From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   One or two I might have saved until the new season begins, but three...   
      
   XABF21 (Werking Mom) airing 3, on 7/28/19 at 8 pm, had a new dedication: one   
   to Russi Taylor, who had died just a few days before, and was one of the first   
   major also-starring cast members to go. She was the voice of Martin, Sherri   
   and Terri, and Uter,    
   among others. Before the Gracie Films logo, a quick IN LOVING MEMORY OF/RUSSI   
   TAYLOR ran, with a stock image of Martin above it. I wouldn't be entirely   
   surprised if another ran at the season premiere, much as the case was for Phil   
   Hartman. (The funny    
   thing is that the first airing had a dedication to Stan Lee, and the second   
   had none. So three network airings with three different versions.)   
      
      
   XABF22 (Krusty the Clown) airing 3, on 9/1/19 at 8 pm, also added a   
   dedication, this time for TV legend Valerie Harper. (IN LOVING MEMORY   
   OF/VALERIE HARPER, with an image from one of her several guest spots. I'm not   
   sure which, unfortunately; her first    
   appearance was in LABF02 and this might be it.) In this case, though recent   
   dedications have shortened the credits by a second to make room, the credits   
   already ended with a very short theme sting between the final gag and the   
   Gracie logo, so this was    
   swapped into the same time, although the text of the credits was sped up.   
      
      
   And this is not a new dedication, but a reinstatement, somehow! Last night's   
   third airing of YABF01 (Daddicus Finch), 9/8, retained the premiere's   
   dedication to Ricky Jay, even though the second airing dropped it. I have to   
   wonder if that has anything at    
   all to do with the delay of the Fox comedy lineup after the football game.   
   Even though everything was a repeat, it all ran 32 minutes late instead of   
   simply preempting anything, at least here on the east coast. I can't imagine   
   how the network would have    
   any cause to pull up the wrong version *because* of the delay, but I don't   
   know how these things work. Does anyone know what happened in the west, where   
   there was no delay (or any east coast areas that perhaps didn't have a delay)?   
      
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