From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   OK episode. Didn't blow me off my feet, but in the combined category of   
   questionable sudden revelations of characters' pasts and somewhat   
   compelling social commentary that excuses some oddness, it seems to work   
   all right. Not profound - not biting - but perhaps an important jab at   
   things in the show's classic style. But was Quimby ever established as a   
   Junior before??   
      
   I do see the credits have returned to full size, so that really does   
   suggest something non-canonical about last week. And kudos to whoever   
   got the correctly-facing apostrophes before the abbreviated years (but   
   "80's" ugh).   
      
   Previous episode stuff (political version, I guess)   
   7F19: Bart runs for office at school and so on, and Martin manages to   
   win (this time out of nowhere)   
   3F08: Act II of this episode starts with another parody of the "Daisy" ad   
   2F02: All the President's Men LOC overhead shot   
      
      
   Another mystery to solve   
   The 7:30 rerun of last season's "Bottle Episode" (36ABF04) was,   
   predictably, missing the premiere's dedication to writer Billy Wright,   
   but less predictably it was a little longer on balance. Specifically,   
   act 2 was 4 seconds longer tonight (bringing the runtime up to still a   
   few seconds below the usual 21.5 minute max), and it'll be a little time   
   before I can directly compare the two airings. Could this be another   
   case where something was dropped from the premiere because of current   
   events and reinstated later? (Could the longer version already have been   
   on streaming/on-demand and well known to everyone but me?) Or was it   
   just time-compressed a little bit for some reason, or...   
      
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