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   Matt Garvey  posted:   
      
   > So-so future episode, not awful but also not hitting the emotional   
   > depths it seemed to want to reach for. At least the plot resolution   
   > brought it back to Itchy & Scratchy. It would have been a bit better to   
   > spend more time on the title estrangement or drifting-apart process. A   
   > little short, too, which is wild, as it's another week where the stated   
   > 31-minute slot has been expanded a bit, so it was only about 21:18 out   
   > of 31.5 minutes, when it tends to get 21:30 these days even in 30 minutes.   
   >   
   > (Rated 14-DLV, presumably for extra-gory I&S violence?)   
   >   
   > And unless Fox (or D+) runs more episodes (come on, May 29 surprise!)   
   > before the start of the next season, that's it for this one, a full air   
   > season (even if only 18 episodes AIRed), but still leaving 11 episodes,   
   > a HALF a season, as holdovers for the next. Oof. But it's interesting   
   > timing, being the end of air season 36, as the time jump in this episode   
   > was 35 years, or just about how much the characters would have aged from   
   > season 1!   
   >   
   > Previous episode stuff   
   > KABF10: Zooey Deschanel is back, though not as Mary Spuckler (rather as   
   > New Girl parody Quirk Girl)   
   > DABF06: Milhouse still trying to make "whazzup?" work   
   > (Not 7F18: Ringo does not voice himself now)   
   > Various I&S clips I'm not planning on looking up, but it seems as if the   
   > clip from the start of The Movie is here!   
   >   
   > Meta (among other things)   
   > Bart's still got an "underachiever and proud of it" shirt   
   >   
   > And finally   
   > The Pamela Hayden role recasting continues: tonight we have a Kelly   
   > Macleod as Milhouse.   
   >   
   Thanks for these recaps! Never stop posting them.   
      
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