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Notes for UABF01 (Portrait of a Lackey on Fire)
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Matt Garvey
Nov 21, 2021, 8:52:40 PM11/21/21
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Not bad once the actual conflict got going around the end of the second act, with a little (uninspired but important) social commentary and character focus. OK then. (And what do you know, Mr. Burns survived from the not-quite-canon two parter.)
DYN:
...either Mr. Burns or the writers/animators don't know how scales work?
...Lisa underestimates Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fashion sense?
...there's a special credit for the designer of Lisa's party dress?
Previous episode stuff
CABF04: Smithers has a poster from his Malibu Stacey musical with the title of the only song we know from it at the bottom
7F01: Blinky not only makes Nth appearance but is called by name by Mr. Burns
Non-stop rumors
Seems Al Jean is at it now, interviewing with reporters about the unstoppable nature of the show. (He doesn't see anybody going "let's wrap it up"? Look this way, Al!) Can the cast even survive 12 more seasons to make it to 1000 episodes? Anyway, this note jumped out at me, about how to do a finale:
"There would be an ending where they (the Simpsons) would be going back to the Christmas pageant from the first episode ( Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ), so that the whole series was a continuous loop -- that's how I would end it, if I had to." Logical problems with that aside, it's actually strikingly close to something that occurred to me the night season 31's finale (ZABF16, The Way of the Dog) aired, that if retooled just a tiny bit it could be a great bookend to that 1989 premiere. It wouldn't be circular, just a bookend. Second new dog, warm Christmas feelings, etc.
And in fact, it would have worked well with other factors, including avoiding voice recasting issues, but also would have been the perfect time - shifted to the end of the production season where a Christmas episode actually would fit - to end the series, since it would just skip all the production code jiggery-pokery! End on ZABF. Priceless. It makes a 7-episode season, but so what, when season 1 was 13 and started in December? Tonight is the airing of the first UABF episode, kicking off the second production season since the alphabet ran out. And again I say... what's next? A return to I and O, maybe, and then? THIS IS A SIGNAL. WRAP IT UP!
DYN:
...either Mr. Burns or the writers/animators don't know how scales work?
...Lisa underestimates Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fashion sense?
...there's a special credit for the designer of Lisa's party dress?
Previous episode stuff
CABF04: Smithers has a poster from his Malibu Stacey musical with the title of the only song we know from it at the bottom
7F01: Blinky not only makes Nth appearance but is called by name by Mr. Burns
Non-stop rumors
Seems Al Jean is at it now, interviewing with reporters about the unstoppable nature of the show. (He doesn't see anybody going "let's wrap it up"? Look this way, Al!) Can the cast even survive 12 more seasons to make it to 1000 episodes? Anyway, this note jumped out at me, about how to do a finale:
"There would be an ending where they (the Simpsons) would be going back to the Christmas pageant from the first episode ( Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ), so that the whole series was a continuous loop -- that's how I would end it, if I had to." Logical problems with that aside, it's actually strikingly close to something that occurred to me the night season 31's finale (ZABF16, The Way of the Dog) aired, that if retooled just a tiny bit it could be a great bookend to that 1989 premiere. It wouldn't be circular, just a bookend. Second new dog, warm Christmas feelings, etc.
And in fact, it would have worked well with other factors, including avoiding voice recasting issues, but also would have been the perfect time - shifted to the end of the production season where a Christmas episode actually would fit - to end the series, since it would just skip all the production code jiggery-pokery! End on ZABF. Priceless. It makes a 7-episode season, but so what, when season 1 was 13 and started in December? Tonight is the airing of the first UABF episode, kicking off the second production season since the alphabet ran out. And again I say... what's next? A return to I and O, maybe, and then? THIS IS A SIGNAL. WRAP IT UP!
Ant
Nov 22, 2021, 12:39:36 AM11/22/21
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The beginning was funny, but and then the rest got meh. :(
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