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   Ho hum. Moe reinvents himself/has a shot at success again. Bart and   
   Abe's story was kind of interesting, probably more deserving of a main   
   plot (here barely getting any time to grow), and Lisa's was shorter   
   than some unrelated first acts. Just as well for how believeable the   
   holograms were. (Kind of interesting in a meta way that Ron Taylor is   
   himself dead now, so the show's basically doing the same sort of   
   stunt!) Back to Moe: the suicide angle was probably the most   
   interesting, but it barely showed up (and the ending was pretty oddly   
   timed). Maybe I'm feeling less charitable because of the damn car race   
   delay, but while individual moments here weren't too bad, it didn't   
   really seem to work all together.   
      
   (Interesting that there were a fair number of references to old stuff,   
   though. Bart's prank calls, Bleeding Gums, the Capital City song, the   
   use of inappropriate hold music...)   
      
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   7G06+: Bleeding Gums Murphy (and Lisa's song)   
   7F05+: Capital City song   
   HABF22: Moe's got "herringbone" eyes similar to Marge's hazel   
   8F08: Flaming Moe is on the list of Moe-themed drinks at the party   
      
   This bewilders me   
   Lady Di says in the hologram ad: "When I watch a DVD it's got to be   
   Blu-ray!" Why do people seem to think that Blu-ray is a subset of DVD?   
   I keep hearing that, often with the wording "[on] Blu-ray DVD". This   
   is just silly.   
      
   Opening   
   This is a new one, mostly. After a regular clouds-driveway-couch short   
   opening, there was no TV! Why on earth? (The episode certainly wasn't   
   running long!) The created/developed by credits ran with the rest of   
   them. Last week (RABF11) we had a similar thing but it was already   
   nonstandard with the clouds-to-couch cut. It's almost as if the   
   producers, having tired of things to vary in the new opening elements   
   (Ralph, billboard, what flies across the title, etc.), are just using   
   every damn combination of intro elements they can think of.   
      
      
   And finally   
   For whatever reason, the NASCAR race this afternoon ran four hours   
   long, and here in Eastern Time it wrapped up and made way for the new   
   Simpsons at 8:25 pm, skipping both the Simpsons repeat (RABF07) and a   
   NEW Cleveland Show (Of Lice and Men). Could someone in the west fill   
   me in on what you get?   
      
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