Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19)

12/7 - Today I am a Clown (FABF01)
    Homer guests hosts "The Krusty the Clown Show" while Krusty gets
    ready for the bar Mitzvah he never had

12/14 - 'Tis the Fifteenth Season (FABF02)
    When Homer sells a Joe DiMaggio rookie baseball card but spends
    the money on himself, then sees "A Christmas Carol" on TV, he
    thinks that maybe that wasn't such a good idea...but is the world
    ready for a kinder, generous Homer?

STUFF for "The Fat and the Furriest" (EABF19)
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Written by Joel H. Cohen
Directed by Matthew Nastuk
Blackboard: none
Couch: Homer goes through the "Get Smart!" opening, but when he drops
       down from the telephone booth, he lands seated on the couch
       (repeat of DABF20)
Special Guest Voice: Charles Napier
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Toonzone Entertainment
(as this is Toonzone Entertainment's first episode, I'll list the
 overseas animation director: Eom Hyoung Sik)
TV Rating: PG-LV

REVIEW: B - okay, there were a few laughs in this one (which is why
        it isn't, say, a B-minus), like Homer sticking his head in
        the cotton candy machine, but it seems to me that we've seen
        this episode before (and we have; it's mainly "Bart Gets an
        Elephant", but with Homer instead of Bart and a bear instead
        of an elephant).

REFERENCES ---------- "The Fast and the Furious" (title) "VeggieTales" (Homer sees a show about "biblical vegetables") Harriet Tubman ("Hairy-ass Tubman") - she was one of the leaders of the "underground railroad" that helped get slaves in the southern USA to the north where they could be free 2F06, "Gummi Bears" (Homer has issues with something "gummi") "Teddy Grahams" (attacking Homer in his vision) Berenstain Bears (Maggie has one of their books) Smokey the Bear (attacking Homer in his vision) The Chicago Bears (attacking Homer in his vision) Care Bears (attacking Homer in his vision) 7G09 (bears turn out to be friendly) 1F13 (Homer's astronaut suit in the "suit closet") 2F32 (Starland Vocal Band)

SELF-REFERENCES Bart says he would put caramel on his shorts so he could "eat my shorts"

DYNs
...Springfield has an OTB?  (That's "off-track betting" - in other
   words, a bookmaker, but it only takes bets on horse racing; does
   any state besides New York call it by those initials?)
...in Springfield, carpools only need two drivers?
...they mention the $10,000 bounty on the bear on the radio, but none
   of the hunters mention it?
...there's a "Reserved for DVDs" section of the dump, but no "Reserved
   for VHS tapes" (which is where they will be, joining their Betamax
   cousins, when recordable DVD becomes "mainstream")?
...Maggie's bedroom carpet has a large tic-tac-toe (naughts and
   crosses) board on it?
...the hunter ate an entire eagle, claws and all?
...Homer's suit had a "bulletproof bucket" helmet?
...there really is an "oldcoot.com" that has nothing to do with the
   show?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT When Homer tries to pull Rod and Todd from the cotton candy/caramel ball, the cotton candy stretches like gum; in reality, cotton candy would just "pull off". (Yes, there is caramel involved, but it doesn't appear to be in the parts that are stuck to the kids.)

When Marge opens her present, only one of the two remaining mugs (Bart's and Maggie's) is there.

Homer was barefoot when he was first in the cave with the bar, but when he discovered the tag, his shoes were back on - and then they were off again for the rest of the scene.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M41

Homer tossed his mug over his shoulder, and we could hear it break, when Homer and the kids gathered in the hallway in the very beginning of the episode.

Arne.

Maybe I should read before replying next time.

Sorry.

Arne

"Arne Jervell" <jervell hotmail com> wrote in message news:3fcb06c2$[email]...

"Martin Schmidt" wrote in message news:bqfkjl$20vh9m$[email]...

Yeah, the LIE(long island expressway) only requires two people in the car to pass the HOV monitors.

Regards,

John

Here, from articles in the newspaper, it would seem that taxis are allowed in express lanes. As in, the taxi driver and the passenger count as 2 people in the car, so they are allowed.

When this was first implemented, I wrote my provincial representative asking what the point of it was, since it really isn't two people in the car. They aren't doubling up, one is simply driving the other. Never did get an answer, but then the guy got into some flack for being driven around by a chauffeur.

Michael

{{ but it seems to me that we've seen this episode before (and we have; it's mainly "Bart Gets an Elephant", but with Homer instead of Bart and a bear instead of an elephant).}}

What did this episode have to do with Bart Gets An Elephant? At all? Besides a Simpson making friends with an animal.. Bart gets a pet with an Elephant who turns out to be a jerk, Homer is attacked by a bear, and is accused by the media to be a coward so he tries to hunt down the bear, only to find out that the bear wasn't so bad after all, then helps the bear get to safety using the very armor he had intended to use to beat the bear in an effort to protect him.

Two very different stories. This one, I liked more than Bart's story.

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"I still hate your signature"-- T.G.

"Martin Schmidt" wrote:

Actually, it varies in California; the really busy ones (for example, the carpool lane approaching the Bay Bridge from the Oakland side) require three. (It's also a requirement to be able to cross most of the area's bridges for free during commute periods.) However, they do make an exception: only two people are necessary if there are only two seats in the car.

-- Don

Wow. Do you know anything else about this? There hasn't been a new overseas animation company since season 4 (Rough Draft started working on The Simpsons then). Is this going to be their only episode? If not, what does this do to the odd-even pattern that's been followed since season 11?

Jerry P. http://members.aol.com/jibberuski

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Don Del Grande wrote:

I thought they called him "Hairy-Ass Truman" (Harry S Truman).