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   Matt Garvey to All   
   Notes for XABF04 (Frink Gets Testy)   
   14 Jan 18 18:16:24   
   
   From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Um, police? I'd like to report a missing ending. This episode just sort of   
   stopped. Anyway, it had a promising start (if one that bends the reality of   
   the show in the way that can become either great or eyerolling), but totally   
   lost track. Also, why did    
   they make such a big deal about using a "Personal Value Quotient" that   
   explicitly is about more than booksmarts and IQ, then have all the   
   consequences of the rankings focus on smarts? Super duper duper short. (Also,   
   fun fact: someone submitted the    
   episode title to online resources as "Fink Gets Testy".)   
      
   DYN:   
   ...the significant look after "after the antichrist becomes president"?   
   ...in theory "AOK" (or "A-OK") shouldn't have a period after the A?   
   ...the rankings are given by first initial and last name, even though that's   
   incredibly likely to be ambiguous, and almost seems to set us up for a   
   Maggie/Marge confusion instead of the Bart/Homer one?   
   ...the writers seem to feel Smithers is going to wind up transgender for some   
   reason?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F08: survivors envying the dead   
   AABF18: Springfield Mensa   
   4F06: aborted "rebuttal song"   
   BABF01: the ark/evacuation and taking the most valuable members of society   
   (with Bart and/or Homer left behind)   
   LABF02: Lisa's struggle with the I-beam reminiscent of the cargo container   
   (though with a different scientific principle)   
   BABF11: "Jebus" (whose help this episode is beyond)   
      
   Don:   
   Football ran pretty long, then even longer, and eventually they just pushed   
   the whole thing to a nice round half hour (so this started in the 8:30 slot at   
   the usual slightly-early 8:29).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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