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   Ugh. My DVR failed to record it so I had to watch it on Hulu. It was an   
   OK episode. I also watched that Fortnite episode 2 (worse IMO).   
      
   Matt Garvey  wrote:   
   > 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!).   
      
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