From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: `Streetcar Named Marge' - 8f18 - Lots o' stuff...
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 07:05:30 GMT

My personal opinion?  I loved it...  Great story with a great subplot
featuring Maggie(!) (`Isn't that cute? And me without my camera...');
lots of refs...  And the music!

Blackboard        My name is not "Dr. Death"
                  My name is not "Dr. De

Couch             Couch turns into giant monster which eats OFF

Troy McClure and the Miss American Girl Pageant in `sunny' Laughlin, NV
   Sponsored by `Meryl Streep's Versatility' in the Oscar decanter
      `Smell like Streep... For cheap!'
   `We learned the truth at 17, that love was meant for beauty queens...'
      A modified (and missing the point!) version of Janis Ian's `At 17'
   The contestants:
      Kentucky  - Horse w/ jockey   Vermont - Pancakes w/ syrup pitcher hat
      Maine     - Lobster           Alaska  - w/ oil pipeline
      Idaho     - Still a potato(e) Texas   - Oil geyser w/ barrel & boots
      Illinois  - as Abe Lincoln    Kansas  - Twister, house, and witch(!)
      S. Dakota - Mt. Rushmore      N. Carolina - cigarette thru middle
      Indiana   - Indy 500 track
   The judges:
      Skin care consultant - Roweena
      Syndicated columnist - William F. George (Buckley and Wills?)
      Token Black panelist - Frederick Tatum
      and Mr. `He's such a bitch...' Boswell (based on Mr. Blackwell)
   What Homer has to say...
      Montana        `A beaut from Butte...'
      South Carolina `Nothin' could be fina...'
      Delaware       `Gee, well, good for her...'
   Debra Jo Smallwood - Last year's Miss American Girl

Movie, book, music and architecture(?) refs
   `The Great Escape' (Michael C Mccarty)
      Maggie with the handball `in the box' (music et al)
   `The Birds' (Gary Goldberg and Jacob Solomon Weinstein)
      The `Ooooh, babies' all sucking pacifiers and Hitchcock cameo
   `Clockwork Orange'
      Bart at the dinner table `...pain in my Gulliver...'
   `Cat On A Hot Tin Roof'
      Lisa at the dinner table `Big Daddy...'
   `Wizard of Oz'
      Miss Kansas' hat...
   The tryout scene is a generic theme eg `All That Jazz' `Chorus Line'
   `Nutcracker Suite'
      Maggie on the `toy' xylophone
   `Atlas Shrugged' and `The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand
   The `Ayn Rand School for Tots' looked Frank Lloyd Wright'ish

Springfield Community Center
   "Oh! Streetcar!"  A Musical  Auditions Tonite (One Night Only)
   `Ma me ma mo mu'  Typical theatrical warmup
   The cast is
      Helen Lovejoy as Stella   Apu                          as Steve
      Otto          as Pablo    Lionel Hunt, Attorney at Law as Mitch
      Marge Simpson as Blanche  Ned Flanders                 as Stanley
   Sorry, no `jive talking robots' Bart...

Ayn Rand School For Tots
   `A is A' (J. D. Baldwin)
   `Helping is futile'
   `...develop the bottle within...'
   Maggie trys... Thumb, purple crayon, wooden block, Bart figurine...
  The Foutainhead Diet
  Krusty doll sez...
     `Hey kids, I'm flame retardant' and `If I break, buy a new one'

DYN (and misc)...
   Homer plays `Bowling 2000' on a GameBoy (get an Atari Lynx, Homer...)
   Guy in the bear suit during the final curtain
   Three people in flying trapeze outfits in line with the bear
   Barney helps with the ropes in Marge's descent into madness
   Krusty Brand Slender Vittles (Krusty in baggy pants on box front)
   `There's nothing about bowling in this play... Uh, wait, there is...'
      Marge blowing it when she trys to be insensitive back to Homer
   `We're none of perfect...'
      Homer being Homer
  
Complete lyrics follow in next message!
--
Ron Carter |   Denver | Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence
  Director | Colorado | "A ... mind stretched by a new idea can never
rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu | go back to its original dimensions."  -Holmes
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons