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From: tsai82@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: RoSB plot idiosyncrasies
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:49:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Apr12.024313.10365@unmvax.cs.unm.edu>, iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews) writes:
> It seemed to me that the idiosyncrasies of RoSB were deliberate pokes
> at detective (a la MacGyver (sp?)) shows.  Remember, the plot of RoSB
> followed the genre fairly well; why shouldn't its plot require unlikely
> or unexplainable logistics?
> 
I think that Matt Groening and his crew were piggybacking off a good idea.
In the episode where Bart wants to be a cop, they had the "classic" car
chase scene from the movies.  This episode did the "saved in the nick of time"
frequently used in television shows due to time constraints.  They're just
flavoring the show a little differently each week.

> Wasn't MacGyver produced by Bill Cosby?  I believe that's the case.  I don't
> follow TV much, but I do sometimes remember useless trivia like that.  So
> was MacGyver ever mentioned before the Simpsons were playing opposite the
> Bill Cosby Show?
> 
MacGyver is produced by Henry Winkler.  (And the last episode is this month)
I don't recall any other references to MacGyver than in this episode of the
Simpsons.  

> I strongly doubt either Patty or Selma were virgins.  Specifically one of
> them snorted "That's what happens when you don't put out" in a previous
> episode.
> 
I think that Patty and Selma are still virgins.  For one thing, Patty dumped
Principal Skinner even though she wanted him.  Nobody but Barney wants Selma.
And what guy would want a woman that's more stubbly than he is?

-Theo
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: OFF, lutefisk, and an influence suggestion (was Re: April 9 Episode)
Organization: Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:01:57 GMT

atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:
>(1)  "OFF"?
>(2)  "N.B."?

OFF == our favourite family, the Simpsons of course
N.B. == note in particular (nota bene I believe), a standard abbreviation

In another article he writes:

>What are all these references I keep seeing to "lutefisk" on the net?

We wanted to test the hypothesis that some ideas manage to make their way from
alt.tv.simpsons on to the show.  We thought that coming up with a "Mmmm...
something" line for Homer would be a good vehicle.. it would have to be
something odd enough that its presence on the show couldn't be coincidental.
Many silly ideas were suggested.  The one which seems to have persevered the
most is lutefisk, which is apparently a Norwegian(? am I remembering right?)
preparation of fish invariably described unfavourably by outsiders.

This isn't really too likely to make its way on to the show, so I have an
alternative suggestion.  How about something very normal and Homerish, but with
an embedded number containing enough digits that it wouldn't recur by random
chance?  Here's my suggestion:
	"Mmmm... fifty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents' worth of
	 chocolate!"
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From: selent@fraser.sfu.ca (Frank Selent)
Subject: Access to FAQ...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:25:47 GMT


Could anyone tell me how to get Anonymous access to ftp.cs.widener.edu?

I tried Anonymous but I didn't gain access...

Please anyone help me.....

Thanks...
From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The return of Sideshow Bob
Date: 11 Apr 92 12:09:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


In article <1992Apr10.061343.22053@midway.uchicago.edu> as16@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Or maybe MG is just becoming more fair in who he makes fun of...
>Naaaaaaah...

How can you be more fair than only making fun of Republicans?  :)
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: 4/9/92 Episode
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:16:34 GMT

Tom.Warren@f355.n107.z1.ieee.org (Tom Warren) writes:


>  This week episode (4/9/92) is NOT a repeat and is about 
>  "Excon proposes to Selma"   It should be a good one.

Yeah, that's what I heard, too.  Apparently this guy's name is "Sideshow
Bob" or something dumb like that.

:)


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From: cbergstr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris N Bergstresser)
Subject: Re: The Return of Side-show Bob
Keywords: You're feet smell like perfume
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:44:13 GMT

>(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?)
>
     Hmmmmm.  If the Democrats are in the White House, then the Republicans are
back out on the streets.  Seems like an insult to both parties at once.  Very 
clever.
From: stapleton@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Dr. Ross Alan Stapleton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Return of Sideshow Bob -- A Big Thumbs Up!!!
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

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

Exqueeze me?   Baking powder?   In Seuss's stellar "5,000 Fingers of Dr.
T," Dr. Terwilliger was played by the most excellent Hans Conried, who also
served as the voice of Snidely Whiplash and Uncle Waldo, as well as in
other Seuss productions.   Maybe you're confusing yourself with "The Seven
Faces of Dr. Lao," which did star Randall.

I'd love to hear Hans guest-voice on Simpsons; he's one of America's great
voices.   And of course it would be nice to have Felicity Kendall too (AND
her voice :-)

Ross
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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: The Return of Side-show Bob
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:53:24 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.151020.22716@panix.com> eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) writes:
>>    Yes.  Remember the wedding-planning scene, where Marge mentions the
>>wedding dress?  She says: "I don't know how to put this, but..." and Selma
>>answers "White!"
>
>I interpreted that exchange entirely differently.  Marge seemed to be
>suggesting that some *other* color besides the standard white might be
>appropriate, for reasons which are easy enough to infer.  Selma's
>response may not be grounded in fact, but rather in personal
>preference. (My wife wore white even though we lived together for 5
>years before Doing The Holy.)

I believe it was meant to imply that Selma was a virgin, both because of the
tone of Marge's voice (honest curiousity?), and Selma's overall appearance.


-- 
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   thieves and murderers. This will be a good life... good enough."
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From: STEIN@LTUVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Dinosaurs
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:24:17 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


I thought th "Dinosaurs" bit was a nod to the show as being good.  Nowhere did
they make fun of the show, they only commented that the shows have a passing
simularity.  I guess I can see how someone mught think it was a rip on
"Dinosaurs" saying that they are too much like the "Simpsons" but I don't think
so.  The only real simularities are that both families are made up of a Dad,
Mom, Brother, Sister and a baby.  The two shows have some simular "humor
drivers" but those are typical family sitcom items, nothing new to either show.

Dave
Stein
From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Return of Sideshow Bob
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:44:48 GMT
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

Just saw the new episode last night. They should consider hiring Grammer on
a regular basis---he was great! By the way, wasn't it Patty that fell in
love with Principal Skinner in ``Goodnight, Sweet Principal''? When Selma
was getting married to Sideshow Bob, I expected Patty and Seymour to make
it a double wedding! After all, Patty wouldn't marry Seymour until Selma
found someone.
 
DYN--> Sideshow Bob put a license plate he made on the ``Just Married'' 
       car? (I H8 BART---I hate Bart)

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From: as16@quads.uchicago.edu (adam  shah)
Subject: Re: The return of Sideshow Bob
Reply-To: as16@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:17:07 GMT

In article <2093@transfer.stratus.com> pearl@spectacle.sw.stratus.com (Dan Pearl) writes:

>
>I recall there was a "Wizard of Oz" reference, too.
>

Yup.  Thanks for reminding me.  I've been trying to remember this.  When
Sideshow Bob leaves the jail.  He goes around hugging all the inmates
he's made friends with (people with names like Slasher, etc).  Anyway,
he hugs them all, and when he gets to the last person, he says "<Name>, I'm
going to miss you most of all."

This scene pretty clearly parallels Dorothy's farewell from Oz when she
hugs all of her companions and then turns to the Scarecrow and tells him
that she will miss him most of all.

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From: alan@hercules.acpub.duke.edu (Alan M. Gallatin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: 9 Apr Episode References
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:58:01 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: alan@north7.acpub.duke.edu

Several references I picked up on while watching tonight's episode
(9 Apr)...

1)  The obvious... In the first scene, the spoof of DINOSAURS (see the
     new alt. group alt.tv.dinosaurs) - "Gotta love" the baby banging
     the pot on the Homer-dino's head.  Also, the kid's "Don't have
     a stegasaurus, man"

2)  The plug...  Bart's line, "Bart no like..." (referring to Selma &
     Side-Show Bob's relationship) seemed like a direct take from FOX's
     PARKER LEWIS (sp?) CAN'T LOSE in which the heavy-set Larry Koobiak
     (Koobs) often talks in the third person and terrible grammar.

3)  The classic...  Selma's introductory letter which began "Dear
     Number 24601" was a clean swipe from Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES
     in which the prisoner Jean Valjean was branded with the same number.

Any others??

-- 
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                  Duke University School of Law; Durham, NC
 "The opinions expressed here belong to you - You just don't know it yet!!!"
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 03:54:19 EDT
From: Olias of Sunhillow <MWEINTR@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Where can I find Simpsons' Sounds?
 <1992Apr13.061324.9193@frey.newcastle.edu.au>

Where/what was Yeardley's cameo in "City Slickers"?
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From: steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The License Plate
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:07:17 GMT
	<1992Apr11.193127.22628@yenta.alb.nm.us>
	<1992Apr15.112152.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Flodnak, Inc., Trondheim, Norway

Sean (sullivans@woods.ulowell.edu) writes:
>> (Where-is-Springfield enthusiasts may have noticed that the plate
>> was yellow on blue, like old California plates, but the state name
>> at the top simply said `Springfield'.)
>Connecticut's are like that too.

So are Pennsylvania's, unless they've changed them again to blue on
yellow since i left...

However, i think the fact that the animator was careful _not_ to show a 
state name supports the theory that Springfield is just Anytown, USA,
and isn't supposed to be anywhere in particular...

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave hall)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart: Left-handed....???
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 12:00:55 CST
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB

jac15@po.CWRU.Edu (Jeffrey A. Curtis) writes:

>Has anyone ever noticed whether Bart seemed to be Left or Right-
>handed?
 
Well, if you go by 7F23, you would almost be lead to believe that very-
body in Springfield is left-handed by the end of that episode.  I think
generally Bart is left-handed, but I believe it's mostly due to camera
angles.  You may notice that whenever Bart (or anyone else) is holding
something, it's usually the hand that's furthest away from our view.  I
guess it could be an animator thing (i.e. don't have to spent time
redrawing it or it looks better), but I think it's so that it doesn't
obstruct their mouths when they speak and/or put less emphasis on it and
more on the plot (i.e. you don't want to see a pencil blaring at you in 
the face).  This also seems to be truth for items or objects, review any 
eating scene with OFF, you will notice items change positions at
different camera angles (i.e. away from our view).
 
>Bart on stage with them, playing guitar Left-handedly, while the rest
>of the group plays theirs Right-handedly.
 
Probably a take-off on Jimmy Hedix?
 
- Dave                                         "Soon, you will be dead!"
                                                                  - Bob

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From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [castlist] Simpsons cast list (version 1.4)
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:49:49 GMT
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

In a really comprehensive article, Raymond Chen writes:
>                        (April Flowers, in real life Shawna Tiften)
                                ^^^^^^^ 
>                        Apu's girlfriend. [8f06]

Was this before or after the Bill Clinton/Gennifer Flowers controversy?

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From: Tom.Warren@f355.n107.z1.ieee.org (Tom Warren)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: 4/9/92 Episode
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:26:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:107/355 - T&S BBS, Franklin Park NJ


  This week episode (4/9/92) is NOT a repeat and is about 
  "Excon proposes to Selma"   It should be a good one.

-Tom
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From: cjaferro@ritchie.waterloo.edu (CJA Ferroni)
Subject: The Return of Sideshow Bob
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:45:13 GMT


Great Episode - especially Lisa " I wouldn't have kept falling down either"

Anyhow, where did the last line come from:

BART: " Let's get out of this gas filled hallway before we all suffocate"

This went totally over our heads...
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Return of Side-show Bob
Keywords: You're feet smell like perfume
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:10:01 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School

In <ba5ta6@rpi.edu> timmop@aix.rpi.edu (Patrick Andrew Timmons) writes:

>I think that all of you may be missing the point of the Democratic/
>Republican rants of Sideshow Bob.  My opinion is that when the
>Democrats get back in office, Bob will be on the streets with all
>of his criminal buddies via a Dukakis-esque furlough program.

>A rip on Democrats if you ask me.

Or you could look at it this way...

The Democrats will let all the criminals out, and those criminals are all
Republicans.

-Geoff
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From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Return of Side-show Bob
Keywords: You're feet smell like perfume
Date: 11 Apr 92 11:42:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


In article <1992Apr10.014920.27865@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>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.

No doubt!!  It was chock full!

>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."

When I saw that, I thought, "WHOAA!!  Sahhh-LAMMM!!"

>Selma was beautifully gross.  Seeing her in the bath-tub almost made me
>elegible for aid from Krusty's telethon.

And when I saw that, an involuntary "Aye, carumba!!" escaped my lips!
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From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: ``The Return of Sideshow Bob''
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:03:39 GMT
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

In article <1992Apr10.134448.24051@bmerh2.bnr.ca>, coop1w13@bnr.ca  (Mike Hammond) writes:
|> Just saw the new episode last night. They should consider hiring Grammer on
|> a regular basis---he was great! By the way, wasn't it Patty that fell in
|> love with Principal Skinner in ``Goodnight, Sweet Principal''? When Selma
|> was getting married to Sideshow Bob, I expected Patty and Seymour to make
|> it a double wedding! After all, Patty wouldn't marry Seymour until Selma
|> found someone.
|>  
|> DYN--> Sideshow Bob put a license plate he made on the ``Just Married'' 
|>        car? (I H8 BART---I hate Bart)
|> 

One other thing I forgot to mention. How do you think Patty and Selma are
going to react now that MacGyver is on hiatus/cancelled?
 
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From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *banjo* Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Colonel Homer poll
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:50:01 GMT

well, personally I can't stand country music but I loved this episode.
Ocie.
P.S. I don't know if anyone caught this, but the base player in the band held
his cigaret behind one of the strings of his base while he played.  This would
be a dificult way to play at best :->

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From: mbn@fps.com (Mike Northam)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Return of Sideshow Bob -- A Big Thumbs Up!!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:30:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu's message of 10 Apr 92 18:40:08 GMT

>>>>> "marc" == Hirsh, Marc Bennett <MHIRS00@ricevm1.rice.edu> writes:

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

>=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! :-)

marc> That's Terwilliger (sp? I know that there's an R in there...), the
marc> movie was "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T," and the character was
marc> actually played by Hans Conreid. An interesting experience, but not
marc> a good movie, imho.

This is also a Portland reference (Matt Groening's hometown).  Terwilliger
Blvd. is a well-known thoroughfare.  I never saw the movie, so I'm not
sure if there's any significance.

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From: jym@sybase.com (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart's name
Date: 10 Apr 92 10:19:24
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In-reply-to: rjc@onion.princeton.edu's message of 30 Mar 92 21:52:06 GMT

=o= The way I figure it, the "J." comes from Rocket J. Squirrel
and such (as Groening has mentioned), but that doesn't mean it
has to stand for "Jay."

=o= "Jo-jo" is a name Groening has used a lot in _Life_in_Hell_.
It only makes sense that that would be Bart's middle name (as
has been well-established in _Simpsons_Illustrated_).
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=o= I expect the "Jebediah" from the radio interview        (*******)
with Bart is just Bart being a smart-ass. :-)             (*********)
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