Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Old Man and the Key"

Wednesday, 3/13 - Jaws Wired Shut (DABF05 - repeat)
    Homer has his jaw wired shut after an accident, but is the world
    ready for a kindler, gentler - and boring - Homer?

3/17 - Tales from the Public Domain (DABF08)
    "Simpsons Tall Tales" goes historical: Bart as Hamlet, Lisa as
    Joan of Arc, and Homer as Odysseus

3/24 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "Independence Day"

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes
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Thursday, 3/14 - The Honking (2ACV18 - repeat)
    Every night at midnight, Bender turns into a killer car, and the
    only way to cure him is to destroy the original werecar - in the
    Anti-Chrysler building

3/17 - Godfellas (3ACV20)
    After the Planet Express ship is attacked, Fry goes looking for
    an ejected Bender - who has landed on a planet where they
    consider him a god

Thursday, 3/21 - The Birdbot of Ice-catraz (3ACV05 - repeat)
    Leela joins a group of protestors trying to stop an oil tanker
    from being towed through space near a penguin preserve - that is,
    being towed by the Planet Express ship, with Bender in command

3/24 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "Independence Day"

STUFF for "The Old Man and the Key" (DABF09) -------------------------------------------- Written by Jon Vitti Directed by Lance Kramer Blackboard: none Couch: Blue Man Group perform in front of the couch Special Guest Voice: Olympia Dukakis, Ray Saluga (aka "Raymond J. Johnson, Jr.") Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Kail Wiedergott Rating: TV-PG-L

REVIEW: B-plus - to be honest, the review gets a slightly higher grade as I was expecting the entire Grampa and "the other man" story to stretch out, so the bit in Branson was a nice twist, and the Beverly Hillbillies ending (complete with "This has been a Gracie Films presentation") was a relief from the usual ad-laden closing.

REFERENCES "The Old Man and the Sea" (title) "West Side Story" ("rumble" in the Kwik-E-Mart) ZZ Top ("sharp dressed man") "The Beverly Hillbillies" (closing credits) Filmways Television (Lisa's "this has been a Gracie Films presentation" is like the "This has been a Filmways presentation" (followed by "dahlink" in the case of "Green Acres") that ended all Filmways shows) 9F03 (Homer says somebody can't do something "...EVER!") 1F08 (Marge's gambling problem) 3F17 (Branson)

DYNs
...Grampa says "woo-hoo!" the way Homer does?
...Homer says "Semper Fi" when talking about the sunken ship, even
   though that's the Marines motto?  (There could have been Marines
   on that ship...)
...Lisa is taking her lunchbox to the library?
...Bart knows how to hotwire a car?
...the closing credits are white instead of yellow?  (Probably to
   make it easier to see over the closing image)
...in the closing, Lisa keeps switching hands, while Bart just
   stops waving near the end?
"WHERE IS SPRINGFIELD" ALERT
..."this" Springfield is about 1000 miles from Branson, MO?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT "Zapata del Diablo" is "translated" into "a shoe on a stick".

Grampa's driver's license lists his address as "Springfield Retirement Castle, Springfield, __, USA" - the state is intentionally made unreadable, but it looks like it starts with a B. It also lists his height as 5'8", weight 180 pounds, and hair color gray (but it isn't gray, but yellow).

-------------------------------------------------- Don Del Grande, [email] S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M40 Just one question: in tonight's "Futurama" episode, who was that robot? You know, the one they made the statue for? Oh well, he couldn't have been that important - I'll just forget about him