• Notes for WABF13 (Looking for Mr. Goodbart)

    From Matt Garvey@1:2320/100 to alt.tv.simpsons on Sun Apr 30 17:52:37 2017
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.simpsons

    Well, OK episode I guess. The Pokemon Go thing, faddish as the references may be (I get the sense the game will soldier on a while after everyone's gotten around to making fun of it), was kinda cute. Bart's plot was fine. Episode extremely short.
    Other notable things, though:
    -Because this is the first new episode to air after the 30th anniversary of the
    Simpsons' debut on The Tracey Ullman Show (4/19/87), the opening pays homage to
    that, showing the rock-a-bye baby clip from MG01, much like the MG25 (Family Portrait) clip in 2007 in the actual 400th episode (named in this opening too). -The goofy song and timeline thing after that was a little busy, but I can't help but notice that in listing out milestone episodes, the producers are still
    sticking to the fiction that the 300th episode was Barting Over (EABF05) instead of The Strong Arms of the Ma (EABF04).
    -The monsters in the Gracie logo may be only the second time the visual representation of the Gracie logo was changed, after BABF15. I might be forgetting one if there were any more recently, and I'm not inclined to include
    the slowed-down version in DABF09.
    DYN:
    ...Grampa now joins the list of characters who also have to do a blackboard punishment?
    ...Bart revels in being able to say "taking the piss"? (And it still stays TV-PG!)
    Previous episode stuff
    9F21: Another reference to the Beatles' "bigger than Jesus"
    7F18: Homer once again excited to be able to use the original notches on his belt
    4F23: Agnes' silhouettes
    Goof
    Homer says "no one but you or I must know". I know Homer's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this is such a common and maddening mistake that I must mention it's "but you or me" ("but" is a preposition here and takes the objective case).
    In other news
    Two weeks ago, WABF07 (Fatzcarraldo) ran again on Fox, and amazingly, the dedication to animator Sooan Kim actually stayed! I don't know if this was an oversight, a special case deemed to be less fleeting than various celebrity dedications, or (along with the Vin Scully retirement tribute) a new trend in actually keeping those things around, but I guess we'll see. If it's a new trend, I hope older lost dedications find their way BACK into episodes, at least those whose distribution is not locked as much as first-printing DVDs and
    syndication packages.
    In other other news
    On 4/14/17, there was a contestant on Jeopardy named Jim Hope. In his interview, he said that he had a Simpsons character named after him (in Grift of the Magi, BABF07), because he was friends with a Simpsons writer or something. So that's fun.

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