Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" (JABF08)

3/18 - The Wife Aquatic (JABF03) Homer takes Marge to the bayside village where she used to vacation as a child, only to discover that the boardwalk is dilapidated, and when he pretty much destroys what's left of it trying to repair the town's carousel, he has to work it off on a fishing boat

3/25 - Homerazzi (JABF06) Homer becomes a celebrity photographer after he snaps a scandalous photo in an attempt to recreate the photos destroyed when the safe Marge bought to keep her family album from burning in yet another Simpson house fire exploded

4/1 - The Simpsons Movie, Part 1 (JABF31) (You didn't really think it was going to be a movie, did you?) When Homer contaminates the town's water supply by driving a pig into it, the town turns against...April Fool! 4/1 - Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times (JABF05) The family tell tales of revenge gone bad in an attempt to keep Homer from going after someone who cut him off on the road: in pre-revolutionary France, Moe frames Homer for treason; Milhouse uses a glove meant to punish bullies for his own vendettas; Gotham City's young Bart Simpson becomes Bartman in order to find his parents' killer

STUFF for "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" (JABF08) ----------------------------------------- Written by Daniel Chun Directed by Nancy Kruse Special Guest Voice: Jane Kaczmarek Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Blackboard: none Couch: a Simpsons version of the "Bonanza" opening (repeat of HABF04) Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG

REVIEW: B-minus - this episode managed to go nowhere in two different directions. I think they've finally run out of people for Selma to marry, and the bit about the fort was a long one-joke wonder. Ironically, considering how many times recently the show's ending pretty much killed it, this ending brought the show up.

REFERENCES "Romeo & Juliet" (title) "The Flintstones" (Homer "Flintstoning" the car) "Foul Play" (theme of pinball machine) "The Simpsons" (Data East), "The Simpsons Pinball Party" (Stern) pinball machines (Bart plays pinball) 8F20 (Selma's wedding to Sideshow Bob mentioned) 3F15 (Selma's wedding to Troy McClure mentioned) 3F20 (Selma's wedding to Lionel Hutz mentioned) AABF04 (Grampa mentions he only has one kidney) GABF04 (Selma's wedding to Disco Stu mentioned) HABF20 (Triangle Wars video game)

DYN
...Marge claims that TotalPoker.com is "instructional"?
   (TotalPoker.net, perhaps, but pretty much all .com Poker sites have
   actual betting, which is why only .net sites advertise)
...all of Grampa's samples in the refrigerator are labeled "Grampa"?
...Ling clapped when Maggie knocked down the two piles of blocks?
...speaking of Ling and Maggie, when Grampa and Selma got married,
   that made Ling Maggie's (and Lisa's and Bart's) aunt as well as her
   cousin?
...Selma was wearing lipstick at the beach?
...Selma has been married to Sideshow Bob, Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure,
   Disco Stu, and a second Bob?
...Troy McClure has been mentioned for the first time since Phil
   Hartman's death?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Homer says he has three subscriptions to Vanity Fair because he has three bathrooms, but the house only has two.

Add "you shouldn't throw uncooked rice at weddings because birds eat it and it causes their stomachs to explode when it expands" to the list of scientific mistakes Lisa has made (in addition to "the handle of the Big Dipper points to the North Star" in 7G09 and "the coriolis force causes sinks and toilets in the northern hemisphere to swirl counter-clockwise" in 2F13).

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 What do you mean April Fool? It's only March 11

Are you saying that Springfield is in Arkansas? Now they are almost as intermarried as the Spucklers.

Thank you. The force acts in the other direction, but it is too small to be seen except in carefully controlled experiments.

Mr. Museum

Wait a second. The birds did explode, so Lisa was right. I don't think it counts as a mistake on Lisa's part when she gets something right in the Simpson's Universe that would not be right in Our Universe.

Tim Smith wrote:

The Simpsons Universe must have another one up on us, since the urban legend specifies that the birds have to drink water first, not just eat the rice.

Don Del Grande wrote:

It's been a little while since I've seen GABF04 (or was it 06 when Stu was mentioned?), but I also don't remember Selma's previous husbands being named during Sunday's episode. Where was that?

Matt Garvey wrote:

It was on the banner outside wherever it was that the wedding was held: "CONGRATULATIONS SELMA AND BOB (crossed out) LIONEL (crossed out) TROY (crossed out) STU (crossed out) BOB (crossed out) ABE".

-- Don