From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   "Mike Powell"  wrote in   
   news:MSGID_1=3a2320=2f105.0_ca1a5686_@fidonet.org:   
      
   > Reply is to a message from: Wiseguy   
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   >| Don Del Grande  wrote in   
   >| news:4n5co7921vtd2dlc6p1an08alfgmfeirmq@4ax.com:   
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   >| > Fox has announced that, instead of airing "Bart Stops to Smell the   
   >| > Roosevelts" on 4/22 at 7:00 Eastern, they will air, as part of   
   >| > their 25th Anniversary celebration, the pilot episode of   
   >| > "Married...with Children" (which did air as the show's first   
   >| > episode).   
   >|   
   >| Pilots usually do air first.  A better explanation is that it was   
   >| FOX's first prime-time broadcast episode.   
   >   
   > I assumed he was pointing fun at the fact that the first Simpson's   
   > episode to air was NOT the episode originally planned to be the   
   > first/pilot.   
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   > "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" aired first, but IIRC "Some   
   > Enchanted Evening" was intended to have been the first/pilot.  It   
   > would eventually air towards the end of Season One.   
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   > ##MMR 2.61(beta).  !link W 04-12-12 03:28   
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   The Simpsons didn't have a pilot episode.  In effect, the Tracey Ullman   
   shorts were the pilot.   
      
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