From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   I'm sure if I had any idea what (old, French?) film this was all a reference   
   to, with the tone, the title cards, Lisa's single song, and so on, I'd have   
   stronger thoughts. As it is, it was fine... I'm sure the perfect family was   
   meant to be nearly    
   insufferable, and it WAS. The most interesting part was the guilt trip Marge   
   laid on Lisa in act 3, but the final party was OK. (And was Bart's nightclub   
   room meant to be something too?)   
      
   DYN:   
   ...they actually bothered to put the newsreel in 4:3?   
   ...the "eco-friendly" light bulb turns on automatically even in the middle of   
   the day?   
      
   Previous episode stuff/meta   
   1F14: Homer sends Lisa a gif of himself receding into the hedge, as people do   
   these days as a meme   
   Also meta: Flanders says "annoyed grunt" (and later, "d'oh") as part of his   
   Homer routine.   
   Slightly meta as far as playing with catchphrases: "aaah, Sideshow Mom!"   
      
   Goof (I'm going to call it one)   
   Lisa's song ends with hoping she could be "just like... she"; it's a little   
   awkward on purpose, but I feel I must point out that "like", as a preposition,   
   takes the objective ("her"). I know "like" is often used as a conjunction   
   synonymous with "as [if]",   
    and one could argue that that usage is implied even without a verb ("like she   
   is") and it had to rhyme and all, but still, meh.   
      
   Are you ready for some football to just END ALREADY?   
   Eagles game seemed to end well before 8, but coverage ran over, so the lineup   
   started at 8:07 (Cleveland, etc.).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)