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Pretty not-bad episode with a focused and grounded main plot (even if
the timeline is still stretching and stretching). A couple of pretty
good gags, too. Lisa's new fashions also call to mind the makeover in
3F22, firmly 90s, and on that note...

Gee, have you ever wondered what Lisa's style would have been like all
the way back in the 90s? Of course, we don't have to, as the show was
already on then, and as impressive as it is to be beginning the 37th
(air) season, it does keep making maintaining a consistent timeline
harder and harder for a show whose characters don't age! Just gotta roll
with it, mostly, but it strikes me as fairly amusing that Dawson's Creek heartthrob Joshua Jackson was guest-starring on this show almost 25
years ago (CABF01 in late 2000, in the middle of DC's run), and now here
we are with that show fictionalized as a retro aspect of Marge's childhood.

(But one blunder I can't forgive: for all the talk of how 90s the
knockoff version of the show was, etc., how did the one character have
an Amelie poster on the wall when that movie's from 2001? It can't be
from a later season, because that part was specifically stated to be
from season 1!)


Dedications ahoy
Tonight's season premiere featured, in the usual slot, a dedication via caricature to Alf Clausen (or "Sheer Terror" as he liked to be called),
series composer extraordinaire from season 2 until his retirement a
decade or so ago. He died in late May, shortly after the season 36
finale, and I am glad to see someone elected to save the dedication for
a NEW episode, rather than wedge it into one of the (very few) summer
repeats that no one watched. Of course, whether this remains on repeats,
etc. remains to be seen. I won't hold my breath, but I salute Alf.

Another just-after-season-finale death was that of TV luminary George
Wendt, who got a dedication in the very next summer rerun... on 7/13
(airing 2 of 35ABF16). Not a lot of summer repeats. This was accompanied
by a still of his cameo in 2F08. The other summer repeats had no
dedications (but boy were they time-compressed!).


And finally - for the dozens of people still reading Usenet - a little
alert that I have once again made some large updates to my Production
Codes document. This round focuses mostly on expanding information on
other studios' code systems, but has some added info on 20th Century Fox
and its related companies too. Whether you've never taken the time to
learn what these strange alphanumeric codes are, or you've been waiting
for a new batch of research, pack a lunch and head to simpsonsarchive.com/guides/pcodes.html (happy reading)!


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From Newsgroup: alt.tv.simpsons

Pretty not-bad episode with a focused and grounded main plot (even if
the timeline is still stretching and stretching). A couple of pretty
good gags, too.

Agreed! It was a not-bad episode.

I don't like the timeline stretching, though. I am happy believing
that
Homer and Marge were in high school in the 1970s and that the kids are
still the same age now that they've been since the late 1980s. OTOH,
keeping
them at the same age and from the same time would mean you'd eventually
run
out of historic events from their backstory that the writers had not
already
covered! ;)

And finally - for the dozens of people still reading Usenet - a
little
alert that I have once again made some large updates to my Production
Codes document. This round focuses mostly on expanding information on
other studios' code systems, but has some added info on 20th Century
Fox
and its related companies too. Whether you've never taken the time to
learn what these strange alphanumeric codes are, or you've been
waiting
for a new batch of research, pack a lunch and head to simpsonsarchive.com/guides/pcodes.html (happy reading)!

Thanks for keeping that going. I can still remember reading someone's
(Raymond Chen?) summarys/reviews/DYN lists in this group back c1993.
Glad to
see some activity here.


* SLMR 2.1a * Oh, I see, said the blind man to his deaf wife
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