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  • Notes for YABF16 (Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion)

    From Matt Garvey@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, May 12, 2019 17:42:31
    From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

    I know the idea is that the crystals are dumb, but this just still felt kinda dumb. Lisa's subplot of trying to catch Bart's scam was a little interesting, though the scam itself seemed too difficult to pull off more than once in a while. Really iffy
    gags and very short runtime made this a mixed bag of an episode (not to mention
    season finale). Well, whatever. Till the fall...

    DYN:
    ...the crystal lady's box says "CD's" with an apostrophe and the hilarious gag about (il)legitimate businesses says "DVDs"?
    ...Homer has apparently TiVoed the workout program?

    Previous episode stuff
    AABF22: Bart's still on Focusyn, apparently

    Meta
    One book at "FAO Quartz" is "Eat My Quartz"
    Marge's business is called Murmur
    Bart's "mom" montage (oh, and Happy Mother's Day, I guess!) includes a chalkboard gag (I will not shirk my responsibilities), though the episode opening does not

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  • From Ant@1:229/2 to Matt Garvey on Monday, May 13, 2019 02:48:16
    From: ant@zimage.comANT

    It was OK.


    Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
    I know the idea is that the crystals are dumb, but this just still felt kinda
    dumb. Lisa's subplot of trying to catch Bart's scam was a little interesting, though the scam itself seemed too difficult to pull off more than once in a while. Really iffy
    gags and very short runtime made this a mixed bag of an episode (not to mention
    season finale). Well, whatever. Till the fall...

    DYN:
    ...the crystal lady's box says "CD's" with an apostrophe and the hilarious
    gag about (il)legitimate businesses says "DVDs"?
    ...Homer has apparently TiVoed the workout program?

    Previous episode stuff
    AABF22: Bart's still on Focusyn, apparently

    Meta
    One book at "FAO Quartz" is "Eat My Quartz"
    Marge's business is called Murmur
    Bart's "mom" montage (oh, and Happy Mother's Day, I guess!) includes a
    chalkboard gag (I will not shirk my responsibilities), though the episode opening does not

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