3/23 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "True Lies"
3/30 - Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky (EABF11)
When a documentary filmmaker (voiced by Eric Idle) says that Lisa
is too broad-minded, she starts focusing on astronomy, but the
city's bright lights cause Lisa to spearhead a movement to get
them dimmed, only for Mayor Quimby to react to the resulting crime
wave by making the nights brighter than everUpcoming "Futurama" Episodes ----------------------------------------------------------- 3/23 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "True Lies"
3/30 - Fox CLAIMS that they're going to show Teenage Mutant Leela's
Hurdles...but that's what they said about 3/12 and 3/19; I'll
believe it when I see itSTUFF for "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10) ------------------------------ Written by Dana Gould Directed by Mike B. Anderson Blackboard: none Couch: The couch opening is drawn as a flipper book in pencil, with the pages flipped by real hands (repeat of DABF08) Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom Rating: TV-PG-DLV
REVIEW: B-minus - huh? This show is starting to repeat basic plots so many times, it's turning into "Rugrats" - just in time for Nickelodeon's new series where everybody on "Rugrats" is 10 years older...
REFERENCES "Leader of the Pack" ("Bleeder of the Pack") "Star Trek" (sound of doors to Homer's area closing) "Star Wars" (Lenny and Carl fighting with "light sabres" 8F12 (Lisa's college fund) 9F13, AABF11 (Valentine's Day) 1F13 (Homer second to a carbon rod)
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper being on a plane is a reference to the three of them dying when the private plane they were in crashed; the song "American Pie" refers to this as "The Day the Music Died".
NOT A REFERENCE "As Told by Ginger" (Homer, like Courtney's father, doesn't let being out of the house stop him from having dinner with his family)
SELF-REFERENCE Homer saying "Bart won't be 10 forever" "305th Everything is Back to Normal BBQ" (but see goofs)
DYN ...Homer remembered Valentine's Day? ...Homer ordered Maggie to talk? (But she didn't...) ...there's a Coffee room, a Cream room, and a Stirrers room, but no Sugar room? ...Lisa's college fund had money? ...there was no crow call for the first wide shot of the plant?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Lisa's bedroom isn't next to Homer's.
Smithers bought drugs in Marrakesh, Morocco, so why would he be in a Turkish prison?
There's a "305th Everything is Back to Normal BBQ", but this is the 306th episode (unless you're using the "creative accounting" method, as it is the "305th episode produced that aired once the show started being a weekly series").