dvd season 3 no commentaries?
Some Guy
commentaries this time?
Opinicus
> Amazon lists no extras for the season 3 DVD.
Season 3 has been released??
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The Simpsons - The Complete Third Season (1991)
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Woohoo! But at this rate it will be 2015 before we get season 14.
Sydney Assbasket
>
Do you really want to own Season 14???
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every
other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking
the locks, they are always locking three.
- Elayne Boosler
Remove "bination" to reply.
UsualNoise
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> Do you really want to own Season 14???
I do. I rather enjoyed Season 14. Now season 11-13 would be more
questionable, but I'll still buy them for the few good episodes (and
commentaries about why so many episodes suck).
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Don Del Grande
> Amazon lists no extras for the season 3 DVD. Are there really no
> commentaries this time?
When Mike Reiss had his show at Davis, CA earlier this year, he said
they had just finished recording the commentaries for Season 3, which
was one of the reasons Season 3 would be released late.
---------------------------------------------
Don Del Grande, del_g...@netvista.net
Hopefully, not nearly as late as he said, which was December 2003
Matt Garvey
dates - but rest assured, part of the very reason they're taking so long
is that it's hard to coordinate people's schedules to do all the
commentaries (which Fox Home Video would rather see less of to get them
out quicker)...
Opinicus
> The Simpsons - The Complete Third Season (1991)
> List Price: $49.98
> Price: $32.49 & This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
> See details.
> You Save: $17.49 (35%)
> Availability: This item will be released on July 29, 2003. You may
> order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives.
I'm in Zone 2. I just checked amazon.co.uk and no release date has even been
announced yet.
> Woohoo! But at this rate it will be 2015 before we get season 14.
By which time the show will be up to, what, season 26? ;-)
Mike
of 8) and it sounds like they were all recorded at the same time.
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Benjamin Robinson
Yertle wrote:
>Geez, just release the damn episodes, never mind the
>commentaries.
I'd rather wait and get the commentaries, myself. I've seen the episodes
the "regular" way hundreds of times, so having them in exactly the same form
on DVD isn't buying me much. I suppose it would be nice to have the
episodes in a durable format, but then I could just wait until the DVDs end
up on the discount shelf. Having extras like commentaries makes the DVDs
more of a "gotta have" item.
> At this rate DVD will be an obsolete format by
>the time before they get through the '90s seasons.
Don't be so certain. Videotape has been around for at least 23 years (my
parents bought a VCR in 1980) and it's still a viable format. If the next
new format also uses some kind of disc for storage, then its players will
probably be backwards-compatible with your "Simpsons" DVDs, anyway.
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Metlhd3138
(ie, maybe matt groenings fav eps from that season). Dont get me wrong, i LOVE
the commentary but i dont want to wait so long just to get a complete set of
simpsons eps.
Richard Magrath
>
> > Woohoo! But at this rate it will be 2015 before we get season 14.
>
> By which time the show will be up to, what, season 26? ;-)
A modern incarnation of Russell's 'Tristram Shandy' philosophical
puzzle, perhaps (if it takes Shandy two years to write two days' worth
of his autobiography, will he ever finish it, even if he lives
forever?).
Or something.
Rich
Zikim1
out on dvd which is good but most are extraless and comentaryless. why is
everone in such a hurry? the eps are show and reshown over and over, we have
online capsals and the 3 to date very detailed ep guides. i say let them
release the dvd's as fast as possible but not to lose the extra that we all
love the comentaries/the scripts with the notes/doodles ect.........
roger
>
> I don't know about you, but where I live they show the
> 2000-20002 seasons over and over. I don't think these
So, I guess that answers the question as to when the season ends.
Roger
Benjamin Robinson
I've been resisting it, but I'm starting to agree with the people who
claim the "Treehouse of Horror" series has transmuted into something
other than a Halloween special. The "trick or treat" framing stories
fell by the wayside more than a decade ago. Premises nowadays owe
more to science fiction than to horror. The air date has been
drifting ever closer to Thanksgiving than Halloween. (In fact, this
year is the latest a "TOH" has ever debuted.) Today, "Treehouse of
Horror" is more of a showcase for dark humor, twisted premises, and
the occasional bloody wound.
It's also been getting better as of late. After an uninspiring 12th
outing, the writers came back with two strong installments. Would
"Treehouse of Horror XV" continue the trend?
The opening segment certainly made it look that way. It took a
premise we've seen before (aliens Kang and Kodos try to make a meal of
the Simpsons) and married it to a cheesy 80's-style sitcom called,
"Keeping it Kodos." The contrast between the seriousness of the
family's situation and the lighthearted alien-centered comedy got to
me, even though Fox's crack promotion department gave away most of it
in the ads. The theme even carries through the "credits," which come
complete with the theme song to some sitcom whose name escapes me
right now.
The first proper story, "The Ned Zone," is also the only one that
could be classified as a "horror" story, based as it is on Stephen
King's "The Dead Zone." Ned recovers from a head injury and discovers
that he has a disturbing new power: If he touches someone, he sees
how that person will die. When Ned touches Homer, he sees himself in
the future, shooting Homer in the back with a pistol. In a way, the
story becomes a bit predictable as soon as Ned has his vision. We
know that he'll take steps to avoid killing his friend, but that
increasingly improbably circumstances will lead him to do it. The fun
is in guessing just how it will happen. Unfortunately, the short
running time of "The Ned Zone" works against it. The writers don't
have time for a truly elaborate fulfillment of the prophecy, so the
climactic scene plays out a little too quickly for my taste. The
segment's ending is a little flat, too. On the whole, it's a pretty
good sketch, though, with a malfunctioning intercom system being my
favorite joke.
The middle story, "Four Beheadings and a Funeral," puts the cast in
Victorian-era London, with Lisa as a Sherlock Holmes type, and Bart as
the tagalong assistant. This skit plays like an outtake from
"Margical History Tour (FABF06)" (and yes, I know Holmes is a
fictional character). Like that episode, part of the fun here is
seeing familiar characters dressed up in elaborate period costume, and
watching their personas mesh with a different era. The major players
in the story inhabit almost the same roles in London as they do in
real life: Wiggum and the cops are inspectors at Scotland Yard, Moe
is the owner of an opium den, and Otto is one of his stoner customers.
There are some surprises, though. Burns is one of Moe's dissolute
customers, and Springfield Elementary's teachers are ladies of the
evening. I also liked Comic Book Guy's incarnation as the owner of a
curiosity shop (where he also tries to peddle a proto-comic book).
It's a pretty good tale, but once again the ending's a bit rushed, and
the final joke is a bit flat.
By the way is this the first alternate-reality sketch where the family
members appear, but aren't related to one another in the new reality?
You can point this out to your friends and family if you want to prove
that you have no life.
The final sketch of the night, "In the Belly of the Boss," takes us
where no man has gone since that episode of "Futurama" with the
parasites. Maggie is accidentally shrunk down to microscopic size,
and Burns ingests her. With Frink's help, the rest of the family
mounts a rescue mission, "Fantastic Voyage" style. The satire owes
more to the movie than to the book, with a lot of the humor centering
around the costuming. There's one scene where everyone gets a cool
title and a logo for their jumpsuit. Imagination-challenged Marge's
title is "Marge," and her logo is a little vacuum cleaner. (Yet
later, she's given a revealing extra-vehicular suit that, in Homer's
words, turns a mediocre voyage into a fantastic voyage.) The ending
for this sketch is the strongest of the three; a little derivative of
"Treehouse of Horror II (8F02)," but with excellent callbacks to the
night's earlier sketches.
After last year's move toward more of a "Halloween" feel, "TOH 15"
heads back toward the other way, away from traditional spookiness and
toward science fiction and more generally macabre, off-kilter stories.
It also seems like a backward step in quality compared with "TOH 14,"
but that's more because last year's special was a particularly good
one, not that this one was bad. Taken on its own merits, the 15th
special provides solid humor with no clinkers or things to make me
wince. That's the third time in a row, which is a trend I can live
with.
[The short of it]
What people have been saying is true: "TOH" is less of a Halloween
special and more of a showcase for macabre and off-kilter stories.
The opening sketch, a funny cross between dire straits and syrupy
sitcoms, is a good example, and starts the show well. It's fun seeing
Ned's misguided attempts to alter the future in "The Ned Zone." "Four
Beheadings" does well with its period costumes and alter egos for the
"Simpsons" crew. "Belly of the Boss" is by a small margin my favorite
skit, thanks to good satire of the source movie, and an ending with
"callbacks" to the earlier skits. The material didn't feel as fresh
as last year's, and there wasn't that one knockout joke that propels a
show to greatness, but this is the third good "TOH" in a row. (B)
[DYNs]
... despite the title, nobody was beheaded in "Four Beheadings and a
Funeral?"
... for that matter, there wasn't a funeral, either?
... Bart finally has a legitimate excuse to use his Cockney accent?
... it's never explained how Wiggum came into possession of the
Swords of Osiris?
... Burns reads "Premiere" magazine while the family is inserted in
his body?
... when Homer says he "flies from the gut" he is literally flying
in Burns's gut?
... the dancing partners all recall characters from tonight's
stories?
... "Eliza" Simpson dances on Inspector Wiggum's shoes?
[References]
James L. Brooks (producer)
- "Keeping it Kodos" episode written by Glekknor L. Brooks
(perhaps a future descendant?)
Botany 500 (clothing maker)
- Botany 5 million provides wardrobe for "Keeping it Kodos"
Mark V (or perhaps VII) (production company)
- their logo is two hands with a stamp and a hammer chiseling
"Mark V" into a stone; the TOH XV title is done similarly
"The Dead Zone" (novel; movie; TV series)
- title "The Ned Zone" a spoof
- the main character can see people's imminent demise when he
touches them, like Ned in his story
"Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (movie)
- one of the staffers credited as, "Faster, Michael Price! Kill!
Kill!"
"Last Comic Standing" (on-again, off-again TV series)
- another staff member is, "The Last Goblin Standing"
"The Telltale Heart" (short story)
- animator "The Tell-Tale Silverman"
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (movie)
- title of second story is, "Four Beheadings and a Funeral"
"A Christmas Story"
- Burns becomes C. Ebenezer Burns (cf. Scrooge) in second story
Las Vegas Tourism slogan
- "What happens here stays here" applied to London's opium dens
"Happiness is a Warm Puppy" (book)
- Mao's slogan: Happiness is a warm poppy [the flower that is the
source of opium]
"Into the Belly of the Beast"
- title of third story, "Into the Belly of the Boss" a spoof
Keep On Truckin' logo
- retro-virus drawing is eerily similar
- Frink even credits it to R. Crumb, who did the original
"Fantastic Voyage" (book; movie)
- to save a life, a team of scientists must be shrunk down and
inserted in someone's body
- Homer mentions that Marge's revealing costume changes a mediocre
voyage into a fantastic voyage
- one of the scientists is attacked by giant white blood cells
- the Simpsons' costumes for their voyage resemble the ones in the
movie
"I Was a Teenaged Werewolf" (movie)
- Dan C's Halloween name is, "I was a teenaged Dan Castellaneta"
"C. H. U. D." (movie)
- staff writer David C. H. U. D.
"SpongeBob SquarePants" (TV series)
- one staff member is, "Happy Birthday Fun-Sponge Bob"
Beelzebub
- Danny Elfman becomes, "Daniel Beilzebelsman"
"think outside the box" (business slogan/cliché)
- casting by, "Think Outside the Boxcutter"
"Psycho"
- Norman "Bates" MacLeod
[Previous Episode References]
[1F08] Burns seen physically disheveled, with long hair and
fingernails
[8F02] Burns and Homer must share a body
[CABF17] Scenes from the episode played under closing credits
[FFF]
Credits for "Keeping it Kodos":
Directed by
Slarg Silverman
Written by
Glekknor L. Brooks
Kodos' Wardrobe By
Botany 5,000,000
Audience Provided By
Slave Colony of Rebulon 7
Theater marquee:
The
ROSIE O'DONNELL
MUSICAL
Theater banner:
CLOSED AFTER 3
PERFORMANCES
Flanders's wood (and pistol) chipper:
lil'
chipper
Plaque at Scotland Yard:
SCOTLAND
YARD
"WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT, THEN?"
CBG's shoppe:
EMPORIUM
-- OF --
EXOTICA
WE HAVE STUFF IN JARS
Proto-comic book:
DAUNTING
DEEDS
ALONE AGAINST
THE DODO KING
Life-restoration potion:
PROFESSOR LAZARUS'S
DEAD-NO-MORE
E L I X I R
Opium-district sign:
OPIUM
DISTRICT
"WHAT HAPPENS HERE,
STAYS HERE"
Moe's opium den:
MAO'S
DEN OF INIQUITY
Opium den sign:
HAPPINESS
IS A WARM POPPY
[flower]
Another opium den sign:
NO
TOSSING
ADDICTS
Expo center sign:
NEW INVENTION DAY
-----------------
SEE THE INVENTIONS OF
TOMORROW!
-- TODAY AND TOMORROW --
Translator sign:
VAGRANT
TRANSLATOR
Family members' jumpsuit logos:
Homer: Rocket ship
Lisa: Bohr atom logo
Bart: Ray gun
Marge: Vacuum cleaner
Dancing partners:
"Muttonchop" Kang & Kodos Homer & Burns Frink & Cat Lady
Moe & Animated Footstool "Eliza" Simpson & Inspector Wiggum
Alligator & Hans Moleman Boss Alien & "Vomit" Bart
Maggie & A White Blood Cell
[Personal Comments & Observations]
>> Meta-reference corner
When the family is trapped in Burns's stomach, Lisa says it's the
worst Halloween Horror ever. Appropriate, given that "TOH" is thought
of as the Halloween special.
>> Personality Parade
R. Crumb -- Famous counter-culture cartoonist. The famous 60's hippie
icon, the "Keep on Truckin'" guy, is one of his creations. So
is "Fritz the Cat," also referenced on "The Simpsons" (although
not in this episode). I think the "R" stands for Robert,
although he was almost exclusively known as just "R". [Curse
alert: Mr. Crumb passed away a few years ago.]
Harvey Pekar -- Another famous "alternative" cartoonist. His primary
subject is none other than Harvey Pekar, and he has a comic
strip that is entirely about his own life. The strip and the
man were the subject of a recent movie, "American Splendor."
I'm not aware of any Pekar-Crumb collaborations, though.
>> Fun with promotions
Television promos for this episode showed Homer complaining that his
"Fantastic Voyage" jumpsuit would ride up his butt and highlight his
"bosoms". I guess the wardrobe department found a relaxed-fit suit,
because this line wasn't in the episode.
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Michael Black
Benjamin Robinson (bj...@freenet.tlh.fl.us) writes:
>
> The final sketch of the night, "In the Belly of the Boss," takes us
> where no man has gone since that episode of "Futurama" with the
> parasites. Maggie is accidentally shrunk down to microscopic size,
> and Burns ingests her. With Frink's help, the rest of the family
> mounts a rescue mission, "Fantastic Voyage" style. The satire owes
> more to the movie than to the book, with a lot of the humor centering
> around the costuming.
It's been years since I read the book, but I'm pretty certain the movie
came first. Isaac Asimov wrote the book, but it just doesn't fit the
rest of his work. More important, I'm sure there was an intro or
some comment on the cover about how he wrote the book from the script.
And as is often the case when a movie is made out of the book, more
people will be familiar with the movie than the book, hence it makes
sense to parody the movie rather than the book.
>
> "A Christmas Story"
> - Burns becomes C. Ebenezer Burns (cf. Scrooge) in second story
>
But the book is called "A Christmas Carol" as is the movies that follow
the book (as opposed to the many who merely use the story line). "A
Christmas Story" is the Peter Billingsly movie from the early eighties
based on the book by Jean Shepard.
>
> "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" (book)
> - Mao's slogan: Happiness is a warm poppy [the flower that is the
> source of opium]
>
If course, Mao said "Religion is the opiate of the masses".
>
> R. Crumb -- Famous counter-culture cartoonist. The famous 60's hippie
> icon, the "Keep on Truckin'" guy, is one of his creations. So
> is "Fritz the Cat," also referenced on "The Simpsons" (although
> not in this episode). I think the "R" stands for Robert,
> although he was almost exclusively known as just "R". [Curse
> alert: Mr. Crumb passed away a few years ago.]
I'm pretty sure he's still alive. The fact that there was a movie about
him, "Crumb" ten years back is not an indication of his death. I don't
remember seeing anything about him dying, and a quick search doesn't
show anything immediately. He apparently caused Pekar to do comics
commercially, or something like that.
Michael
To...@fred.net
: [DYNs]
:
: ... despite the title, nobody was beheaded in "Four Beheadings and a
: Funeral?"
: ... for that matter, there wasn't a funeral, either?
: ... Bart finally has a legitimate excuse to use his Cockney accent?
: ... it's never explained how Wiggum came into possession of the
: Swords of Osiris?
Wizard. (g)
: ... Burns reads "Premiere" magazine while the family is inserted in
: his body?
: ... when Homer says he "flies from the gut" he is literally flying
: in Burns's gut?
: ... the dancing partners all recall characters from tonight's
: stories?
: ... "Eliza" Simpson dances on Inspector Wiggum's shoes?
... Bart(!) made it to Heaven?
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> Benjamin Robinson (bj...@freenet.tlh.fl.us) writes:
> >
> > The final sketch of the night, "In the Belly of the Boss," takes us
> > where no man has gone since that episode of "Futurama" with the
> > parasites. Maggie is accidentally shrunk down to microscopic size,
> > and Burns ingests her. With Frink's help, the rest of the family
> > mounts a rescue mission, "Fantastic Voyage" style. The satire owes
> > more to the movie than to the book, with a lot of the humor centering
> > around the costuming.
>
> It's been years since I read the book, but I'm pretty certain the movie
> came first. Isaac Asimov wrote the book, but it just doesn't fit the
> rest of his work. More important, I'm sure there was an intro or
> some comment on the cover about how he wrote the book from the script.
Yes, they hired Isaac Asimov to write the novelization. In his
rewrite, he closed up some of the plot holes and tried to make
everything scientifically plausible.
Steve Brown
> ... it's never explained how Wiggum came into possession of the
> Swords of Osiris?
Yes it is. Ebenezer Burns sold it to "a fat man with side Burns _like_
that one over there" (Homer) for opium. He never said he sold it to
Homer, just that whoever bought it resembled him (which Wiggum did).
> "Into the Belly of the Beast"
> - title of third story, "Into the Belly of the Boss" a spoof
It's actually "In the Belly of the Beast/Boss", not "Into".
Joe Klemm
>
> "Muttonchop" Kang & Kodos Homer & Burns Frink & Cat Lady
>
> Moe & Animated Footstool "Eliza" Simpson & Inspector Wiggum
>
> Alligator & Hans Moleman Boss Alien & "Vomit" Bart
>
> Maggie & A White Blood Cell
One pair that you're missing: Angel Ned Flanders and Angel Marge.
Joe Klemm
Daniel Dreibelbis
bj...@freenet.tlh.fl.us (Benjamin Robinson) wrote:
> Mark V (or perhaps VII) (production company)
> - their logo is two hands with a stamp and a hammer chiseling
> "Mark V" into a stone; the TOH XV title is done similarly
it's Mark VII Productions, the company owned by Jack Webb which
produced _Dragnet_, _Adam-12_ and _Emergency!_
>R. Crumb -- Famous counter-culture cartoonist. The famous 60's hippie
> icon, the "Keep on Truckin'" guy, is one of his creations. So
> is "Fritz the Cat," also referenced on "The Simpsons" (although
> not in this episode). I think the "R" stands for Robert,
> although he was almost exclusively known as just "R". [Curse
> alert: Mr. Crumb passed away a few years ago.]
uh, Robert Crumb is still very much alive and living in France.
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news:<10p1gvt...@corp.supernews.com>...
> ... Bart(!) made it to Heaven?
Along with Buddhist Lisa and atheist garage.
Eels N. Hovercraft
news:dreibel-1174A6...@nr-tor01.bellnexxia.net:
> uh, Robert Crumb is still very much alive and living in France.
A new curse!
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Matt Garvey
> Plaque at Scotland Yard:
>
> SCOTLAND
> YARD
>
> "WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT, THEN?"
>
Not to be nitpicky, but in the interest of ensuring an accurate capsule, there's
no "about."
Tim Smith
> It's been years since I read the book, but I'm pretty certain the movie
> came first. Isaac Asimov wrote the book, but it just doesn't fit the rest
> of his work. More important, I'm sure there was an intro or some comment
> on the cover about how he wrote the book from the script.
Right, the book was the novelization of the script. However, because (1) in
order to get Asimov to do it, they had to agree that he could make any
changes he felt necessary to try to make it scientifically reasonable
(within the constaint of not junking the whole story, of course!), and (2)
he wrote so damned fast that the book actually came out quite a while before
the movie, most people thought that the movie was made from the book.
--
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Asimov must have had a bigger budget than Prof. Farnsworth. One
change he made was using very tiny atoms.
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Benjamin Robinson
(FABF23)"" thread, Daniel Dreibelbis wrote:
> uh, Robert Crumb is still very much alive and living in France.
My mistake, then. I must have gotten him confused with another family
member, or perhaps another cartoonist.
Nathan
> complete with the theme song to some sitcom whose name escapes me
> right now.
"Perfect Strangers," as I'm sure plenty of other people have pointed
out by now.
> On the whole, it's a pretty
> good sketch, though, with a malfunctioning intercom system being my
> favorite joke.
Do it! Kill everybody!
> This skit plays like an outtake from
> "Margical History Tour (FABF06)" (and yes, I know Holmes is a
> fictional character).
He sure IS! Rrroowwwr!
> By the way is this the first alternate-reality sketch where the family
> members appear, but aren't related to one another in the new reality?
In the last "Simpsons Tall Tales" sketch, Bart was Tom Sawyer, and
Lisa was Becky Thatcher. Since they had different last names, I guess
they weren't supposed to be related. On the other hand, they DID
change it so that it was Huck, not Tom, who had a crush on Becky,
because, well, even if Bart and Lisa AREN'T related in this sketch, it
would still be weird to see them as an item.
Nathan
Matt Garvey
> > By the way is this the first alternate-reality sketch where the family
> > members appear, but aren't related to one another in the new reality?
>
> In the last "Simpsons Tall Tales" sketch, Bart was Tom Sawyer, and
> Lisa was Becky Thatcher. Since they had different last names, I guess
> they weren't supposed to be related. On the other hand, they DID
> change it so that it was Huck, not Tom, who had a crush on Becky,
> because, well, even if Bart and Lisa AREN'T related in this sketch, it
> would still be weird to see them as an item.
>
> Nathan
I was thinking about this too (take note, O Benjamin of the Capsules)...
With the Tom Sawyer thing, Homer, Marge, and Lisa were all related. I don't know if what we're going for is
"someone out of the main 4 or 5 isn't related to the rest" or "none are related at all," but this is something to
consider.
The Raven (7F04) also has unrelated family members. The only characters that are related are Homer and Marge/Lenore
(by law if not by blood, but that's the case with them anyway), and maybe the Lisa/Maggie characters, but that
part's a stretch.
And King Homer (9F04) has Homer and Marge meeting...but do they ever marry? This one is easily the weakest of my
list, but it's got something.
Sparky
> bj...@freenet.tlh.fl.us (Benjamin Robinson) wrote in message news:<419037bf...@news.east.earthlink.net>...
>
>>The theme even carries through the "credits," which come
>>complete with the theme song to some sitcom whose name escapes me
>>right now.
>
>
> "Perfect Strangers," as I'm sure plenty of other people have pointed
> out by now.
>
>
>>On the whole, it's a pretty
>>good sketch, though, with a malfunctioning intercom system being my
>>favorite joke.
>
> Do it! Kill everybody!
>
>>This skit plays like an outtake from
>>"Margical History Tour (FABF06)" (and yes, I know Holmes is a
>>fictional character).
>
> He sure IS! Rrroowwwr!
And he does coke! You wouldn't say Sherlock Holmes is stupid, would you?
T Chong
Tieus Albert
It's probably not verbatim, but the conversation went something like
this.
cheech: hey, man, how come everytime we do coke you go and do
something really stupid like that?
man: hey! how come everytime we do coke, you go into your "how come
everytime we do coke" speech?
cheech: you need to quit doing that coke man, it does something to
your brain. you're not gonna have a brain no more, man.
man: hey, man! lotsa smart people snort coke.
cheech: oh yeah? lotsa smart people snort coke, huh? like who?
man: like, like, sherlock holmes snorts coke and he isn't so stupid.
Chris Sobieniak
the spooky to sci-fi that they're doing on these specials. If there was
a better thought given to this, I'd rather they push these to sometime
in December and create a kind of "end-of-year" type episode where they
would do off this kind of stuff they would normally not use for the
series regularly. Given that the Halloween deal has fallen flat for a
while now, I'd rather that they do something better with the remaining
years they have left instead of playing this into November as usual (no
thanks to Fox).
From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak
--"Fightin' the Frizzies since 1978"--
Chris Sobieniak
give my two cents over this episode (which I still haven't seen).
On Tue, Nov 9, 2004, 3:34am (EST+5), bj...@freenet.tlh.fl.us
(Benjamin Robinson) wrote:
>The first proper story, "The Ned Zone," is also the
>only one that could be classified as a "horror"
>story, based as it is on Stephen King's "The Dead
>Zone." Ned recovers from a head injury and
>discovers that he has a disturbing new power: If he
>touches someone, he sees how that person will
>die. When Ned touches Homer, he sees himself in
>the future, shooting Homer in the back with a
>pistol. In a way, the story becomes a bit
>predictable as soon as Ned has his vision. We
>know that he'll take steps to avoid killing his friend,
>but that increasingly improbably circumstances will
>lead him to do it. The fun is in guessing just how it
>will happen. Unfortunately, the short running time
>of "The Ned Zone" works against it. The writers
>don't have time for a truly elaborate fulfillment of
>the prophecy, so the climactic scene plays out a
>little too quickly for my taste. The segment's
>ending is a little flat, too. On the whole, it's a
>pretty good sketch, though, with a malfunctioning
>intercom system being my favorite joke.
Are these segments or "acts" usually 7 minutes in length? I do like to
think that it's rather short when it does come to how they do try to
write these things. The producers on the commentaries do tend to say
that these are the HARDEST episodes to do and they usually work on them
a year in advance or something like that so they could focus on the
other for a season or whatever.
>The middle story, "Four Beheadings and a
>Funeral," puts the cast in Victorian-era London,
>with Lisa as a Sherlock Holmes type, and Bart as
>the tagalong assistant.
(SNIPPED)
>It's a pretty good tale, but once again the ending's
>a bit rushed, and the final joke is a bit flat.
Sometimes I wonder if 11 minutes would suffice if they wanted to expand
these episodes to an hour or such? At least that way it might give the
writers some good spare time to develop these endings better.
>After last year's move toward more of a
>"Halloween" feel, "TOH 15" heads back toward the
>other way, away from traditional spookiness and
>toward science fiction and more generally
>macabre, off-kilter stories. It also seems like a
>backward step in quality compared with "TOH 14,"
>but that's more because last year's special was a
>particularly good one, not that this one was bad.
Too bad I haven't paid attention to the Simpsons for years so much of
this is new to me (not having see this episode).
>[The short of it]
>What people have been saying is true: "TOH" is
>less of a Halloween special and more of a
>showcase for macabre and off-kilter stories.
Sometimes I wonder if they should allocate the episodes to around
December and retool it into some sort of an "end of year" type event
where they would do this sort of thing? They always did tend to be more
of whatever the writers and other people could come up with that
wouldn't be used anywhere else in the series anyway. The Halloween part
of them seems to have fallen flat and nothing can probably make it
better if the remaining episodes yet to be seen will always be shown in
November anyway.
Steve Brown
They are doing a Christmas trilogy in Season 17, according to Mike
Reiss, but not in place of Treehouse of Horror XVI.
Benjamin Robinson
>If there was
>a better thought given to this, I'd rather they push these to sometime
>in December and create a kind of "end-of-year" type episode [...]
Problem is, December (and especially the *end* of December) usually sees a
slowdown in TV ratings as people become preoccupied with their own
end-of-the-year celebrations. November is a sweeps month with more people
watching, so Fox and the other networks like to air their "special" episodes
that month.
Nathan
> And King Homer (9F04) has Homer and Marge meeting...but do they ever marry?
Yeah, they get married at the end, and Homer eats Mr. Bouvier.
Nathan
Sparky
From: http://members.aol.com/VWware/oindex.html
"Man everytime you do coke this happens. I swear, Everytime you do coke
you screw something up. I can't believe you gave our money away."
"Woe. Hold on man, everytime I do coke you go on about this 'everytime I
do coke' bit. I'm getting sick of it."
"That's cause evertime you do coke you screw something up. You need to
chill on that shit man. That shit will give you brain damage."
"Woe. Hold on man. There's alot of smart guys who do coke, man."
"Oh yeah like who?"
"Uh, like, Sherlock Holmes does coke, man, and he's not so stupid."
"Sherlock Holmes?"
[IIRC: "let's go get our money, Holmes"]