For some reason, the syndicated Halloween shows aren't airing here in the Midwest. I always watch the first Halloween episode as somewhat of a tradition.
I think "The Raven" should have had Homer asleep with Volume 1 of forgotten lore, turned to the beginning pages, instead of being halfway through Volume 2. The segment isn't that funny, but it's quite a good interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem.
At least the Halloween episode ran before Halloween this year. Damn baseball.
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Nick B wrote:
We've had it bad here in Canada, because the CBC that had aired The Simpson each weekday (and I seem to recall a period when they aired 2 a day) has dropped the show. It was normal for them to air Halloween episodes before Halloween, and Christmas episodes before Christmas. I miss that.
Global, that has the rights to air new episodes of The Simpsons, for a while would air a block of Halloween episodes on a Saturday leading up to Halloween, but they didn't do that this year, I'm not sure if they did it last year. Unless they aired Halloween episodes this afternoon, when they air some Simpsons episodes, they didn't do anything special.
On the other hand, the local French tv station that airs The Simpsons, 2 a day in the afternoon, they were airing Halloween episodes this week.
"The Raven" was an early one, and I rather like Bart as the Raven. I think they dropped the level of sophistication soon after, not so much a decline but that Raven bit was pretty artistic.
Michael
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:15:04 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
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When did that happen? I'm from New York (state). I was in Montreal last month and watched the Simpsons in French. (I don't speak French, but it little mattered.) Are there local stations in Canada that aren't CBC?
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, rwalker wrote:
The CBC is English, they dropped The Simpsons at the beginning of September (so they could air among other things "Ghost Whisperer".
You must have been watching TQS, one of the private French networks. They air two episodes of The Simpsons these days at 4pm, and were airing Halloween episodes the week before Halloween.
There are three big English networks in Canada, CTV, CBC (the government run one) and Global. There are three French networks, including a French language CBC, which are mostly focused in Quebec but may get carriage on cable elsewhere.
Michael
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:12:37 -0500, Michael Black wrote:
I see. Thanks. I didn't really have much time for TV watching while I was there. The little time I did have I spent mostly watching English language CBC. It must have been TQS I was watching, because it was about 4 p.m. that I recall seeing the Simpsons.
Nick B wrote:
The conspiracy theorist in me says that one of the reasons is, in the third one, when Bart makes the zombies rise (in "Dial Z for Zombies"), he is wearing an album cover from Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
-- Don
Nick B wrote:
I always loved the way Homer delivered the line "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
On Oct 31, 7:45 pm, [email] wrote:
God, how I miss the early days of the show. It's a shame it will never be that good again...
Season 2 is my favorite, funny and nostalgic.
Remember that in the US, syndication scheduling is done by the local stations. Episodes are sold by (air) season, and while stations retain their own copies, they pay for a certain number of airings. This is one reason recent seasons tend to get more play (they just paid for these new episodes, gotta use them! and why pay for more airings of older episodes if there won't be time for them?). You can always try contacting the programming department of your local station.