Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04)

2/9 - DOUBLE FEATURE
8:00 - NEW EPISODE - Pray Anything (EABF06)
    Homer discovers that he can get pretty much anything he wants by
    praying for it - so he prays for a lawsuit against the church,
    which ends up "under new management"
8:30 - The Great Louse Detective (EABF01)
    When somebody tries to kill Homer, Chief Wiggum thinks "it takes
    an attempted killer to know an attempted killer", so he gets one
    with lots of experience - Sideshow Bob

2/16 - GASP - TRIPLE CHOCOLATE - er, TRIPLE FEATURE
7:30 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation (DABF22)
    Sir Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Tom Petty,
    Keith Richards, and Brain Setzer voice themselves as Homer goes
    to a rock-and-roll fantasy camp
8:00 - NEW "Well, it IS the 300th if you pretend that 'Another
       Simpson Clip Show' and 'The Principal and the Pauper' never
       happened" EPISODE - Barting Over (EABF05)
    When Bart discovers that he was once "Baby Stink Breath", the
    pitchman - er, pitchbaby - for something that stopped babys' bad
    breath, but Homer wasted all of the money, he gets legally
    separated from his parents, and runs off to a loft where he
    meets Tony Hawk and blink 182
8:30 - ANOTHER NEW EPISODE - I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can (EABF07)
    George Plimpton guest voices as himself as spelling bee champion
    Lisa enters the "Spellympics", only to realize that there may be
    more to winning than being the best speller

This is the second time in the show's history that two new episodes have aired on the same night (the first being "Homerpalooza" and "Summer of 4 Foot 2" on May 19, 1996)

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes ----------------------------------------------------------- 2/9 - PRE-EMPTED AGAIN because it's February and Fox STILL thinks more people would rather watch a "King of the Hill" repeat

2/16 - PRE-EMPTED YET AGAIN, but I think this time it's a new episode
       of "King of the Hill" and not just a repeat (besides, "Malcolm
       in the Middle" gets pre-empted by a "Married...with Children"
       reunion)

STUFF for "Strong Arms of the Ma" (EABF04)
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Written by Carolyn Omine
Directed by Pete Michels
Blackboard: THIS SCHOOL DOES NOT NEED A "REGIME CHANGE"
Couch: Everybody pokes their heads through a wall of everybody sitting
       on the couch (but in different positions), which is then
       photographed
Special Guest Voice: Pamela Reed
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom; Nelson Shin
Rating: TV-PG-LV

REVIEW: B - this was a slightly better than usual episode, even for a "three-parter" (Ranier's bankruptcy sale; Marge afraid to leave the house; Marge gets buff), until the ending pretty much right out of "King of the Hill".

REFERENCES "The Twilight Zone" (magazine, music, plus the story of the man who solely survived a nuclear holocaust, only to break his glasses) "Rocky" (theme music used) "Popeye" (music when Marge drank the steroids) "Disco Duck" ("Disco Stu should have disco ducked") 9F06 (Ruth Powers)

DYNs
...Ranier was selling Golden Globes for 50 cents a pound?
...the cyborg hand had four fingers?
...there was an "El Barto" signature behind the Kwik-E-Mart?
...somebody besides Snake mugged Marge?
...the Simpsons have a computer/business chair (with wheels)?
   (Maybe Lisa got tired of her "kneeling" chair?)
...Homer says "Jesus" instead of "Jebus"?
...the church says "No Outside Eucharist", even though it's not a
   church that has Eucharist in the first place?
...Lisa's peach tree has apparently been replaced by a lemon tree?
...when Marge returns home after trying to go to the Kwik-E-Mart,
   Maggie's not wearing her pacifier (which she had in the car)?
...Marge never puts on a replacement red necklace?
...Maggie reaches for the pepper spray?
...someone besides N.J. Kim is listed along with Akom in the Overseas
   Animation credit?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Lisa literally flies across the room in the couch opening.

There's suddenly room inside the car on the way home from the bankruptcy sale.

Ruth Powers couldn't have been in prison for three years if Bart was 10 when she moved in.

Marge drinks more from the steroid bottle than it could hold.

The barbell bar could not have fit inside the furnace.

On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 21:10:22 -0800, Don Del Grande wrote:

Didn't Homer learn from Bart in "Faith Off" that one could get what one wanted by praying for it? And didn't we just have the church "under new management" in "She of Little Faith"?

Have no fears, we've got stories for years! ;-)

Hey they didn't say they've got "new" stories ....