From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Ehhhhh, fine? I enjoy musicals, although I can't stand Rent and I didn't pick   
   up most of the other style references in this (or what the title may be   
   playing on). But it's been a while since a truly great Simpsons musical   
   showcase, and even if all the    
   ages worked out, I do not buy for a second that all these Springfielders were   
   theater nerds in high school (if ever), but I suppose consistent character   
   histories and characterizations were buried long ago. This also had the   
   annoying instant plot    
   resolution problem, just not at the end, because we still had to sit through   
   the show. Welcome to season 33.   
      
   There's a new Fox logo at the end now, looking like the previous one but   
   reading 20th Television Animation. Seems to be on all the relevant shows.   
      
   Legend of television and more Ed Asner, who guest starred in AABF21 (just a   
   few months before Y2K, as it happens), died on August 29th, and I was   
   surprised to see no dedication to him tonight. Wedging dedications into   
   episode repeats has been    
   disturbingly common lately, but unless I completely missed it, there wasn't   
   one in that night's QABF05 repeat, and there were no other network Simpsons   
   airings until tonight, apart from QABF06 (see below). I really expected to see   
   one tonight! What    
   happened to "better late than never"?   
      
      
   Summer repeat roundup   
   -QABF14 airing 2 (June 6) lost the dedication to Olympia Dukakis   
   -QABF13 airing 2 (June 20) moved Maurice LaMarche from Also Starring to his   
   usual place in Guest Starring   
   -ZABF22 airing 2 (August 1) gained a dedication to Jackie Mason (with a still   
   from 8F05) but lost the Alex Trebek dedication from its original airing   
   -ZABF20 airing 3 (August 15) was compressed to 21 minutes   
   -QABF01 airing 3 (August 22) dropped the Larry King dedication that had only   
   been on airing 2   
   -QABF06 airing 3 (September 19) reinstated the Marc Wilmore dedication from   
   airing 1 that was left out of airing 2 (but the audio fades may be different)   
      
      
   By the way, for all the good posting *here* will do (but why stop now?): I've   
   brought the sax solo and opening sequences pages up to date (through season   
   31) on The Simpsons Archive and will be getting more documents done when I can.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)