• Notes for WABF17 (The Serfsons)

    From Matt Garvey@1:2320/100 to alt.tv.simpsons on Sun Oct 1 18:41:27 2017
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.simpsons

    Well, for a fantasy episode, this was cute, and I liked the more traditional progress and anti-establishment jabs, and there was some Selman strength, but I
    had a hard time getting into the total mishmash of mythologies and whatnot all thrown together. It was above average, at least, and of decent length. See also
    below for some season-29 stuff I'm less crazy about!
    DYN:
    ...Marge's mom shows up for the first time in a while?
    ...the joke store names include both Urban Outhouses *and* Rural Outfitters? ...they also include "David's Merkins" (as in producer David Mirkin from years ago)?
    Previous episode thing
    3F15: the word "swain" used again
    Meta
    Moe prank raven (Milady Potts), Abra-caramba, etc.
    This airing only
    After act 3 and execs, there was a few-second-long thing of various characters gathered around a Puerto Rican flag and the word UNIDO, and I guess that's for the recent hurricane relief effort or other political considerations around it.
    Don't expect to see that on repeats.
    NOT this airing at all
    It's a new season after a few celebrity deaths. I'm pretty surprised there was no dedication to Adam West (or Hugh Hefner in a milder but more recent case). Family Guy seems more likely to claim Adam West, and perhaps the producers are letting them have it, though tonight's episode did not include such a dedication (perhaps, like with Carrie Fisher, they're waiting till his new material is gone).
    New for season 29?
    There was no Gracie Films logo at all. This confuses me. I assume James L. Brooks is still actually producing the show and so on - but then again Sam Simon's still credited! Without that, the credits were actually under time too. And just a few weeks ago, composer since season 2 Alf Clausen was unceremoniously dumped from the show. I thought his contributions might stick around at least through the end of the WABFs, though historically his end takes
    place closer to the airdate, so this might actually make sense, but tonight's episode indeed drops him. After Danny Elfman's score credit, there are these credits:
    Score by Bleeding Fingers Music
    Score Producers Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel
    Score Exec Produced by Steve Kofsky
    And several credits later, bewteen music editing and sound effects, Alf is credited as Composer Emeritus. So that's... something. I also can't help but think of Alf's snub on the Movie, where Zimmer got it instead.
    Don alert
    In Cleveland, the 7:00 airing of VABF22 was joined in progress. About 7:19 we got the short NABF21-style JIP opening, and at about 7:23 it cut into the last few minutes of the episode with the traditional note (though last week or so it
    skipped such a note!). There you go!

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  • From Bob (not my real pseudonym)@1:2320/100 to alt.tv.simpsons on Mon Oct 2 00:43:33 2017
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.simpsons

    On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 18:41:27 -0700 (PDT), Matt Garvey
    <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

    Well, for a fantasy episode, this was cute, and I liked the more traditional progress and anti-establishment jabs, and there was some Selman strength, but I
    had a hard time getting into the total mishmash of mythologies and whatnot all thrown together. It was above average, at least, and of decent length. See also
    below for some season-29 stuff I'm less crazy about!

    About what I expect from 'The Simpsons' these days; even the
    irrelevant shots against C.S. Lewis.

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