From: MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu (Hirsh, Marc Bennett)
Subject: Re: The Return of Sideshow Bob -- A Big Thumbs Up!!!
Organization: Rice University, Houston, TX
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:40:08 GMT

In article <JYM.92Apr9224229@remarque.sybase.com>
jym@sybase.com (Jym Dyer) writes:

>=o= DYN . . . Sideshow Bob lost all the muscles he'd been
>building up in "Bart Joins the Mob"?
I'd been wondering about this myself.

>
>=o= DYN . . . Bob's last name is Tewilliker (sp?), from the
>piano teaching method con man in _10,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T_
>(the Dr.Seuss movie)?  Dr. Tewilliker was played by Tony
>Randall, whose performance was as anal-retentive as Sideshow
>Bob's! :-)
That's Terwilliger (sp? I know that there's an R in there...), the movie was
"The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T," and the character was actually played by Hans
Conreid. An interesting experience, but not a good movie, imho.

>
>=o= DYN . . . Krusty couldn't think up a joke suitable for kids
>to hear?  (A "twelve-inch pianist" indeed!)
The "clean" version of this joke (which relies on the listener to make all of
the connections): A man walks into a bar and asks for two beers: one in a
normal mug and one in a shot glass. When the bartender asks why the shot glass,
the man puts his briefcase on the counter and pulls out a small man, about a
foot high, and a suitably-sized piano. The bartender is further surprised to
see the man play (insert any moderately difficult piano piece here). The
bartender asks the man where he got him. The man said that he was digging in
his yard one day and found a lamp. After he rubbed it a genie came out and
granted the man one wish. "You asked for a twelve-inch pianist?" the bartender
asked. "Not exactly," said the man.

>
>=o= DYN . . . "And Snake, I'll miss you most of all," from _The_
>_Wizard_of_Oz_?  Of course you did.  DYN that Snake is the same
>Snake we've seen before?
Isn't this the 3rd time we've seen him: once when Bart tags along with the
cops ("Separate Vocations?"), once when Lurleen's music sooths the prison
riot ("Coloner Homer") and this week? What's the deal?

>=o= DYN . . . Bob's "rub Patty's feet" shudder was identical to
>the shudders of Bart and Lisa in "Homer Alone?"  Patty's loss of
>taste might explain her affinity for "Clamato, Mr. Pibb, and
>Soymilk" (also in "Homer Alone").
Hey! Mr. Pibb's not that bad (if you like Dr. Pepper).

>=-= My favorite quote was McGyver's:  "Don't thank me!  Thank
>the moon's gravitational pull!"
Why didn't they get Richard Dean Anderson to guest voice this? And what will
Patty and Selma do now that it's not being renewed?

Poor Sideshow Mel.:( What was the line? Something like, "I try my hardest."

What was the name of the World's Largest Cat? "Pupito?" Spanish scholars: que
veut dire?:)

One of my favorite moments was when Bob wanted to kiss Patty through the
prison glass, she said, "On the cheek." That and, "Okay, but no tongues." :P

And was it Patty or Selma who went out with Principal Skinner?

Marc Hirsh

"I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means
  of communication. I say we use all of the words we've got."
   ---snappy end-of-file sign-off quote from Inherit The Wind, which would make
        an interesting basis for a Simpsons episode

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