From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   I don't see a question mark in the episode listings, but there has to be one,   
   right? Right?? Anyway, this was wildly up and down. Setting the first five   
   minutes entirely in the past was a bold move I thought had potential; Homer's   
   debilitating trauma    
   upon recalling this traumatic childhood event seemed like CABF21 (The Blunder   
   Years) but worse; the attempt to track the bots down still seemed like a nice   
   gesture; the fanwank over JJ Abrams and getting into obsessive nerd culture   
   straightforwardly was    
   annoying; but then the actual ending and resolution seemed like it had   
   something useful to say (and showed a little more satire of crazy fandoms). By   
   the way, consistency with contexts of characters' pasts is always going to be   
   hard when the characters    
   don't age, but it seems as if the series HAD been doing OK with this - compare   
   high school age Homer in the 70s in season 2 and in the 90s in season 19 - but   
   teenage Homer is still from the 90s now? It feels really weird to note that it   
   should be 00s,    
   but it should, even if that wasn't the heyday of the animatronic pizza joint   
   for kids.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...this, like several recent episodes, is rated TV-14 for what is to me no   
   clear reason? (All the cocaine?)   
   ...the protesters seem to WANT creepy-design Sonic and the original BVS? Do   
   they feel those are the original unsullied visions, or are they just being   
   contrarian?   
      
   Gone but somewhat forgotten   
   These dedications are really racking up! Tonight's was to David Richardson, a   
   name I did not recognize, but apparently supervising producer for the first   
   half of season 5 (and writer of the second half's Homer Loves Flanders), who   
   died back in January.    
   Well, he certainly contributed to the golden age of this show. (I'm not sure   
   if this dedication was postponed or the news just didn't get around rapidly.)   
      
   Knock knock. Who's there? Cargo. Cargo who? Car go beep beep and run over time   
   slot!   
   The Nascar race was clearly over when I checked in on it several minutes   
   before 7, but that still didn't stop all the ads and brief commentary from   
   running till about 7:05. The whole schedule here got shifted, with Simpsons   
   running from 8:06 to 8:36.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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