From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   I'm a little torn, because the subject matter in the second half (about the   
   disappearance of the middle class, etc.) was true and important and worth   
   getting out... but it also left very little actual plot to the episode, the   
   music was scattershot, and    
   it just became overt, preachy, and unfunny. One might argue that that's the   
   point, what's happening is not funny and we're out of time to couch it in   
   subversive satire... it might not have to be so blunt though. Robert Reich is   
   a nice "get" at least (   
   even if I think the lyrics were written with a mispronunciation of his name in   
   mind). Well, that's season 33 in the can.   
      
   Megan Mullally is back as Sarah Wiggum (see QABF10 last year) and she's fine,   
   but I still don't know why the classic Pamela Hayden voice couldn't persist.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...another TV-14-DLSV (the whole schmear), probably for the adult-oriented   
   British show at the start?   
   ...SNPP still uses paper paychecks in large quantities?   
   ...Lisa's rap has Beethoven's 7th in the background?   
   ...the credits cut to black/theme with just one cast screen to go (could've   
   been tidier)?   
      
   Meta   
   Bart has a hair gel called "Who the Gel are You?" (compare his ancient catch   
   phrase)   
   Lisa ends act 2 by saying Bart can't even afford what they sell in this   
   commercial   
      
   A reminder   
   There are only two calendar dates on which Fox has never aired a Simpsons   
   episode (new or rerun): February 29, understandably, and May 29. Next week   
   will be the 4th time in 33 seasons that May 29 is on the show's typical day of   
   the week, and unless    
   something crazy happens, Fox will be airing the Coca-Cola 600 race - the same   
   event that preempted the show each previous time. Will those dates ever get an   
   episode?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)