4/29 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 8:00 - The Boys of Bummer (JABF11) Bart becomes a hero when he makes the winning catch to send the Springfield Isotots to the area's youth baseball championship - then becomes the goat when he drops what would have been the championship- winning catch; Homer becomes a bed salesman after getting caught sleeping on a bed in a department store ** This is a change - "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot" was originally announced for 4/29
8:30 - Jazzy and the Pussycats (HABF18) Springfield's jazz musicians are lining up to jam with the city's elementary school sensation - Bart, who has taken up drums as a way to channel his excess energy
5/6 - DOUBLE FEATURE -------------------- 8:00 - Crook and Ladder (JABF13) Let me see if I got this straight: Homer joins the volunteer fire department...after the regular firefighters are put out of action by something caused by Homer's sleepwalking...which was brought on by the sleeping pills he took because he was kept up nights by Maggie sucking on a squeak toy...which she got because Homer couldn't find a replacement for her pacifier, which Marge threw away, and anyone who remembers "A Streetcar Named Marge" knows that it is a brave person indeed who stands between Maggie and her pacifier ** This is a change - "The Boys of Bummer" was originally announced for 5/6
8:30 - Moe'N'A Lisa (HABF19) Lisa discovers that Moe's angry rants (for example, when Homer forgets to take him fishing on his birthday) can be turned into poetry, and soon Moe is the talk of the publishing world - but Lisa also discovers that most of "Moe" is "me" when Moe takes all the credit
5/13 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 8:00 - Stop or My Dog Will Shoot (JABF12) "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, Santa's Little Helper's gonna come for you" when SLH is sent to police dog training after leading Homer out of a cornfield maze
8:30 - Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair) (HABF22) When Homer is fired, he buys an ice cream truck, leaving Marge with the sticks - which she turns into popsicle-stick statues
5/20 - SEASON FINALE DOUBLE FEATURE - TWO NEW EPISODES ------------------------------------------------------ 8:00 - 24 Minutes (JABF14) Details to be announced, although Keifer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub voice their "24" characters Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian, in what is supposedly going to be promoted as the show's 400th episode (even though it's only the 399th to air)
8:30 - (to be announced, although it will be a new episode; one source
lists an episode titled "The Kent State Massacre" (JABF15),
which may have something to do with Kent Brockman running afoul
of the FCC)5/27 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (stations in the western USA will air local programming)
THE SHORT VERSION OF THE MENTION OF "THE SIMPSONS MOVIE" IN THE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW ISSUE: * The movie was written by "11 Simpsons veterans" * There are at least 94 human speaking parts * At least 2/3 of the things in one of the trailers are no longer in the movie (they don't say which trailer, but watch one of the deleted scenes be the one where Ned points out the four states adjacent to Springfield) * ...oh, and it says nothing about the plot, other than "Worst screw-up of Homer's life."
STUFF for "Marge Gamer" (JABF10) -------------------------------- Written by J. Stewart Burns Directed by Bob Anderson Blackboard: none Couch: a newspaper headline reads, "Couch Gag Thrills Nation" (repeat of Special Guest Voice: Ronaldo Luiz Naz�rio de Lima, Marcia Wallace Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott "Merry Month of May" music by Alf Clausen, lyrics by J. Stewart Burns Animation Produced by Film Roman, "a Starz Company" Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
REVIEW: B-plus - okay, maybe it was the computer nerd and soccer fan inside of me, but I liked the two stories better than usual this week. Plus, how can you give a bad review to Ronaldo? I mean, come on - Ronaldo! Okay, that second goal in the 2002 final was mainly because everybody in the planet expected Rivaldo to shoot, but as they would probably say in England, "the dummy that Rivaldo sold the Germans by letting the ball go to Ronaldo was probably the very one Maggie was sucking on in this episode".
REFERENCES 5F06 (realtor mentioned on Google) 9F13 (orange drink at a school function) FABF13 (Camp Landaman mentioned on Google) HABF22 (popsicle stick artist mentioned on Google) "Bend It Like Beckham" (Lisa watches it) 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer Final (Homer rips off his shirt to show a sports bra, the way Mia Hamm did) Hello Kitty (Bart's trophy room)
DYN ...the "PTA Meeting" is being run by just Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers - neither of which is a teacher or, unless there's something we don't know about Chalmers, a parent of a student? ...Marge uses Wahoo, Yipee, AOK, and Pooka-Dooka as terms for the Internet? ...Marge's birthday is October 1 (Randy Quaid's birthday)? ...they never do give out an E-mail address for Marge? ...except for the one in the game's introduction, all of the speaking characters are Springfield regulars? (Perhaps the game puts all of the people from Springfield onto the same server) ...Google has references to Marge Simpson as a "Springfield Folk Artist" (because of her popsicle stick sculptures), an alumnus of Camp Landaman, a former realtor (one home listed, none sold), and Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1972 to 1978? ...you never actually see the "G" in Google? ...according to one of the Google entries, Marge's father was a flight attendant for Braniff (the airline seen at the end of "South Park")? ...Marge has a dot-matrix printer somewhere? (The paper on which the list of houses she had was the kind with multiple perforated sheets and holes on the sides; modern laser and inkjet printers use separated standard-sized sheets of paper) ...Earthland Realms is run entirely through a website, rather than requiring separate software? ...when Homer scored a goal, she scored it for Lisa's opponents? ...Homer's yellow card was made of something that could be torn? (Usually they are made of plastic) ...when Marge's character is reincarnated, she changes from a cleric to a warrior? ...Homer turns his referee's shirt into yet another one of his white shirts? ...apparently, Ronaldo, one of Brazil's sports heroes, doesn't seem to mind all of the things the show has said about Brazil in the past? ...none of the three websites visible when Marge Googles herself work? (Occasionally, they point to sites put up by the show's staff.)
WHERE'S SPRINGFIELD THIS WEEK? Not in Pennsylvania; Marge says she has to go there to get paper towels
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Even in youth leagues, a team's goalkeeper has to wear something different from the other players (so you can tell who the goalkeeper is), yet Janey's uniform is the same as everybody else's.
The scoreboard says "Period 3" - but soccer is played in halves. (Well, there are two possibilities: either this league plays in quarters to give the kids some time to rest during the game, or it's one of those leagues where they'll do pretty much anything to avoid having games end in a tie.)
John S. Wilder was Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1971 until 2007. No one named Simpson (or Bouvier, for that matter) has ever held that position.
Marge was using Lisa's laptop, but the computer Bart was using looked nothing like the computer Marge got from Ned in HABF07.
In the version of "Bend It Like Beckham" Lisa sees, the young woman says she wants to play soccer - but in reality, she says "football", as the movie is set in England.
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 Korea hosted the World Cup not too long ago - you would think somebody there would have noticed "Period 3"