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From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re Halloween Episode - Refs and DYNs
Date: 13 Nov 1992 11:14:51 -0500
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>In article <1992Nov11.230610.20757@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu
>(Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>>jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu  writes:
>>> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>>> 
>>> >I'm surprised no one's mentioned the allusions to the old show "Love
>American 
>>> >Style".  For those of you too young to remember, LAS closed each segment
>by 
>>> >framing the final scene in a shrinking heart-shape, with cheesy music
>similar 
>>> >to what they played when the heart enclosed the scene with the Krusty 
>and >> >Barbie dolls.
>>
>>You mean the one that spun off "Happy Days"?  Yes I remember it.  The Comedy
>>Channel used to show it.  And of course, who could forget the awful '80's 
>>re-make?
>
>Comedy Central (or Comedy Channel or C or Ha or...) did used to show it
>but I thought it came out _before_ Happy Days... and what actors 
>"spun off" of Happy Days anyway?
>Rocky Giovinazzo

Spinoffs of "Happy Days" included "Joanie Loves Chachi", "Mork and Mindy" and 
"Laverne and Shirley".

And, indeed, "Happy Days" DID spin off from "Love American Style", although 
the idea was loosely based on "American Graffiti."





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From: tait@cs.columbia.edu (Carl Tait)
Subject: Re: `Treehouse of Horror III' - 9f04 - Mo' SloMo Mania, refs, misc.
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:27:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.225846.13511@samba.oit.unc.edu>
George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris) writes:
>In article <1992Oct30.050259.9046@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
>rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:
>>
>>-`Clown Without Pity' (from the song `Town Without Pity')
>>    -Movie refs
>>        -`Child's Play' with Chucky `Hi! I'm your pal!'
>>        -`Puppet Master'
>>        -Every other horror flick with toy theme...
>
>	A much stronger reference is to the old Twilight Zone episode "Tiny
>Tina."

Has anyone mentioned the references to "Prey," the final story in Karen
Black's memorably unnerving 1975 TV movie "Trilogy of Terror"?  Karen was
chased around her apartment by a knife-wielding, shrieking statuette.  There
were several parallels in "Clown Without Pity" (besides the obvious one):

* Krusty clambering over the end of the couch with a knife,
  his maniacal grin revealing jagged triangular teeth

* The bathtub scene with Homer

* Homer's ill-fated attempt to get rid of the doll by locking it
  inside a suitcase

Carl Tait

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From: rpeck@pure.com (Ray Peck)
Subject: Re: Halloween: Tatupu, PIs, and condoms
Organization: Pure Software, Los Altos, CA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:16:28 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.211814.4102@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
>>"Quoth the <little Bart-> Raven, 'Eat my shorts!'"
>
>Gee, I thought this was the worst thing they've ever done.
>
>ja"Yes, I have read the story"m

I agree.  Absolutely the worst.  I *hated* this.

Groening's stuff is almost always witty and clever.  I can stand it
when it decends into sophomoric junior-high humour.


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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Marge gets a job - more stuff
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:36:15 GMT

wdennen@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (William Dennen) writes:

>I thought the episode wasn't too bad... but it did seem a bit crammed
>together at times.

>I believe the part when Smithers imagines Burn flying through his window
>could have been a reference to the movie GRAND CANYON where the Kevin
>Klein character dreams of the same thing (although, it was a woman 
>flying through his window - or he flew through the woman's window).

For me, Bill Murray's dream sequence in "Ghostbusters" came to mind.  (It
just popped in there.)


                          --Steve Stelter
                            sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn )
Subject: Re: Marge Gets a Job (11/5/992)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:04:33 GMT

In article <1dckliINN6ci@cs.widener.edu> STOLLER@dickinson.edu (Stoller, Richard) writes:
>
>--My initial impression is that it was a very uninspired
>episode!
>
>--On the Smithers/Burns relationship: this episode has confirmed for
>me what I suspected all along...that Smithers' view of Burns is
>NOT a manifestation of a general attraction to men, but rather a
>particular attraction to Burns.  In other words, Smithers isn't
>homosexual, he's Burnsexual (or whatever).  The distinction is,
>I think, an important one...as nonsensical alt.Simpsons hair-
>splitting goes, anyway.
>--Rich Stoller, Dickinson College

Interesting....I thought this episode was pretty good--Tuesday's episode was 
lame and predictable and rather unfunny in my opinion. Some good
moments: Krusty's show going nuts over the buzzword, even t though they
are specifically told to be quiet, Mr.urns greasing his head and then
wiping out, Smither's cleaning a urinal when Homer charges in...great
stuff!!!



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From: kamei@pilikia.pegasus.com (Paul Kamei)
Subject: Re: Mosi Tatupu
Organization: Pilikia, Honolulu
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 07:27:59 GMT

>|> In article <1992Oct30.095137@eriador.Prime.COM> farrell@eriador.Prime.COM (Jay Farrell) writes:
>|> >
>|> >Keywords: 
>|> >
>|> >Everyone got the fact that Mosi Tatupu played for the N.E. Pats, (final year
>|> >with the Rams, I think) but no one has mentioned that he from American Samoa (SP?)
>|> >a small island in the south Pacific.
>|> 
>|> Or that he dated a beauty paegant queen who he physically abused, before
>|> she played herself in the TV-movie.
>|> 
>|> I don't know who played Tatupu.
>
>Hey, this is slander!  The woman in question was former Miss America
>Caroline (?) Sapp.  I don't remember for sure who the man was (I think
>that it was Jesse Sapolu (sp?)) but it definitely was NOT Mosi Tatupu.

The guy who played Jesse was the brother of Andy Bumatai, but I can't remeber
his first name. Anyway Andy Bumatai is a comedien from Hawaii and I think he
was also in the TV movie

-- 
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From: jtteh@borland.com (J.T. Teh)
Subject: Simpsons on Oprah
Originator: jtteh@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International, Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:50:13 GMT

DYN that Oprah has only 4 fingers on her hands when meeting with
the Simpsons?

Does this mean that us humble humans were meant to have only 4
fingers whereas God has 5 fingers? What happened to us having
been made in God's image then? Just my $0.02 worth...

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From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Bart's Teacher
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:16:01 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
> I'm not sure, but when Marge was talking to Bart's teacher in the classroom in
>I&STM episode, I thouhgt I saw her name on the blackboard behind her. It 
>looked like her name was spelled "Mrs. Grubappel", with a G at the beginning, 
>not a K. Did anyone else notice this? It was where she was showing Marge all
>his "toys" he brought to school.
>
>                      Just something to bother everyone with,
>                        Dave "disappointed because no Barney cameos" Clark
>

I didn't notice this one, but it seems to me that the idea of
a teacher actually being NAMED something that sounded like "Crab Apple"
(instead of just being called that) was pretty funny.

-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 1992 18:23:58 -0500 
From: "Adam K. Rixey" <ar2w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: marge gets a job, or whatever it's called
	<BxAp9n.4vB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.simpsons: 6-Nov-92 Re: marge gets a job, or
wh.. Raymond L. Gilbert@bronz (6149)

> Happy ending?
>    Who says this has a happy/sappy ending?  What happens to Jack Marley?
> He's left jobless and wifeless!

	I personally wanted to see a follow up to MY favorite segment - did the
"Angel of Death" ever start blasting away???

	- AkR
	- ar2w@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: lyford@dagny.webo.dg.com (Lyford Beverage)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: I&S--TM (11/3/92)
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:17:41 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <1d8m04INN8ef@cs.widener.edu>, STOLLER@dickinson.edu (Stoller, Richard) writes:
|> 
|> Among other gems, note that when Bart (or as it Homer?) watches a
|> "screaming Mexican soap opera," he gets a clownish guy in a sort
|> of grasshopper costume...sure enough, I can't recall his name, but
|> he's a loooong-running (15+ yrs?) kids' show on Televisa, the
|> Mexican quasimonopoly network, also seen on Spanish TV in the
|> US.  Hopefully someone can fill us in on his name...ends with
|> an accented "--in," I think, like "Chupoli'n."
|> 

I'm going to have to go back and look at that again.  I thought that
it was one of the Killer Bees that they did on SNL.
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: New DYN for ToH3 (King Homer)
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:30:32 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

Since, no one else seems to have mentioned it yet,
I would like to point out that Homer listens to
"Shirley" sing (as music hath charms to sooth the
savage 'beast') until he hears the word "bon bons".

How very Homeresque!! (Hmmmmmm, bon bons ...)

			James Willer
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris)
Subject: Re: Halloween Episode - Refs and DYNs
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:26:29 GMT

In article <srheault.721635000@cunews> srheault@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Rheault Kihara) writes:
>In <1992Nov13.011154.25012@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov12.220008.22932@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr3.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov11.230610.20757@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>
>>>>You mean the one that spun off "Happy Days"?  Yes I remember it.  The Comedy
>>>>Channel used to show it.  And of course, who could forget the awful '80's 
>>>>re-make?
>
>>>Comedy Central (or Comedy Channel or C or Ha or...) did used to show it
>>>but I thought it came out _before_ Happy Days... and what actors 
>>>"spun off" of Happy Days anyway?
>
>>	No, no... LAS "spun off" Happy Days, not "spun off _from_" it.
>>There was a sketch on LAS called "Love and the Happy Day" starring
>>Anson McDonald(?) (Potsie) and Ron Howard (Richie).  This ultimately
>>became the seed for Happy Days.  (I still can't believe I devote
>>perfectly good brain cells to this sort of information.  :-) )
>
>>Mike
>>-- 
>Mike of course is full of shit.
>Everyone knows that Laverne and Shirley were friends of Fonzies that
>went out with Richie and Potsie once, and proved popular enough to
>justify their own series.

	Steve of course is flaunting his ignorance and poor manners.  LAS, in 
this case, stand for Love, American Style.  If it were Laverne and Shirley,
it would be LaS or L&S.  What a maroon.

>Steve Rheault Kihara
>A man who used to say "AAAYYYYY" in junior high school

	Ah, that explains it.

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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: `Treehouse of Horror III' - 9f04 - Mo' SloMo Mania, refs, misc.
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:53:04 GMT

Obscure?!  I got it.  Just add "book depository" and Homer's shotgun (read
rifle).

Torsten at Omaha
From: mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Halloween Episode - Refs and DYNs
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:11:54 GMT
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Nov12.220008.22932@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr3.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.230610.20757@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>>You mean the one that spun off "Happy Days"?  Yes I remember it.  The Comedy
>>Channel used to show it.  And of course, who could forget the awful '80's 
>>re-make?

>Comedy Central (or Comedy Channel or C or Ha or...) did used to show it
>but I thought it came out _before_ Happy Days... and what actors 
>"spun off" of Happy Days anyway?

	No, no... LAS "spun off" Happy Days, not "spun off _from_" it.
There was a sketch on LAS called "Love and the Happy Day" starring
Anson McDonald(?) (Potsie) and Ron Howard (Richie).  This ultimately
became the seed for Happy Days.  (I still can't believe I devote
perfectly good brain cells to this sort of information.  :-) )

Mike
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From: kim@inquis.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: How do you know?
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:47:11 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


When I first saw the episode w/ the Michael Jackson imitator, I was 
wondering if that was really Michael's voice.  I was disappointed to see
someone else's name in the credits.

But people here seem to think that it really was Michael Jackson!  His name
wasn't used because of contracts, etc.  So, how do you know if it really
was him instead of some imitator?

Same argument for Dustin Hoffman too.

H.
From: andy@eies2.njit.edu (Andy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 11/12 Episode
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:20:23 GMT
Organization: NJIT - EIES2

>about the chalkboard) there is a reference to Bart getting a "wedgy". I have
>never heard this term before and had to consult my kids for the answer.
>Apparently a wedgy is when you pull someones underwear up. Am I getting
>old or do others know the term "wedgy".
>
>
>                          - Mike
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From: angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald)
Subject: Citizen Burns
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:06:42 GMT


You people did catch the _Citizen Kane_ reference, right?

Angus MacDonald           angus@well.sf.ca.us
Box 561, Concord, California, USA, 94522-0561
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From: afo@apollo.HP.COM (Aaron Oppenheimer)
Subject: Re: marge gets a job, or whatever it's called
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:14:56 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <1992Nov6.143011.27025@hal.com>, greg@hal.com (Greg Hilton) writes:
|> : "I can't believe it's a law firm" -- a law firm somewhat lacking in the
|> : traditional dignity of law firms, small as that quantity is.  What other things
|> : are "I can't believe it's an X"?  Sounds awfully familiar, but I can't place
|> : it.
|> 
|> "I Can't Believe it's Yogurt" is very common in strip malls around Texas.  I don't
|> know about the rest of the country.

"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is some sort of butter-substitute I see ads for
on TV all the time. Ranks up there with "Gee, your hair smells terrific!" for stupid
product names. Oh, and "Butterfinger" too.

-A

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From: sullivan@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge Gets a Job (11/5/992)
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:42:20 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

diIn article <1dckliINN6ci@cs.widener.edu>, STOLLER@dickinson.edu (Stoller, Richard) writes:
> 
> --My initial impression is that it was a very uninspired
> episode!
     
    I have to disagree I thought it was pretty good, I liked the "retirement"
deal there, I was in stitches when the old guy wanted to speak and Burns went
off on him.  I also liked when he got tossed off the "Spruce Caboose" the
largest train that they said would'nt run...and they were right.  Burns and his
scalp wax and his heart beating like a jackhammer, 'bout fell off the floor
with that one.   How about when Marge needs instructions for the machine she
created, pushed that button and those guys came running out, another pretty
good one there.  I liked the "inspired" workers, the one gal was drinking, I
can't remember what the other one was doing, but that one guy that was holding
the rifle and twitching, that was pretty good.  Anyone notice the Curies were
sort of modeled after the Bart video game, with the lasers shooting out of
their eyes? 

> --On the Smithers/Burns relationship: this episode has confirmed for
> me what I suspected all along...that Smithers' view of Burns is
> NOT a manifestation of a general attraction to men, but rather a
> particular attraction to Burns.  In other words, Smithers isn't
> homosexual, he's Burnsexual (or whatever).  The distinction is,
> I think, an important one...as nonsensical alt.Simpsons hair-
> splitting goes, anyway.
> --Rich Stoller, Dickinson College

   That's not Bruce Dickenson College is it?

> My employer makes critical budgetary decisions based upon what
> I say...if yours doesn't, you ought to wonder why.

   Yeah but what are ya gonna do?

   And one more thing while I'm here, Rich does'nt bring it up and I am Not
flaming him for it, but to everyone who keeps bring up that stupid SNL skit
with Toonces...enough already, it's lame as hell and besides who cares, I think
you have to really stretch to make a connection between the two here.  Sorry
had to get that off my chest, so there.

LATERS,

Kevin
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Bart Meets a Babe
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:42:46 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I noticed a couple of references:

To Kill a Mockingbird: Bart's story in the neighbour's basement about  the
mutant son

Northern Exposure: The background music was similar to the TV theme when the
moose was charging at Homer

Lucas: the plot was similar to, among other things, the movie Lucas

Can anyone identify the dance sequence?

Moby Dick: some of the restaurant owner's speeches MUST'VE been right out of 
Moby Dick, right?

Steve Portigal
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From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: I Can't Believe It's...
Date: 9 Nov 1992 08:28:41 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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 I think the name of the law firm "I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm" is from 
the ever popular info-mercial with Troy McClure called, "I Can't Believe They 
Invented It!" It was in the first season's episodes, I believe. Also, the 
lawyer (I forget his name) sounded alot like Troy himself. The info-mercial had
Dr. Nick (again I forget the last name) showing off the products.

                 Dave "I Can't Believe It's a Newsgroup!" Clark
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: "Stolen Kisses" Ref in 11/5/92
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:34:45 GMT

mcadamw@coch1.alleg.edu (William McAdams) writes:


>The scene in the nuclear power factory where Homer mails the
>letter through the pneumatic tube is a direct ref. to a scene
>in Francios Trauffaut's (sp.) film "Stolen Kisses"(France 1968),
>even the music is similar. In the original film Antoine(sp?) mails
>a love letter through a pnuematic tube and we follow it as it
>travels under the streets of Paris. Pretty obscure reference, (late
>60's French films !?!), I'd say. 

I thought of the "Monty Python's Flying Circus"  (That's MISTER Python!)
episode in which Conrad Poohs (the guy with the dancing teeth) mails a
letter, and we're treated to an animated sequence in which we follow the
missive as it travels through the British postal system as viewed by
Terry Gilliam.

                      --Steve Stelter 
                        sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: Bart in Love on Thursday
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:43:38 GMT

In article <1dqr3jINN3pg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> Adam_Lowe@Brown.Edu (Adam I. Lowe) writes:
#Just heard the ad on the radio for this Thursday's show:
#
#Nightmare of all nightmares,  Bart has fallen in LOVE!!!
#
#Special guest Roseanne?
#
#Sure wish I was more awake to have heard it better.

Special guest Sara Gilbert.  She plays one of Roseanne's daughters.

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From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: a quick question
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:27:13 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

not to be ignorant...but what does OFF mean?

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From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: I&STM
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:15:45 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
>In article <1992Nov4.202847.1735@oracle.us.oracle.com>
>jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:
>
>>I thought this was easily the worst episode ever.  Simply not funny.

I have to agree.  I know there were a few good jokes, but the only really
funny part (to me) of Itchy and Scratchy is that everyone thinks it
is so funny.  Even Donald Duck gets put back together on camera most
times.  And I don't recall any chain saws or hatchets either.

Don't you think the greatest part of the Simpsons is all the clever
references?  I think the subtler the humor is, the funnier it is.
Like when they scan the house and a treasure chest and human skeleton
are between the floorboards.

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