From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Pretty enjoyable installment of the oft-used Hollywood story. I was pretty   
   amused by the various pokes/slams, though many seem like they'll be pretty   
   dated soon (as will the cameos). Oh well. The change-of-heart resolution was   
   fun, but would have been a    
   better end on its own than seeing Homer change his own mind.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Marge adjusts her bust as the family prepares to go to the movies?   
   ...the backyard cinemagoers applaud when the movie ends? (This is becoming an   
   annoying trend.)   
   ...Marge's hair makes a loud squeak when it hits the door frame near the   
   middle?   
   ...the Rogen laugh to end the episode was not over the Gracie logo, a more   
   appropriate spot?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   DABF05: some of Homer's problems at the movies reminiscent of this episode   
   FABF10: Cosmic Wars (then parodying one of the Star Wars prequels) returns for   
   the upcoming Episode VII   
   LABF13, NABF10: Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd have previously guest-starred (as   
   not-themselves) (Judd Apatow had no Simpsons connection but did write and   
   produce on The Critic, for what it's worth)   
   DABF03: Erin Brockovich references/joke   
      
   Meta   
   "JOKE?" as the church marquee (meh)   
   Homer won't have to sit through another annoying commercial, right before the   
   first commercial break.   
      
   For what it's worth: Clouds-only opening, Matt Selman EP, and executive   
   producers *before* the final break and short coda/credits.   
      
   And Don: the dumb football game was over well before 8, but the    
   ootball-talkin guys kept on going, so in the East, the episode began at 8:07   
   (shifting, of course, the whole 2-hour block).   
      
      
   REPEAT NOTES from the last few weeks   
      
   RABF01 (To Cur with Love) airing #4 from 12/22 matched the first and third,   
   still including the "upcoming" fiscal cliff segment.   
      
   I didn't notice this at first, but it seems like the couch gag in SABF01   
   (White Christmas Blues) has another not-an-apostrophe (see my notes on   
   RABF16), so it says ‘TWAS the couch gag before Christmas. It seems to be the   
   same on the 12/22 repeat.   
      
   The second airing of RABF18 (Four Regrettings and a Funeral) on 12/29 I was   
   not able to watch or record, but I heard secondhand that it   
   -retained the Mrs. K blackboard tribute   
   -dropped the Marcia Wallace dedication before the credits   
   -ran a Chip Davis montage over the credits, instead of the standard credits of   
   the premiere.   
   Is that in fact correct? I sure hope that runs again, but I continue my   
   annoyance that we'll probably never see any of these dedications again. (The   
   adding of material like this is not something we see too much in repeats,   
   especially for episodes whose    
   premieres were not shortened to wedge something else in.)   
      
      
   Finally   
   I'll be among those missing your Upcoming Episodes posts, Don, if only for the   
   last-minute updates and pithy remarks. You'll still be maintaining the air   
   dates list on snpp^Wsimpsonsarchive, right?   
      
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