From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   This episode was very uneven. I liked the general ideas behind the plots   
   (Apu's being stuck in the past, Bart's prank subplot), and some of the gags   
   were funny, but it was also very over the top and full of stupid gags and   
   situations that made no sense.    
   I'm not sure what was going on with the season 1 characterizations of the kids   
   at times, either.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...the spoken statue commercial disclaimer had extremely long gaps for some   
   reason?   
   ...Jay/Jamshed spells "chickpea" as two words and says "ATM machine"?   
   ...this is the second episode in a row (VABF04 last week) with the final issue   
   of a magazine (Giving Up, Thing)?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F20: Title influenced by this, I suppose (or else it would just have been   
   about Nothing), though the basic story seemed a little more like 1F10's   
   3G03: Shary Bobbins in cloud intro (and sucked into "O" in Simpsons like the   
   jet engine)   
   9F01: Springfield Volunteer Fire Department, still with Krusty (and Skinner),   
   but now minus Apu and Wiggum!   
   3F19: Homer mocks Abe's "dickety" thing   
   4F07: Apu's jacked-up prices during the hurricane noted   
      
   Meta   
   Several very old things came back up again, including "I didn't do it, nobody   
   saw me do it, you can't prove anything", "ay caramba", El Barto graffiti, and   
   Bart and Lisa tormenting Abe. Not sure why (was there a point to be made?).   
   A bit more deconstruction of the strangling, too, and perhaps a reason Bart   
   seems really into A Clockwork Orange.   
      
   Finally   
   In an interesting coincidence, the new Bob's Burgers right before this episode   
   (5ASA12, The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, and Her Lover, whose title reference   
   I get primarily thanks to HABF15) had a running gag about Indiana Jones.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)