10/18 - DOUBLE FEATURE ---------------------- 7:30 - Treehouse of Horror XIX (KABF16) Homer kills people when he discovers their likenesses can be used for free in commercials; robots that can, well, transform into other things (but don't call them Transformers) stop fighting each other, and start fighting humans; "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse," and he's not in a good mood when he sees all of the dead pumpkins turned into Jack-O'Lanterns * Cities in the Eastern and Central time zones that get a 4:05 Eastern NFL game on Fox, including Philadelphia, may get this episode in progress
8:00 - Treehouse of Horror XX (LABF14) In a black-and-white segment, kids all over the world complain that there's something wrong with their TV...actually, Bart and Lisa are involved in murder caused by a prank gone too far; Moe's new microbrew makes people more romantic, thanks to its secret ingredient - Homer's blood; and, when Krusty puts mad cow meat into his Krustyburgers, it turns people into The Living Impaired - er, Zombies
10/25 - if the baseball American League Championship Series goes seven games, Fox will air game seven of that series, pre-empting the show; otherwise, Fox will air "Homer the Whopper" at 8:00 and "Bart Gets a 'Z'" at 8:30
11/1 - PRE-EMPTED for World Series Game 4
Note that if Sunday night baseball game is scheduled but rained out or has a lengthy rain delay, Fox may try to sneak in a Simpsons episode
STUFF for "The Great Wife Hope" (LABF16)
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Written by Carolyn Omine
Directed by Matthew Faughnan
Opening Fly-by: A stork carrying Maggie, right-to-left
Billboard: THE LEFTORIUM - Next Right (Ned)
Blackboard: I AM NOT ALLERGIC TO LONG DIVISION
Couch: Everyone notices the couch is missing, resulting in a chase
that ends with them getting on the couch in orbit, then
returning to Earth (repeat of LABF01)
Special Guest Voice: Chuck Liddell, Marcia Wallace
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell,
Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
TV Rating: TV-PG-DLVREFERENCES "The Great White Hope" (title) Punt, Pass & Kick (Ultimate Punck, Kick & Choke) "When a Man Loves a Woman" (When a Man Gloves a Woman) "Rocky 3" (teased ending with Bart and Lisa about to hit each other) 2F21 (Lisa gets the better of Bart in a fight)
DYN ...this is the first time the TV has fallen in the opening when the "flyby" was right to left? ...the program Bart has signed says "King vs. Lopez"? ...the ring is a septagon, unlike UFC's octagon and TNA's hexagon (and yes, I know TNA is professional wrestling, not MMA)? ...Marge's VCR makes a TiVo noise when she fast-forwards it? (Either that, or they still have their TiVo, but it's not visible)
GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT For those of you who don't know, a "Great White Hope" referred to pretty much any white boxer who fought a boxing match against a black heavyweight champion.
The scoreboard changes between being directly over the ring and off to one side (when Marge needs to be able to see it from inside the ring).
-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M47 Chuck Liddell? What, they couldn't get somebody good, like Brock Lesnar?