Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Children of a Lesser Clod" (CABF16)

5/20 - TRIPLE FEATURE
7:00 - Treehouse of Horror XI (BABF21)
    Homer dies, but St. Peter sends him back to Earth to do a good
    deed in order to enter heaven; Bart and Lisa live in a world
    of fairy tales; dolphins plot to take over

7:30 - Hungry Hungry Homer (CABF09)
    Homer goes on a hunger strike to get people to listen to him when
    he discovers the new owners of the Springfield Isotopes plan to
    move the team to Albuquerque, New Mexico

8:00 - SEASON FINALE - Tall Tales (CABF17)
    While "riding the rails", the Simpsons meet a hobo who tells tales
    of American legends, leading to stories of:
    * Homer as Paul Bunyan
    * Lisa as "Connie Appleseed"
    * Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

[Listings for 5/27 were not available yet]

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes
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5/20 - What if...Fox decided to replace "Anthology of Interest II"
       with a repeat of, of all things, the latest Simpsons
       Halloween Special?
       (It's not just Futurama; the planned season finale of "King
       of the Hill" has been replaced that night with a Simpsons
       repeat as well)

[Listings for 5/27 were not available yet]

STUFF for "Children of a Lesser Clod" (CABF16) ---------------------------------------------- Written by Al Jean Directed by Mile Polcino Blackboard: TODAY IS NOT MOTHRA'S DAY Couch: Everybody is a crash test dummy, and the couch crashes into the TV (repeat of BABF04) Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Rating: TV-PG-L Overseas Animation: Akom

REVIEW: B-plus - while it was mostly just another episode, there was the occasional good moment in the YMCA scenes, and the chase scene had a few bits of "original" material, although the ending with the Teamsters joke felt a little abrupt (I was expecting some Teamsters retaliation, even if it was in the Gracie Films logo).

REFERENCES "Children of a Lesser God" (title) "The Jetsons" (George Jetson appears in Homer's morphine trip) 9F09, AABF04 (Homer in surgery) MG23, MG47, 7G02, 7F08 (Frosty chocolate milkshakes)

SORTA REFERENCE "Rocket Power" (the only other show that would have somebody say "Go Carl! Go Carl! It's my birthday! It's my birthday!")

DYN
...Burns and Grampa were playing basketball with peach baskets, which
   was invented in Springfield (Massachusetts, that is)?  (But if
   they wanted to be truly authentic, they would have used a
   volleyball)
...Lenny, Carl, Comic Book Guy, and Professor Frink are over 35?
...when Homer whispers his plan, you can understand every word?
..."boobs" and "hynie" are "swears"?
...apparently Rod and Todd are allowed to eat sugar now?
...the smiley face in the award show logo has a crooked smile?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT So where was Ron Howard?

Homer's secret play (having someone jump on someone else's back) is not only quite well-known, it's a technical foul (at least in the NCAA, according to rule 10-5-4, so forget about using it in the Final Four).

Don,

Heard anything about the behind the scenes special with the six unaired Ullman shorts that was supposed to air somtime before this summer?

Jake

Don Del Grande wrote:

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

Well, the Comic Book Guy said he was 40-something (I forget the exact age) in "Mayored to the Mob," and Lenny was in high school with Homer, so we really already knew that these two were over 35.

Even when there's a cartoon devil on the box?

Nathan

Don Del Grande writes:

Probably not. What I knew (and posted) last month was this: on March 15, someone at Akom was working on a drawing of Bill Cosby. Could this be the episode?

Guess so. (The "next season" bit was just guessing on my part, though I didn't venture a guess as to whether the Cos would play himself.) So unless someone else has a source, there's no special reason to believe Dr. Cosby will be taking parenting tips from Homer anytime soon.

I heard that Cosby would be guest-starring in the last episode of the CABF series "The Parent Rap". Looking at the description of the episode, it seems like Cosby would be the voice of the judge, which would be pretty cool.

Don Del Grande wrote:

Did anyone get a freeze frame of the blocks in the playroom? They spelled something, it looked like a name but I couldn't get it in time. Sincerely, Little Girl