From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Act Three didn't shock me, sadly, because I was expecting it to go in some   
   bonkers direction. Eh. I went in with blank expectations, but an early line   
   about waiting for the scandal to "blow over" reminded me of 2F06 (Homer Bad   
   Man, with the gummi Venus    
   de Milo), and I realized this could have been a modern telling of the same   
   basic idea, for the internet/social-media age, but it fell flat. The point at   
   the end, that it's bad to forget everything, is a good one to make, just one   
   undermined by most of    
   the leadup to it. Also, I think the writers are missing a key element if   
   Helen's lemonade-stand rant was directed at white kids, no?   
      
   DYN:   
   ...Homer somehow forgot how Santa's Little Helper joined the family (until he   
   didn't)?   
   ...Homer's lobster bib is the only one with a middle initial (Bart and Lisa   
   should have some at least)?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   2F06: Much of early plot   
   CABF11: Marge's force feeding breakfast to the family reminiscent of "chew   
   chew chew, swallow swallow swallow"   
   CABF04: now something gets in Lenny's *dog's* eye   
      
      
   For what it's worth   
   Airing 3 of QABF20 (Lisa's Belly) was joined in progress in the east; the race   
   ended about 6:55 but coverage continued, as usual, for about 20 minutes. The   
   usual shortened NABF21 opening ran at 7:15, then at a little past 7:17, the   
   episode itself came in.   
   .. about a minute before the end of an act. By the time it came back at 7:22,   
   Fox had essentially run three batches of ads in a row for almost 9 minutes.   
   Anyway, what did run was at full speed, and nothing was added (the Betty White   
   dedication from the    
   second airing was of course gone).   
      
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