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   Matt Garvey to All   
   Notes for ZABF19 (Undercover Burns) and    
   27 Sep 20 18:18:06   
   
   From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Oh good god, how did Google ruin this interface too? Well, it's the theme of   
   the night, I guess. But not only am I typing this message in a tiny corner of   
   my screen, I can't see what I'm typing until 5 seconds later.   
      
   Welcome to season 32. This episode was dumb. Someone pull the plug and put the   
   show and the rest of us out of their respective miseries. And while you're at   
   it, make sports events end on time, huh? Well, the Terminator 2 stuff was OK.   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   5F08: Cooder the carnie is working at the SNPP carnival   
   9F07: Barney drives Plow King truck through Moe's drive-through   
   1G13: Burns's "frenemies" are the French guys Bart lived with   
   PABF14: Marge is mad at Lady Gaga for never returning to Springfield   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Wilhelm scream instead of crow caw at the start of the tag?   
      
   You never go back department   
   Oof. Carl's new voice sounds like a bad impression, because it is one. No   
   offense to the new guy; it's just that I can tell the diddly-ifference, and I   
   can think of better ways to even the playing field. This is yet another signal   
   that the series just    
   needs to pack it in. It's already got twice as many bad episodes as good ones.   
   It's already running out of letters in the alphabet. And it's already gone   
   through too many cast members' deaths (or 3-year resignations) and   
   not-quite-there replacements, not    
   to mention that decisions made in 1989 are practically causing rioting in the   
   streets. What actually is the end game? Are we just going to Mickey Mouse this   
   whole thing until nothing original is left? I'll just keep on sticking my   
   thoughts on Usenet.   
      
   I am not ready for some football   
   The last minute of the dumb game took about 10 minutes to get through, so the   
   game didn't end until 7:58, and in Cleveland, this episode started at 8:06.   
      
      
   Finally:   
   Various episode repeats this summer lost (and gained) dedications and other   
   stuff. Nothing was revoiced as far as I can tell.   
      
   Removed dedications:   
   ZABF16 (The Way of the Dog) airing 2 and 3 (6/21 and 8/30) lost Little Richard   
   dedication   
   ZABF09 (Screenless) airing 3 (7/12) lost James Lipton dedication, even though   
   airing 2 (3/29) actually still had it   
      
   Removed dedication and added/reinstated Gracie sound:   
   ZABF11 (Better Off Ned) airing 2 and 3 (4/5 and 7/19) lost Max von Sydow   
   dedication, but gained a Gracie sound (shush with no murmurs, Nelson haw-haws,   
   a Flanders child says yay, as a callback to something in the episode). I   
   suppose it was left off the    
   original airing to not wreck the somber tone of the dedication.   
      
   Added dedication:   
   YABF13 (The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby) airing 3 (8/2) was dedicated   
   to Regis Philbin in the usual way (in loving memory of, with a screenshot from   
   AABF01). I'm sure the dozens of people who watched that rerun were touched.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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