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Well, for a fantasy episode, this was cute, and I liked the more traditional progress and anti-establishment jabs, and there was some Selman strength, but I
had a hard time getting into the total mishmash of mythologies and whatnot all thrown together.
It was above average, at least, and of decent length. See also below for some season-29 stuff I'm less crazy about!
DYN:
...Marge's mom shows up for the first time in a while?
...the joke store names include both Urban Outhouses *and* Rural Outfitters? ...they also include "David's Merkins" (as in producer David Mirkin from years ago)?
Previous episode thing
3F15: the word "swain" used again
Meta
Moe prank raven (Milady Potts), Abra-caramba, etc.
This airing only
After act 3 and execs, there was a few-second-long thing of various characters gathered around a Puerto Rican flag and the word UNIDO, and I guess that's for the recent hurricane relief effort or other political considerations around it.
Don't expect to
see that on repeats.
NOT this airing at all
It's a new season after a few celebrity deaths. I'm pretty surprised there was no dedication to Adam West (or Hugh Hefner in a milder but more recent case). Family Guy seems more likely to claim Adam West, and perhaps the producers are letting them have
it, though tonight's episode did not include such a dedication (perhaps, like with Carrie Fisher, they're waiting till his new material is gone).
New for season 29?
There was no Gracie Films logo at all. This confuses me. I assume James L. Brooks is still actually producing the show and so on - but then again Sam Simon's still credited! Without that, the credits were actually under time too.
And just a few weeks ago, composer since season 2 Alf Clausen was unceremoniously dumped from the show. I thought his contributions might stick around at least through the end of the WABFs, though historically his end takes
place closer to the airdate,
so this might actually make sense, but tonight's episode indeed drops him. After Danny Elfman's score credit, there are these credits:
Score by Bleeding Fingers Music
Score Producers Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel
Score Exec Produced by Steve Kofsky
And several credits later, bewteen music editing and sound effects, Alf is credited as Composer Emeritus. So that's... something. I also can't help but think of Alf's snub on the Movie, where Zimmer got it instead.
Don alert
In Cleveland, the 7:00 airing of VABF22 was joined in progress. About 7:19 we got the short NABF21-style JIP opening, and at about 7:23 it cut into the last few minutes of the episode with the traditional note (though last week or so it
skipped such a
note!). There you go!
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