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   Message 28,504 of 29,105   
   Matt Garvey to All   
   Notes for ZABF17 (Treehouse of Horror XX   
   01 Nov 20 18:16:44   
   
   From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Meh. Now that TOH election commentary is obligatory it's lost all meaning,   
   though I appreciate the laundry list of offenses. Toy Gory: I don't like the   
   3D animation style the show occasionally uses, nor the Randy Newman   
   impression, and why bother this    
   now? At least it had a little of the unapologetic blunt violence of some older   
   TOHs. Spider-verse annoyed me to death, and so did Homer-verse. Lisa's time   
   loop was more confusing than anything, and I still have no idea how she broke   
   it. Also, Star Trek    
   IV (not Four) did not HAVE a time loop. The credits concept of counting   
   backward (for some reason) through each previous TOH story wasn't bad, but it   
   was FAR too fast to be anything but disorienting, especially since the very   
   first one was a still of a    
   title card with text bigger than the cast credit. And the entire thing was   
   under 21 minutes, with credits. In a 31-minute slot. That's over 32%   
   commercials. And I see those annoying bottom thirds have been back lately. But   
   hey, I guess it's still Dr.    
   Hibbert's voice.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Homer's "Judge Judy" line in the opening seems to be a replacement?   
   ...ZABF17 (the production code) is on the Radioactive Man toy's instruction   
   manual?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   4F02: Voting for Kang/Kodos   
   2F31, YABF15: Krusty waving animals into Krustyburger similar   
   CABF19: Vomiting frog prince   
   7F04, 8F02, etc.: Every previous TOH story, as far as I can tell, gets one   
   image in the credits   
      
   And finally   
   Whatever that football game was (Bucs/Bengals?), it went into sudden death   
   overtime and didn't end till 7:59, so the real shows are on a 6-minute delay.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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