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From: mcs@unislc.uucp (Michael Sontum)
Subject: Re: 11/12 Episode
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:10:42 GMT

From article <BxMz3D.MMy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by thompssp@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Steven P. Thompson):
> 
>      Could someone please tell me what Bart was writing on the chalkboard at
> the beginning of today's episode? We missed the very beginning.
>           Thanks..........
> 
>
                                                 ~Steve
I think it was " I will not bring sheep into the classroom. "
As long as I am on the episode( and this hopefully doesn't relate to anything 
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: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Halloween Episode - Refs and DYNs
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:06:10 GMT

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?  

The theme is on one of the TeeVee Toons collections.   

And yes, many people have mentioned it.

Torsten at Omaha	Love, any style except Minimalist
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: i'm lookin' for...
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:49:29 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

Well, tonight's episode added two more to the Moe's Tavern list:

"I'm lookin' for Amanda Huggenkiss!"
"Drop your glasses, guys...Ivana Tinkle!"

Is the list on the FAQ the complete list from Moe's Tevern?  I thought
there was more than that...
--
Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

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From: pcg@panix.com (Paul Gallagher)
Subject: Re: maggie driving the car
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:08:14 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <4789@equinox.unr.edu> arnold@pyramid.unr.edu (Bruce M Arnold) writes:

>didn't something like that JUST HAPPEN in Portland or something like that
>where this hispanic kid was smart enough to take "THE CLUB" off of his
>parents car, and drive it like 36 blocks before running in to a gas
>station or something like that?  I'm not CRAZY, I know this happened..

Things like this defintely happen.  A little boy who tried to drive his
little sister to the beach appeared on Late Night with David Letterman
a few years ago.  And just recently a little boy in New York City went
driving and got lots of press coverage.

Paul
pcg@panix.com

"Hot pizza...the food of kings!" - Homer
From: tom@spud.kludge.com (Tom Lemos)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Toyota Corolla Commercials
Date: 7 Nov 92 09:24:38 GMT
Organization: T.T.L.F.  San Francisco, CA

ajooba@ac.dal.ca writes:

> 	Has anyone seen the new Toyota Corolla episodes featuring 'The
> Simpsons'? One commercial has Homer talking to Flanders, and the other
> has Homer's father as well. Are these commercials specific to Canada only
> or are they being played in the U.S. as well.

Must be Canadian.. don't have them playing here in San Francisco.

Tom@spud.kludge.COM                             Tater Tot Liberation Front
"People should be taught what is, not what should be."    San Francisco,CA
                                         -Lenny Bruce      +1.415.255.8340
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From: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Subject: episode guide
Reply-To: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:32:01 EST

Could somone please E-Mail me a copy of an episode guide. I do not have
FTP access, and have no other way of getting one.

Thanks VERY much for any help!

Alan Kennedy - alan.kennedy@canrem.com - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:14:24 GMT

frisch1@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Katz) writes:

>>Anyway... the Empire Strikes Back reference was neat.

>_What_ Empire Strikes back Reference?

About halfway through the episode, when we cut to Burns in his office
watching his employees ("Noodleheads!"), we can hear some music from
the Star Wars movies--the ominous music associated with the Imperials.


                        --Steve Stelter
                          sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: cs101ta3@dcl-nxt21.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert Gjertsen)
From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Smithers Choice (was Marge Gets a Job (11/5/992))
Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:17:49 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

>
>Hey! If *you* were a gay man, would *you* be interested in
>*Homer* ??
>(Seems only logical to me.)

EWWW!!!  Of course, if I were a gay woman, I doubt I'd be
interested in marge, either!  Of course, those two sisters...  ;-)

-- 

"All the good signature file quotes are taken."

					-- responses to tina@rjlg.com
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Justice Bart (was Re: I&STM)
Date: 7 Nov 1992 15:35:44 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch
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flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) says:
>One thing which was disappointing about it is that we actually get to see that
>Bart will become a Supreme Court justice.  

Yes.  He seemed so... tired.  So... dulled.  The Anti-Bart.

 -Bucky "Bart, stop being confident!" Whaley

-- 
bw462@cleveland.freenet.edu      Hey, look at me!  I'm Blanche Dubois!
     Mmm... lutefisk!              - Bart, "A Streetcar Named Marge"
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From: cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best)
Subject: Re: Episode guide-- C+
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:28:18 GMT
Organization: your service

aa716@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Fields) writes:
> 
> 
> Is it just me or does anyone else think the Simpson's episode guide is
> poorly written?  I certainly can't deny that Mark Holtz puts in a lot of
> time, but the wording is extremely awkward.  Two examples:
> 
> >The Otto Show (8F20) - Otto loses his job driving the school bus, partially
> >because he doesn't have a driver's license, and, after being kicked out of his
> >apartment, goes to live with the Simpsons. [Aired April 23, 1992]
> >
> >Homer the Heretic (9F01) - Homer, in a dream, gets permission from God to skip
> >church, much to Marge's objections. [Aired October 8, 1992]

Looks fine to me.
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F04] Treehouse of Horror III
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:16:48 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>>         Well, they *are* making me... dizzy.  Ooooohhh..
>> After locking the suitcase, Homer drops it down the Bottomless Pit (``Good
>> byeeeee, Dolly.'')  A gangster bids arrivederci to a body bag and throws it
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Didn't anyone comment on this obvious reference??
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Itchy & Scrathy The Movie, Homer's Death
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:58:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.031111.16511@cs.mun.ca> craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace) writes:
>Well, we got it from God in Homer the Heretic that Homer will die at the end of
>the season.  We get it from the episode guide that Homer will have a heart 
>attack.  And we get it from I&S,TM that Homer will survive said heart attack,
>and take Bart to the movies.

Except that the the "40 years in the future" is Homer's fantasy. You
don't really think that Bart will become a Supreme Court Justice?!


--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
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From: rbrbrn@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Robert Holmes)
Subject: Re: maggie driving the car
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:39:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.225221.10976@uoft02.utoledo.edu> mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:
>teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prateek Dwivedi) writes:
>: 
>: Maggie driving the car is from Saturday Night Live... late seventies
>: early eighties.  I think the skit was called something like Felix the 
>: Driving Cat.
>: 
>Lets try 1990's, and 'Tounces the driving Cat'.....
>
>I agree, that may be what that is, but I dont think that this is the
>intended ref....
>
>Anyone else know a movie where a baby drives a car.....
>
>-- 
>Michael Neylon   aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!
>      //         | Senior, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Toledo
>  \\ // Only the |   Summer Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center
>\  \X/   AMIGA!  |         mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu           /

How about "Look who's talking"
BARON

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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: Kelsey Grammer on Later
Summary: Has to happen
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:45:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.070836.17754@midway.uchicago.edu>, irwin@galton.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin) writes:
> Tonight on Later with Bob Costas, Kelsey Grammer was the guest.  During
> the conversation he mentioned that there will be a third episode
> featuring Sideshow Bob.  Unfortunately he didn't give any details on the
> story or when it would be on.  It sounded like it would be later this
> season however.
> 

But don't you see it has to happen!  Remember what he said when he
was arrested the first time - "You can't keep me locked up forever.
Sooner or later there'll be a Democrat in the White House and I,
and all my criminal buddies, will be FREE!!!!!!"

I loved it (and I voted for Clinton).


marc colten
From: sullivan@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: flamers and two new discussions
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:00:42 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <1dm6g2INN6nq@cs.widener.edu>, tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
> 
> 
> ***new discussions***
> 
> 
> And for those of you who read this whole message and are disappointed to
> have not read anything simpsons-ish, here are some things for you:
> 
> 1.  I was surprised to see that no one mentioned that several major
> characters were killed in the halloween epsiode  (most after becoming 
> zombies).  I especially liked the way Smithers died in "King Homer."  
> 
> 2.  I think that we should all get together and agree on an "approved"
> spelling of Homer's favorite noise.  My offer is "Doh-p!"  but I'm sure
> many will disagree with me.
> 
> 
>
  IMHO, (in my humble opinion), I think that it sounds more like "Doh-l',
pretty much the same idea without a 'p'.  But I agree that we should have an
"approved" spelling.  By the way is there anyone besides me who thinks this
Kaskade thing sucks?  It's too big, maybe they can put in
alt.stupid.kaskade.challenge.too.damn.long., sorry just my opinion.
   
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From: Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
Subject: Re: Do the scriptwriters read this group?
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Sector 7G 
            <1992Nov13.174930.29044@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:20:12 GMT

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
>>So I really wanna know ... does anyone have any hard evidence as to 
>>whether the scriptwriters for tthe Simpsons read this newsgroup?
>
>Yes.  They do.  Or, someone somehow involved with official Simpsons-dom does.
>
>Some time ago we figured out a strategy to test this theory.  The strategy was
>to come up with something sufficiently unusual that if we were to see it in the
>show, we would surely know it was from us, but not so unusual (or obscene) that
>they certainly wouldn't run it.
>
>People discussed various "mmm..." completions, like "mmm...usenet".  Someone
>who no longer seems to live here on alt.tv.simpsons but was a frequent poster
>at the time, who lives in Norway, suggested some preparation of fish which she
>and many others described as not worth eating (although enthusiasts also
>emerged), entitled lutefisk, with, if I'm not mistaken, an umlaut over the
>`u'.  So several people started posting "Mmm...lutefisk" and people added it to
>their .signatures, etc.
>
>Finally we were rewarded with an occurrence in an issue of Simpsons Illustrated
>in which Bart and Lisa go trick-or-treating and receive some lutefisk from Ned
>Flanders.  I find this fairly compelling.  The timing was as would be expected.


David Hyatt first proposed the idea that we repeat a catchphrase such as
"Mmm... something-or-other" to see if it would be incorporated into OFF's
world.  Ted Frank suggested lutefisk.  Cindy Kandolf (of Trondheim, Norway)
explained how appalling she finds even thinking about eating lutefisk.
All this took place back in mid-March.

After lutefisk cropped up as a Halloween treat in the last issue of
_Simpson's Illustrated_, El Bairdo (TM) said cryptically that he would
not confirm or deny having had anything to do with its inclusion.

 -Bucky "We please to aim" Whaley


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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: I&STM
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:48:26 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <92312.040806TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu> TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu (Sime) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.035252.17536@oracle.us.oracle.com>, jdonald@us.oracle.com
>(John R. Donald) says:
>>but you are right about judging it too harshly.  i only watched it once,
>>and the first time I watch a new episode I am usually disappointed because
>>my expectations are so high.  I'll try it again.
>
>I have seen this episode at least 3 times since tuesday.
>I think you people take this show much too seriously.
>It is a cartoon.  Watch it as if it were one, because it is.
>People obviously have varying opinions on how good episodes are, of course
>but IT IS JUST A CARTOON DAMMIT SO DONT WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT OK??!!??!!
>
>Geeesh take a chill people....
>
>-Sime
>
>"Hey there!  It's....YOU!    "Homer, why can't you           Let's
> How about that...            Show any interest?"
> Local sports team!"         "Because I don't care..."       Go
>
>        -Mr. Burns            -Marge and Homer               Pens  ! ! !
>
>By the way, I also dont care if I got one of these quotes wrong, I am just
>puttting them in my sig to get the point across that I like the show not that I
>can memorize the Simpsons word for word like a severe GEEK or something, I do
>have somewhat of a life unlike some people, so if you are offended, chill out..
i have an idea - why dont you and Robert Holmes get together and have a lot
of fun telling each other how cool you are, and how much of a dork everyone
else is.  you'll probably get tired of it after a while and realize that
you both have some growing up to do.
-jd

-- 
"Good Idea, Boss."	- Homer Simpson

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From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: US 12 NOV 92 episode will be...
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 06:45:25 GMT

The US 12 NOV 92 episode will be...

`New Kid on the Block' (New episode!)

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From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: HOMER'S CAR
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:21:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

Actually, if you'll also notice, in Lisa's Pony (assuming it's the same
car), when Homere goes out to the car, just before the end, he falls
asleep in the car, and his head leans on the steering wheel, (and I
can't remember exactly what happens next, since I haven't watched the
episode in a few months), and then the air bag pops out, and like
Maggie, Homer uses it for a pillow.

But my favourite comment from when Maggie was driving was Chief
Wiggum's....

Wiggum: "Aw, look, there's a baby driving a car... and look, there's a
monkey driving a bus"

I just wonder if this might be a refernce to Otto....

chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
                                                                                                                     
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From: canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson)
Subject: Re: I&S--TM (11/3/92)
Reply-To: canderso@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 22:31:21 GMT

> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
>> colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
>>> 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...

>>There's a guy in a bug suit on XUXA's show - is there a connection,
>>or do they have a common origin?  Is there some kind of significance
>>to guys in bug suits in Latino culture?

>Like you, I've been watching too much TV. I wonder how many readers
>of this newsgroup know who XUXA is.

I wonder how many can *say* XUXA.

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From: aimar@dxbt00.cern.ch (Alberto Aimar SL/BT tel 2564)
Subject: Re: Episode guide-- C+
Reply-To: aimar@dxbt00.cern.ch (Alberto Aimar SL/BT tel 2564)
Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics - Geneva CH
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:27:51 GMT

In article <1dcvjaINN48o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa716@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 
(Scott Fields) writes:
|>
|>Is it just me or does anyone else think the Simpson's episode guide is
|>poorly written?  I certainly can't deny that Mark Holtz puts in a lot of
|>time, but the wording is extremely awkward.  Two examples:
|>
|>>The Otto Show (8F20) - Otto loses his job driving the school bus, partially
|>>because he doesn't have a driver's license, and, after being kicked out of his
|>>apartment, goes to live with the Simpsons. [Aired April 23, 1992]
|>>
|>>Homer the Heretic (9F01) - Homer, in a dream, gets permission from God to skip
|>>church, much to Marge's objections. [Aired October 8, 1992]
|>
|>

Mark's guide is very usefule to stick on my VCR tapes.

I think your criticism isn't justified, unless you volunteer to do better 
than Mark......
In that case first do it .........and than you'll criticize his work.

I take the occasion to thank Mark.

Cheers,

Alberto Aimar.
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From: parilis@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gary Parilis)
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References <Bx7EGE.A34@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, <1992Nov4.201147.13414@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, <1992Nov4.234059.22584@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Subject : Re: maggie driving the car

In article <1992Nov4.234059.22584@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson) writes:

> > sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Borders) writes:

> >>teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca (Prateek Dwivedi) writes:

> >>Maggie driving the car is from Saturday Night Live... late seventies

> >Well, you're sort of correct.  It is a takeoff from SNL, but recent SNL,
> >not late 70's/early 80's, as you suggest.  The cat's name is "Toonces,"

> I don't think they were referencing anything.  Toonces always has other
> people in the car with him.  And doesn't he always crash and burn off the

I agree... If they were really referencing "Toonces...", don't you
think Chief Wiggams would have said "...and look!  There's a *cat*
driving a bus..." rather than a dog?

- Gary