10/7 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 7:30 - G.I. D'oh (HABF21) Homer tries to get Bart out of a commitment to join the Army when he turns 18, and ends up enlisting himself
8:00 - Midnight Towboy (JABF21) Homer becomes a tow truck driver; Marge's idea of making Maggie less dependent on her work a little too well
10/14 - DOUBLE FEATURE ---------------------- 7:30 - Stop or My Dog Will Shoot (JABF12) "Bad dogs, bad dogs, whatcha gonna do, Santa's Little Helper's gonna come for you" when the dog goes to the police animal academy after dragging Homer out of a cornfield maze
8:00 - I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (JABF19) Marge foils a bank robbery by promising the robber (voiced by Steve Buscemi) that she'll visit him in prison, but when she doesn't, he decides to visit her - by breaking out
10/21 - TO BE ANNOUNCED If baseball's American League Championship Series needs a seventh game, Fox will air the game; otherwise, "The Boys of Bummer" (JABF11) (Bart becomes the town goat when he costs the town Little League team the championship; Homer becomes a department store mattress salesman) will air
10/28 - PRE-EMPTED for Game 4 of the baseball World Series
11/4 - Treehouse of Horror XVIII (JABF16) Homer and Marge in a "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" parody; Flanders gets divine help in making his Hell House more powerful; when Kang lands in the Simpson backyard, everybody treats him like he's E.T. * This is not a Fox NFL doubleheader day, so THOH XVII may air at 7:30
STUFF for "Homer of Seville" (JABF18) ------------------------------------- Written by Carolyn Omine Directed by Michael Polcino Blackboard: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL IS BETTER THAN EVER Couch: A Homer amoeba begins to divide, then Homer evolves through time to the present day, where Marge asks him if he brought the milk (repeat of JABF06) Special Guest Voice: Placido Domingo, Maya Rudolph Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG-DSV
REFERENCES "The Barber of Seville" (title; also, Homer is in it at the end) "American Idol" (the church sign) "La Boheme" (Homer is in it) "Fiddler on the Roof" (Griddler on the Roof) "T.G.I. Friday's" (Thank God it's Fried Eggs) Luftwaffe [German air force] (Luftwaffles) "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Buffet the Hunger Slayer) "Denny's" (Denny's) "Camelot" (Homer sings "If Ever I Would Leave You") "The Phantom of the Opera" (poster in Homer's dressing room; also, the chandelier falls) "I Pagliacci" (poster in Homer's dressing room) "Madame Butterfly" ("Madame Butterface") Sistine Chapel (Homer painting the ceiling)
SELF-REFERENCE When Homer "sings" his "D'oh", Marge calls it an "annoyed grunt"
MAYBE A REFERENCE Homer is in an opera set in Egypt, but it was not clear that it was "Aida"
NOT A REFERENCE Homer singing "If Ever I Would Leave You" is not a reference to Brian singing it on "Family Guy"
DYN ...apparently, Dan Castellaneta does all of his own singing? ...this is one of those stagings of "La Boheme" where starving artists live in the largest loft in Paris? ...the opera has an English translation above the actors? ...Lisa's eyes look bigger when seen through the opera glasses? ...Marge calls Chief Wiggum "Chief Wiggums"?
POSSIBLE CHANGES THAT CAN BE EXPLAINED BY THE REBUILDING AFTER THE MOVIE The church's pews no longer extend all the way to the back, as the front door to the Sunday School is now just inside the door.
The opera house is where King Toot's is supposed to be.
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT The blackboard opening is a reference to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch purchasing the Wall Street Journal.
The pallbearer in front of Homer should have fallen into the open grave as well.
There shouldn't be players in the penalty box at the start of a hockey game.
The poison dart changed direction all by itself when Marge first rotated the French horn; it was too thick to pass through the mouthpiece; and, it shouldn't have had enough velocity to make it back to the conductor.
The chandelier came down twice.
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