Simpson's slam at Dan
Paul Fritschle
For those of you who don't watch the show, a running joke in the
opening credits involves Bart writing something on the blackboard over
and over. Past sentences have included "I will not expose the
faculty's ignorance.". Well, though tonight's show was actually a
repeat, they did change the sentence on the blackboard. Looked like a
last minute thing, since the blackboard portion of the shot shimmered
badly.
Tonight's slogan:
"Potato" not "Potatoe".
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Mike Levis
>Great bit on the Simpson's tonight....
>"Potato" not "Potatoe".
I heard about the "Potatoe" deal earlier this week.
I watched tonight's episode epecially to see that "ptatoe" deal,
but it wasn't shown!!! Where I live (San Antonio) they skipped
to the driveway scene immediately!!! :-( If others saw "potatoe"
then the local affiliate screwed up. (grrrr)
PS: I loved the rest of the show, anyways :-)
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Marc Sarrel
Well, I saw the "Potato" vs "Potatoe" thing this evening, and the
blackboard did shimmer badly. I think that originally, this episode
had the old title sequence. Have they been adding the new sequence to
all the reruns? Also, it was an appropriate episode to add it.
However, my big GRIPE is that the local news on the FOX affiliate here
in LA gave the joke away _last_ (Wednesday) night in one of their
"tie-in" stories!! It would have been much funnier if I'd noticed it
myself. They could have at least waited until after the show aired to
do their story.
I think I'll give them a call...
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Travis Lauricella
>I heard about the "Potatoe" deal earlier this week.
>I watched tonight's episode epecially to see that "ptatoe" deal,
>but it wasn't shown!!! Where I live (San Antonio) they skipped
>to the driveway scene immediately!!! :-( If others saw "potatoe"
>
It was on here (Seattle). I watched it just for that :). The words did kind
of shimmer, and when the camera "panned" out of the classroom, the
perspective was a bit off.
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David Hyatt
>For those of you who don't watch the show, a running joke in the
BWAHH-HAAHAAAA! D'OH!
>opening credits involves Bart writing something on the blackboard over
>and over.
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> Well, I saw the "Potato" vs "Potatoe" thing this evening, and the
> blackboard did shimmer badly. I think that originally, this episode
> had the old title sequence. Have they been adding the new sequence to
> all the reruns? Also, it was an appropriate episode to add it.
>
I've heard that Fox is required by contract to use the latest version of
the 90210 opening on all reurns, so this could apply to Simpsons as well.
> However, my big GRIPE is that the local news on the FOX affiliate here
> in LA gave the joke away _last_ (Wednesday) night in one of their
> "tie-in" stories!! It would have been much funnier if I'd noticed it
> myself. They could have at least waited until after the show aired to
> do their story.
>
Ooh, I hate when this happens! A few weeks back, the local papers
spoiled the surprise ending on the season finale of Seinfeld. And one of
the area papers seems to delight in doing articles about local
contestants on game shows prior to airing, revealing the outcome of the
contests!
Tom Bromley
Bradley M Armitage
>mle...@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>+TM+
Well, I saw the Potatoeeeeee....thing on Fox thursday
night......6-25-92, I thought it was great....no fuzziness here!!!!
flar @iastate.edu
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Keith Lim
The show immediately following The Simpsons is Married with Children. On
the day of the "Potatoe" Simpsons episode, the MwC episode was the one
where Kelly was invited to the genius society's party, unknown to her, as
an entrant in the "idiot date" contest.
Bud crashed the party, discovered the reason for Kelly being invited,
and tried to convince her of it. Kelly remained unconvinced even after
meeting "an LA school teacher" and "a network exec.", but what finally
convinced her was the photo on the wall of DQ, captioned "Last Year's
Winner."
Coincidence or design, it doesn't matter; it was hilarious.
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Dwight Wilson
>U. TV (Vancouver) went one better.
>
>The show immediately following The Simpsons is Married with Children. On
>the day of the "Potatoe" Simpsons episode, the MwC episode was the one
>where Kelly was invited to the genius society's party, unknown to her, as
>an entrant in the "idiot date" contest.
>
>Bud crashed the party, discovered the reason for Kelly being invited,
>and tried to convince her of it. Kelly remained unconvinced even after
>meeting "an LA school teacher" and "a network exec.", but what finally
>convinced her was the photo on the wall of DQ, captioned "Last Year's
>Winner."
>
Those of us in the U.S. can catch this episode this weekend (6/28).
-Dwight
Peter Deutsch
>In article <pfritsch....@skid.ps.uci.edu> pfri...@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) writes:
>>Great bit on the Simpson's tonight....
>[deleted]
>>"Potato" not "Potatoe".
>
>I heard about the "Potatoe" deal earlier this week.
>I watched tonight's episode epecially to see that "ptatoe" deal,
>but it wasn't shown!!! Where I live (San Antonio) they skipped
>to the driveway scene immediately!!! :-( If others saw "potatoe"
>then the local affiliate screwed up. (grrrr)
Or perhaps your station has a "Dan-fan" on staff who
decided to censor what you saw? After all, we _are_ talking
about Texas here. Isn't Dano's friend George (I'm sorry,
that should be "Georg") a "Texan" (as in, "you mean
then I wouldn't have to pay any state taxes? Sure, why
not! Let's just book a suite at some hotel..." :-)
- peterd
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John G Dobnick
Maybe our VP isn't all that dumb after all. According to the Oxford
English Dictionary, "potatoe"_is_ a valid spelling of the starchy tuber.
Of course, they _also_ note that this spelling was in use from the 16th
to 19th centuries.
Maybe Mr. Dan is merely supporting "old fashioned values"? :-)
[Yes... I thought the chalkboard sequence was funny, too. I *like* OFF!]
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Jim Summers
>>>>"Potato" not "Potatoe".
>
>Maybe our VP isn't all that dumb after all. According to the Oxford
>English Dictionary, "potatoe"_is_ a valid spelling of the starchy tuber.
>Of course, they _also_ note that this spelling was in use from the 16th
>to 19th centuries.
>
>Maybe Mr. Dan is merely supporting "old fashioned values"? :-)
"The Holocaust was an obscence period in our nation's history. I mean
in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't
live in this century." - The New Yorker, October 10, 1988, p.102.
This is clear now -- he didn't live in THIS century, it must have
been in the 16th--19th, when potatoe was correct!
jim
Pete Zakel
>>of shimmer, and when the camera "panned" out of the classroom, the
>>perspective was a bit off.
>
>night......6-25-92, I thought it was great....no fuzziness here!!!!
No, there was no fuzziness anywhere.
It was just that it was obviously a "hurry-up" job where the panning of
the words didn't quite match the panning of the blackboard (to mimic the
effect, write some phrase many times in white ink on a sheet of clear
plastic and hold it over the blackboard in the opening sequence and try to
keep the words in exactly the same spot of the blackboard while the blackboard
moves around on the screen -- it stays perfectly in focus, but "drifts" a
little).
As far as speculation that they added a different beginning to the episode --
no, I don't think so. I think they just used a computer to paste new words
on the screen -- hence the slight lack of synchronization between the words
and the blackboard.
Of course, Danny-boy probably thinks that Bart is a real actor writing on
a real blackboard... B^) B^) B^) B^)
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nfl...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
>>
>> Maybe our VP isn't all that dumb after all. According to the Oxford
>> English Dictionary, "potatoe"_is_ a valid spelling of the starchy tuber.
>> Of course, they _also_ note that this spelling was in use from the 16th
>> to 19th centuries.
>>
>> Maybe Mr. Dan is merely supporting "old fashioned values"? :-)
>
Last Friday on Barbara WahWah, George tried this excuse for Dan.
He said, "Maybe he got it mixed up with the spelling in Chaucer."
I am NOT making this up!
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ethan miller
=>>>>>>"Potato" not "Potatoe".
=> Last Friday on Barbara WahWah, George tried this excuse for Dan.
=>He said, "Maybe he got it mixed up with the spelling in Chaucer."
=>I am NOT making this up!
And I bet Quayle spells "radio" as "radioe" for the same reason. The
word "potato" didn't exist in the English language until after 1500,
when the explorers of the New World brought them back from South
America.
ethan
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Jad Jordan
>In article <1992Jun30....@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> nfl...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>=>>>>>>"Potato" not "Potatoe".
>=> Last Friday on Barbara WahWah, George tried this excuse for Dan.
>=>He said, "Maybe he got it mixed up with the spelling in Chaucer."
>=>I am NOT making this up!
>
>And I bet Quayle spells "radio" as "radioe" for the same reason. The
>word "potato" didn't exist in the English language until after 1500,
>when the explorers of the New World brought them back from South
>America.
>
Gee, I don't seem to recall the word "radioe" being in Chaucer. If "potato"
didn't exist until 1500, when did "radio" come into being?
Jack Miller
Oh, like you've read ALL of Chaucer. No, seriously, that's
the point... neither word existed in Chaucer's time (as far as I
know... anyone want to check the OED?), so the excuse is invalid for
both. Sarcasm is fun once you get used to it. Then again, perhaps
I'm missing YOURS...
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