From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Ehh. A bit of a miss for Selman. I enjoyed the overall idea of the terrible   
   Dune-like production, but it was really distracted by the Homer and Marge   
   "scandal" that meant nothing and too many cutesy mythology gags. I think 30   
   years in we might be able to    
   handle an episode that just... doesn't have the Simpsons in it. I'd take an   
   episode entirely about Krusty. Who, by the way, we might recall was   
   established as unable to read in the "past". I liked the Buster Keaton   
   house-falling gag.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...past Herman had two arms, past McCallister had two good legs, etc.?   
   ...this was rated TV-14-LSV for some reason?   
   ...Krusty can somehow recall a vision Homer had, while alone, of his three   
   future kids?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   7F06: Homer's gorge fall briefly recreated   
   3F24: Homer's desert/coyote theme quoted   
      
   I thought them cars went real fast   
   Yay, football season is over! Time for preemption and delays from other   
   sports! This Nascar race was supposed to be over by 6:30, but it took forever,   
   and even though the race itself was over by 7:40 or so, the Simpsons and Bob's   
   Burgers repeats in the 7-   
   8 hour were completely preempted. In fact, WJW appears to be responsible for   
   messing up a local ad insertion, even though the Fox network feed seemed to be   
   on time for the start of the new episode, so I missed the first 30 seconds or   
   so. Did other    
   Eastern Timers with the race preemptions see the entire opening? (I was able   
   to determine because of the credits that the opening was very short, possibly   
   clouds-only, or it might be clouds-couch-no-TV as the last few episodes have   
   been.)   
      
   Also, was there anything weird about the 7:00 repeat of Krusty the Clown   
   (XABF22)? I wasn't expecting anything but I did want to see if the weird   
   Halloween/Thanksgiving line two minutes in stayed, as it seemed like a   
   last-minute addition last time. On    
   the other hand, I'll assume it didn't have anything like...   
      
   Another dedication!   
   This time, before Gracie logo, it's a rare crew dedication, IN LOVING   
   MEMORY/SIMPSONS PRODUCTION MANAGER/TRISTA NAVARRO, under a cartoon rendering   
   of her. I assume we won't see that aired again, but then again, the crew ones   
   seem more likely to stay put.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)