From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Unusual episode - refreshing in its focus (on Patty and Selma and on Maggie)   
   but still a little oddly done here and there. Though there were shades of some   
   other Maggie adventures (especially the Great Escape parody in 8F18), this   
   struck me as a little    
   more like something that was meant to be a theatrical short in the style of   
   the day care one. The Patty and Selma story was fine, though clearly not very   
   substantial, and I wasn't nuts about the reset button at the end; also among a   
   few iffy gags    
   scattered throughout, I could have really done without the multiple bleach   
   bits. Also I'm not sure why 80 is portrayed as a very-rarely-hit age.   
      
      
   DYN:   
   ...Duffman's parrot is named Hoppy (an odd name for a bird until you consider   
   he promotes beer, which is some sort of ancient hop-grain juice)?   
   ...the long line Selma says to Otto at the DMV seems to be a last minute   
   change?   
   ...Lisa's "you'll learn to do things after you're a baby" is very odd phrasing?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   9F14: Title   
   1F21: Fairly unexplained callback to Monty and Abe's wooing of Jackie   
   LABF04: That episode was named for Gone Baby Gone, which was used (with no   
   parody) for a chapter name here   
   MG42/MG43: "Possum in Peril" chapter name in Maggie's story, if not a direct   
   reference to "Maggie in Peril", is still a little amusing   
      
   Meta   
   -Lisa comments that she is already dressed up, i.e. her outfit is a dress and   
   pearls and she's only a girl   
   -Homer says Patty can't sleep on the couch because "that's where we do our   
   couch gags", and we see the crushed cars from this episode's own couch gag   
   -The LONG subtitle in Maggie's speech, which is gone in an instant, ends with   
   "If you've read all this, congratulations, you're a genius!" (har har)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)