From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Pretty good, with a coherent plot and a bit of a classic feel. (Still   
   unreasonably short, but you know.) I see Nancy Cartwright is the credited   
   writer, making her the second cast member I'm aware of to pen an episode.   
   Well, solidly done. I also    
   appreciated the fairly natural and no-hard-feelings resolution that didn't   
   just come out of nowhere at the 20-minute mark. But who was Dave Matthews   
   voicing?   
      
   Another weird opening sequence variation, with yet another couch-gag-but-no-TV   
   as well as shortened transitions (clouds to blackboard is not new by a long   
   shot but feels strangely done).   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   RABF16: (if I have the episode right) the "one of us" parody returns   
   2F03: The Shining bartender/kill your family parody done again (without Moe)   
   DABF18/EABF07: "Sketch 'n' Etch" recalls the couch gag's "Sketch-A-Etch"   
   (interestingly, EABF07 was another Lisa episode with some plot similarities)   
      
   Meta stuff   
   Blackboard gag: I am not a grandmother (in the vein of "I am not a 32-year-old   
   woman"); is Nancy by now?   
   Mr. Largo calls attention to the mystery instrument Milhouse plays in the   
   opening sequence (no one knows what it is)   
   Homer has been eating so many eggs he thinks it's turning his skin yellow   
   Hans Zimmer is mentioned (so he also exists in this universe as well as   
   scoring The Movie and being music producer after Alf Clausen was canned)   
      
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