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   Matt Garvey to All   
   Notes for QABF22 (A Serious Flanders (Pa   
   14 Nov 21 17:45:22   
   
   From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Oh, I just don't care. This was not a good setting to transplant the   
   characters into, and whatever interest I had last week just did not get   
   sustained. Also, did it even happen in the series continuity? My guess is no.   
   Same rare viewer discretion warning    
   beforehand, etc.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...you're apparently allowed to use the name Boy Scouts now?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F16: Is Chester J. Lampwick in the gun-wielding motel parking lot crowd in   
   the 70s?   
   ZABF22: Marge says Homer better not be a sports podcaster (while wondering   
   what he's hiding in WY)   
      
   Previously on Simpflix   
   The 7:30 rerun of QABF21 (which did start on time here, after football ran   
   exactly 30 minutes over) was mostly the same as the original, except for two   
   things:   
   1. the corner popup on the executive producers saying next episode in 6 days,   
   23 hours, etc. was gone   
   2. most of the end credits were shoved into a tiny window while a promo for   
   part 2 ran!   
   Now, this is probably still preferable to a special hour-long airing with   
   combined credits and no linking material, but annoying anyway. It's true that   
   Fox's current format puts a minute or so of ads between shows at the top of   
   the hour (not at the    
   bottom), so someone casually watching and being completely unaware of   
   tonight's schedule might not realize the story would be continued moments   
   later, but on the other hand, after these credits, a separate promo for the   
   new episode ran anyway! I also    
   wonder if this, like last week's gag, was meant to imitate Netflix's style of   
   squishing credits while promoting other content, yet it didn't seem to have   
   the right feel, so I'm not sure who decided to make it like this.   
   Anyway, what happens for future reruns (of both parts!), syndication,   
   on-demand, and (MAYBE) home video manifestations remains to be seen. Yeesh.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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