12/14 - Double, Double, Boy in Trouble (KABF14) At a party being thrown by lottery winner Lenny (with the ticket Homer was about to buy when he had to get Bart out of some escapade), Bart meets, and switches places with, his rich lookalike, unaware that the rich kid's siblings are out to kill him for his share of the estate * Apparently, somebody noticed that they have already aired "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" twice; the scheduled 8:30 airing has been replaced with a "King of the Hill" repeat
12/21 - Treehouse of Horror XIX (KABF16) Warring transforming robots stop fighting each other - and start fighting humans; Homer kills people so they can be used for free in commercials; "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" - and it's not in a good mood after seeing all of those pumpkins killed for Jack-O-Lanterns; for once, Homer votes for the winning candidate, but he has trouble making it count
12/28 - Dangerous Curves (KABF18) A vacation at a summer cabin brings back memories (translation: flashbacks) of earlier visits by Homer and Marge; first, with the newlywed Ned and Maude Flanders (who made sure Homer and Marge slept in separate rooms); second, Homer and Marge were there all right, but not with each other
STUFF for "The Burns and the Bees" (KABF21) ------------------------------------------- Written by Stephanie Gillis Directed by Mark Kirkland Chalkboard: JESUS IS NOT MAD HIS BIRTHDAY IS ON CHRISTMAS Couch: The couch is reflected in a Christmas tree ornament (repeat of JABF01) Special Guest Voice: Marv Albert, Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom TV Rating: TV-PG-DLV
REFERENCES JABF01 (Christmas version of the opening credits) 1F17 (bees) "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" (music playing during camp activities) (yes, I know the music is from "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda", but the camp setting is more appropriate for the Allan Sherman song) Harry Potter (billionaires playing Quiddich) Boston Celtics (Austin Celtics) "Wall-E" (robot crushing Homer into a cube in his honeyless future)
DYN ...this has a Christmas opening, even though it's not a Christmas episode? ...Groundskeeper Willy's bee tombstones say Buzz Aldrin, Bee Arthur, Gordon Sumner (Sting), Bee Bee King, Susan Bee Anthony, and Jerry Seinfeld? ...Mr. Burns's net worth is $1,800,037,022 (which, thanks to his $804 million third-quarter writedown, really does reduce him to less than a billion, assuming he didn't make any other money in the meantime)? ...while Bill Gates's and Warren Buffett's net worths are going up, Rupert Murdoch's is going down? ...they didn't cut Mark Cuban's lines (or change him to a fictional version of himself), despite being accused of insider trading? ...the visiting team owner's luxury box in Dallas has a miniature basketball hoop in it? ...with the addition of the Springfield Celtics/Excitement, the city had teams in all four major sports (including the Isotopes (baseball), Atoms (football), and Ice-otopes (hockey))?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Kearney is reading things that were said when he wasn't writing them down.
What happened to the arena where the Ice-otopes play? That one has individual seats, whereas the one the Springfield Celtics were in did not.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M46 Gordon Sumner (Sting), the musician, is not to be confused with David Borden (Sting), the professional wrestler