From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Well, OK episode I guess. The Pokemon Go thing, faddish as the references may   
   be (I get the sense the game will soldier on a while after everyone's gotten   
   around to making fun of it), was kinda cute. Bart's plot was fine. Episode   
   extremely short.   
      
   Other notable things, though:   
   -Because this is the first new episode to air after the 30th anniversary of   
   the Simpsons' debut on The Tracey Ullman Show (4/19/87), the opening pays   
   homage to that, showing the rock-a-bye baby clip from MG01, much like the MG25   
   (Family Portrait) clip in    
   2007 in the actual 400th episode (named in this opening too).   
   -The goofy song and timeline thing after that was a little busy, but I can't   
   help but notice that in listing out milestone episodes, the producers are   
   still sticking to the fiction that the 300th episode was Barting Over (EABF05)   
   instead of The Strong    
   Arms of the Ma (EABF04).   
   -The monsters in the Gracie logo may be only the second time the visual   
   representation of the Gracie logo was changed, after BABF15. I might be   
   forgetting one if there were any more recently, and I'm not inclined to   
   include the slowed-down version in    
   DABF09.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Grampa now joins the list of characters who also have to do a blackboard   
   punishment?   
   ...Bart revels in being able to say "taking the piss"? (And it still stays   
   TV-PG!)   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   9F21: Another reference to the Beatles' "bigger than Jesus"   
   7F18: Homer once again excited to be able to use the original notches on his   
   belt   
   4F23: Agnes' silhouettes   
      
   Goof   
   Homer says "no one but you or I must know". I know Homer's not the sharpest   
   knife in the drawer, but this is such a common and maddening mistake that I   
   must mention it's "but you or me" ("but" is a preposition here and takes the   
   objective case).   
      
      
   In other news   
   Two weeks ago, WABF07 (Fatzcarraldo) ran again on Fox, and amazingly, the   
   dedication to animator Sooan Kim actually stayed! I don't know if this was an   
   oversight, a special case deemed to be less fleeting than various celebrity   
   dedications, or (along    
   with the Vin Scully retirement tribute) a new trend in actually keeping those   
   things around, but I guess we'll see. If it's a new trend, I hope older lost   
   dedications find their way BACK into episodes, at least those whose   
   distribution is not locked as    
   much as first-printing DVDs and syndication packages.   
      
   In other other news   
   On 4/14/17, there was a contestant on Jeopardy named Jim Hope. In his   
   interview, he said that he had a Simpsons character named after him (in Grift   
   of the Magi, BABF07), because he was friends with a Simpsons writer or   
   something. So that's fun.   
      
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