From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Eh, started off pretty well and the general tone was good, but the plot just   
   sort of stopped dead in the last minute as if they wrote themselves into a   
   corner (or out of time) and said oh never mind. Appropriately enough (see 5F11   
   for this joke), it was    
   an ending supplied, in a way, by Moe. Cute showtune parody opening to get us   
   in the mood, though, I liked the sub-subplot of Amish Flanders, and a few   
   pretty clever/funny gags (such as the Snoopy/Garfield joke and S   
   rdi's/Hardee's). Very very short (even    
   with the "inessential tag" before the credits).   
      
   DYN:   
   ...the music for the Star Trek couch gag seemed to take direct inspiration   
   from the score for Star Trek V (which also lacked clear direction and had an   
   unsatisfying end)?   
   ...Homer explains what IOU stands for on his IOU (for some reason - there   
   isn't really a joke)?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   KABF08: Chazz Busby returns (though Lisa doesn't seem to recognize him), and   
   just a short time later Lisa even seems to be losing her voice to smoke   
   9F15: Homer's silly union is different now (looked like "Nuclear   
   Feather-Bedders")   
      
   Meta   
   -Lisa refers to "this side of the Mississippi" and Homer isn't sure which it is   
   -One reason Lisa will be a star, besides her talent and smarts, is her   
   star-shaped head   
   -Bart says they should just get a place in NYC because they go there so often   
   (not sure this is terribly accurate)   
      
      
   TABF17 ('Cue Detective) repeat last week   
   In the east, 11/15's 7:00 airing was joined in progress because of a late   
   football game. At about 7:18, it ran that now-standard abridged NABF21 opening   
   (about 25 seconds), then about 7:22, it came back with the joining-in-progress   
   announcement and cut    
   to Alton Brown's cookoff welcome speech. That's all.   
      
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