From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Here comes season 27. Episode was OK. Not sure it gave anything meaningful as   
   a troubles-in/strength-of-marriage installment, and most of what it did aim to   
   go for (which was nice) seemed unnecessarily complicated by the multiple   
   levels of it's-all-a-   
   dream (or-is-it?) and straying off topic. Plus, considering the publicity   
   machine back in the spring and summer teasing it as Homer and Marge getting   
   divorced for real (not only wasn't it real, it wasn't even as far as   
   divorce!), and the way the episode    
   title practically telegraphed it would be a dream... it wasn't easy to take it   
   seriously. I like Lena Dunham well enough and her character was inspired more   
   than some of the other celebrity castings with almost unrecognizable voices.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Marge's voice seems really worn out now? (Or is it the sad version we get   
   for relationship troubles in general?)   
   ...when Homer marries himself in a thought bubble, he puts the ring on the   
   index finger (usually the show uses the middle finger)?   
   ...Marge's line about taking time "for your father and me" to work out their   
   problems seems to have been originally animated for the gramatticaly incorrect   
   "for your father and I" and then rerecorded?   
   ...Homer falls asleep on a purple octopus toy in the pharmacy, a lot like the   
   vacation photo shown much earlier?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   9F21, AABF16: Beatles album cover parodies   
   8F21: Spinal Tap referenced, though now Homer seems to be a fan   
   1F11: Homer showering at SNPP   
   3F24, 9F08: Coyote and clown bed the more hallucinatory in nature of callbacks   
   we see in Homer's trip   
      
   Meta   
   -Marge's license plate is EP7G08 (as in episode 7G08, first episode aired)   
   -Homer to Lenny and Carl: "You guys missed a very sad montage"   
      
   On dead people   
   Sam Simon is still listed as both show developer (which I expect to stay for   
   the show's entire run) and executive producer; I guess if he is de-listed as   
   EP it will be after this production season (TABF).   
   And I mentioned these when they happened, but over the summer a few   
   dedications were attached to repeats: Alex Rocco in Peeping Mom/TABF11 #3   
   (7/26), and Ricky Manginsay in Bull-E/TABF15 #3 (8/30). They didn't crop up   
   here, so I imagine those will be    
   their only appearances.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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