Confused episode titles
Adam W. Long
>[AABF20] "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" - I know, it seems more natural to right
>"To" and not "Over".
I also now notice it's more right to write "write" rather than "right" so don't
bother pointing that out.
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Adam W. Long
wrong and I always feel like a jerk correcting them, so this list is to
hopefully settle any misconceptions some might have about some of the titles.
I know some of them are pretty picky, but just chalk that up to boredom on my
part. Actually, chalk the whole list up to boredom on my part.
Okay, first of all, the Halloween episodes are called "Treehouse of Horror
(Season # - 1)", not "Treehouse of Horrors" or "The Simpsons Halloween
Special." [7F04], [8F02], [9F04], [1F04], [2F03], [3F04], [4F02], [5F02],
[AABF01]
[7F13] "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" and [4F15] "Homer vs. the
Eighteenth Amendment" - Both involve Homer, vs., some number involving eight,
and some sort of "ndment." Notice how in the former "8th" is written as a
number but "eighteenth" is spelled out in the latter. Curious.
[9F12] "Brother From the Same Planet" and [4F14] "Brother From Another Series"
- Two names parodying the same title. It should be obvious that "BFAS" is the
Frasier spoof.
[1F08] "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized
Gambling)" - Obviously, the dollar sign is crucial to this title.
[1F22] "Bart of Darkness" and [4F06] "Bart After Dark" - Two episodes with very
similar titles. "After Dark" should be enough to indicate the burlesque house.
[3F31] "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" - Learn that number, 138th!
Not 200th or 100th or 186th, etc. And on the subject, the NRA4EVER thing was a
JOKE, it says 847.63.
[4F05] "Burns, Baby Burns" - Notice how the comma comes after the first
"Burns." I think it would make more sense after "Baby" but oh, well. (Also
notice the same structure for [AABF08] "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday")
[4F01] "Lisa's Date With Density" - This clever anagram can fool someone just
glancing at it - pay close attention to the Season 8 - 10 titles, they can get
pretty witty.
[3G03] "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(ANNOYED GRUNT)cious" or
"SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaD'OHcious" - Just call it "The Bobbins ep."
[4F11] "Homer's Phobia" - Two-word title, although I think the pun would've
been easier to catch if it was just one word, "Homerphobia."
[4F16] "The Canine Mutiny" - A pretty obvious one, I know, but just thought it
was worth mentioning.
[5F06] "Realty Bites" - Look, no "I"! Makes a lot more sense this way, doesn't
it?
[5F08] "Bart Carny" - There's no "the" in this title, it's supposed to be a pun
of Art Carny. Similar aspect for [5F03] "Bart Star".
[5F10] "The Last Temptation of Krust" - Yes, Krust. No "Y". If there was a
"Y" it wouldn't sound like "The Last Temptation of Christ" now, would it?
(Also not to be confused with [1F07] "The Last Temptation of Homer")
[4F24] "Lisa, the Simpson" and [5F22] "Bart, the Mother" - I'm trusting
snpp.com that these two titles do in fact have commas, unlike the other "_____
the _____" episodes.
[3G04] "Simpson Tide" - Not "Simpsons Tide". (Come on, the movie wasn't called
"Crimsons Tide")
[AABF02] "D'oh-in' in the Wind" - Notice the punctuation of " D-oh-in' ".
[AABF20] "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" - I know, it seems more natural to right
"To" and not "Over". I also realize that they were really over Tokyo for about
20 minutes, but whatever.
Contributions welcome.
Dale G. Abersold
> I guess it's sort of a pet peeve of mine when people get the episode titles
> wrong and I always feel like a jerk correcting them, so this list is to
> hopefully settle any misconceptions some might have about some of the titles.
> I know some of them are pretty picky, but just chalk that up to boredom on my
> part. Actually, chalk the whole list up to boredom on my part.
Be careful! This kind of nitpicking has consequences that are
unimaginable to you now. Men will shun you, women will laugh at you,
dogs will growl at you. Worse yet...you might end up becoming a
Simpsons Guru! (scream of absolute horror)
Dale G. Abersold
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noec...@aol.composer (Adam W. Long) wrote:
> Confused Episode Titles
Homer to the Max and Maximum Homerdrive. For a while before they were
shown I thought they were the same episode, renamed.
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Drew Thomas
In article <37CD3395...@hotmail.com>, Dale G. Abersold
<dal...@hotmail.com> writes
>Worse yet...you might end up becoming a
>Simpsons Guru! (scream of absolute horror)
>
--
Drew Thomas
Mike IGC
very
>similar titles. "After Dark" should be enough to indicate the burlesque
house.
>
Well, as long as we're nitpicking here...
Darkness = dark
After Dark = light
Dark = absence of light; What comes after dark?
After Dusk = dark
--Mike
Jennifer Kremer
Adam W. Long <noec...@aol.composer> wrote in message
news:19990901022059...@ng-fd1.aol.com...
> >
> >[AABF20] "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" - I know, it seems more natural to
right
> >"To" and not "Over".
>
don't
> bother pointing that out.
>
But, you'd think, with all your nitpicking you would have gotten the pun on
the name and realized why it is "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo." Haven't you
ever heard of "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"? As in World War II...
-Jen
Phil
> "Burns." I think it would make more sense after "Baby" but oh, well.
(Also
> notice the same structure for [AABF08] "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday")
I always thought this was a spoof off of Bond movies....instead of "Bond,
James Bond" its "Burns, Baby Burns" and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
~Phil
grosse
Cruddy Sunday." I have absolutely no idea what it was about, though.
Phil <abe...@prodigy.net.lenotata> wrote in message
news:7qkerl$54ni$1...@newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com...
Sunshine
>James Bond" its "Burns, Baby Burns" and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
>
Or perhaps they're takes-off of "Burn, Baby Burn" and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"?
Sunshine
~~~{~~~{~~@
I've never been frightened
Of being enlightened
But some people go too far
-BNL
Haynes Lee
wrote:
>I guess it's sort of a pet peeve of mine when people get the episode titles
>wrong and I always feel like a jerk correcting them, so this list is to
>hopefully settle any misconceptions some might have about some of the titles.
>I know some of them are pretty picky, but just chalk that up to boredom on my
>part. Actually, chalk the whole list up to boredom on my part.
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Alternate Simpsons Titles List
Maintained by Haynes Lee <l...@adan.kingston.net>
First compiled January 1, 1999
Last updated May 19, 1999
Season 7 (1995-1996)
[3F09] A Kinder, Gentler Review (Two Bad Neighbors)
[3F10] A MAD Review (Team Homer)
[3F11] Caddysnack (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
[3F12] Bart the Fart (Bart the Fink)
[3F13] Lisa the Ick (Lisa the Iconoclast)
[3F14] Homer the Sycophant (Homer the Smithers)
[3F15] A Dish Called Selma (A Fish Called Selma)
[3F16] Kill All The Lawyers (The Day the Violence Died)
[3F17] Bart Simpson's Day Off (Bart on the Road)
[3F18] Catch Twenty-Two Shorts (Twenty-Two Short Films About
Springfield)
[3F19] A Hellfish Called Grampa (The Curse of the Flying Hellfish)
[3F20] An Apu For All Seasons (Much Apu About Nothing)
[3F21] Homer Palooka (Homerpalooza)
[3F22] Where Were You In 4 ft. 2? (Summer of 4 ft. 2)
Season 8 (1996-1997)
[3F23] You Never Live Nice (You Only Move Twice)
[3F24] Red Hot Chili Homers (El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer)
[3F32] Kent Brockman vs. Laramie Cigarettes (Losy episode)
[3G01] Close Encounters of the Homer Kind (The Springfield Files)
[3G03] Marge Poppins (SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaD'oh!cious)
[4F01] Lisa's Date with Dyslexia (Lisa's Date with Density)
[4F02] THOHVII (Treehouse of Horror VII)
[4F03] Homer Palooka (The Homer They Fall)
[4F04] The Fall of the Milhouse of Homer (A Milhouse Divided)
[4F05] Baby, Burns, Baby (Burns, Baby Burns)
[4F06] Bark After Dart (Bart After Dark)
[4F07] One Flew Over the Flanders Nest (Hurricane Neddy)
[4F08] Twisted Sister (The Twisted World of Marge Simpson)
[4F09] Fast Times at Springfield Elementary (Grade School
Confidential)
[4F10] Mountain Duff (Mountain of Madness)
[4F11] Homerphobia (Homer's Phobia)
[4F12] The I&S&P Show (The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show)
[4F13] Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is on Drugs (My Sister,
My Sitter)
[4F14] Two Terwilligers (Brother from Another Series)
[4F15] Homer vs. Prohibition (Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment)
[4F16] Citizen Canine (The Canine Mutiny)
[4F17] Burns, Lisa, Burns (The Old Man and the Lisa)
[4F18] E. Pluribus Marge (In Marge We Trust)
[4F19] Take This Job And Shove It! (Homer's Enemy)
[4F20] The Simpsons Ripoff Showcase (The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase)
[4F21] Lisa Simpson Goes To War (The Secret War of Lisa Simpson)
Season 9 (1997-1998)
[3G02] Sax & Violins (Lisa's Sax)
[3G04] Das Butte (Simpson Tide)
[4F22] Homer vs. NYC (The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson)
[4F23] Seymour Buttes (The Principal and The Pauper)
[4F24] Lisa's Genes (Lisa the Simpson)
[5F01] Guns and Donuts (The Cartridge Family)
[5F02] THOHVIII
[5F03] Bad News Barts (Bart Star)
[5F04] Seymour Nahasapeemapetilons (The Two Mrs.
Nahasapeemapetilans)
[5F05] Lisa the Septic (Lisa the Skeptic)
[5F06] Realty Sucks (Realty Bites)
[5F07] Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace (Miracle on Evergreen Terrace)
[5F08] Home the Geek (Bart Carny)
[5F09] Splash of the Titanic (Trash of the Titans)
[5F10] Krusty Gets Kanned (The Last Temptation of Krust)
[5F11] The Fly King (Das Bus)
[5F12] Mad About Moe (Dumbbell Indemnity)
[5F13] Wiggy Stardust (This Little Wiggy)
[5F14] A Farewell To Burns (The Trouble With Trillions)
[5F15] The Bongo Show (Girly Edition)
[5F16] Pork Chop Hill (King of the Hill)
[5F17] Driving Miss Lisa (Lost Our Lisa)
[5F18] Sleepless in Springfield (Natural Born Kissers)
[5F20] Grease (Lard of the Dance)
[5F23] I. Ron Butterfly (The Joy of Sect)
[5F24] The Simpsons Musical Ripoff (All Singing, All Dancing)
Season 10 (1998-1999)
[5F19] Springfield Confidential (When You Dish Upon A Star)
[5F21] What's Up Homer? (The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace)
[5F22] Mom Was a Spikey-Haired Boy (Bart The Mother)
[AABF01] THOHIX (Treehouse of Horror IX)
[AABF02] D'oh! the Magic Dragon (Homer the Hippie)
[AABF03] As Good As Lisa Gets (Lisa Gets an A)
[AABF04] Homer Simpson and the Sundance Kidney (Homer Simpson in:
`Kidney Trouble')
[AABF05] Mayority Rules (Mayored to the Mob)
[AABF06] Flanders Does Vegas (Viva Ned Flanders)
[AABF07] Bart Without A Cause (Wild Barts Can't Be Broken)
[AABF08] Cruddy Waters (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
[AABF09] Homer Power Ranger (Max Power)
[AABF10] Canyonero Mama (Marge Simpsons in Screaming Yellow Honkers)
[AABF11] Why Do Apus Fall In Love (I'm With Cupid)
[AABF12] Watertank Girl (Makr Room For Lisa)
[AABF13] Honk If You're Homer (Maximum Homerdrive)
[AABF14] Thee House of Heaven (Simpsons Bible Stories)
[AABF15] Mondo Art (Mom and Pop Art)
[AABF16] The Spring Olympics (The Old Man And The "C" Student)
[AABF17] Monty Parts (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
[AABF18] Sprinspotting (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
[AABF20] Tokyo Hoser (30 Minutes Over Tokyo)
EOF
Don Del Grande
>I guess it's sort of a pet peeve of mine when people get the episode titles
>wrong and I always feel like a jerk correcting them, so this list is to
>hopefully settle any misconceptions some might have about some of the titles.
>[4F01] "Lisa's Date With Density" - This clever anagram can fool someone just
>glancing at it - pay close attention to the Season 8 - 10 titles, they can get
>pretty witty.
Don't remind me about this one...
However, you left out two that I got confused not once but twice:
3F13 - Lisa the Iconoclast (the Hans Sprungfeld episode)
5F05 - Lisa the Skeptic (the angel skeleton episode)
(it's too easy to see "Iconoclast" and think of the skeleton as an icon)
>[4F24] "Lisa, the Simpson" and [5F22] "Bart, the Mother" - I'm trusting
>snpp.com that these two titles do in fact have commas, unlike the other "_____
>the _____" episodes.
That's funny - I've never used commas in those titles. (Then again, I
refuse to use "(ANNOYED GRUNT)" in titles, preferring instead to spell out
"D'oh")
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Don Del Grande, del_g...@netvista.net
Too late - you reminded me...
Adam W. Long
>the name and realized why it is "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo." Haven't you
>ever heard of "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"? As in World War II...
>
Yes, but more often I've seen people write it with "To" instead of "Over"
because it sounds more natural.
Adam W. Long
>unimaginable to you now. Men will shun you, women will laugh at you,
>Simpsons Guru! (scream of absolute horror)
>
Yes, I thought of the consequences when making the list. While most people
would just pass it off as a very bored person trying to find something to do, a
few would take it a little too seriously and feel insulted or something. But
as far as I'm concerned I didn't do this to offend people or to revel in my
supreme knowledge of useless Simpsons trivia, but to enlighten. Maybe save a
few people from some very minor embarassment. And with all the lists there
already are I figure one more wouldn't hurt.
Adam W. Long
>James Bond" its "Burns, Baby Burns" and "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
Actually, now that I think about it, the comma does make sense there, seeing as
Larry is "baby" Burns, though not an actual baby. I can't believe I never
noticed that.
ChaiTheDog
out what the person really meant. Most of the time, when people add an "I" to
"Realty Bites" I don't even notice it's there. I suppose that the mistake can
only be significant when the reader can't understand what the person is talking
about. When I badmouth AABF20, calling it "Thirty Minutes To Tokyo" (as I know
I have done several times), people know what I'm talking about. What I really
don't like is when people (usually of the beetle-browed, stuffedshirted
persuasion) talk using ONLY the production codes, thinking they sound more
important that way. I can never figure out what episode they're talking about,
unless they give a quote from it. I know a couple of P-codes, the ones that
always manage to show up in conversation (7G01, 7G08, 7F11, 9F22, 2F16, 3F31,
4F19 especially), but for the most part, if you shout out "9F09", I won't know
what you're talking about. Nonetheless, I think that this list is a good thing,
what that there's a list of just about everything else.
Benjamin Robinson
wrote:
>Strange thing about these sort of mistakes is that I can almost always figure
>out what the person really meant. [...] What I really
>don't like is when people (usually of the beetle-browed, stuffedshirted
>persuasion) talk using ONLY the production codes, thinking they sound more
>important that way. I can never figure out what episode they're talking about,
>unless they give a quote from it.
One hazard of using p-code only is that it's less resistant to mistakes.
Suppose you wanted to rave about what a wonderful episode "Make Room for Lisa"
was. So you post:
One of my favorite episodes from last season was AABF13.
Oops! You just sung the praises of "Maximum Homerdrive." If, instead, you'd
called the episode "Cell-tower Lisa" or "Lisa Loses Her Room," we'd still know
what you were talking about, even though you got the title wrong.
I typically compromise between the two camps, refering to episodes as,
"Beetle-browed Lisa (AABF99)." (Note that this is more fault-tolerant, as I'd
have to mess up both the title and the p-code to get the "wrong" show.) And as
for memorizing p-codes, well, I don't. I just have one of Don Del Grande's
airdate listings open in another window, and refer to that when needed.
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