Notes for LABF19 (Rednecks and Broomsticks)
Matt Garvey
mood, but this seemed to be rather full of bizarre and tasteless/
morbid gags. I did kind of like Lisa's story, her own arc as well as
the mob scenes... Homer's I could take or leave. I actually liked
Bart's courtroom prank (had an older feel to it). A little late to be
skewering the "Bop It" game, isn't it?, but I can see how that would
be really annoying.
DYN:
...Fox promos for tonight's lineup used a four-split screen, the same
technique used in a montage in this ep?
..."Hell's kitten"?
...Neve Campbell as guest voice? Wow, they promoted the hell out of
that...
OPENING
Stork R to L (repeat), new billboard, Stu oomp, all the rest same as
all season. TV didn't fall off (hasn't the last few episodes).
Previous episode references
(KABF20: title... and this time it's actually "broomsticks" for real.
Fittingly, there is a "mypod" too)
5F02: Various parallels and rehashes of "Easy-Bake Coven", and Patty
and Selma were said to have been tried as witches 12 years ago during
the most recent witch trials (the episode premiered just over 12 years
ago) (and FWIW, on tonight's The Cleveland Show they just had a
cutaway gag involving fly hybrids as in "Fly vs. Fly")
5F07: Family drives onto frozen pond and car falls in
2F03: Homer covered with snow like end of "Shinning" segment
3F01?: Flanders' cell phone has Lovejoy twice for different locations.
I think this happened previously (on a desk phone) in that episode?
1F14: Water supply poisoned
Also
Bart asking Cletus's kids if they had any video games reminded me a
bit of the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where Rusty is asking
similar questions.
And (just skip if you don't like production codes or have no interest
whatsoever in airing order)
I'll make some note when MABF01 airs I guess... but you might have
noticed that the end of the LABF season is not finishing before the
MABFs begin. This is something that hasn't happened since the BABF/
CABF transition in season 12! It wasn't particularly common even
before then: 7F/8F, 3F/4F (and the 3Gs of course), 4F/5F, 5F/AABF,
AABF/BABF, and BABF/CABF (all but the first of those are consecutive
of course).
It's also worth noting that MABF01 is the 450th episode in production
order, but only 449th in airing order (on 12/13). Now, the 450th
episode is airing on 1/14/10, the day of the purported 20th
anniversary of the series' premiere. Of course, the series actually
premiered on 12/17/89 as we all know. So you may feel free to
celebrate *a* 450th episode early, just a few days before the real
20th anniversary. Then you can celebrate another 450th episode (I'm
assuming - but haven't yet seen promos - Fox is going to be all over
that) on the 20th anniversary of the 2nd episode's premiere.
Michael Black
> 3F01?: Flanders' cell phone has Lovejoy twice for different locations.
> I think this happened previously (on a desk phone) in that episode?
And there was also the button programmed for something like "nipple slip
reporting", ie a number to call if any nipples appear on TV. Maybe it's a
more general use number, for dealing with all tv that Flanders objects
to.
> Also
> Bart asking Cletus's kids if they had any video games reminded me a
> bit of the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where Rusty is asking
> similar questions.
>
The beginning (we're they driving back from getting a Christmas tree? I
was flipping channels) certainly reminded me of the Vacation movies.
Nobody ever landed on a frozen lake in those, but bad driving and flying
through the air appeared in more than one of them.
Michael
Xino Kiner
"Matt Garvey" <mx...@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> Bart's courtroom prank (had an older feel to it). A little late to be
> skewering the "Bop It" game, isn't it?, but I can see how that would
> be really annoying.
Did Bop It recently have a "reincarnation"? I seem to remember it was
popular many years ago, yet you specified it as being only a "little" late.
Now I know for what I'm asking to receive for Christmas.. that game was
awesome!
R Flowers
> Did Bop It recently have a "reincarnation"? I seem to remember it was
> popular many years ago, yet you specified it as being only a "little" late.
>
> Now I know for what I'm asking to receive for Christmas.. that game was
> awesome!
I just saw one on the shelf at a Walmart, so that would suggest they
are still popular. Why parents would buy one for their own kid(s) is a
mystery, though... my in-laws gave one to my nieces because to punish
their dad. (That was at least 10 years ago, so you can see how long
this toy has been around.)
-- R Flowers
Brett A. Pasternack
> The beginning (we're they driving back from getting a Christmas tree? I
> was flipping channels)
A ski weekend. They left early Sunday morning to beat the traffic, but
found that everyone else had the same idea.
Brett A. Pasternack
>
> Weird... I don't know if it's just me, or if I'm not in a receptive
> mood, but this seemed to be rather full of bizarre and tasteless/
> morbid gags.
It wasn't just you...at a minimum it was both you and I! I think that's
been an overall problem with the past couple of seasons, but this
episode had plenty of examples. I don't want to see half the town go
blind (even "temporarily") outside of a Halloween episode. Moe
practically begging to be raped? Hicks dancing to bear noises because
they're too stupid to realize it isn't music? A "is Homer dead?"
fake-off ending? No thank you to all of those. At least we didn't get a
Misery parody where the rednecks break someone's legs--I was fearing
that when they were put into the cabin.
The only real laughs I got out of the episode were the Sideways parody
and the tax-evading goat.
I did kind of like Lisa's story, her own arc as well as
> the mob scenes... Homer's I could take or leave. I actually liked
> Bart's courtroom prank (had an older feel to it). A little late to be
> skewering the "Bop It" game, isn't it?, but I can see how that would
> be really annoying.
I must be really old. I never heard of Bop It before.
Ho...@nospamfathounds.com
>Matt Garvey wrote:
>>
>> Weird... I don't know if it's just me, or if I'm not in a receptive
>> mood, but this seemed to be rather full of bizarre and tasteless/
>> morbid gags.
>
>It wasn't just you...at a minimum it was both you and I! I think that's
>been an overall problem with the past couple of seasons, but this
>episode had plenty of examples. I don't want to see half the town go
>blind (even "temporarily") outside of a Halloween episode. Moe
>practically begging to be raped?
That creeped me out a little, too.
>Hicks dancing to bear noises because
>they're too stupid to realize it isn't music? A "is Homer dead?"
>fake-off ending? No thank you to all of those. At least we didn't get a
>Misery parody where the rednecks break someone's legs--I was fearing
>that when they were put into the cabin.
>
>The only real laughs I got out of the episode were the Sideways parody
>and the tax-evading goat.
I thought the nod to Bambi was pretty funny.