From: garvey@simpsonsarchive.com   
      
   Both plots started out promising with novel stories derived from today's world   
   of tech, and then both nosedived at the end. The "Boblox" stuff actually did   
   not feel gimmicky or stale, and that was refreshing. In some other context,   
   the climax with    
   Skinner (or another character in another work) almost going a step too far in   
   the battle could have been poignant, as would his backing down, but it just   
   came out of nowhere here and didn't fit. It's more silly than anything but the   
   end of the Maggie    
   plot fell flat as well, especially for something that could have stayed   
   subtler and let the device of Maggie's ability to communicate actually stick   
   around rather than be instantly forgotten as I'm sure it will be. Oh well.   
      
   This episode started with a narrated content warning, which is rare for this   
   show (even as TV-14 episodes have become more common). Is that for all the   
   bleeped swearing (and "realistic" video game violence) in the first minute or   
   so?   
      
   The MMORPG in this episode used a TON of sound effects and even some music   
   cues from the original Super Mario Bros. game, and I wonder why. (In days gone   
   by, when people might actually be playing a game of that age, the audio in   
   movies and TV was almost    
   always from the abysmal Atari version of Pac-Man, so it's interesting that now   
   SMB gets to be an audio source.)   
      
   Whatever the end credits spoofed, I have no idea. Help?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   AABF03: Colecos at SES   
      
      
   From the department of pointlessness   
   Naturally the 4:00 football game ran long here, ending some time around 7:15   
   or 7:20 (I wasn't paying very close attention). In recent months, as nice as   
   it's been for postgame coverage to be short in these cases, there have been   
   some days they might as    
   well have rounded out the half hour. In particular, this fall, UABF04 and   
   UABF11 had third airings with only about 3 minutes of actual plot once they   
   were joined in progress. Tonight, bizarrely, after the typical abridged NABF21   
   opening and joining-in-   
   progress announcement (and no additional ads), the second airing of UABF16   
   scheduled for 7:00 resumed at 7:26 with just over ONE MINUTE to go in act 3.   
   (Then commercials, then credits, which did have extra business, it's true.)   
   Why bother?!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)