the name "betterthantv.com" is owned by Gadgetworks LLC (although its website is www.gadgetworks.com)?

"I Am Curious Yellow" is an actual film. http://us.imdb.com/Details?0061834

So is "I Am Curious Blue"... http://us.imdb.com/Details?0063149

...and "I am Curious Tahiti"... http://us.imdb.com/Details?0189596

Peace, Vince Yim

In article , Vince Yim wrote:

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More to the point, they are two different films, not two versions of the same film. "I am Curious (Blue)" was a followup to "I am Curious (Yellow)" which had been released the previous year. The latter film was quite notorious for its and sex -- primarily because U.S. Customs banned the import of the film into the country. People went to see it for the sex and discovered that it was in fact mostly about Swedish politics. Since most people (including, as far as I can tell, most Swedes) couldn't care less about Swedish politics, even the promise of naked Swedish women wasn't enough to entice them to see the sequel.

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- "A condemned man does not request egg salad for his last meal. He also doesn't order Alka-Seltzer." Kehlog Ahlbran, _The Profit_

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 [email] wrote:

Ahem.. Swede within earshot..

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Then I take it that you were one of the millions of Swedes who flocked to see "I Am Curious (Yellow)" for its biting political message?

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- We shall see shortly that the Archaic period also offers evidence of another transgression altogether, one involving Tantalos, Pandareos, and a dog, but that seems to be a separate story with its own resolution. . . (Gantz, _Early Greek Myth_)

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 [email] wrote:

Are you kidding? I wasn't even born back then. My point is that your statement was bold (can you back up your claims? Sounds to me like you're making an assumption) and that a Swede might be offended by what you said (I was not, though).

In article , Kristian Ronge wrote:

I keep forgetting about that famous Swedish sense of humor. Not. (FWIW, I think that Abisko National Park is a really nice place, if that makes you feel any better.)

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 [email] wrote:

Hey, it worked! Thanks! :-) (But unless I can come up with some really wierd Simpsons reference to Abisko National Park in some episode, this is getting too OT..)

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Well, there's the one episode where they end up in that reindeer farm. . .

----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening

In article , Don Del Grande wrote:

actually, Stan Lee has been working for DC in the last year or so, he's been doing some special comics in which he does his take on the heroes of the DC Universe.

Now I wonder if "She-Hulk Vs. Leon Spinks" was the beginning of the end for Smilin' Stan at Marvel :)

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:37:31 -0700, Don Del Grande wrote:

Hmm, when does that episode with Blink 182 happen?

TTYL

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, AcK! wrote:

Read my "spoiler" post.

I thought Ack! was joking...

Oh, why couldn't this be a joke?!?!??!?

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Jason Saslow wrote:

I thought so at first too. I deeply sympathize.

On Wed, 1 May 2002 00:33:53 +0200, Kristian Ronge wrote:

Local pop-rock station DJ mentioned it... well at least it's not another boyband, but rather a punk-ish band with boys. ;)

TTYL