5/20 - SEASON FINALE DOUBLE FEATURE - TWO NEW EPISODES ------------------------------------------------------ 8:00 - 24 Minutes (JABF14) Homer tries to get rid of a desparately overripe carton of yogurt, only for the bullies to get their hands on it and threaten to set off "the ultimate stink bomb" unless Bart and Lisa, members of Springfield Elementary's CTU (Counter-Truancy Unit), can stop them, with a little help from Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian from "24" (voiced by Keifer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub)
8:30 - ** SEASON FINALE & 400TH EPISODE ** You Kent Always Say What You Want (JABF15) Homer gets on Kent Brockman's news program for buying a store's 1,000,000th ice cream cone, but when Kent spills coffee in his lap and he swears, Ned Flanders leads a crusade to get him fired
- NOTE: "24 Minutes" was originally listed as airing at 8:30; however, the press release at the Fox.com website now lists it as being on at 8:00, and does not make it clear which episode is going to be treated as the 400th (Entertainment Weekly lists "You Kent Always Say..." as the 400th, although this is Fox we're talking about.)
5/27 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (stations in the western USA will air local programming)
6/3 - PRE-EMPTED for the movie "Bad Boys 2"
STUFF for "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot" (JABF12)
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Written by John Frink
Directed by Matthew Faughnan
Blackboard: PEARLS ARE NOT OYSTER BARF
Couch: Two Simpsons families sit on the couch, as more and more of
them enter the room, eventually filling up the house
Special Guest Voice: Stephen Hawking, Maurice LaMarche, Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
TV Rating: TV-PG-VREVIEW: B - except for the corn maze and the saving Bart parts, none of the storylines went anywhere near their potential, and it's hard to get excited over yet another "somebody needs to be saved at the last minute" story. It's not a good episode when the biggest laugh came from the couch opening.
REFERENCES ---------- "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" (title) "Patton" (music at the police animal academy) "Hellraiser" (one of the villains in Bart's mind) "Friday the 13th" (Jason is one of the villains in Bart's mind) "Robocop" (SLH turns into Robocop in Bart's mind) "SWAT" (theme music used) "Sesame Street" (Big Bird and Elmo shown) "Babe" (Willie says "That'll do, snake", similar to the movie's ending) 8F11 ("Property of Bart Simpson") 9F14 (a hamster appears)
DYN ...there's a crow call (similar to the one used for the power plant) when the maze appears - and there are crows inside the maze? ...when the snake chokes Homer, he turns orange, then red?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Tremaux's Algorithm works like this: You draw a line as you walk through a maze. When you reach a dead end, turn around, drawing a second line parallel to the first one. Each time you reach an intersection for the first time, choose any path (other than the one from which you entered). When walking down a path the first time, if you reach an intersection you've already been to, turn around; when backtracking along a path, when you reach an intersection, choose an unvisited route if any exist; otherwise, choose a route you've used once.
They exited the maze at the spot where they entered. Then again, they were lost, so any way out of the maze is a good one.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 Then again, they haven't actually said on TV that "24 Minutes" would be the 400th - just that the 400th would be on next Sunday