From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

OK core story, with Lisa's depression over her musical talent and whatnot (slightly reminiscent of season 1's Moaning Lisa (7G06) even, while we're thinking of Bleeding Gums), but mostly seems to be a tribute to New Orleans and
a way to celebrate
matching Gunsmoke's episode count. Extremely short, too. And yet it didn't seem
bad - just not great. (Even Lisa's eventual recovery seemed abrupt, while not awful.) Well, until next week...

DYN:
...Lisa's "shattered dreams" box includes an "I'm with Her" bumper sticker? ...Maggie's play house has an adjustable address of 258, which is her own address (742) subtracted from 1000 either by accident or sheer genius?


Meta stuff
Playing around with opening sequence, Flintstones nod (when the show broke or tied ITS episode count there was a short nod as well), Lisa's sax solo in the opening leading directly into the episode (and the rest of the family sad not to have her for a
couch gag)... and of course directly talking about the Gunsmoke thing. Among others. Speaking of which, Bart makes a joke about Gunsmoke radio episodes, but
my nitpicky thought about the record is that Gunsmoke probably had a higher total runtime because
episodes were much longer back in those days (and some of them might be an hourlong format too)! And...

As with a few other landmark episodes in recent years (yes, 2007 feels "recent"
to me), another Ullman short to kick it off. This one is identified as "30 years ago", and it's pretty close, as MG24 (The Aquarium) first ran 2/28/88.

Note, by the way, that the opening sequence has an alternate Lenny for the first time in a while ("oh, not again!"), and Gerald wishes Maggie/us a "happy 635th".

And before the Gracie Films logo, a one-time-only dedication (adding 1 second to the runtime, I think) to R. Lee Ermey, who died last week, with a still of his character from 3F08. Hooray.

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From: invalid@invalid.invalid

On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:46:10 -0700 (PDT), Matt Garvey
<mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

OK core story, with Lisa's depression over her musical talent and whatnot (slightly reminiscent of season 1's Moaning Lisa (7G06) even, while we're thinking of Bleeding Gums), but mostly seems to be a tribute to New Orleans and

a way to celebrate
matching Gunsmoke's episode count. Extremely short, too. And yet it didn't seem
bad - just not great. (Even Lisa's eventual recovery seemed abrupt, while not awful.) Well, until next week...

DYN:
...Lisa's "shattered dreams" box includes an "I'm with Her" bumper sticker? >...Maggie's play house has an adjustable address of 258, which is her own address (742) subtracted from 1000 either by accident or sheer genius?

Meta stuff
Playing around with opening sequence, Flintstones nod (when the show broke or tied ITS episode count there was a short nod as well), Lisa's sax solo in the opening leading directly into the episode (and the rest of the family sad not to have her for a

couch gag)... and of course directly talking about the Gunsmoke thing. Among others. Speaking of which, Bart makes a joke about Gunsmoke radio episodes, but
my nitpicky thought about the record is that Gunsmoke probably had a higher total runtime because
episodes were much longer back in those days (and some of them might be an hourlong format too)! And...

As with a few other landmark episodes in recent years (yes, 2007 feels "recent" to me), another Ullman short to kick it off. This one is identified as

"30 years ago", and it's pretty close, as MG24 (The Aquarium) first ran 2/28/88.

Note, by the way, that the opening sequence has an alternate Lenny for the first time in a while ("oh, not again!"), and Gerald wishes Maggie/us a "happy 635th".

And before the Gracie Films logo, a one-time-only dedication (adding 1 second to the runtime, I think) to R. Lee Ermey, who died last week, with a still of his character from 3F08. Hooray.

It's kinda sad when the poke at 'The Simpsons' in the opener to
'Family Guy' is funnier than the pokee...

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From: travoltron@defender.uni

Wasn't as horrible as I was expecting. I always brace for the absolute
worst when I see it's a Lisa episode, because it usually is. It was
certainly better than the one a couple weeks ago with the bookstore that
got upstaged by a picture of Apu.

That montage of Homer eating that all that French crap was really
annoying. I hate that Family Guy kind of humor. Family Guy did the same
thing last night with extremely drawn out recycled animation cycles of
Peter walking alongside the long '70s station wagon. That stopped being
funny the first time you had Peter fall down and hurt his knee. In fact,
the Simpsons actually did it first with Sideshow Bob and the rakes.

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