From:
mblack@pubnix.net
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, Matt Garvey wrote:
Well the YABFs are off to an interesting start. I appreciated the very
specific and dedicated focus, though the live-action clips mixed into the Simpsons' world seemed like a strange way to incorporate the Peck version. Anyway, a few things too hard to
believe (To Kill a Mockingbird assigned to second graders?) or just too silly (as much as I love Futurama...), and the episode was VERY short, but I mostly liked it. Some shades of CABF09 (Homer helping the little guy) and, in minor ways, 8F18 (between
the return of Llewelyn Sinclair and the Southern accents). (I see Al Jean has writer credit, and his recent guidance of the show has been up and down but didn't seem to make this his brand of odd.)
DYN:
...the cast of the movie is listed in the credits as Special Guests? ...somehow a 100W light bulb is in the huge stage light?
Previous episode stuff
LABF10: Anton Chigurh compressed-air gun parody again (I also just saw No
Country... for the first time last week; I had not been aware he only says "friendo" once!)
Dedication alert
Even though he died weeks ago, magic wiz Ricky Jay got a dedication in this
episode (the usual "in loving memory of" before Gracie logo), with a still from
NABF11 (The Great Simpsina).
I wasn't paying attention, and then caught the "in memory" or whatever,
but didn't have enough time to catch who it was. So I was trying to think
of who had died recently. Ricky Jay is recent enough, and I didn't think
we got the news until last week, but I guess I might not have expected him
to be remembered. For me, I only know him as an actor, and because of
that I gather he's big in magic.
Michael
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