Upcoming Episodes plus STUFF for "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)

5/16 - DOUBLE FEATURE --------------------- 8:00 - Bart-Mangled Banner (FABF17) "The Simpsons are off to...do some hard time" when Bart accidentally moons the USA flag

* NOTE TIME * 9:30 - The Wandering Juvie (FABF11) For those of you interested in more Simpsons Behind Bars, Bart gets sent to juvenile detention after he tries to stage a fake wedding and run off with the gifts

5/23 - SEASON FINALE - Fraudcast News (FABF16...or is it 18?) One thing stands in the way of Mr. Burns owning all of Springfield's media outlets: Lisa's homemade newspaper

5/30 - PRE-EMPTED for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR auto race

STUFF for "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
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Written by J. Stewart Burns
Directed by Mike B. Anderson
Blackboard: none
Couch: Somebody throws knives at the wall as if the Simpsons are in a
       knife-throwing act (repeat of FABF03)
Also Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell,
               Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott
Overseas Animation: Rough Draft
TV Rating: TV-PG-V

REVIEW: B - the same old "let's have a flashback where it turns out
        just about everybody involved is just a younger version of
        who they are now".  The only notable thing about it was
        Milhouse's comment at the end of act two referencing what
        happened in act one.

REFERENCES "The Way We Were" (title) 7F12, 8F10, 3F06, BABF22 (flashbacks to "young" Homer's life) 7F21, 8F15 (flashback to "young" Marge) 8F22 (Milhouse kisses someone in Bart's treehouse) 5F01 (mention of Homer hiding a gun from Marge) 2F15 (mention of Lisa's "wedding in the future") EABF06 (mention of Homer suing the church) Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision (Homer deciding whether to "row" or "wade") "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Bart getting Milhouse and Ralph to do chores for him) "The Beverly Hillbillies" (Homer, like Jethro, treats a court recess like an elementary school recess) Screaming Yellow Zonkers (in Marge's dream after the kiss) Quisp Cereal (the alien in Marge's dream after the kiss) Kool-Aid (in Marge's dream after the kiss)

SELF-REFERENCES Homer naming different decades for when he was 10 years old Moe saying "And that's the origin of that" after Marge's call

DYN
...that wasn't Frank Welker as Santa's Little Helper - had it been,
   it would have tied the record for most "Also Starring" voices
   (six, in 1F18, which had Doris Grau instead of Karl Wiedergott)?
...young Moe's hair is black, as was "current" Moe's in the first
   season?
...Homer's "row v. wade" joke is similar to one from the late 1980s:
   "Roe vs. Wade - What are two ways Dan Quayle considers to cross
   the Potomac River?")
...Helen Lovejoy, Luann Van Houten, Cookie Kwan, Patty, and Selma were
   at the camp?
...Chief Wiggum, Joe Quimby, and Comic Book Guy were at the fat camp?

MARGE'S CALL TO MOE
Marge: Hello?  I'd like to speak to Elvis Jagger Abdul-Jabbar.
Moe: Hey, don't you try and prank me with a false name.  I will rip
     out your intestines and use them to make a lanyard!  Hello?
     Hello?  Ooh...  And that's the origin of that.

GOOFS / FREEZE FRAME / WHATNOT Switchblades swing out from the side; Homer was holding it so close that the ejecting blade should not have hurt his eye like it did.

The flashbacks must have taken place in the 1970s, as the "PG" movie rating did not exist before then (in the 1960s, it was "M"; later, it was changed to "GP", then "PG"); also, Lew Alcindor did not change his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar until after he graduated from UCLA in 1969.

When the heart stone broke, the pieces didn't look like they could be fit back together, but in the end, they could.

It has now gone past the point where "Lisa's Wedding" could take place "as envisioned", as on August 1, 2010, Lisa will only be about 14 years old.

-- Don S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!) f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M42 And next week, more goofs about San Francisco from someone who lives in that area (I'll start off with a reference: "Too Close for Comfort" (Oakland is mentioned as being less expensive))

Don Del Grande wrote in message news:...

All of those were in Homer's dream.

SLH is always voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

More of a reference than a DYN, I think.

DYN worthy?

I'm sure there'll be tons about Alcatraz, seeing as it hasn't even open to visitors since 9/11.

Steve Brown wrote:

I think Dan only does the anthropomorphic stuff ("I don't know, Davey...," "Chewie?"), and Frank does the feral noises.

Matt Garvey wrote in message news:...

Well, he made noises last night. And the Complete Guide to OFF says Dan does it. SLH's noises always sounded kinda human to me anyways, unlike Frank Welker's characters. But I dunno, maybe you're right.

Steve Brown wrote:

Especially from those of us who have lived for over 40 years in the San Francisco area. For example: you can't swim from Alcatraz to Oakland in a straight line - if you don't run into Treasure (or Yerba Buena) Island (the islands that anchor the two sides of the Bay Bridge), you reach either Emeryville (just north of Oakland) if you go to the north or Alameda (just west of downtown Oakland) if you go to the south.

(And I wonder how San Francisco's Fox affiliate feels about the "Oakland" joke, considering that its studios are in Oakland?)

-- Don

Someone should inform the National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/welcome.html

Somebody claiming to be Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

There is no "there" there. :-)