From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

I don't really know what this episode is referencing the plot of, but overall I
did like the concept. It was interesting and made for some nice uses of older characters, and it wasn't profound or moving, but it was still neat. The VHS opening gags,
though a few a little too silly and others a bit on the nose, were pretty fun overall. The only thing that didn't do it for me was the act 4/coda montage of how various characters die. That and the incredible shortness.


Previous episode stuff
Movie: "Wedding video/Alaska tape"
DABF06: Milhouse still doing the Budweiser "wazzup?"
3G03: Shary Bobbins among many other previously-known characters' ghosts BABF10: A clip (properly framed) of Maude's death is shown (interestingly, it sounds like the original audio was used, though Marcia Mitzman-Gaven was not credited)

Meta
The Tracey Ullman Show is one of the things in the box of tapes. Homer does his
old voice for a bit.
When Bart is struck by lightning, we see him drawn as geometric animator's outlines.
And among various other things, the I&S theme is repurposed for the halves of Bart's brain.

Dedication
One more for the year! Tom Wolfe apparently died on 5/14 (one of the few I heard about directly from the show!), and before the Gracie logo, he gets an "in loving memory" card with a still from what I assume is HABF19. Don't expect
it in repeats. Oddly,
the credits seemed shorter by a second or two, even with that in.

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From: tobias.becker@online.de

Matt Garvey schrieb am 22.05.2018, 03:07 Uhr:

The only thing that didn't do it for me was the act 4/coda montage of

how various characters die.

The montage parodies/honors the final scene of "Six Feet Under", showing
all its remaining characters' deaths. They, too, include a bank robbery,
a peaceful death next to a new husband and a wall covered with pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwARV9tPUw

For next season's final, I'm a expecting a "Changing Nature"-ish episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXw6RfWuZE&t=25m00s

BROCKMAN: This is Kent Brockman. Good night. ... Goodbye.

Previous episode stuff

9F03 (and others): Chief Justice Bart Simpson

BABF10: A clip (properly framed) of Maude's death is shown (interestingly, it

sounds like the original audio was used, though Marcia Mitzman-Gaven was not credited)

That's right.


Starring
DAN CASTELLANETA (Krusty, Mel, Homer, Abe, Dr. Morton, first ghost
voice, Frankie the Squealer)
JULIE KAVNER (Marge)
NANCY CARTWRIGHT (Bart, Todd or Rod, Nelson, Ralph)
YEARDLEY SMITH (Lisa)
HANK AZARIA (amish man, Dr. Sam, Moe, Wiggum)
and
HARRY SHEARER (Flanders, Hibbert, Jebediah Springfield (?), Monroe)

SPECIAL GUEST STAR
Jackie Mason (Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky)

Also Starring
PAMELA HAYDEN (Rod or Todd, Milhouse, Fan-demonium Girl [from 11x14])
TRESS MACNEILLE (Mrs. Glick)
CHRIS EDGERLY (hatchet guy)
KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON (Ricola guy)
MAGGIE ROSWELL (Maude, Sherry Bobbins)

Uncredited
MARCIA MITZMAN-GAVEN (Maude [from 11x14])

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On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 6:07:05 PM UTC-7, Matt Garvey wrote:

I don't really know what this episode is referencing the plot of, but overall

I did like the concept. It was interesting and made for some nice uses of older
characters, and it wasn't profound or moving, but it was still neat. The VHS opening gags,
though a few a little too silly and others a bit on the nose, were pretty fun overall. The only thing that didn't do it for me was the act 4/coda montage of how various characters die. That and the incredible shortness.


The title looked like a play on "Jacob's Ladder":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(film)


Though the plot itself seemed like a riff on the Movie "Ghost Town":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Town_(2008_film)


Though the trope of ghosts having "unfinished business" has been used many times:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnfinishedBusiness

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