• Notes for ZABF01 (Bobby, It's Cold Outside)

    From Matt Garvey@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, December 15, 2019 17:48:58
    From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

    I might actually have preferred to watch 21 and a half minutes of Baby Shark to
    this episode. What was it about? I'm not a huge fan of "Sideshow Bob is good" episodes even when they present an actual mystery, but this one didn't even do that. Burns can
    be an unsympathetic figure easily, but with everything crammed into three minutes, how can his story approach compelling? This is just a series of things
    happening, then other things happening long after the dramatic climax, a cheap saccharine ending,
    then yet other things happening, like a minute of Steve Ballmer filler. Episode
    title's playing out in the coda is not a great excuse. Ho ho ho, see you in 2020.

    DYN:
    ...United Parcel Service actually is what UPS stands for?
    ...not only is the December 1935 calendar correct, but it's the same as December 2019 (the difference between years is a multiple of 28)?

    Previous episode stuff
    9F22: (cropped, or if you watch FXX or Disney+, totally normal) clips appear early on, and Bob receives a rake for Christmas
    2F16/2F20: the perpetrator of a crime only identified by initials, etc.
    7G08: Homer refers to Bob as "a fellow Santa", reminding us of his mall Santa days

    Meta
    Burns seems to notice the dramatic push-in on him before his tale of woe, and tells the "camera" not to go further

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