Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Moe'N'A Lisa" (HABF19)

11/26 - Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair) (HABF22) Homer, recently fired by Mr. Burns, starts driving an ice cream truck, which leads to Marge's popsicle-stick sculptures becoming Springfield's new hot topic

12/3 ** NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 8:30 Eastern, 7:30 Central, 7:00 Mountain, 8:00 Pacific ** The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer Lisa becomes friends with Fat Tony's son, who invites the Simpsons over for dinner, during which Fat Tony is shot, but when the boy says he would rather be a chef than a "legitimate businessman," Homer becomes head of Fat Tony's family (the later time in the Eastern and Central time zones is because of Fox airing the BCS bowl selections live nationwide at 8:00 Eastern)

12/10 - The Haw-Hawked Couple (JABF02 - note episode IDs will not begin with "I" as they would be confused with "1") Bart becomes Nelson's new best friend, which has its advantages (mainly, nodoby dares mess with Bart), butone of the disadvantages is that he can no longer be seen near Milhouse * This is not a Fox NFL doubleheader day, but Fox is airing repeats of "American Dad" at 7:00 and 7:30

STUFF for "Moe'N'A Lisa" (HABF19) --------------------------------- Written by Matt Warburton Directed by Markland Special Guest Voice: Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Simmons, Gore Vidal, Tom Wolfe Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom TV Rating: TV-PG-LV

REFERENCES Mona Lisa (title) "Spider-Man" (the chief at the publishing house looked like J. Jonah Jameson) "Rocky & Bullwinkle" (the diver soars like Rocky, complete with music from the show)

REVIEW: B - I liked it better the first time I saw it...when it was called "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington".

DYNs
...Moe's has Springfield Isotopes and Atoms pennants?
...the "Rocky & Bullwinkle" music used in the show is not used in the
   R&B episodes on DVD?  (For whatever reason, only the earlier music
   is used.)
...Grampa's medal has three rings?
...this seems to be the only show that can afford to use the music
   from the song "Happy Birthday to You"?
...at dinner, nobody had meat?
..."first ten rows may get wit"?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Marge uses the term "Senior Olympics". Outside of competition held by the IOC or the USOC, the only competition allowed to use the word "Olympics" in the USA is the Special Olympics.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 Hey, that wasn't The Simpsons at 7:00 - it was "Plagarismo di Plagarismo"

Don Del Grande wrote:

Maybe it's just because I'm very sleepy, but how are these two episodes all that related?

Matt Garvey wrote:

Lisa helps get somebody into some higher position, only for that person to forget who/what got them there in the first place, but in the end, they do the right thing after all.

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote:

Ah. That would be the part I had forgotten about!

Actually, the later "Bullwinkle Show" themes are used on the DVDs, as opposed to the earlier "Rocky and his Friends" themes as used in the parody in the episode. The reason? It's cheaper to use the later themes than the earlier ones, since they are owned by Jay Ward Productions (Ward intentionally comissioned new themes for the series so he would own the rights to them).

ryanmead wrote:

Er, on the three seasons I have on DVD, the Bullwinkle Show theme appears only briefly between some of the cartoons (where Bullwinkle is conducting an orchestra). Every episode begins with the original Rocky and Hs Friends theme music (in part because, for whatever reason, they seem to be required to call the show "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" - even the pinball machine based on the show has that title).

-- Don

I don't know what the writers have planned for this, but when I was a child I saw this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042514/

And I laughed so hard I thought I was going to die.

Mr. Museum