STUFF for "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18)

STUFF for "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18)
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Written by John Swartzwelder
Directed by Lance Kramer
Blackboard: FUN DOES NOT HAVE A SIZE
Couch: Everybody is dressed in a prison uniform and tunnels their way
       to the couch (repeat of CABF12)
Special Guest Voice: Julia Loius-Dreyfus, George Takei
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven,
               Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom; N.J. Kim
Rating: TV-PG-LSV

REVIEW: A-minus - one of the best this season, although it rates a "low" A-minus because of the copout ending ("Monty, you're my hero, I know I said I'd marry you, and that Snake is a woman-beating low life, oh who am I kidding, Monty who?"). "Swartzenegger" is back with this one.

REFERENCES "A Hunka Hunka Burning Love" (title) Monopoly ("Pennybags" steals the woman Burns was talking to) "Lady and the Tramp" (a couple sharing a spaghetti strand) 7F15 (someone says "O Frabjous Day!") 2F08 (Marge "pairs up" Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II) 1F08 (the casino is mentioned) AABF17 (the Loch Ness Monster) 2F16, 2F20 (shot by a baby and blotted out the sun) 1F21 (Burns proposes)

DYNs
...Chinatown has "Toys 'L' Us"?  (Not particularly politically
   correct, mind you)
...at the restaurant, there's no place setting for Maggie?
...apparently everybody (except possibly Maggie) knows how to use
   chopsticks, although two spoons were on the table as well?
...the second fortune writer sounds like Khan from "King Of The
   Hill"?
...Burns got the name "Pennybags" right?  ("Uncle Pennybags" really
   is the "official" name of the Monopoly "tycoon")
...apparently Marge's mother doesn't have her original hair and
   teeth?
...judging from the large sign, Stu's Disco DOES advertise?
...one of the bowling trophies was a bowler on top of a bottle of
   Duff?
...the bowling alley had the video games Time Waster, Pong 95, and
   Nuke Canada?
...bowling at Barney's New Bowlarama is still $1.75 a game, three
   games for $5, or $5 an hour?
...Eddie gets shot?  (Is this the first time one of the cops is
   actually shot by somebody?)
...Marcia Mitzman-Gaven now includes a hyphen in her name?
   (Presumably so people know to alphabetize it under M)

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The menu said "SHARK BUTT - With Assorted Vegetables In Any Of These: Butt - Garlic - Curry - Black Bean".

Lisa is typing the fortunes in Chinese, but they're supposed to be in English.

The pennies Mr. Burns gave the delivery boy were not "copper" colored. (Okay, maybe they were 1943 steel pennies...)

There are (at least) two explanations for showing Flag Day soon after the Chinese New Year parade. First, not every city has its parade right on Chinese New Year (San Francisco, for example). Second, it's possible that months passed by between when Homer started writing the fortunes and the scene with Mr. Burns opening the cookie.

When Moe rolls up his flag, it should be rolling around the pole the other way from how it's actually being done.

Drunk and full of pie, Don Del Grande wrote:

You took all our best names like Bruce, and Lance, and Julian. Those were the toughest names we had!

(Rule #3: No poofters.)

Don Del Grande wrote

Followed by a reference to Disney's "Ducktales" when Burns mentions that between him and Scrooge McDuck ... I forget the rest.

Don't remember if I've seen that one listed yet, it probably has.

Great show by the way (Ducktales) - It's my excuse for watching Family Channel.

Surly wrote:

Not just Ducktales--Scrooge has always been a feature of Disney print comics since the Night on Bear Mountain series. But yes, Ducktales is a great show--too bad I can't find it anymore (like all the other Disney cartoons that were good until they were replaced by the current ABC Sat. morning crap. Michael Eisner is ruining that company.)

Brian

Somebody claiming to be Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

Is this the first time Takei has voiced Chinese characters? And if so, do I get credit for pointing it out? :-)

Nitpick: The Elvis Presley song is only titled "Burning Love", according to Joel Whitburn's "Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits". It was a #2 hit in 1973, IIRC. Of course, that whole phrase is the "hook" line.

Pennybags also appeared in another episode, leaving the Town Hall in the Monopoly Racecar token (dammit, I can't remember which episode). If I noticed correctly (I didn't tape the episode), in CABF18, Burns leaves on a railroad engine, which is not one of the original tokens. (The Monopoly set I've got has eight tokens: Thimble, Top Hat, Shoe, Flatiron, Cannon, Battleship, Racecar, and Scottie Terrier.) The railroad engine is, however, shaped like the silhouettes that appear on a Monopoly board.

That would be Thirty Minutes over Tokyo, and it's the Chuck Garabedian seminar, not Town Hall.

Brian

Drunk and full of pie, Ted S. wrote:

Well Ted... Benjamin Robinson is your new best friend :)

[Homer: Look at those phonies, sucking up to Ben Robinson!]

on 12/3/01 9:12 PM, Don Del Grande at [email] wrote:

Someone else pointed this out earlier, but it wasn't Chinese New Years. Marge just thought it was because of the "parade" going on.