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Review: The episode starts up with a good situation to set up the main situation of Bart and Milhouse having to join separate pre-teen groups (with the two discovering Ned's Beatles shrine). This is followed by a second act that had a few hilarious moments, specifically the image of nature's wonderland before white man destroyed it and Ralph asking a wolf to be his mother. However, things go down hill with the whole "batboys for a day" sub-plot. While the laxative-filled chocolates would have been enough, the writers somewhat overkilled it thanks to Homer in idiot mode and the fight. While it was funny, it could have been much better at the end.
DYN's
the Girls Done Mild tape that Ned has? the Blue Meanie statue in Ned's Beatles shrine? Homer's Indian book has a part written by Larry Storch?
Refs.
The Art of War -Title
I Am the Walrus -Bart's "yellow custard" line
The Legend of Billy Jack (One Tin Soldier) -Community service music
Comments:
After the Simpsons (of course), the most well-known American cartoon currently on TV is South Park. Airing on Comedy Central, the show focuses on four boys who live in a small mountain town in Colorado. Much of the show's success comes from humor is a combination of very offensive and (for a animated series) very current (with an episode that spoofs Elian Gonzalez airing just a few days after government agents raided his relatives' house to get him). As Marge pointed out, South Park is definitely not for kids. In fact, it shouldn't even be on in the daytime, as the show is TV-MA.
As Homer points out, Michael Jackson is the current owner of the Beatles songs.
Joe Klemm