• Notes for ZABF18 (I, Carumbus)

    From Matt Garvey@1:229/2 to All on Sunday, October 04, 2020 18:02:39
    From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

    Not too shabby, although expectations are usually different for a historical episode of this sort that doesn't need to make too much sense. The title, on top of annoying me with its misspelling (surely it should be I, Carambus), seems a little odd, since
    even though Bart does take on the mantle of emperor, it's mostly Homer's story.
    Why not go even closer with "I, Clod-ius"? Let me also point out that a vomitorium is not... that. Anyway, fairly enjoyable, educational as well (I'd never heard of this "The
    Roman Holidays" cartoon), and nearly modern full length to boot (though it also
    ran to 8:32!).

    DYN:
    ...rated TV-14-DLSV? (For what specifically, violence, brief mention of orgies?)
    ...Carl still has his voice (could this be a production order thing)? ...Michael Palin as the museum curator/guide (I didn't!)?

    Previous episode stuff
    9F07: A pretty good reference to "Obesius" as "Mr. Plow" in reference to his actual plowing past

    Copyright shmopyright
    Something seemed funny about the copyright screen in the credits last week as it flashed by, but I forgot to take a closer look until the same thing happened
    tonight. I've finally taken that look. It appears that starting this (air) season, the copyright
    belongs to "20th Television" instead of "TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION", and with some condensation and mixed case it's shrunk to a lighter-looking one line under the production code instead of three.
    I looked back a little further, and only now do I realize that the legalese in the bottom third of the screen has been shortened as of the beginning of (air) season 30, in fall 2018, to remove a few lines about TCF being the author of the show for
    purposes of copyright etc. I suppose at least one of these things is due to the
    Disney merger.

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