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
12/19 - DOUBLE FEATURE ---------------------- 7:30 - Treehouse of Horror XXI (MABF16) Bart and Milhouse cause board games to come to life and attack everyone; Homer and Marge's second honeymoon at sea is interrupted by a man who claims someone tried to poison him, but when they get to the scene, the evidence seems to show something else; Lisa falls for Dracula's son
8:00 - MoneyBART (MABF18) Bart's Little League team makes it to the state championship game, but Bart won't be playing after having a falling out with the new manager - Lisa, who is under the impression that there is no such thing as "too many extracurriculars" on an Ivy League application
12/26 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life (MABF20) Lisa discovers that Marge went from a straight-A student to "another brick in the wall" when she got distracted (by meeting Homer), so she transfers to a private school that doesn't have any distractions; thanks to a number of coincidences that make it look like Bart beat up Nelson, Bart is treated as the new fourth grade bully
STUFF for "The Fight Before Christmas" (MABF22) ----------------------------------------------- Written by Dan Castellaneta & Deb Lacusta Directed by Bob Anderson & Matthew Schofield No billboard, blackboard, or couch Special Guest: Katy Perry Special Guest Voice: Martha Stewart Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Puppeteers: Seam William Johnson, Patrick Johnson, Artie Esposito, Russ Walko, Brett O'Quinn, Edward Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo, Charles Chiodo Puppet segment produced by Chiodo Bros. Productions, Inc. (well, that would explain all of the Chiodos involved) Overseas Animation: Akom TV rating: TV-PG-DLV
The "Ho Ho Ho" from the house sounds like the "Ho Ho Ho" from the Flanders house in the original (1989) Christmas special.
Bart has a "BB King" gun.
The Simpsons have a metal wreath on their door.
Bart's slippers mysteriously appeared when he arrived at the north pole, and then disappeared again on the train trip home.
The sign said "0 Days Until Christmas", but you would expect Christmas Day to be the one day that isn't the "busy season" for the North Pole elves, as all of the toys would need to be made and on the sleigh already.
Before Bart turned up the thermostat, it was 50 degrees, but that is warm enough for the snowmen to start melting.
When Grampa says, "Oh, for cryin' out loud," Bart and Homer are crying out loud.
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