4/30 - DOUBLE FEATURE 7:00 - Homer's Paternity Coot (HABF03) A mailman lost for 40 years is found (thanks in part to Marge's refusal to use a new toll road), along with his 40-year-old bag of unopened mail, including a letter to Homer's mother which leads him to believe that Grampa may not be his real father 8:00 - Girls Just Want to Have Sums (HABF12) Frances McDormand guest voices as Springfield Elementary's new principal when Skinner is fired (after a sexist remark made at a performance of "Itchy & Scratchy: The Musical" STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MUSICAL NUMBERS...where was I? Oh, right, anyway, the new principal replaces Springfield Elementary with boys-only and girls- only schools, but when Lisa realizes that the girls aren't really being taught anything, especially in math, she gets Bart to help her masquerade as a boy so she can attend the boys' school.
5/7 - DOUBLE FEATURE 7:00 - We're on the Road to D'ohwhere (HABF04) After a prank involving the school's steam tunnels, Bart gets sent to a camp in Oregon, but thanks to Bart being on the no-fly list, Homer has to drive him there; the big seller at Marge's yard sale is the family supply of expired medications 8:00 - Regarding Margie (HABF13) When Stan wipes out most of Francine's memory, he tries recreating events from her past in order to...no, wait, that was an "American Dad" episode... When Marge loses most of her memory as a result of inhaling too many cleaning product fumes while spring cleaning, she forgets that she's married to Homer, even after Homer's attempts to get her to remember anything familiar...what, are they that starved for ideas that they're reworking "American Dad" episodes now?
- 5/14 episode information should be available on Monday
STUFF for "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
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Written by Jeff Westbrook
Directed by Mike B. Anderson
Blackboard: (none)
Couch: A pair of animated hands finishes a jigsaw puzzle with Homer's
and Maggie's heads switched, then fixes it (repeat of GABF10)
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom
TV Rating: TV-PG-LREFERENCES "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (title) "The Posiedon Adventure" (Homer's story) 9F03, "The Godfather" (someone says "Now who's being naive?") "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" (the current Las Vegas tourism slogan, used in Tahiti) "The Morning After" (Lisa's song uses the same music) "Earthquake", "The Towering Inferno", "The China Syndrome", "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (references in Burns's speech)
REVIEW: B - I don't know why, but for some reason, there doesn't seem to be much story buildup in the anthologies lately; it's more "get from point A to point B", although since that's pretty much how the entire movie "The Posiedon Adventure" went, it's hard to do it another way.
DYN ...the commercials for this episode mentioned the title? ...either Marge has been cured of her seafood allergy, or there's a new "landlubbers" menu at the Frying Dutchman? ...Database had a peg-leg? ...the "navy recruiting brochure" said "British Navy" instead of "Royal Navy"? ...the ship in Homer's story was the Neptune, which is the name of the Roman god whose Greek equivalent is Posiedon? ...Mr. Burns mentions earthquakes, towering infernos, and China syndromes, all movies made after "The Posiedon Adventure"? ...the song Lisa sang used the music to "The Morning After" (the Academy Award-winning song from "The Posiedon Adventure")?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Witches weren't burned in England, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" notwithstanding; usually, they were hanged from trees.
The Union Jacks that the Mayflower and Bounty were flying included the (red diagonal) Cross of St. Patrick, which wasn't added until 1801.
The giant head statues are on Easter Island, not Tahiti.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 Well, with Lisa being a stickler for historical accuracy, you would expect the Mayflower story to be a little more accurate