Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF (with lyrics) for "Yokel Chords" (JABF09)

3/11 - Rome-Old and Juli-Eh (JABF08) Grampa falls in love...with Selma; Bart and Lisa con a delivery man out of cardboard boxes (which can be very profitable - just ask anyone who's moving how much they would pay for them)

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

Note that 4/1 will be just the third April Fool's day where the show has aired (the first two were the first Clip Show (which, of course, was an April Fool's Day episode) in 1993 and the first airing of "Simpson Safari" in 2001. (4/1/1990 was a Sunday as well, and the show had not moved to Thursdays yet, but the show was pre-empted that week for an episode of "America's Most Wanted".)

STUFF for "Yokel Chords" (JABF09) --------------------------------- Written by Michael Price Directed by Susie Dietter Songs: "Oh, How Do We?", "Movitate Them", "Cultural Things Experience", "Moonshine Drinkers" music by Alf Clausen, lyrics by Michael Price "The Ballad of Buzz Cola" music by Stephen Sondheim, lyrics by Michael Price Special Guest Voice: Peter Bogdanovich, Andy Dick, James Patterson, Meg Ryan, Stephen Sondheim, Marcia Wallace Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott Blackboard: none Couch: everyone is in a vending machine: Ralph buys a Homer and bites the head off (repeat of HABF20) Overseas Animation: Akom TV Rating: TV-PG

REVIEW: B - there were some pretty good stories, and the Dark Stanley animation was well crafted, but both of the storylines seemed to peter out without going anywhere. "The kids are going on tour!" "No, they're not!" "Honeymooners ending!" "Roll credits."

REFERENCES "The Sound of Music" (songs) "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (Appalachian Dumpling Gang) Smashing Pumpkins (Smashing Bumpkins) Blue-Collar Comedy Tour (No-Collar Comedy Tour) "The Honeymooners" ("Baby, you're the greatest" and moon ending) 4F08 (Cletus's kids have names) 7F06 (a Simpson falls down the side of a cliff)

DYN
...the story doesn't end the way "The Sound of Music" does?
...Marge is reading a "real" book (James Patterson's "Kiss the
   Girls")?
...Marcia Wallace's only "line" is a noise Mrs. Krabappel makes while
   falling out of a window?
...when Skinner sings about the "gift card from The Gap", all it says
   is "$5 Gift Card"?
...Gary Chalmers played an attorney in the first "American Kickboxer"
   movie?
...Lisa writes for the Daily Fourth Gradian?
...there's a petanque court in downtown Springfield?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The names of the kids don't match the names from 4F08. Here, they're Whitney, Jitney, W, Incest, Crystal Meth, International Harvester, and Birthday; back then, they were Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sacha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, and Phil.

Krusty is reading the Financial Times - but the FT isn't printed on white paper.

Lisa's song about culture mentions "Bunuel retrospectives"; Luis Bunuel wrote, among other films, "Un chien andalou", which was the name Jay Sherman gave to a stray dog in an episode of "The Critic".

LYRICS ------ OH, HOW DO WE? How do we gag a blabbermouth like Lisa? How do we crush her First Amendment rights? How do we stop her writing up what she saw? Would she shut her trap for a gift card from The Gap? She might! Oh, how do we stop a royal pain like Lisa? How do we make Miss Righteous less uptight?

MOTIVATE THEM (that's the only title remaining in the credits; I have a feeling part of the song was cut) The hillbilly tykes will become my tutees - Wha - Oh - Wha - Oh - Ow!

CULTURAL THINGS EXPERIENCE Mistos and Lattes and Grandes and Ventis Browsing at bookstores with fat cognoscentis Books about Dali, Degas, and Miro Those are the folks that you yokels should know Pretentious laughs at Bunuel retrospectives Outsider art made by mental defectives Enjoying opry that aint grand or ol' Comparing Jim Carrey to Dario Fo (Your minds are opening! Take it home!) Eating Tapas - Freestyle Rappas Mrs. Skinner is Mame We finally experience cultural things And now they don't seem...so lame

MOONSHINE DRINKERS I have eight teeth, goin' on seven teeth I have a curvy spine We live on landfill And feast on roadkill While we all drink moonshine You're better than us!

THE BALLAD OF BUZZ COLA President or Ayatollah Everyone loves new Buzz Cola ...with lemon!

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 Give Sondheim an Emmy - and I'll have a Buzz Cola with Lemon

On Mar 4, 9:17 pm, Don Del Grande wrote:

Cletus' red-headed girl with the wayward braids has one long braid and one short-trimmed braid (I've forgotten which scene).

Plus, at least two-thirds of them seem to have vanished (of course, chances are that Cletus and Brandine never figured out addition back when dey was in dat dere one-room schoolyhouse). Shades of Uter! I was surprised they omitted Condoleezza Marie.

Stanley D Group, the crazed school cook.

"Stanley, Stanley, no degree" "Two credits short at MIT"

The soup "needs more girl", but in http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3G01.html, the Red Tick beer "needs more dog", and in http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF13, Soylent Green cereal is "now with more girls".

Why didn't Bart just eat the spaghetti instead of using it to scare the kids?

Supernintendo Chalmers' first name is Gary.

Willy brings the children back to school via several cliches about rounding up cattle and flushing out prairie dogs that must be from some Western movie.

Cletus drinks Thompsons Water Seal.

Snake and Apu are in therapy also, and they describe their criminal victim relationship is a way that would make you think that they were a husband and wife talking about a dysfunctional sexual relationship.

Normally Cletus has about 15 kids, but the Sound of Music only had 7 kids, so only 7 kids are shown. The SOM had 2 boys and 5 girls. The Sound of Music kids from the Spuckler family consist of 3 boys and four girls.

The pigtailed girl lost one of her pigtails to the chain saw wielding street entertainer, but it grows back by the end of the episode.

Mr. Museum