From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Oh, I didn't like this one. Not that I found it offensive or against my   
   values or anything - it just didn't make any sense or go anywhere. I can   
   handle unrealistic scales to the action and a certain amount of nonsense   
   for a single-episode purpose or to help with a theme, although at the   
   moment the only sort of comparison to the feminine utopia seen here that   
   I can recall offhand is the fruitopia in AABF18... which at least had   
   the good sense to return to normal at the end. Here a dozen of   
   Springfield's men leave for a weekend retreat and somehow the entire   
   town gets revamped, and that's it? What's the point? What's it saying?   
   Do we believe this is going to stay (a bold move if so)? I didn't know   
   A. Brooks was going to be returning until the moment I heard him speak,   
   but wow, his voice is struggling more than Julie Kavner's, and given   
   that act 2 (the camp act) is over HALF of the episode's runtime, I get   
   the feeling this wasn't so much a plot as an excuse to trot him out   
   again. OK jokes and improv from him, but not an episode. (And 1/6   
   shaman?? What's the joke THERE?)   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F04: This isn't specifically an episode reference, but Maggie's e^i*pi   
   blocks show the same unintuitive identity that one of the equations in   
   Homer³ did, and, as I noted last week, we're coming up on 30 years since   
   that 3D-animated milestone (just 4 days to go!)   
   9F10: Monorail is back, as Mom-o-rail, with a little quote of the song   
      
   Goofs   
   Why go to the trouble of drawing a very realistic three-prong plug for   
   "Alexa" when the outlet it's plugged into is a bizarrely tall two-slot one?   
   I'm pretty sure you can't do a Heimlich on the back.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)