From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   I don't really know what this episode is referencing the plot of, but overall   
   I did like the concept. It was interesting and made for some nice uses of   
   older characters, and it wasn't profound or moving, but it was still neat. The   
   VHS opening gags,    
   though a few a little too silly and others a bit on the nose, were pretty fun   
   overall. The only thing that didn't do it for me was the act 4/coda montage of   
   how various characters die. That and the incredible shortness.   
      
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   Movie: "Wedding video/Alaska tape"   
   DABF06: Milhouse still doing the Budweiser "wazzup?"   
   3G03: Shary Bobbins among many other previously-known characters' ghosts   
   BABF10: A clip (properly framed) of Maude's death is shown (interestingly, it   
   sounds like the original audio was used, though Marcia Mitzman-Gaven was not   
   credited)   
      
   Meta   
   The Tracey Ullman Show is one of the things in the box of tapes. Homer does   
   his old voice for a bit.   
   When Bart is struck by lightning, we see him drawn as geometric animator's   
   outlines.   
   And among various other things, the I&S theme is repurposed for the halves of   
   Bart's brain.   
      
   Dedication   
   One more for the year! Tom Wolfe apparently died on 5/14 (one of the few I   
   heard about directly from the show!), and before the Gracie logo, he gets an   
   "in loving memory" card with a still from what I assume is HABF19. Don't   
   expect it in repeats. Oddly,    
   the credits seemed shorter by a second or two, even with that in.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)