From: kfl@KeithLynch.net

Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

Are you ready for some football to just END ALREADY?
Eagles game seemed to end well before 8, but coverage ran over, so
the lineup started at 8:07 (Cleveland, etc.).

The same in DC. The Simpsons started with no couch scene, theme
music, or other intro, but they were still showing the opening
credits, so we didn't miss much, if any, of the actual show.
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From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

I'm sure if I had any idea what (old, French?) film this was all a reference to, with the tone, the title cards, Lisa's single song, and so on, I'd have stronger thoughts. As it is, it was fine... I'm sure the perfect family was meant to be nearly
insufferable, and it WAS. The most interesting part was the guilt trip Marge laid on Lisa in act 3, but the final party was OK. (And was Bart's nightclub room meant to be something too?)

DYN:
...they actually bothered to put the newsreel in 4:3?
...the "eco-friendly" light bulb turns on automatically even in the middle of the day?

Previous episode stuff/meta
1F14: Homer sends Lisa a gif of himself receding into the hedge, as people do these days as a meme
Also meta: Flanders says "annoyed grunt" (and later, "d'oh") as part of his Homer routine.
Slightly meta as far as playing with catchphrases: "aaah, Sideshow Mom!"

Goof (I'm going to call it one)
Lisa's song ends with hoping she could be "just like... she"; it's a little awkward on purpose, but I feel I must point out that "like", as a preposition, takes the objective ("her"). I know "like" is often used as a conjunction synonymous with "as [if]",
and one could argue that that usage is implied even without a verb ("like she is") and it had to rhyme and all, but still, meh.

Are you ready for some football to just END ALREADY?
Eagles game seemed to end well before 8, but coverage ran over, so the lineup started at 8:07 (Cleveland, etc.).

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From: thezander@gmail.com

Was it a call back to "you only move twice" when the animal Lisa helped was snatvhed right away?

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From: travoltron@defender.uni

I thought it was pretty good for a Lisa episode. It was nice to see her
happy for a change and not whining about something.

That dumb thing they tacked on at the end with Bart's exclusive
nightclub kind of ruined it for me a bit though. It's a tired old gag
that even the Simpsons itself has done a million times already.

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From: theise@panix.com

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 17:50:41 -0800 (PST),
Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

I'm sure if I had any idea what (old, French?) film this was
all a reference to, with the tone, the title cards, Lisa's
single song, and so on, I'd have stronger thoughts.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3631112/


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Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> West Lafayette, IN, USA

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From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 11:29:11 PM UTC-5, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

Matt Garvey <...> wrote:

Are you ready for some football to just END ALREADY?
Eagles game seemed to end well before 8, but coverage ran over, so
the lineup started at 8:07 (Cleveland, etc.).

The same in DC. The Simpsons started with no couch scene, theme
music, or other intro, but they were still showing the opening
credits, so we didn't miss much, if any, of the actual show.

Well, we actually got the full episode. Sounds like you didn't, unless you didn't look up as it was starting, as the familiar chorus was replaced by the Avengers-esque music. It had clouds and a couch gag, then cut to the silent movie title card with no
TV. Many episodes these days skip the opening sequence entirely (or do very abbreviated ones, such as clouds only), but this wasn't one of them; in general
you'll know if it was something like that if the "created by" and "developed by" credits run at
the bottom with/before the rest.

Actually, I forgot that episode had no TV (created/developed by) despite having
a couch gag until just double-checking my notes from last month, but tonight's new episode (YABF06) did the same thing. I wonder if this is the start of another weird trend.

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