Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09)

4/9 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore (HABF10) Mr. Burns decides to replace Springfield Nuclear Power Plant with a plant in India, and he sends Homer there to train the new employees, but Homer lets his new authority get to his head; Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson (who voices himself), but have to devise a scheme worthy of MacGyver himself in order to get him to leave

4/16 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas (GABF22) When Marge is snubbed by her friends after an incident at the Mayor's Easter egg hunt (involving Homer and a man in a bunny costume), she makes friends with the Cheery Red Tomatoes, a group of older women who spend their time doing things like skydiving, talking about their husbands...oh, and did I mention stealing from Mr. Burns?; Lisa needs to learn Italian to qualify for a summer program in Italy, so she hires a tutor - unaware that it's Milhouse

4/23 - The Wettest Stories Ever Told (HABF11) Another anthology show, this time with a nautical theme; Lisa's version of the Mayflower, Bart with mutiny in Tahiti, and Homer on capsizing cruise ships

STUFF for "Million Dollar Abie" (HABF09)
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Written by Tim Long
Directed by Steven Dean Moore
Blackboard: I WILL NOT FLIP THE CLASSROOM UPSIDE DOWN (while the
            classroom was flipped upside-down)
Couch: Everybody sits, then the TiVo "Delete this recording now"
       message appears, and then the screen goes black (repeat of
       GABF19)
Special Guest Voice: Rob Reiner
Also Starring: Michael Carrington, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille,
               Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom
TV rating: TV-PG

REVIEW: C-plus - this was three mini-episodes that weren't very good by themselves, and didn't go anywhere when put together.

REFERENCES "Million Dollar Baby" (title) the "flying lawn chair" man (Lisa and Grampa at the end) 5F09 (Springfield takes in other cities' trash)

DYN
...technically, the classroom was not "flipped" upside-down, but was
   rotated 180 degrees?
...Maggie gets subtitles - and she didn't call Homer either "Homer"
   or "Daddy", but "bald Mommy"?
...in Homer's stadium model, there is a model of Homer vomiting into
   a metal trashcan?
...the term "NFL" is never used - it is always "pro football"?
...Patty and Selma are in the audience at the ceremony, but Ling is
   not?
...presumably, Chief Wiggum's wife's maiden name is Kinicki (as that
   is his brother-in-law's last name)?  (Then again, if they're
   half-siblings, that may not be accurate)
...Grampa was "awarded the tail" for his kill?
...there was no mention of the Springfield Atoms football team?
...go to www.foxmovies.com for information on "The Simpsons Movie"
   as it develops?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT While bulls are color blind, so the fact that Gil's suit was red would not have "attracted" them, he was waving it, and bulls do tend to go after pretty much anything that moves.

The scene at the end with the lawn chairs is a reference to Larry Walters, who, in Los Angeles on July 2, 1982, tied a number of helium- filled weather balloons to a lawn chair, and managed to reach an altitude of 16,000 feet (just under 5 km) before puncturing the balloons by firing at them with a BB gun and landing...well, sort of; he got caught in some lines and dangled for a while.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 I hope nobody wasted their time getting a bootleg copy of the Simpsons Movie trailer from "Ice Age 2"...

Whaaa .... ??? I rented "Ice Station Zebra", watched the whole thing, and there was no Simpsons movie trailer anywhere to be found!

L¢vix Xpac3 Mvx3vm

STARRING
* Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Hans Moleman, Rich Texan, Sideshow Mel,
     Mayor Quimby, Abe Simpson)
* Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson)
* Nancy Cartwright (Nelson Muntz, Bart Simpson, Maggie Simpson, children
     singing, Kearney [mini])
* Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
* Hank Azaria (Jock Center host #1 (1), laughing toy, Commission President
     Bud Armstrong, Carl Carlson, Snake, Chief Clancy Wiggum, Old Jewish
     Man, Dr. Egoyan aka Manfred Manslaughter, motorist [croud], "Charlie
     Chaplin", Old Mexican Guy (ex gangmember #1), Luigi)
* Harry Shearer (TV announcer #1 (Boobs), executives [croud], Kent
     Brockman, Lenny Leonard, TV announcer #2 (48 Minutes), Jasper,
     announcer, Gil, chairman)

SPECIAL GUEST VOICE * Rob Reiner (Himself)

ALSO STARRING * Michael Carrington (Jock Center host #2 (3)) * Pamela Hayden (children singing, Jimbo Jones) * Tress MacNeille (executive #1, Mrs. Glick [mini]) * Maggie Roswell * Karl Wiedergott (motorist [croud])

NOTES: - Hank Azaria reprises his Jock Center character from GABF02 "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", while Michael Carrington voices a new host. - The soundbit with the singing children might be re-used from CABF10 "Day of the Jackanpes" - That old Mexican guy looks similiar to the one we saw in DABF09 "The Old Man and the Key" (as leader of the Los Souvenir Chaccitos) and FABF16 "Midnight Rx" (Operation Dumbo Drop), just being recolored.

Tobias

Don Del Grande wrote:

... there were three dead members of the "Blue Men Group" in the garbage pram.

Jo