Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "American History X-cellent" (MABF08)

4/18 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 7:30 - Rednecks and Broomsticks (LABF19) Lisa comes to the aid of three Wiccans accused of making half of Springfield's citizens go blind; Cletus introduces Homer to the world of moonshine

8:00 - Chief of Hearts (MABF09) Homer and Chief Wiggum become close friends during Homer's community service stint; Bart becomes addicted to a Japanese card-and-ball game

4/25 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 7:30 - Million Dollar Maybe (MABF03) Homer misses attending a wedding with Marge because he was waiting in line for a lottery ticket, so when he wins, he's so afraid of Marge finding out the truth that he has to leave gifts for the family where they can "stumble across them"; Lisa gives the Springfield Retirement Castle a video game system

8:00 - The Squirt and the Whale (MABF14) Homer hooks up the house to a windmill in order to generate electricity, then disconnects the house from the power grid when he discovers that the power it generates becomes part of the grid; Homer and Lisa try to save a grounded whale

5/1 - To Surveil with Love (information to be announced, although the couch opening will include some sort of singalong to "TiK ToK" as part of "Fox Rocks Week")

STUFF for "American History X-cellent" (MABF08) ----------------------------------------------- Written by Michael Price Directed by Bob Anderson Billboard: DUFF 200 - Nothin' but Booze Blackboard: HOT DOGS ARE NOT BOOKMARKS Couch: Everyone sits on the couch, which is in the front yard; the front of the house falls around them (they fit through the middle upstairs window), revealing that it was just a giant piece of wood (and the house isn't there) Special Guest Voice: Joe Mantegna, Kevin Michael Richardson Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott Overseas Animation: Akom TV Rating: TV-PG-DLV

REFERENCES "American History X" (title) Pop-Tarts (Bart feeds one to Lisa's ants) 9F15 (something bad happens to a union head) The Beatles (The Stab Four) Playboy (Peephole)

DYN
...Homer's salary is somewhere around $60,000/year?
...Smithers drives what looks like a full-size version of the Malibu
   Stacey convertible?
...the name of the prison Beatles band is the StabFour (a reference
   to the Fab Four)?
...Snake reads "Peephole" magazine?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT For those of you outside of North America, alcoholic content of alcoholic beverages is measured in "proof" (short for "degrees proof"); each 1 degree of proof is 1/2 of 1% alcohol, so "Duff 200" is 200 proof, or 100% alcohol - "nothin' but booze".

Why didn't they go back after Burns when Homer, Lenny, and Carl broke him out of prison?

MONTY BURNS' BLUES Music by Alf Clausen, Lyrics by Michael Price --------------------------------------------- Oh, I live me in a mansion Full of those Grecian urns But I'm lonely all the livelong day That's the blues of Monty Burns He's got the blues...the I've got no problems blues Ohhh...my tapestry's medieval My heart, it's evil too But that don't mean I don't need love

Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

The couch gag could have been a reference to the Buster Keaton movie "Steamboat Bill, Jr." where a side of the house falls on him and he is standing right where a open window falls on him.

Once Upon A Time, Wiseguy wrote:

I heard that Keaton gag took three takes. The first two times the house fell firectly on top of him, killing him each time. Sad.

** Captain Infinity

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Wiseguy wrote:

I suspect that joke was used quite a bit, it sounds familiar.

Also, in "The Dirty Dozen" where they are putting together the camp, there is a scene where Lee Marvin is standing somewhere and suddenly a wall goes up around him, but he's safe because he's standing where the doorway is.

Michael

Michael Black wrote:

Benny Hill did his own version of it, with the "prop" facade, similar to the Simpsons version (except that it was on a sound stage rather than outdoors).

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

is

a) Buster Keaton did it first b) The Buster keaton scene is better known c) This is a real reference compared to some manufactured reference (something bad happens to a union head, etc.) d) I'm right