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Mixed feelings on this one. It feels as if there's a great episode
lurking within, trying to get out, but despite the mix of decent
concept, creative dream sequence, and some interesting sincere character moments, it was hampered by elements that felt just too darn car-diddly-toonish and broad/ungrounded, including the fairly
unbelievable DJ Bart sequence. (I was also really surprised the demise
of the treehouse and audio setup was only because he didn't let the beat
drop, and not later shown to be Ned's doing!) Ned's character didn't
seem quite right either, and the resolution was a little sudden/simple,
but a more straightforward development of the Ned-Homer plot could have
made its case for a lot of unexpected behavior without feeling off. But
it could have been worse. And I'll have to take a closer look at it
later to soak it all in, but the Classic Simpsons Songs Remix/Mash-up
was top notch.

(Also, Mrs. McCormack? It looked like a redressed Crazy Cat Lady,
previously named as Eleanor Abernathy, to me, but maybe this is a new character to go with the title parody. I haven't seen Banshees.)

Previous episode stuff
CABF22: Judge Harm sentences people to another creative sentence
Many old episode stills lining the Homer and Ned shrines in their brains
2F18, 2F09, etc., etc. (even 7F75): Many old clips and songs mashed up
in credits

DYN:
...Homer's mention of Ned's "backup savior" seems to have been animated
as "backup Jesus" (to match the note) - last minute change?

Welcome back
It's been an unusually long time without new episodes OR network airings
of The Simpsons at all. Of course, there was one new Disney+ drop in mid-February, so technically it's only been about a month and a half
since a new episode came out (not that it was on TV!), but apart from
that, you have to go back to 1/26 for any airing, with 9 weeks in
between, and back to 12/29 (13 weeks, just under a quarter of a year)
for a new Fox airing. I know there are reasons: the strike, the schedule wrangling from too much Animation Domination (Family Guy's belated
returning bumping this), but even the early Sunday reruns have been
replaced with Next Level Chef and Extracted encores for a little while.
It's weird to go this long with such little Simpsons presence on network.
(And yet, in all that time, have there not been any celebrity guest-star deaths? I was surprised there wasn't a dedication of some sort tonight,
though I haven't been keeping tabs on who would merit one.)
Of course, the last two seasons, there's been a similar winter drought
of about the same length in new episodes. A quick survey of airdates (including reruns) brings up some other surprisingly long gaps, if I
didn't miss some detail:
-Summer 2024: between 5/19 season finale and 8/25 rerun, no new episodes
of course, but only one rerun, on 7/21, and even that was seen only in Mountain/Pacific, so 9 (or 14!) weeks' gap!
-Fall 2003: nothing between 9/17 and 10/26 reruns (5.5 weeks), and with September using midweek reruns, actually 7 preempted Sundays in a row
-Fall 1996: nothing between 8/25 and 10/27 reruns (leading into late
season premiere), 9 weeks' gap (and the only late-starting full-length
season until 2000 kicked off several of them)


Violence in movies and P on TV
In non-Simpsons news, yet still of interest for those tracking
long-running shows, tonight's new Family Guy episode (Pitch Imperfect)
was the first of its 22nd production season, and it answers a question
I've been wondering about for a little while: with FG being the next
show to tread these waters, what comes after the NACX codes, with The
Simpsons having used the "forbidden" O as a stopgap for its 33rd season (OABF)? As I more or less expected, it didn't use O. Tonight's episode
is PACX01. (I don't expect to see Q or U either!) Note that PACX is
production season 22, while Simpsons season 22 had NABF, because Family
Guy for some reason skipped GACX, so it's been off by one since then.

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I enjoyed last night's episode. Nice history highlights at the end
showing the previous musical parts.

Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

Mixed feelings on this one. It feels as if there's a great episode
lurking within, trying to get out, but despite the mix of decent
concept, creative dream sequence, and some interesting sincere character moments, it was hampered by elements that felt just too darn car-diddly-toonish and broad/ungrounded, including the fairly
unbelievable DJ Bart sequence. (I was also really surprised the demise
of the treehouse and audio setup was only because he didn't let the beat drop, and not later shown to be Ned's doing!) Ned's character didn't
seem quite right either, and the resolution was a little sudden/simple,
but a more straightforward development of the Ned-Homer plot could have
made its case for a lot of unexpected behavior without feeling off. But
it could have been worse. And I'll have to take a closer look at it
later to soak it all in, but the Classic Simpsons Songs Remix/Mash-up
was top notch.

(Also, Mrs. McCormack? It looked like a redressed Crazy Cat Lady,
previously named as Eleanor Abernathy, to me, but maybe this is a new character to go with the title parody. I haven't seen Banshees.)

Previous episode stuff
CABF22: Judge Harm sentences people to another creative sentence
Many old episode stills lining the Homer and Ned shrines in their brains 2F18, 2F09, etc., etc. (even 7F75): Many old clips and songs mashed up
in credits

DYN:
...Homer's mention of Ned's "backup savior" seems to have been animated
as "backup Jesus" (to match the note) - last minute change?

Welcome back
It's been an unusually long time without new episodes OR network airings
of The Simpsons at all. Of course, there was one new Disney+ drop in mid-February, so technically it's only been about a month and a half
since a new episode came out (not that it was on TV!), but apart from
that, you have to go back to 1/26 for any airing, with 9 weeks in
between, and back to 12/29 (13 weeks, just under a quarter of a year)
for a new Fox airing. I know there are reasons: the strike, the schedule wrangling from too much Animation Domination (Family Guy's belated
returning bumping this), but even the early Sunday reruns have been
replaced with Next Level Chef and Extracted encores for a little while.
It's weird to go this long with such little Simpsons presence on network. (And yet, in all that time, have there not been any celebrity guest-star deaths? I was surprised there wasn't a dedication of some sort tonight, though I haven't been keeping tabs on who would merit one.)
Of course, the last two seasons, there's been a similar winter drought
of about the same length in new episodes. A quick survey of airdates (including reruns) brings up some other surprisingly long gaps, if I
didn't miss some detail:
-Summer 2024: between 5/19 season finale and 8/25 rerun, no new episodes
of course, but only one rerun, on 7/21, and even that was seen only in Mountain/Pacific, so 9 (or 14!) weeks' gap!
-Fall 2003: nothing between 9/17 and 10/26 reruns (5.5 weeks), and with September using midweek reruns, actually 7 preempted Sundays in a row
-Fall 1996: nothing between 8/25 and 10/27 reruns (leading into late
season premiere), 9 weeks' gap (and the only late-starting full-length season until 2000 kicked off several of them)

Violence in movies and P on TV
In non-Simpsons news, yet still of interest for those tracking
long-running shows, tonight's new Family Guy episode (Pitch Imperfect)
was the first of its 22nd production season, and it answers a question
I've been wondering about for a little while: with FG being the next
show to tread these waters, what comes after the NACX codes, with The Simpsons having used the "forbidden" O as a stopgap for its 33rd season (OABF)? As I more or less expected, it didn't use O. Tonight's episode
is PACX01. (I don't expect to see Q or U either!) Note that PACX is production season 22, while Simpsons season 22 had NABF, because Family
Guy for some reason skipped GACX, so it's been off by one since then.

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On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:36:11 -0400, Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu>
wrote:

I'm a week behind on replying to this one, but better late than never
I guess:

I was also really surprised the demise
of the treehouse and audio setup was only because he didn't let the beat >drop, and not later shown to be Ned's doing!

Same here - it would have made a lot more sense plot-wise if Ned had
done it.

the Classic Simpsons Songs Remix/Mash-up was top notch.

I liked that, and I also liked the mash-up of Blinded Me with Science
and (I think) Whip It when Bart first started experimenting. I'd love
to hear a full-length version of that.

(Also, Mrs. McCormack? It looked like a redressed Crazy Cat Lady,
previously named as Eleanor Abernathy, to me, but maybe this is a new >character to go with the title parody. I haven't seen Banshees.)

You should see Banshees of Inisherin, great movie. But even though I
saw it twice, I had to look Mrs. McCormack up on IMDB to remember who
she was. She's an old woman who predicts a coming death at one point
in the film:

Mrs. McCormick: A death shall come to Inisherin afore the month is
out.

Padraic Suilleabhain: A death, huh?

Mrs. McCormick: Maybe even two deaths.

Padraic Suilleabhain: Well, that'd be sad.

Mrs. McCormick: We shall pray to the Lord 'tis neither you, nor poor
Siobhan, will be either of them.

Padraic Suilleabhain: Well, is that a nice thing to be sayin'?

Mrs. McCormick: I wasn't trying to be nice. I was trying to be
accurate.

-- Bob
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