Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "Little Girl in the Big Ten" (DABF15)

5/19 - DOUBLE FEATURE - NOTE SPECIAL TIMES (because of the final
       episode of "The X-Files" at 8:00)
7:00 - Brawl in the Family (DABF01 - repeat)
    When a game of Monopoly turns into a family brawl, a family
    counselor is assigned to the Simpsons...and just when things are
    back to normal, Homer gets a surprise visit - from his second
    wife (as seen in "Viva Ned Flanders")
7:30 - The Frying Game (DABF16)
    As part of his community service for threatening an endangered
    species, Homer has to take care of an elderly lady, and when she
    dies, he is accused of killing her and threatened with the
    electric chair

5/22 - SPECIAL WEDNESDAY AIRING - SEASON FINALE
       Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge (DABF17)
    Homer causes a citywide blackout, resulting in widespread
    looting - but when Lisa's saxophone is stolen, Homer takes the
    law into his own hands (say, whatever happened to the Springfield
    Cat Burglar, anyway?)

5/26 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (in the west, the
       race will be over by 8:00, but the Fox stations will show
       "local" programming instead)

Upcoming "Futurama" Episodes ----------------------------------------------------------- 5/19 - PRE-EMPTED for a Simpsons episode (moved back an hour because of the two-hour final episode of "The X-Files")

5/26 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race (in the west, the
       Fox stations will show "local programming" rather than a
       Futurama repeat - the San Francisco and Sacramento FOX stations
       are showing reruns of "Friends" and "Married...with Children"
       (followed by the movies "Days of Thunder" and "While You Were
       Sleeping") respectively

STUFF for "Little Girl in the Big Ten" (DABF15)
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Written by Jon Vitti
Directed by Lauren MacMullan
Blackboard: none
Couch: the pimple-faced teen is making out on the couch (repeat of
       DABF07)
Special Guest Voice: Robert Pinsky
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven,
               Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott
Rating: TV-PG-LV
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft

REVIEW: B-plus - definitely better than your usual episode, with Lisa being taken in different directions (she's Bartesque at times). (Of course, some people will claim that "Lisa is out of character" and this makes it "yet another example of why the show should be cancelled right now"...) Also notice how all three of the subplots (gymnastics, college, bubble) managed to intertwine at one time or another.

REFERENCE
"The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (Bart in his bubble - the TV-movie
    (starring Diana Hyland and John Travolta) is probably where the
    term became most popular)
"Blue's Clues" (Lisa says the girls don't have a Blue's clue)
"The Pink Panther" (music plays when Lisa "changes into a college
                    student")
"Underdog" ("When Nerds are in trouble, I am not slow...")
9F14 (Skinner reacts to an upcoming event in slow-motion)

DYNs
...the Olympic rings are upside-down again (on the poster inside
   Lugash's gym)?
...a plastic bubble is used to keep germs from getting out rather
   than from getting in?
...the I&S cartoon is referred to as "episode DABF06", which is the
   Simpsons episode "The Bart Wants What it Wants"?
...Principal Skinner was born in 1953?

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT For those of you in the UK, the USA Poet Laurate is not appointed for life, which is how you get "a former Poet Laureate" on the show other than having recorded the lines before death. (For those of us IN the USA, note that the Poet Laureate is appointed by the Librarian of Congress, not the President.)

What are Sherri and Terri doing in "second-grade gymnastics"?

How did the mosquito survive for three months inside the doll?

I don't think Doogie Howser was in college when he was Lisa's age - he did finish medical school by the time he was 14 (the first scene of the first episode has him taking his driving test, which meant he was at least 16), but I don't think he started college before he was 10. (He did finish high school in something like nine weeks, according to the show's opening.)

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

Won't this be the THIRD airing? Gawd, I hate Fox sometimes.

Yours truly, Some bozo

If my memory serves me correctly, on Sun, 12 May 2002 21:07:58 -0700, Don Del Grande issued the following challenge to face my invincible Iron Chefs:

... and will die in nine years?

Past Episodes:

[1F04] Presidents in Hell.

[email] wrote:

It was the estimated year of Skinner's death.