From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Well it's been a while, eh? And the episode? I was thrown a bit by the style   
   at first, thinking what a weird gimmick doing an episode as a 70s cop show   
   was, but it really wasn't bad. (Selman episode, too.) It wasn't genius or   
   anything, either, but it was    
   pleasant, the characters felt right, and the story was decent. As the series   
   ages, forays like this are a good idea when they work (and this worked better   
   for me than, say, The Serfsons). Solid guest spots from SNL's Bill Hader and   
   Cecily Strong.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...a high amount of changed lines, judging from the number of mismatched mouth   
   movements?   
   ...another rare credits-font change?   
      
   Dedication   
   Amazingly for such a long gap in new episodes, there is quite a "fresh"   
   dedication: for multiple episode guest star Stephen Hawking, who died last   
   week on 3/14. An "IN LOVING MEMORY OF" card went before the Gracie logo, along   
   with a still frame I can't    
   quite identify offhand. The credits still ran for 48 seconds, and so in   
   addition to seeing this probably vanish on the next airing I wonder how the   
   stylized credits were shortened to fit it in. Or maybe he was significant   
   enough to stay in repeats. We'll    
   see!   
      
   Long time no see   
   The last new episode (XABF04) ran on 1/14/18, 9 weeks (63 days) ago. Is this   
   the longest time in between new episodes not counting season breaks? Depends   
   on how you count. Blood Feud (7F22) and Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?   
   (8F23) ran in the middle    
   of the summer, among a few other episodes with smaller gaps, but even though   
   at the time they were billed as summer extras or something, right now they are   
   classified with season 2 and season 3, so technically they make gaps of the   
   same 63 days and 112    
   days (16 weeks) respectively following their spring "season finales". Nothing   
   else comes close, though. Well, it's vaguely interesting that this one (which   
   also affected Family Guy and so on) occurred smack in the middle of a season.   
      
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