From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Argh. Maybe it would be good to run with the logic that if there aren't   
   any more good flashback stories to tell, perhaps one shouldn't be told.   
   If one is, though, it ought to be better than ridiculous nonsense with   
   abysmal characterizations. Seriously, I get the idea of exaggerating   
   Homer's worse tendencies for an episode, but why does the first act or   
   so of this tale show past Homer not as well-meaning but inept, but as   
   basically a sociopath? I really checked out with that. Too much, not   
   made up for by the end (and the steady flow of ungrounded nonsense).   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F02: Bart using dino sponges for a prank (more successfully here)   
   9F08: Bart's clown bed makes an appropriately timed appearance (yet no   
   attention is called to its possible contribution to his problems)   
   CABF22: Apparently Judge Harm was making life difficult for the Simpsons   
   years before they ever met her   
   3F03: Paul McCartney among the (very hard to read)   
   second-half-of-credits lefties in the gallery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)