From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Well, for a fantasy episode, this was cute, and I liked the more traditional   
   progress and anti-establishment jabs, and there was some Selman strength, but   
   I had a hard time getting into the total mishmash of mythologies and whatnot   
   all thrown together.    
   It was above average, at least, and of decent length. See also below for some   
   season-29 stuff I'm less crazy about!   
      
      
   DYN:   
   ...Marge's mom shows up for the first time in a while?   
   ...the joke store names include both Urban Outhouses *and* Rural Outfitters?   
   ...they also include "David's Merkins" (as in producer David Mirkin from years   
   ago)?   
      
   Previous episode thing   
   3F15: the word "swain" used again   
      
   Meta   
   Moe prank raven (Milady Potts), Abra-caramba, etc.   
      
      
   This airing only   
   After act 3 and execs, there was a few-second-long thing of various characters   
   gathered around a Puerto Rican flag and the word UNIDO, and I guess that's for   
   the recent hurricane relief effort or other political considerations around   
   it. Don't expect to    
   see that on repeats.   
      
   NOT this airing at all   
   It's a new season after a few celebrity deaths. I'm pretty surprised there was   
   no dedication to Adam West (or Hugh Hefner in a milder but more recent case).   
   Family Guy seems more likely to claim Adam West, and perhaps the producers are   
   letting them have    
   it, though tonight's episode did not include such a dedication (perhaps, like   
   with Carrie Fisher, they're waiting till his new material is gone).   
      
      
   New for season 29?   
      
   There was no Gracie Films logo at all. This confuses me. I assume James L.   
   Brooks is still actually producing the show and so on - but then again Sam   
   Simon's still credited! Without that, the credits were actually under time too.   
      
   And just a few weeks ago, composer since season 2 Alf Clausen was   
   unceremoniously dumped from the show. I thought his contributions might stick   
   around at least through the end of the WABFs, though historically his end   
   takes place closer to the airdate,    
   so this might actually make sense, but tonight's episode indeed drops him.   
   After Danny Elfman's score credit, there are these credits:   
   Score by Bleeding Fingers Music   
   Score Producers Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel   
   Score Exec Produced by Steve Kofsky   
   And several credits later, bewteen music editing and sound effects, Alf is   
   credited as Composer Emeritus. So that's... something. I also can't help but   
   think of Alf's snub on the Movie, where Zimmer got it instead.   
      
      
   Don alert   
   In Cleveland, the 7:00 airing of VABF22 was joined in progress. About 7:19 we   
   got the short NABF21-style JIP opening, and at about 7:23 it cut into the last   
   few minutes of the episode with the traditional note (though last week or so   
   it skipped such a    
   note!). There you go!   
      
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