From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Well that felt like kind of a nothing of an episode. Nice as it is to   
   explore unusual character pairings, Bart's role in the title one didn't   
   seem right at all, the plot kind of went nowhere, and the B story was a   
   little amusing but somewhat obvious. I'm also not sure why this is TV-14.   
      
   I noticed that the opening credits were in tiny lettering that's   
   recently been used on TOH and similar episodes (I haven't double checked   
   but haven't normal episodes still kept the usual size?); maybe that's a   
   subtle indication that this is a totally alternate reality after all.   
      
   And did Harry Shearer do any voices in this episode? I don't recall   
   seeing any of his regular characters but maybe I missed one or he did a   
   one-off voice.   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   3F17: The fact that Martin's character's race(?) is "wee folk" calls to   
   mind his shopping bag from "Wee World"   
   KABF04: College-age Frink has a Sadgasm poster (with fully identifiable   
   Homer et al.) on his wall, further twisting series continuity into knots   
      
   Meta (ish) stuff (and see previous note)   
   The "Weird Science" soundalike parody is ever so mildly notable just   
   because Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman, of course, wrote the Simpsons theme   
   (which we heard for all of 12 seconds tonight).   
   Bart reveals that he's been essentially doing a blackboard punishment in   
   the sand (of his own volition) and says that he does it "practically   
   every week" (not lately, he doesn't!).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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