12/5 - The Fight Before Christmas (MABF22) Marge gets help getting the others into the Christmas spirit - from Martha Clause (guest voice Martha Stewart); Katy Perry and Simpsons puppets appear in a live-action sequence
12/12 - DOUBLE FEATURE ---------------------- 7:30 - O Brother, Where Bart Thou? (MABF01) When Lisa tells Bart he'll never have the bond she has with Maggie as he doesn't have a brother, and his attempts to get Homer and Marge to fix the problem fail, he tries getting a brother from the orphanage...which works a little too well for everybody's liking * O Brother, Where Bart Thou? is the last Season 21 episode to have a third airing on Fox
8:00 - Donnie Fatso (MABF19) Homer is arrested on New Year's Eve and sent to prison, where he cuts a deal to have his sentence reduced in exchange for getting some information on Fat Tony, only for Fat Tony's cousin "Fit" Tony to take exception
STUFF for "How Munched is that Birdie in the Window?" (NABF02) -------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Kevin Curran Directed by Michael Polcino Special Guest Voice: Danica Patrick, Marcia Wallace, Rachel Weisz Also Starring: Gregg Berger, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor Billboard: (Apu, in a Santa hat) SPRINGFIELD KWIK-E-MART / Thoughtless Gifts for People You Don't Like Blackboard: "A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING" IS AS GOOD AS "A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS" Couch: Professor Frink is sitting on the couch, and he shrinks the others, who end up sitting on a block of cheese, which is on a mousetrap
There's a "real" phone number on the pigeon's leg, although the first digit can be 3, 5, 6, or 8.
Bart says he knows nothing about raising birds, but he has raised bird eggs.
When Bart left the pigeon alone, why didn't it fly back to its original owner - or to Bart's house, for that matter?
The song with the typewriter in it is, appropriately enough, "The Typewriter Song" by Leroy Anderson.
"Taps" really does have lyrics.
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