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From: pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith)
Subject: Re: Comments on 1/14 Show *SPOILER*
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:59:44 GMT
To: koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis)
	<1993Jan18.172446.19515@husc3.harvard.edu>
Organization: NSDD/ONSD, Data General Corp., Westboro, MA

[] Regarding Re: Comments on 1/14 Show *SPOILER*;
[] koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:

    ak> The place they were all going to in Big Sur my friend pointed
    ak> out was Vantura (spelling?).  My frined & husband had been
    ak> there and it is adults only, optional nude hot tub (or sauna
    ak> cant remeber which), secluded nature walks, secluded balconies
    ak> of your hotel room etc.

That's "The Ventana" (although I'm not sure of the spelling either,
it's definitely pronounced like that rather then Vantura :)  It's
actually not in Big Sur, but along Highway 1 about 10 miles south or
so (I forget exactly) up on the hills overlooking the Pacific.

My then-girlfriend and I got engaged during a week-long trip down
Highway 1 from SF to LA and back... we spent 2 nights in the Ventana
and it's worth every penny (and you'll need a few...)

It's not a hotel, really; there's a lot of bungalows, each with a
kitchenette and a big fireplace, and a big bed with comforter, etc.
They're all wood, no concrete or metal railings or other tacky stuff.
They serve free continental breakfast every morning (and I think some
kind of lunch too).  When you check in you get a big, fluffy bathrobe
(which you have to give back when you check out, although you can buy
your own), and that's mostly all anyone wears when walking around :)

There's a nude sundeck raised above the pool so less freewheeling
types won't be uncomfortable and the freer folks can still take a swim
(after putting their suits again :), and a "common building" with a
small library, a *huge* fireplace, lots of fluffy chairs and couches,
and free tea, coffee, and hot cocoa on a side-table.

To bring this back to LAL a bit, the Ventana has been mentioned
numerous times.  It was a favourite of Gracie and Kusak; I recall once
when Gracie was still with the DA she had a really bad week and Kusak
surprised her with airline tickets to Big Sur (or SF?) and a weekend
at the Ventana.

Also, if they were all at the Ventana then they would have met up
(there's only about 20-30 rooms), but it seemed to me they were all
going to different places in and around Big Sur... I think the whole
Big Sur thing was just meant to be a fleeting joke about how they were
all going to get away, but going to the same place.
--

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From: loryn@microbiol.uwa.oz.au (Loryn Sellner)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: rox's surprise
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:52:51 GMT
Organization: Dept. Microbiology
NNTP-Posting-Host: kun.microbiol.uwa.edu.au

Well the new season hasn't started yet down here in Perth, Australia, but it 
seems to me from reading everyone's responses so far that some pretty major 
events were totally overlooked at the beginning of the new series. The thing 
that has really been bugging me the most, is what was the reason for Rox's 
shocked look when she got that mysterious telephone call from the doctor in 
the last episode of last season? Considering the furore and amount of 
discussion that one look caused, nobody seems particularly perturbed by the 
fact that it was never explained. Or was that matter addressed in the first 
episode of this season, but the reason was so mundane that nobody actually 
posted anything about it? If anyone could shed some light on the matter I 
would appreciate it.
Ta.



Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
From: ag0514@csc.albany.edu (Andy Goldstein)
Subject: Re: Daniel's wife
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
	<1993Jan27.114210.23673@freenet.carleton.ca>
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:54:36

We are now supposed to believe that it was Daniel's (A Martinez) late wife 
that has been harrasing Gwen (thank you).  I suppose we'll find out tommorow.
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From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: Re: LAL on Hiatus
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:53:58 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

m_reymond@zeus.dev.macsch.com (Mike Reymond) writes:

> 
> 
> The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that LAL is going on hiatus
> March 4.  The remaining 8 epsiodes will be broadcast beginning April 1. 
> 

How would you be able to tell :)

Dascoser
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
From: hulburt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kris Anne Hulburt)
Subject: 1/21 episode
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:53:57 GMT

Once again I missed last night's (1/21) show.  Could someone post a summary
of the plot?

Thanks!
   

Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
From: steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman)
Subject: Re: Car used in opening sequence
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:58:54 GMT

kcr@rushforth.Eng.Sun.COM (Kevin Rushforth) writes:

>Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry about the car with
>"L A LAW" plates whose trunk is slammed shut during the opening
>sequence each week.  The consensus is that the car is, indeed, a
>Jaguar.  There was no definitive answer on the model, although I would
>guess an XJ-6.

>Btw, it couldn't be a Dodge Viper as one poster suggested.  The Viper
>is a brand new car which didn't exist when the show began back in (I
>think) 1986.

It's a Jag alright; the Viper was given to Arnie by that studio head in a
recent opisode.
--
Dave!
From: apirwani@huxley.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Ash H. Pirwani)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: Re: 1/21 episode
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:43:38 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Originator: apirwani@huxley.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu


In article <1993Jan22.215357.10085@leland.Stanford.EDU>, hulburt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kris Anne Hulburt) writes:
> Once again I missed last night's (1/21) show.  Could someone post a summary
> of the plot?
> 
> Thanks!
>    
> 

Rerun, again!

Ash.
From: 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: Re: TONIGHT?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:10:38 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <1993Jan28.115250.5263@memstvx1.memst.edu>, mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu (*R*A*I*) writes:
>IS tonight's (1/28/93) show on NBC a repeat or not???
>
>Rai.
>-- 


It's not on.  NBC is showing Mad About You and Wings at 10:00 EST.
From: ag0514@david
Newsgroups: alt.tv.la-law
Subject: Daniel's wife
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:13:22 GMT
Reply-To: ag0514@david
Organization: University of Albany, SUNY

Can anyone verify for me that Daniel showed *&^@# (Sheila Kelly, for the life 
of me I cannot remember the character's name) a picture of his (late) wife
toward the beginning of the season, and it was not the woman that showed at the
door on the last new episode?  

Andy Goldstein
ag0514@rachel.albany.edu
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From: jac@doe.carleton.ca (James A. Cherry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: "101 Frozen Pops" is a pun!
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:31:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University

In <1k3t3fINNir3@morrow.stanford.edu> AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.150630.3048@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
>George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris) writes:
>>In article <jac.727725001@pulaski>,
>>jac@doe.carleton.ca (James A. Cherry) writes:
>>>
>>>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>>>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".
>>
>>        Hardly.  More like "Pop"="Dad".
>  Forgive him.  It was a simple mistake, considering his name.
>  -- Mark
>  "I brought my love a cherry..."

Uh, guys, I actually did understand that "Pop" meant "Dad" literally.  "Well,
duh!" [Flaming Moe's, Homer at the Bat]  However, by a strange coincidence (or
maybe not), "pop" can also mean "orgasm".  This is strangely appropriate for
a sperm bank, where the results of an orgasm are indeed frozen.

"101 Frozen Pops" = "101 Frozen Dads"
"101 Frozen Pops" = "101 Frozen Orgasms"

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines pun as "the humorous use of a word to
suggest different meanings, or of words of the same sound and different mean-
ings."  This, therefore, makes "pop" a pun.

And no poking fun at my last name!
--
James A. Cherry                                         "Deal with it, pal!"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:35:21 GMT

Well, let me throw MY two cents in, seeing how the people who have
commented so far obviously are brain-dead neandertals :-) :-)

Selma's Choice was NOT a good episode, it was a very poor one, right
down there with The Otto Show.  A bunch of unrelated stories and gags
just thrown together, and really sloppily crafted.  The resolution to
the "main" plot (little of it there was), was extremely obvious, and
yet not well executed.  The set-up was obvious:  a day with Bart and
Lisa would disuade Selma from her obsession to have kids (an obsession
that was really rather weakly instilled to begin with); yet do we see
truly great examples of Bart-and-Lisaness?  No.  (Think about the
great examples of Bartness in "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie".)  We
see a rather lame little bit with them talking over each other dragging
Selma to a ride.  We see them argue a little more, but it's BORING
compared to other schtick we've seen from Bart and Lisa.  Then Lisa 
goes on an acid trip, making her behave totally out of character,
and which should evoke Selma's simpathy or concern, but either way
she should realize that Lisa's behavior has nothing to do with normal
kid behavior.  Bart attacks the lame-o robot-beery-presidents...
BORING!  I mean, the exibit was so boring that no one else was there
to begin with.  So let the boy have his fun.  Bart is certainly more
capable of mischief than that!  So we are left with an obvious
resolution, very poorly executed.

Meanwhile, there's a grab-bag full of gags and short set-ups that don't
go anywhere, and are all just thrown together.  Homer's sandwich.
Homer and Marge then get amourous.  Throw-away sperm bank jokes.
Funeral jokes.  LSD trips.  Disneyland spoofing (this actually seemed
more the central plot than "Selma's choice" did).  It's like at
the end of a season, they had all this material left over, so they
just kind a threw it all together.

I'm not denying that some of it was funny.  Some of it was very
funny (Baby Barnies! "Lisa, drink the water!" "Oh great; Dad's dead."),
but overall, as a show, it stunk.

Anyway, as I say, just the two cents of this Neolithite on Intesive Care.

-- 
                    ' ",      *
Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Wendel
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:52:57 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Wendell first appeared in the episode where Bart's class went on a field trip
to the power plant. He hurled on the bus on the way there. I forget the name
of the episode, but Homer lost his job in it. DOHHH!!!
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Upcoming Episodes List?
From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:32:57 PST
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

Hi all. Could someone who has the upcoming episodes (titles, etc)for 
the rest of the year please email it to me? I think (hope) this post 
is going out, but I'm not receiving any incoming alt.tv.simpsons. 
Thanks!
:::::Larry:::::

::::::::::::::::::Classical Violinists Never Miss A Beat:::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::We Just Blame The Violas:::::::::::::::::::::::::
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: cutco@sdf.lonestar.org (Dan Nolen III)
Subject: REQUEST for FAQ('s), revisions and episode lists
Organization: sdf public access Unix, Dallas -- 214-436-3281
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 23:12:16 GMT

Good morning, class. I'm wondering where to get the FAQ's, any revisions
and the most-updated episode list. If anyone knows where to get them, has
them and can mail me a copy, or can tell me when, if ever, they're posted
here, I'd really appreciate it. (It's very difficult for me to FTP, I have
to go through a friend's account on another system)

Please post the answers here or send mail to BOTH cutco@sdf.lonestar.org AND
dan.e.nolen@gte.sprint.com

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dan E. Nolen III
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"Well, that was a well-plotted piece of non-claptrap that never made me want
to wretch!" --Sideshow Bob
"...and what if your family don't like bread. What if they like cigarettes?.."
-Fat Tony
"I bought stock in a mace company just before society crumbled."-Patty(or Selma)
From: dprezios@ep.ieee.org (D Preziosi)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge vs the Monorail (references)
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:29:21 GMT
Reply-To: dprezios@ep.ieee.org
Organization: IEEE, New York, NY

In article I87@unix.amherst.edu, astrotte@unix.amherst.edu (ADAM SOMERS TROTTER) writes:
> I believe you are thinking of Al Pacino in "Raging Bull"  An excellent
> movie, even if you're not generally into these boxing stories.
> 
> 						Adam


That would be just fine if Pacino was IN ``Raging Bull.'' Maybe you're
thinking of ``Cruising,'' or ``...And Justice for All.''
From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: "101 Frozen Pops" is a pun!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 12:41:25 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu



>The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines pun as "the humorous use of a word to
>suggest different meanings, or of words of the same sound and different mean-
>ings."  This, therefore, makes "pop" a pun.
>
>And no poking fun at my last name!
>--
>James A. Cherry                                         "Deal with it, pal!"
>


And no poking his last name, either!!!

;-)))

(Sorry, that *was* gross...)
From: winnipg@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Winnipg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Who was posting the .au files?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:20:01 CST
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

To the net guy in Toronto, please reply.
E-mail.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne)
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:37:21 GMT
Keywords: DYN, selma

jac@doe.carleton.ca (James A. Cherry) writes:


>- When Bart says, "Let's see if they wore underwear back then," he pulled the
>  pants off someone who I believe was supposed to be Jefferson.  Then Jefferson
>  turns around and his eyes glow red...a Terminator reference?

Washington....

>- The sign outside the lineup of the "Little Land of Duff": "Enter Here / Wait
>  From / This Point / 2 hrs", just like at Disney World.  Plus another incon-
>  sistency: when Selma, Bart, and Lisa line up there, the camera pans to the
>  front of the line...which shows the "Complaints" booth!  So how could it have
>  been the entrance to "Little Land of Duff"?

Bart states, "With a line this long... it's gotta be good."  The point was that
it was the line for the complaint booth they were standing in.

>- When Doplh, Jimbo, and Kearney are shown riding the bumper cars down the
>  highway, what power source were they running on?  The mettle poles that nor-
>  mally touch the top of the bumper car cage were buzzing as though they had
>  electricity on them!  But how could they have?

Say, when <random cartoon character> runs off a cliff, howcome they don't fall
until they realize nothing is beneath them?  ANSWER: Cartoon Physics.  It's the
same science that propels the cars...


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: ferring@ms.uky.edu (William Ferring | ferring@ms.uky.edu)
Subject: Re: Voices...
Organization: University of Kentucky Computer Science Dept.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:27:36 GMT

skydive@ac.dal.ca writes:

>In article <20JAN93.25831569.0046@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, W9C9 <W9C9@UNB.CA> writes:
>> Quick question......What voice(s) does Harry Shearer do on the Simpsons?
>>    I've seen his name in the credits, and remember seeing him on
>>    Saturday Night Live. (I assume he is the same Harry Shearer of SNL.)
>> 
>>    If anyone knows, please either post here, or answer via E-mail.
>>                                        Thanks,
>>                                        D. Savoy (W9C9@UNB.CA)

> I may be wrong, but I believe one of the voices he does is that of
>   Mr. Burns. If he ever was on SNL he would have been hosting it because
>he isn't a cast member. He is more famously known as Spinal Tap's bass
>player. I have a posting of all the voices at home. I will confirm his
>characters here on Monday.

Actually, he played minor bit parts (kinda like Al Franken does) when SNL
had the cast that included Martin Short and (believe it or not) Damon Wayans. 
I just saw a few old episodes recently.  His true genious was shown in 
                             .. 
                     S  P  I  N  A  L      T  A  P !!!

Just my one cent,
Bill

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From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Voices...
Date: 24 Jan 1993 09:06:10 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

In article <C1CnI1.C6I@ms.uky.edu> ferring@ms.uky.edu (William Ferring | ferring@ms.uky.edu) writes:
>>> Quick question......What voice(s) does Harry Shearer do on the Simpsons?
>>>    I've seen his name in the credits, and remember seeing him on
>>>    Saturday Night Live. (I assume he is the same Harry Shearer of SNL.)
>Actually, he played minor bit parts (kinda like Al Franken does) when SNL
>I just saw a few old episodes recently.  His true genious was shown in 
>                     S  P  I  N  A  L      T  A  P !!!

Ain't any of you ever heard of SCTV?
r.
From: skydive@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
Subject: Re: Voices...
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:49:58 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <20JAN93.25831569.0046@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, W9C9 <W9C9@UNB.CA> writes:
> Quick question......What voice(s) does Harry Shearer do on the Simpsons?
>    I've seen his name in the credits, and remember seeing him on
>    Saturday Night Live. (I assume he is the same Harry Shearer of SNL.)
> 
>    If anyone knows, please either post here, or answer via E-mail.
>                                        Thanks,
>                                        D. Savoy (W9C9@UNB.CA)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> I may be wrong, but I believe one of the voices he does is that of
   Mr. Burns. If he ever was on SNL he would have been hosting it because
he isn't a cast member. He is more famously known as Spinal Tap's bass
player. I have a posting of all the voices at home. I will confirm his
characters here on Monday.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
Subject: Re: Voices...
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48:44 GMT

<20JAN93.25831569.0046@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, W9C9 <W9C9@UNB.CA> writes:
>>> Quick question......What voice(s) does Harry Shearer do on the Simpsons?
>>>    I've seen his name in the credits, and remember seeing him on
>>>    Saturday Night Live. (I assume he is the same Harry Shearer of SNL.)

skydive@ac.dal.ca writes:
>> I may be wrong, but I believe one of the voices he does is that of
>>   Mr. Burns. If he ever was on SNL he would have been hosting it because
>> he isn't a cast member. 

<C1CnI1.C6I@ms.uky.edu> (William Ferring | ferring@ms.uky.edu) writes:
> Actually, he played minor bit parts (kinda like Al Franken does) when SNL
> had the cast that included Martin Short and (believe it or not) Damon Wayans. 

While Shearer didn't have a truckful of memorable characters during
his tenure at SNL, he was a full-fledged cast member.  Franken has
never been more than a "featured player".

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons.itchy-scratchy
From: wbenedet@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William P Benedetti)
Subject: major disappointment
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:58:19 GMT


The Simpsons went to Duff Gardens and there wasn't even an Itchy and Scratchy 
ride.  Is anyone else upset?