Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (FABF07)

2/22 - Smart and Smarter (FABF09) Despite a rough time with an interviewer (voiced by Simon Cowell), Maggie gets into a prestigious pre-school - unless a jealous Lisa has something to do about it

Note that "The Simpsons Channel" reports that "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" will air on 2/29 - I for one am surprised Fox won't concede the night to ABC's "All-Star Tribute to 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", better known as the Academy Awards. (I'll be even more surprised if it doesn't win Oscars for both Best Picture and directing.)

STUFF for "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (FABF07)
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Written by Julie Chambers & David Chambers
Directed by Matthew Nastuk
Blackboard: LIFE DOES NOT BEGIN AT 50 (a reference to 2/15/2004
            being Matt Groening's 50th birthday)
            *** Kidding!  There was no blackboard
Couch: A woman throws some seeds into a patch of dirt where the couch
       usually is, and waters them; everybody sprouts up like plants
Special Guest Voices: Nick Bakay, William Daniels, Isabel Sanford,
                      Dick Tufeld, Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell,
               Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
TV Rating: TV-PG-LV

REVIEW: B - this was a B+, almost even an A-, until they went zero for
        three on those endings (Marge keeping the earrings, Bart
        hugging Lisa, and the whole Isabel Sanford thing).  Before
        then, they had something going with making Lisa do Bart
        things.  (At least they didn't have the other hoboes plotting
        against Homer.)

REFERENCES "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" [movie which became the TV series "Alice"] (title) 7F15, BABF03 (counting greater than four requires two hands) 7F05 (someone moves from Springfield to Capitol City) BABF09 (someone gets "a new persona") BABF11 ("real-life" animated tag at the end) "Rawhide" (the "rollin'" song Homer, Lenny, and Carl sing) The Museum of TV & Radio (the Museum of TV & Television) "Bewitched" (Mrs. (Gladys) Kravitz statue in the museum) "Three's Company" (Mr. (Stanley) Roper statue in the museum) "Ironside" (the wheelchair in the museum) "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp" (one of the "things that shouldn't talk but do") "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (Salem the cat) "Knight Rider" (KITT the talking car) "Lost in Space" (the robot) "Mr. Ed" (the talking horse) Mickey Mouse ("Mickey Mao's") M-Life (what Milhouse's friends call him) "The Beverly Hillbillies" (scene at the end) "The Jeffersons" (closing theme music)

DYN
...they got the original voices for Salem (Nick Bakay), KITT (William
   Daniels), and the "Lost in Space" robot (Dick Tufeld)?
...everybody has to pay $7 for a field trip?  (Maybe that's the
   MT&TV's admission price?)
...there appeared to be a "supporting characters" display at the
   museum, featuring Gladys Kravitz from "Bewitched", Stanley Roper
   from "Three's Company", and Ned Flanders from "The Simpsons"?
...the charity labels Homer was going to give Marge had Homer's name
   on them?
...the TV special being shown was from 1976, as they pronounced Nadia
   Comaneci's name "coma-nee-chee"?  (Right after she won her gold
   medal, she corrected the pronounciation to "coma-neech")
...Kirk was expected to pay child support even though he couldn't
   even afford to pay for his pants?
...in "Moo Goo Gai Pain", an hour after the customers eat Scratchy,
   they're hungry again?  (This is a stereotype about Chinese food)
...Mr. Largo is one of the "starving teachers" movers?
...Lisa rides a bike without a helmet?  (You think she would be more
   safety-conscious than that, especially as she wears a helmet in the
   show's opening each week)

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT In "Moo Goo Gai Pain", the restaurant is "Mickey Mao's", and they have the "hungry an hour after you eat it" stereotype of Chinese food, but Scratchy was cut into sushi, which is Japanese.

Lisa is usually too much of a "historical preservationist" not to report the Indian burial ground to some authorities for examination.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M42 So, who's the "third-level" character who's disappearing "forever"? Something tells me this isn't the last we've seen of Milhouse's mother

I think the theme was just neighbors, or neighbors known primarily by their last names.

In "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeenapetilans" it's established that LuAnn pays alimony for Kirk..

XPeeple wrote:

Neighbors, I'll go with, but I've heard "Gladys Kravitz" more than I have "Mrs. Kravitz". (True, Mr. Roper was pretty much called "Mr. Roper" by everyone except his wife.)

In another episode, which escapes me at the moment (oh, the shame...), Kirk makes child support payments, but Luann's boyfriend used the money to buy a DVD player.

-- Don

I'm pretty sure it was specifically "annoying neighbors".

It especially works then since the first two were meddlesome neighbors and then it ends with Flanders, with the obvious intent that he is the most annoying.

Michael

In article , Don Del Grande wrote:

I believe it was "Annoying Neighbors".

"Tim Smith" wrote in message news:3M%Xb.6722$[email]...

Ack! No one's got it right yet! Specifically, it was "The Hall of Nosy Neighbors".

• MX

Proof TPTB for OFF read this newsgroup, and "borrow" ideas:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=8927-3C44D23D-186%40storefull-252.iap.bryant.webtv.net

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Chris � wrote:

More likely, proof that if enough ideas are suggested by newsgroup people, at least one of them is going to match something being used. It definitely confirms every studio's policy of returning unsolicited scripts unopened - something like this could be "proof" of plagarism.

(Nothing new about this idea - they used it TWICE on "Family Ties", although my theory is they just wanted to make it look like the Democrats in the family were, by definition, smarter than the Republicans.) [Insert some lame "it's called 'the truth' comment here] [Insert an even lamer "nothing lame about it" comment here]

-- Don

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:13:59 GMT, Don Del Grande wrote:

Online listings show "Star Wars Episode I"