Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Homerazzi" (JABF06)

4/1 - Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times (JABF05) The family tell tales of revenge gone bad in an attempt to keep Homer from going after someone who cut him off on the road: in pre-revolutionary France, Moe frames Homer for treason; Milhouse uses a glove meant to punish bullies for his own vendettas; Gotham City's young Bart Simpson becomes Bartman in order to find his parents' killer

4/8 - Little Big Girl (JABF04) Lisa decides to spice up a school report on her family by claiming she is a Native American, only to end up having to give the keynote speech at the National Native American Tribal Council; when Bart is given his choice of reward for stopping a major fire, he asks for a driver's license, but after he gets sick of being the family chauffeur and errand boy, he drives off to North Haverbrook, where an older girl (who assumes he's at least 16 if he has a license) falls for him

4/15 - EARLY DOUBLE FEATURE 7:00 - Springfield Up (JABF07) 32 years ago, and every eight years since then, documentary filmmaker Declan Desmond has been filming Springfield's citizens to see how they have changed over the years, but he becomes suspicious when Homer suddenly appears to have become a millionaire 7:30 - Yokel Chords (JABF09) WARNING: MUSICAL ALERT The Simpsons do Mary Poppins - no, Evita - no, My Fair Lady - no, it's The Sound of Music this time, as Lisa agrees to tutor Cletus's kids (after Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers won't let them into Springfield Elementary), only for Krusty to hear them singing and turn them into an act for his show * Fox is airing the premiere of "Drive" at 8:00

STUFF for "Homerazzi" (JABF06) ------------------------------ Written by J. Stewart Burns Directed by Matthew Nastuk Blackboard: GLOBAL WARMING DID NOT EAT MY HOMEWORK Couch: A single Homer cell starts dividing, then evolves through time into Homer Special Guest Voice: Jon Lovitz, J.K. Simmons, Betty White Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Rough Draft TV Rating: TV-PG

REVIEW: B-Plus - this is probably just me, but somehow, while a clip show gets to be boring, a show of references seems to be a good idea. Unfortunately, there was just something with the ending that didn't take.

REFERENCES 8F13 (Jose Canseco) 8F19 (Lurleen Lumpkin) 9F03 (Maggie driving a car) 9F19 (Gabbo) 1F13 (Homer on the Space Shuttle) 2F10 (family photo album) 3F03 (Paul McCartney) BABF07 (Gary Coleman) BABF11 (Betty White) GABF02 (Yao Ming) FABF10 (Paris) FABF14 (Florida) "The Tracey Ullman Show" (The "Happy 1987" photo has Homer, Bart, and Lisa as they appeared on that show) "Star Trek: Voyager" (re-enacting watching the final episode) "Mr. Mom" ("Mrs. Mom")

DYNs
...this is the first time they have celebrated Homer's birthday?
   (Actually, if you go by the date on his driver's license, he was
   in a coma on his birthday in 9F17)
...the show can afford to use "Happy Birthday"?
...there's a picture of Maggie in this photo album?
...Homer has met who I assume are Mike Myers (in his Austin Powers
   persona) and Jimmy Durante?
...in commercials for the episode, the line "I also wreck bar
   Mitzvahs" (when Homer goes back into the waterfall the first time)
   was, "This counts as a bath"?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Homer's cake goes from having 13 candles to 12.

An episode of "Jeopardy!" once had the answer, "She was Mrs. Mom". (The question being, "Who is Teri Garr?")

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M45 After 4/15, "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" and "Homerazzi" will be the only two unrepeated episodes from this season

"Don Del Grande" wrote in message news:[email]...

Wow... by the time we see a new "Simpsons," I will have forgotten to file my taxes.

For those of us that became hopelessly infatuated with Jeri Ryan in her Borg body suit, Lenny appearing in same is a splash of cold water.

Are you sure that wasn't Elton John?

-- R Flowers

R Flowers wrote:

My bad - although I didn't recognize him, mainly because I don't associate him with the glasses his character was wearing. Then again, I didn't recognize Bruce Jenner when he appeared on "Identity", either.

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote:

Just in case, anyone who cares, you might want to fire up your VCRs for this repeat; the original airing was pretty short (but then compare tonight's), and perhaps might have been trimmed in order to fit in the movie trailer. Just hedging my bets, though.

Add in AABF11, too; Elton John was one of the celebs I recall from the montage, though you appear to have him pegged as Austin Powers.

What are you referring to exactly? I'm just a little forgetful. (Homer's birthday was mentioned, if not celebrated, in 3G01 as well, by the way.)

"Don Del Grande" wrote in message news:[email]...

I'm pretty sure both lines were in the show.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf wrote:

If he said it, it was in a different part of the show.

Here's what Homer said: On the way in: Up, up, and annoy! On the way out: I also wreck bar Mitzvahs! On the way in the second time: First amendment rules, privacy drools!

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote:

Fun Fact: There's an episode of Sports Night where one of the anchors gets called on the carpet by a woman from the business affairs department for singing "Happy Birthday" on the air and getting the channel hit with a big bill. And the woman who lowers the boom is played by Yeardly Smith.