3/26 - Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife (HABF08) Ricky Gervais (of the BBC version of "The Office") not only wrote this episode ,he guest voices as a man who trades wives with Homer after Homer wins a trip to Fox Studios (in a contest he entered to win a plasma TV after seeing Lenny's new one) and joins a new Fox reality series
4/2 - Million Dollar Abie (HABF09) When Grampa causes the NFL to change its mind about putting a new team in Springfield, the stadium built for it is changed to a bullring, and a botched suicide attempt gives Grampa a new lease on life, which he decides to live to the fullest - starting with fighting a bull.
4/9 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore (HABF10) Mr. Burns decides to replace Springfield Nuclear Power Plant with a plant in India, and he sends Homer there to train the new employees, but Homer lets his new authority get to his head; Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson (who voices himself), but have to devise a scheme worthy of MacGyver himself in order to get him to leave
STUFF for "Bart Has Two Mommies" (HABF07)
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Written by Dana Gould
Directed by Mike Marcantel
Blackboard: none
Couch: everybody has to crawl under laser beams to get to the couch;
after they turn off, Homer's head falls to the floor
Special Guest Voices: Antonio Fargas, Randy Johnson, Susan Sarandon,
Dave Thomas
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor,
Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Akom
TV rating: TV-PGREVIEW: B - maybe they are starting to run out of stuff to do, as
there were some scenes that immediately reminded me of the
plots to other episodes (for example, when Marge is called an
unfit mother, 3F01 came to mind). The only laugh out loud
moment was the joust Bart and Lisa had, which (along with the
return of Maude at the end) is pretty much the only thing
keeping this from a B-minus or worse.REFERENCES 1F05 (the old mill) FABF02 (Homer has a DVD player) Kaypro computers (Ned says "quid pro for the Kaypro) "Babe" (one of the animals at the museum) Aflac insurance (the "Aflac duck" is at the museum) "Flipper" (one of the animals at the museum) "Starsky & Hutch" ("Huggy Bear" is at the museum) "Dazed & Confused" (Ned says "abraised and contused") "Clue" (Rod and Todd played "Christian Clue")
DYN ...somebody other that Gilbert Gottfried voices the Aflac duck? ...in Christian Clue, the "misinformation" card has a dinosaur on it? ...Ned thinks that teeter-totters are unsafe, even though Rod and Todd have been on a trampoline (each jump brings them closer to God)? ...Bart calls the Flanders boys "Nimrod and Nimtodd"?
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT When Ned tips the FeMac box forward, the logo on the box does not move.
You don't see Homer's DVD player hooked up to the TV, yet it must be, as it is displaying an "insert a DVD" message on it.
Because baby piglets get large surprisingly fast, a significant number of different pigs portrayed Babe in each of the two movies, not just the one they imply there; note they do mention that there have been multiple Lassies. (Speaking of "Babe", neither of the two actresses who voiced the pig - Christine Cavanaugh and E.G. Daily - have ever done a voice on The Simpsons, although Cavanaugh's replacement as Chuckie on "Rugrats" was Nancy Cartwright.)
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M44 Susan Sarandon (known anti-war activist) appears on the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion - I'd better make a note of this "coincidence"