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I enjoyed this episode.


Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> OK episode, a little tough to get a handle on the mood it was going for.
> Homer saves the day, and survival seems like a bleak prospect but only
> at the end does the theme of doubting Homer's specific ability to be the
> hero come up, then he... suddenly does it and it turns into a Capra
> finale or something, gee whiz! It feels like a crack at a very simple
> early episode minus some crucial ingredients. With Christmas episode
> overload I think I'm going to have to favor the double episode from last
> week, even if the audience was not quite at the same level of access.

> Previous episode stuff
> 7G02: The couch gag's couch "profile" says it was born 1/14/1990, indeed
> the first date a couch gag was broadcast (also seems to refer to a gag
> from XABF12)
> BABF14: Sober Barney the helicopter pilot is back again (yet somewhat at
> odds with the cloud gag)

> DYN:
> ...the church sign says 4 funerals and a funeral, even though there are
> 6 presumed dead (I do get the main joke)?

> The new annual Christmas-ish miracle
> Tonight is a first for The Simpsons: the first time an episode has
> premiered on December 22. This is the fourth season in a row with a
> Christmas-ish date scratched off the checklist:
> 1/2/22 UABF05
> 1/1/23 OABF05
> 12/24/23 35ABF01
> 12/22/24 36ABF02
> And the next likely one to go would be 12/28/25, assuming things don't
> collapse by then. See my old notes for UABF05 for more details, but in
> short, here's where we stand now (with no mid-September dates taken in
> 2024 after all):

> Three normal in-season dates with no premieres: January 18, February 1,
> April 12 (all Sundays in 2026 though); February 29 has never had a Fox
> airing of the show.

> Other dates with no episode premieres: May 24 to September 3 (minus
> those oddball "summer episodes" of early years, 7/11, 8/23, 8/27, and
> 7/27 for the movie if you like), other scattered dates in September
> (5-9, 12-16, 22), and most of the Christmas-New-Year corridor (now down
> to December 23, 25, 27-28, 30-31).

> No new episodes in June or on a Monday or Saturday.

> Counting network repeats, the only exceptions are February 29 and May
> 29. Fox has never aired The Simpsons on those dates in 35 years.



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