From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   It's Christmastime in May! Interesting and somewhat sad general plot,   
   especially as I've become a dog parent in the last few years, but execution   
   really not that great. Among other things, the amazing dog psychologist lady   
   didn't ever once ask the family    
   if they knew any of SLH's history? I admit I didn't think of the Santa-hat   
   connection at all myself, and I know the history, but even so, I'm not trained   
   in diagnosing dog trauma. Also, it's funny that Dr. Wolff made such a point of   
   the importance of    
   smell over sight, when one of his triggers was visual anyway! But it's mostly   
   the awkward moment-to-moment writing that just didn't do it for me, really,   
   combined with the rushed and convenient resolution. (And does his mom come to   
   live with the Simpsons    
   now, or is she visiting from the dog breeder somehow?)   
      
   DYN:   
   ...the opening cloud gag was actually appropriate for the episode, being a   
   procession of dead pets?   
   ...whatever Marge says after the eat-my-shorts bit definitely used to be   
   something else?   
   ...it's claimed the family doesn't have an HDTV? Is that not one?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   5F06: Mention of doing the right thing eventually   
   7G08: Long excerpt from the first-aired episode showing how the family got SLH   
      
   Meta   
   The vacuum eats Bart's shorts, etc.   
      
      
      
   Dedication   
   To Little Richard, who died last week, with a still from EABF02. Only tonight,   
   I guess.   
      
   Another note   
   The scheduled 7:00 airing of YABF13 did not run here in the east, as the   
   return of NASCAR coverage ran till almost 7:40. Don't know if that means the   
   rerun is skipped out west too.   
      
   And finally, more production code musings   
   Here on season finale night, I was going to reiterate some of my thoughts and   
   predictions on what production code prefix will follow ZABF next year. And   
   then I reloaded Don Del Grande's episode list and found what might be the   
   answer! (Is this official/   
   for certain? It's so weird it probably has to be!) As it happens, it's not   
   even one of the many things I guessed.   
   After ZABF... apparently comes QABF! I, O, Q, and U are the four letters that   
   were skipped in this versatile sequence, presumably because of their   
   error-prone similarity to other digits and letters (1, 0, 0/O, and V, I   
   suppose) - in fact, Family Guy, the    
   only other show that seems to have gotten to a 16th production season in this   
   scheme, didn't even use G, and I can only guess that between 2005 and 2018ish,   
   G was deemed too close to 6.   
   But anyway, QABF, huh? This seems to imply either that I and O are definitely   
   off the table, or that they're being held until they're really, REALLY needed.   
   So the production season 32 = QABF and 33 = UABF, I suppose, and maybe the   
   show is over by then...   
    or if not, 34 and 35 are IABF and OABF or something new, and either way, then   
   it's still something new soon if the show gets that far. Is it reading too   
   much into it to think someone expects the show to end by 33 by skipping I/O?   
   Is it still a little    
   annoying that Q still breaks the genius late-90s system by not actually being   
   in order?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)