Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)

5/18 - DOUBLE FEATURE OF NEW EPISODES
8:00 - Bart of War (EABF16)
    "Cowboys and Indians" (AHEM) sorry, Lisa...Cowpersons and Native
    Americans takes on a whole new meaning when Bart and Milhouse
    join competing after-school clubs, "Pre-Teen Braves" and "Cavalry
    Kids"
8:30 - SEASON FINALE - Moe Baby Blues (EABF17)
    When Moe saves Maggie, Homer and Marge let Moe be Maggie's new
    babysitter, but the world isn't ready for a kinder, gentler Moe,
    especially when Maggie gets involved somehow in Fat Tony's
    business

5/25 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race
       (the race should end before 7:00 Pacific, but Fox stations
        out west will show local programming that night)

Upcoming "Futurama" Non-Episodes
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5/18: a new King Of The Hill
5/25: NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 race (local programming in the west)

STUFF for "Brake My Wife, Please" (EABF15)
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Written by Tim Long
Directed by Pete Michels
Blackboard: none
Couch: Everybody sticks their head through a picture of themselves
       sitting on the couch (in different positions), which is
       photographed (repeat of EABF04)
Special Guest Voice: Jackson Browne, Steve Buscemi, Jane Kaczmarek,
                     Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
Rating: TV-PG-LV

REVEIW: B-minus - usually, I like the episodes with songs in them,
        but the Jackson Browne song at the end felt like somebody
        tossed a bucket of water on the entire episode, which wasn't
        particularly exciting up to that point anyway.

REFERENCES Henny Youngman (title similar to his catchphrase) "Underachiever and proud of it" (Hibbert says Bart would be "up and underachieving in no time") Chaka Khan (Homer kept mentioning her) "Dennis the Menace" (Homer walks by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson) Verizon (Veriqual Cellular) Qualcomm (Veriqual Cellular) "Bible in the pocket" story (Homer's Bible in the crotch) 8F14, AABF10 (Marge driving) DABF14 (Apu's affair)

Homer's "Bible in the crotch" story is a variation on the stories of soldiers who had bullets deflected by Bibles in their shirt pockets. Woody Allen had a variation where somebody threw a Bible at him, "and I swear that the Bible would have went straight through my heart had it not been for the bullet in my pocket."

DYN
...only kids in Bart and Lisa's classes were at the aquarium?
...Bart's injury was healed in one day?  (His arm was no longer in a
   sling when Homer arrived)
...Bart had a wine box?
...somebody added an anti-France line (the busboys were from "France,
   I mean, America")?
...when Homer walks to work, he arrives at 7:55?
...Homer doesn't have his license back at the end of the episode?
...Principal Skinner was at the party without his mother?
SNOWBALL II ALERT
...Snowball II is playing with a ball of string?  "Awwwww..."

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT When Homer walks away from Moe's, Moe's hair is dark until he steps outside, then it's gray again.

There isn't enough current in a car to run all of the appliances Homer turned on.

When Homer walks to Moe's, it's on Evergreen Terrace (and no longer on a street corner), but when Homer goes back there later, it's in its "old" spot.

TABLES AT MARGE'S PARTY Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie Patty, Selma, Ranier Wolfcastle Grampa, Hans Moleman, Jasper Principal Skinner, Mrs. Krabappel, Willy, Chalmers Reverend and Helen Lovejoy; Dr. and Mrs. Hibbert Moe, Lenny, Carl, Kirk van Houten Apu, Manjula, Lou, Eddie Chief Wiggum, Sarah, Ralph Mayor and Mrs. Quimby Milhouse, ?

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

[...]

This is a reference to her 1984 song "I Feel for You"; Homer was more or less singing that song. Or, at least, the beginning part that keeps mentioning "Chaka Khan" over and over.