From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 12:58:29 AM UTC-4, Ant wrote:

It was OK. Didn't older Simpson's Halloween episodes use to have three
acts and not four?

Yes, although this was still three acts plus a long intro. Once the commercial break moved from right after the intro to right before the (coda and) credits in 2009, Treehouse of Horror episodes have been the main exception. Typically they get a break
after the special intro, and if it's a long narrative they can feel like a fourth act.

Kudos for "didn't...use" though.

Oh and I checked out the huge grid of episodes. It's 37 rows, not 36, and 37*18
= 666 exactly. I didn't check every single (tiny and hard to discern with that aspect ratio!) clip, but I did confirm about one per row, and they all seem to be there, in
broadcast order, INCLUDING 7F24, which even has a clip of Leon Kompowski playing Happy Birthday Lisa! How about that? (It also has a clip from the beginning of this episode in the last spot.) Odd, though, that neither clip of 7F04, the original Treehouse
of Horror, uses a clip from the titular treehouse. Oh well.

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From: ant@zimage.comANT

It was OK. Didn't older Simpson's Halloween episodes use to have three
acts and not four?


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

Big milestone, episode 666. And it was fine, I guess. Certainly more spooky

and ghostly than many Treehouses, so I give it credit there. VERY SHORT, so no credit there.

Opening
I've seen The Omen. Cute enough.
It has all the opening credits here, instead of at the start of act 1. Just

to avoid ruining the aesthetic of the Stranger Things parody?

The mark of the beast (the first one) is Mickey Mouse, but in the promos for

the show it was Bart. More claim to fair use in the episode itself than in the ads? (See also at least one Halloween credit, "Denise+" in the Disney logogram style, to go with
the Simpsons' importing to that service.)

I'm sure there was no way Fox would actually have run this as episode 667.

It's been a year since they announced this particular coincidental timing. On the other hand, if Jim Brooks gets his way, doesn't that make this 665? (See below.)

Danger Things
I finally saw ALL of Stranger Things this spring and summer. Not terribly

impressed by that show, and the parody was fine, but confusing in its adaptation. As a string of gags (and playing with the 80s, which is also, I assume, why the Ullman short
versions of Lisa and Bart appear) it was amusing, at least.

AABF12: Lisa in a sensory deprivation tank
Dead Uter in the "over under": a nod to Russi Taylor's passing this summer,

or just a coincidence?

Is "someone hasn't seen very much of season 3" a nod to the writers' need to

get this all written fairly early? But the entire season came out at once. Given an 8-hour binge period, how does someone see part but not all of it for research?

Heaven Swipes Right
I have no idea what, if anything, this is based on. I found myself mostly

just being confused by the "rules" of both the body takeovers and how people see and hear the result.

Professor Farnsworth is among Homer's choices for a new host body.

When Hairy Met Slimy
I haven't seen The Shape of Water. Is this close to the plot? Might be the

best TOH-style story this time around, especially with a good classic use of Kang and Kodos.

9F15: Mr. Burns vulture
4F02: Tiny village in a jar reminiscent of The Genesis Tub
Kodos was introduced as female, so even without "32 sexual identities" I'd

buy a romance with Patty.

XXX/666
You know, I distantly remember a day when I would examine montages and

collages of past episode clips and stills to see just what was what. I even noticed a few missing and out of order couch gags in PABF07, back when 500 episodes was monumental AND I
was still going by VHS. Well, I can't do it now. Partly it's fatigue and partly
it's the tiny image on my standard-def recording. But I'm curious to see how 666 episodes were represented at the end, and when I get a good HD copy I'll check it out more.
Looks like 36 rows, meaning (exactly) 18.5 episodes would need to be in each row to make 666, and maybe it got close? What I really want to see is if 7F24 got left out!

Delay of game
This dumb Saints/Bears game. I don't know how it takes 15 minutes to get

through the last one minute of a game that's not even close, but the game itself finally ended at 7:53, and The Simpsons didn't begin until 8:02:15. What
does it take?

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From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

Big milestone, episode 666. And it was fine, I guess. Certainly more spooky and
ghostly than many Treehouses, so I give it credit there. VERY SHORT, so no credit there.

Opening
I've seen The Omen. Cute enough.
It has all the opening credits here, instead of at the start of act 1. Just to avoid ruining the aesthetic of the Stranger Things parody?
The mark of the beast (the first one) is Mickey Mouse, but in the promos for the show it was Bart. More claim to fair use in the episode itself than in the ads? (See also at least one Halloween credit, "Denise+" in the Disney logogram style, to go with
the Simpsons' importing to that service.)
I'm sure there was no way Fox would actually have run this as episode 667. It's
been a year since they announced this particular coincidental timing. On the other hand, if Jim Brooks gets his way, doesn't that make this 665? (See below.)

Danger Things
I finally saw ALL of Stranger Things this spring and summer. Not terribly impressed by that show, and the parody was fine, but confusing in its adaptation. As a string of gags (and playing with the 80s, which is also, I assume, why the Ullman short
versions of Lisa and Bart appear) it was amusing, at least.
AABF12: Lisa in a sensory deprivation tank
Dead Uter in the "over under": a nod to Russi Taylor's passing this summer, or just a coincidence?
Is "someone hasn't seen very much of season 3" a nod to the writers' need to get this all written fairly early? But the entire season came out at once. Given an 8-hour binge period, how does someone see part but not all of it for research?

Heaven Swipes Right
I have no idea what, if anything, this is based on. I found myself mostly just being confused by the "rules" of both the body takeovers and how people see and
hear the result.
Professor Farnsworth is among Homer's choices for a new host body.

When Hairy Met Slimy
I haven't seen The Shape of Water. Is this close to the plot? Might be the best
TOH-style story this time around, especially with a good classic use of Kang and Kodos.
9F15: Mr. Burns vulture
4F02: Tiny village in a jar reminiscent of The Genesis Tub
Kodos was introduced as female, so even without "32 sexual identities" I'd buy a romance with Patty.

XXX/666
You know, I distantly remember a day when I would examine montages and collages
of past episode clips and stills to see just what was what. I even noticed a few missing and out of order couch gags in PABF07, back when 500 episodes was monumental AND I
was still going by VHS. Well, I can't do it now. Partly it's fatigue and partly
it's the tiny image on my standard-def recording. But I'm curious to see how 666 episodes were represented at the end, and when I get a good HD copy I'll check it out more.
Looks like 36 rows, meaning (exactly) 18.5 episodes would need to be in each row to make 666, and maybe it got close? What I really want to see is if 7F24 got left out!

Delay of game
This dumb Saints/Bears game. I don't know how it takes 15 minutes to get through the last one minute of a game that's not even close, but the game itself finally ended at 7:53, and The Simpsons didn't begin until 8:02:15. What
does it take?

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On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 5:59:00 PM UTC-7, Matt Garvey wrote:

Heaven Swipes Right
I have no idea what, if anything, this is based on. I found myself mostly

just being confused by the "rules" of both the body takeovers and how people see and hear the result.

Professor Farnsworth is among Homer's choices for a new host body.

It's based on "Heaven Can Wait":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)

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