From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Big milestone, episode 666. And it was fine, I guess. Certainly more spooky   
   and ghostly than many Treehouses, so I give it credit there. VERY SHORT, so no   
   credit there.   
      
   Opening   
   I've seen The Omen. Cute enough.   
   It has all the opening credits here, instead of at the start of act 1. Just to   
   avoid ruining the aesthetic of the Stranger Things parody?   
   The mark of the beast (the first one) is Mickey Mouse, but in the promos for   
   the show it was Bart. More claim to fair use in the episode itself than in the   
   ads? (See also at least one Halloween credit, "Denise+" in the Disney logogram   
   style, to go with    
   the Simpsons' importing to that service.)   
   I'm sure there was no way Fox would actually have run this as episode 667.   
   It's been a year since they announced this particular coincidental timing. On   
   the other hand, if Jim Brooks gets his way, doesn't that make this 665? (See   
   below.)   
      
   Danger Things   
   I finally saw ALL of Stranger Things this spring and summer. Not terribly   
   impressed by that show, and the parody was fine, but confusing in its   
   adaptation. As a string of gags (and playing with the 80s, which is also, I   
   assume, why the Ullman short    
   versions of Lisa and Bart appear) it was amusing, at least.   
   AABF12: Lisa in a sensory deprivation tank   
   Dead Uter in the "over under": a nod to Russi Taylor's passing this summer, or   
   just a coincidence?   
   Is "someone hasn't seen very much of season 3" a nod to the writers' need to   
   get this all written fairly early? But the entire season came out at once.   
   Given an 8-hour binge period, how does someone see part but not all of it for   
   research?   
      
   Heaven Swipes Right   
   I have no idea what, if anything, this is based on. I found myself mostly just   
   being confused by the "rules" of both the body takeovers and how people see   
   and hear the result.   
   Professor Farnsworth is among Homer's choices for a new host body.   
      
   When Hairy Met Slimy   
   I haven't seen The Shape of Water. Is this close to the plot? Might be the   
   best TOH-style story this time around, especially with a good classic use of   
   Kang and Kodos.   
   9F15: Mr. Burns vulture   
   4F02: Tiny village in a jar reminiscent of The Genesis Tub   
   Kodos was introduced as female, so even without "32 sexual identities" I'd buy   
   a romance with Patty.   
      
   XXX/666   
   You know, I distantly remember a day when I would examine montages and   
   collages of past episode clips and stills to see just what was what. I even   
   noticed a few missing and out of order couch gags in PABF07, back when 500   
   episodes was monumental AND I    
   was still going by VHS. Well, I can't do it now. Partly it's fatigue and   
   partly it's the tiny image on my standard-def recording. But I'm curious to   
   see how 666 episodes were represented at the end, and when I get a good HD   
   copy I'll check it out more.    
   Looks like 36 rows, meaning (exactly) 18.5 episodes would need to be in each   
   row to make 666, and maybe it got close? What I really want to see is if 7F24   
   got left out!   
      
   Delay of game   
   This dumb Saints/Bears game. I don't know how it takes 15 minutes to get   
   through the last one minute of a game that's not even close, but the game   
   itself finally ended at 7:53, and The Simpsons didn't begin until 8:02:15.   
   What does it take?   
      
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