From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: The Return of Side-show Bob
Summary: That was a clever piece of nonclaptrap that never made me want to retc
Keywords: You're feet smell like perfume
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:49:20 GMT


Yes!  Great episode!  This is the second sequel to Crusty Gets Busted; isn't
that interesting, why that episode seems to be the only one I can think of
that has spawned more than just the throw-away reference?

This episode was good not so much for the story (I mean why did Sideshow
Bob want to kill Selma to begin with?  To get back at Bart?!), but for the
dialogue and the references.  Sideshow Bob had excellent lines, and Kelsey
Grammer was brilliant!  "That was a well plotted piece of non-claptrap that
never made me want to retch."  Hysterical!

All the references I will have to leave to someone else; the end was
obviously from some crime/mystery TV show, but I don't know which specific
one.  And the idiot way they ended by all laughing was from any number of
these shows. Or how about that prisoner garbage detail?  That was also obviously
a reference -- but to what?  The one obvious reference I can point out
(aside from the duh obvious Emmy award and Jerry Lewis telethon) was to
Sherlock Holmes in that carriage ride; "Here's a fin driver, get us home
as fast as you can and don't spare the whip!"

And the reference at the beginning to Dinasaurs was great: "It's as if
someone looked at our family and put it on the TV screen."  I just wish
they had thrown in a "NOT THE MAMA!"  But I digress. (Bart no like; bad
medicine!)

Selma was beautifully gross.  Seeing her in the bath-tub almost made me
elegible for aid from Krusty's telethon.  And the home video from their
honeymoon suit -- Eyyrrghg!!  Or her and Patty on the Tandem.  Or "would
you pumice my corns?"

Now some DYNs:

Bob's license plates: RIP BART, DIE BART, BART DOA, IH8 BART (which we
see later on the car they're driving)

(A note on the license plates: even though they don't give a state but
say "Springfield", they are gold on blue...  Pennsylvania has gold on
blue... (but then so did California, NY...)) ;-)

We see the three-eyed fish jump out of the water when they're paddle-
boating by the Nuclear Plant.

Bob sheds a tear at Krusty's telethon when he says, "This guy is a
national treasure!"

Selma looks like the big Easter Island statue in the picture?

There was an animation goof when Bob proposed to Selma.  We see Bob's
mouth in profile as Slema says, "OK, but no tongues," and then Bob starts
talking before the camera cuts, but his lips don't move ("Although kissing
you would be like kissing some devine ashtray"  -- wonderful!)

The huge number of award winners in prison, judging by the collection of
oscars, tonys, emmys etc the prison has?

What is this lip-balm thing?  "Who used my Chapstick?" asks Bob, and later
we see two inmates passing some lip balm.  What's the reference?

Bob *missed* being kicked in the rear while in that over-crowded prison?!

(Was that supposed to be Republican bashing when Bob says, just before
being taken away again, "you can't keep the Democrats out of the White
House forever, and when they get in, I'm back on the streets, with all
my criminal buddies!"?  OK, Bob the criminal was Republican; is this 
Republican bashing by showing Republicans as simple-minded?)

And what is this thing they have with over-long maniacle laughing?  Bob
did it tonight, and the aliens in the Halloween special did it too.

"Ah, fire!  Scurge of Promethius, toaster of marshmallows, eradicator
of dead wood..."
-- 
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Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
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