Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Frying Game" (DABF16)

5/22 - SPECIAL WEDNESDAY AIRING - SEASON FINALE
       Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge (DABF17)
    Homer causes a citywide blackout, resulting in widespread
    looting - but when Lisa's saxophone is stolen, Homer takes the
    law into his own hands (say, whatever happened to the Springfield
    Cat Burglar, anyway?)
* Fox called "The Frying Game" the season premiere as the "official
  ratings season" ended that night

5/26 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (in the west, the
       race will be over by 8:00, but the Fox stations will show
       "local" programming instead)

6/2 - Tales from the Public Domain (DABF08)
    The Simpsons are going to...go back in history, with Homer in
    Homer's "Odyssey", Lisa as Joan of Arc, and Bart as Hamlet

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes
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5/26 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (in the west, the
       Fox stations will show "local programming" rather than a
       Futurama repeat - the San Francisco and Sacramento FOX stations
       are showing reruns of "Friends" and "Married...with Children"
       (followed by the movies "Days of Thunder" and "While You Were
       Sleeping") respectively

6/2 - Roswell That Ends Well (3ACV19)
    What happens when you run a microwave in space during a
    supernova?  If you're on the Planet Express ship, you get sent
    back to Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, where Bender's body and
    Zoidberg are captured, and Bender's body and Fry have to try to
    free them with a little help from one of the soldiers - Fry's
    grandfather

STUFF for "The Frying Game" (DABF16) ------------------------------------ Written by John Swartzwelder Directed by Dominic Polcino Blackboard: none Couch: in black and white, everybody acts like they're in a Charlie Chaplin film (with Homer as Chaplin) (repeat of DABF05) Special Guest Voice: Carmen Electra, Frances Sternhagen Also Starring: Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom Rating: TV-PG-LV

REVIEW: B-minus - it borders on C-plus, it was that bad.  (Well, not
        "Another Simpsons Clip Show" bad, but you get the idea.)
        Maybe it would have helped had the opening bit been better,
        but the "screamerpillar" bit got old fast (and it didn't help
        that some of us were waiting for Lisa to make some pro-nature
        stance, rather than having the EPA man do it).

REFERENCES "The Crying Game" (title) "Dead Man Walking" ("Dead man walking on the green mile") "The Green Mile" ("Dead man walking on the green mile") 5F13 (Springfield's electric chair)

SELF-REFERENCE Lou and Eddie saying that they don't have last names

NOT A REFERENCE TO ATS: Duffman mentioning "Whatever happened to 'fair use'?", a "rallying cry" to Simpsons website builders receiving Cease & Desist orders for using sounds and/or video clips

DYNs ...the screamerpillar burps like pretty much everybody else? ...the picture of Homer on the news shows him drooling? ...either nobody noticed that Homer didn't get any appeals, or "time just passed" from the trial to the execution? ...they put Homer and Marge in separate, yet adjacent, cells?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT When Homer first saw the skeleton "costume", it wasn't a costume as you could see through it.

Homer's prison number changed from 5191 to S191 and back when he was in the chair.

Marge's prison number wasn't there until the middle of the "last night" scene.