Stuff for [HABF15] "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer"

Stuff for [HABF15] "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer"

DYN:
... Lisa looking unamused by the modified "Old MacDonald"?
... Martin doesn't seem to know Otto's name? Either that or
    he's just being formal.
... Otto got to school on foot quicker than the school bus?
... Mr. Largo sounds a lot like Ned Flanders?
... the pictures of food on the walls of OFF's home when the
    mobsters come round for supper?
... Marge somehow knows what (generic) poison smells like?

References: + "Smoke on the Water" (1973) by Deep Purple [song] - Otto mentions how real songs are about far away lands and where you'd find smoke in relation to water.

+ Chef Boyardee [food franchise/Italian born chef] - One of the mobsters calls Michael "Chef Boyar-gay".

Non-references: + "Finding Nemo" (2003) [Disney/Pixar movie] - Fat Tony's gift of bedsheets.

+ "Fat Albert" [character from "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" (cartoon) and "Fat Albert" (2004)] - Homer says Fat Tony talks like him.

+ "Shark Tale" (2004) [Dreamworks computer animated movie] - Homer refers to it as the greatest gangster film ever.

+ "Batman Begins" (2005) [movie] - Bart's bootleg DVD.

Previous episode references: - [8F03] Bart gets involved with the mob. - [GABF19] Homer plays with his flab in the mirror.

Goofs: = Otto's beaded seat cover wasn't there before. (But that makes the joke funnier!)

= "Squirrels don't like rocks" is written with one stroke of Nelson's pencil.

= Most of the kids in orchestra practice has disappeared after Mr. Largo runs out.

Soundtrack for [HABF15]: 1. "Pop Goes the Weasel" - traditional nursery rhyme used in couch gag.

• "We're An American Band" (1973) by Grand Funk Railroad
• in Otto's Walkman.

• "Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Springfield Elementary Bus Mix)"
• kids sing a modified version of the traditional song.

• "Master of Puppets" (1986) by Metallica
• played by Metallica on Hans Moleman's pickup truck.

• "The Godfather Waltz" originally from "The Godfather" (1972)
• tuned down, not the original performance at the end.

• A couple of other instrumental pieces that I don't know.

Review: Quite an enjoyable episode we've got here! Some really good gags in this one. Bart seemed a little out of character (his treatment towards Otto and Krusty). Nice to see the plot unfolding (Homer doesn't opt into the "family business" until 15 minutes into the episode, which was surprising). Fat Tony was great, as were the mobsters. Funny stuff! Shame a lot of the jokes are spelled out for us, though, as if nobody will get them unless they are elaborated on to the point of practically explaining the joke. (C+)

Best jokes: - Fat Tony calmly dealing with the car chase, trying to hide the truth about the family business. - "You know how it is with us, everything means kill!" - Moe saying "look, mister, I don't got the cash!" to Homer... then the joke gets ruined. - Flanders saying he'll pay Homer's phone bill. - Homer and Bart's laughing/weapons gradually getting worse. ! Otto was right when he said the fart nursery rhyme wasn't funny.

Harry Michaels

Welcome to 6 days ago.

wrote in message news:[email]...

...when I might have cared.

-- R Flowers

[email] wrote:

Better late than never.

Harry Michaels

harry.michaels.wrote:

Actually, hebuh soundsbuh likebuh Mushbuh Mouthbuh. (Mushmouth was the character that talked like that.) And how is that a "non-reference"? A "non-reference" is something where it is obvious that the writers did not intend to reference it. Here are two "non-references" (aka "not a reference") from my previous posts: "Smart and Smarter" includes a scene where people are stuck in a museum exhibit that is a large (and "working") version of part of the human body; this was also a major part of an "All Grown Up" episode. In "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", Slug-Milhouse says that he doesn't know how to reproduce, but he's going to have fun finding out; in the "Red Dwarf" episode "Parallel Universe", Lister says pretty much the same thing when he discovers he is going to have two sons even though he is the only human alive.

You mean "it wasn't in the scene earlier" (which is a goof) or "this is the first episode in which it appears" (which is not)?

It's also semi-traditional for musical chairs games, although most people don't have LPs (or CDs, nowadays) with that song on them.

-- Don

Oh, having only seen a couple of episodes over ten years ago I wasn't aware of this. Amend my original to 'Homer says "he's talking like the guy in Fat Albert!"'.

Oh, poor choice of wording on my part. What I implied goes back to some a.t.s. posts I read a long time ago, I think it was Raymond Chen that was insisting on some kind of quality control on what was considered a "reference" in capsules. The idea that parodies, lines that are obviously lifted etc. are true references and merely mentioning something (ie. all of my "non-references") are not worth including in a capsule under the "references" header because they simply can't be missed. In the literal sense, I can't argue -- they are references. But if they are to be included in capsules purely on a seen/mentioned basis, it kind of goes against the original idea of capsules collecting the "extra" stuff from episodes (ie. watch the episode and then read the capsule for further enlightenment, not just to read about things that were blatantly said or seen, not even requiring freeze framing or additional media knowledge). I included them as what ideally should NOT be in a capsule. It's not my jurisdiction, just my opinion. So there it is.

I meant it wasn't in the scene earlier, which it wasn't.

How I love that game.

Harry Michaels

Once Upon A Time harry.michaels wrote:

Did you know that Mr. Burns has three dots on his head? IT'S TRUE!!

** Captain Infinity