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   Michael Black to sparkoheaps@gmail.com   
   Re: Notes for PABF10 (Them, Robot)   
   06 Apr 12 21:09:09   
   
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   From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, sparkoheaps@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I thought the episode where Bart sneaks out of school, and ends up at   
   >> Mayor Quimby's nephew's birthday party (and then was witness to the   
   >> "beating" of the chef) was a Westworld takeoff.  Principal Skinner is on   
   >> his trail, not even letting a raging river stop him, and I'm sure that   
   >> episode had a shot from his viewpoint where there was some information on   
   >> screen that was like what Yul Brynner saw in the movie.   
   >>   
   >>    Michael   
   >>   
   >   
   > Yes. Yes it was.   
   >   
   > Itchy and Scratchy Land was also a take-off on Westworld. Westworld was   
   > a nice happy theme park populated by tame robots. But the robots   
   > malfunctioned and ran amok. Just like the Itchy and Scratchy robots.   
   >   
   Yes.  I hadn't thought of that episode, but now that you mention it, I   
   even noticed the Westworld angle when watching it.  It was very close.   
      
      Michael   
      
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