Notes for Yokel Chords (JABF09)

Well, I've said it before, but endings, endings, endings! The first act, with Bart's prank in particular, got my hopes up for a really fun episode, and I was enjoying Lisa's "Sound of Music" story with Cletus's kids as well... but it really went downhill somehow in the last act; I suppose the extra bit with Bart's psychologist wasn't too bad, but once Lisa had to get the kids out of Krusty's tour, eh, blah. To add more of a sour note to the ending, I have to wonder why the (admittedly somewhat token and bound to get cut off by Fox) song medley usually found in the credits of these episodes did not appear this time. But like I said, otherwise I found it pretty enjoyable.

DYN: ...Bart uses the correct past tense of "hang" (meaning to execute by hanging)? ...the TV-PG rating appeared at the start of acts 1 and 3, as opposed to its usual spot of the opening and (recently) act 2? ...Witney Spuckler spells her name as such (i.e. without an H)?

Previous episode references 2F15: The vending machine in the couch gag is like the soy pop machine (more so, anyhow, than any food-vending machine I've ever used) AABF15: Outsider art (this time with the cat lady) used FABF17: "The Sound of Music" plot elements also used

Goof Lisa says "cognoscentis," even though cognoscenti is already plural. (The singular form is -scente, so perhaps it was really "cognoscentes"?)

Meta-reference corner -GARY Chalmers? Well, OK... -Also, of course, Bart's nightmare of being in a family of cartoon characters, whose success also led to the Fox News Channel, and -Bart's psychoanalysis of "don't have a cow"

Other stuff The way Lisa falls down a rocky cliff during her "The Hills Are Alive" definitely reminded me of a similar gag in the opening to several episodes of Al Jean and Mike Reiss's "The Critic."

Also, I am guessing that the Dark Stanley sequence was meant to be a reference to something. The accordion music made me think first of "Amelie" (not that I thought it was a reference to *that*), and I know its director Jean-Pierre Jeunet also made a movie called "Delicatessen" which involves cannibalism - and which I haven't seen. Is that it?

I wasn't able to see this episode, due to a birthday party.

In what context did Lisa use the word "cognoscentis", did she say an entire sentence in Latin and if so what was it?

Thanks,

XINO

This coming from a man who said, back in December, 2005:

Speaking of the packaging, has anyone gotten the replacement packaging beside Eric and Mr. Garvey? FOX has cashed my parents' check six weeks ago and I'm still waiting.

Are you sure you aren't the real life CBG? Xino, what year of High School are you in right now?

Mr. Museum

Remember, Martin Prince is a master of Latin in the fourth grade. I am the wondrous wizard of Latin! I am a dervish of declension and a conjurer of conjugation, with a million hit points and maximum charisma.

I myself was not lucky enough to study Latin at that age, My school only began offering it in the seventh grade.

Mr. Garvey, si places respondere, quanta de Latina scientia tua est? Quando in primo studere incepisti?

XINO

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:54:54 -0500, Matt Garvey wrote:

I'm racking my brain to figure out the music from the Dark Stanley sequence. I'm not sure but I don't think it's from Amelie (although it's been a while since I've seen it). I want to say it's from a M Night Shamylan (sp,) movie but I can't simply place it. I can hear the music but it's maddeningly beyond my memory. Anyone have any idea?

Mike

The nature of the Dark Stanley story and the style of drawing seems to me a nod half to Edward Gorey's style and the drawings from the lurid Hoffman "children's stories" from early 19th c Germany, Struwelpeter (sp?), usually translated in Eng. as "Shock-Headed Peter." Gruesome, grim stuff for kids, but that's early-mid 19th c. German kulch for ya. Can't place the music.

On Mar 5, 3:16 am, "rmjon23" wrote:

The first thing I thought was "Edward Gorey", specifically The Gashlycrumb Tinies, which is scarier (sort of) than Struwwelpeter because it's never explained _why_ the Gashlycrumb kids die.

morb schrieb:

I cant help it, but for me the Music sounds quite like the "12 Monkeys" Theme. I have not seen "Delicatessen" for some time but the music in that movie was nothing like that.

Greetings from Germany Frankie

"Hung" sounds so much better.

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:54:54 -0500, Matt Garvey wrote:

Just wanted to note the pretty distasteful jokes regarding the stereotypical 'hick' being racist... Did anyone notice Cletus hanging a raccoon (the animal) from a tree? A pretty obvious reference...but very distasteful if you ask me, and not at all funny. The other really bad joke was when one of Cletus' kid looks at Krusty and says something like:

Kid: Hey, it's one of those big nosed guys... Krusty: Heh heh, a clown! blah blah blah... Kid: No...a Je- Krusty: JOKER!...

I mean, I get that they're playing off the stereotype that they're supposed to be racist or prejudice...but the jokes they made were pretty distasteful. I was really shocked with the raccoon bit.

Thou art too easily shocked.

Sorry, I don't really think I am. I mean, there have been some offensive jokes in the past, but I just found this one genuinely distasteful...

I mean, you get the reference right? He's not hanging an animal here...

Don't forget that Raccoon, or "Coon" is an extremely derogatory term to any person of color, and that "rednecks" (ie Cletus) would hang black people from trees?

It's a pretty obvious reference, and I think quite distasteful.

If you're not shocked by that... I dunno...

"Otiose" wrote in message news:[email]...

Would someone who has this recorded confirm this? Because I thought the joke was about a *red* nosed buy being an *alcoholic*, and that Krusty even made some reference to being all better now.

But I dunno - the Jew/Joker thing does make sense from an alliterate point of view.

-- R Flowers

I recorded this, and recognized it as being the way it is described above immediately. Oddly enough, I had no idea what was going on with Cletus hanging the raccoon until someone explained it here.

Mr. Museum

wrote in message news:[email]...

Which way? "Jew" or "alcoholic"?

Thanks,

-- R Flowers