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From: epwise@yahoo.com
Matthew Garvey wrote in news:89a8e271-5ab9-429b-8465-
ffe39f031ef7@e13g2000yqp.googlegroups.com:
> 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.
>
That's fair. Blame an episode itself for a broadcasting delay.
Still waiting to read your script for a perfect episode that includes a
hundred "references" to past episodes that you love to compile but at the
same time not repeat any plot point from the past 527 episodes.
> (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.
>
DVD can mean Digital Video Disc. A Blu-ray is technically also a digital
video disc. DVDs came first. A Blu-ray is an improvement of that
technology. Both are readily available. What's silly about it?
> Opening
> This is a new one, mostly. After a regular clouds-driveway-couch short
> opening, there was no TV! Why on earth?
Because that's the way they wanted to do it. When you create your better-
than-Simpsons series you can do it your way too.
> (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.
You mean "Last week ("Pulpit Friction" RABF11) we had..."
> 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.
>
>
You complain if they do things the same as past episodes ("Ho hum. Moe
reinvents himself/has a shot at success again.") You complain if they do
things differently ("This is a new one, mostly. After a regular clouds-
driveway-couch short opening, there was no TV! Why on earth?") The
operative word here is "complain."
> 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?
>
Why refer to Simpsons by production number and Cleveland Show by title?
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