From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu

It's always interesting to evaluate a new past or future episode - or in this case, the rare "both". (I see it was also written by Al Jean.) And the verdict?
Cute and full of a handful of fun historical gags that for the most part don't try too hard, and
not trying to seem profound or tug at heartstrings, wisely, since it would fail
at both. I doubt any such episode will live up to the first few flashback/history episodes or Lisa's Wedding, but this was better than most of that type of the last decade.
For character age play, one-year-ago was pretty well done (I enjoyed the red dress and pacifier origins).

The episode was very very short, though. Too bad.

DYN:
...Lisa's admission essay seems to use a _ instead of a . before the docx extension?

Previous episode stuff:
8F01: Title puts Lisa in a "Mr. ___" reference and keeps it as "Mr. Lisa"
7F24: Direct reference to her forgotten 8th birthday, and slightly cheesy return of "Happy Birthday Lisa" and Leon Kompowski (all Kipp Lennon this time) 8F08: Devil Moe makes a new meaning of "Flaming Moe"
3G02: "All in the Family" opening parodied again as act 4 tag (this time with Norman Lear cameo, then AITF end credits parody)

Meta: too many to mention

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From: ANTant@zimage.com

I noticed this season likes to refer to old episodes like Monorail,
future, etc.

Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

It's always interesting to evaluate a new past or future episode - or in this

case, the rare "both". (I see it was also written by Al Jean.) And the verdict?
Cute and full of a handful of fun historical gags that for the most part don't try too hard,
and not trying to seem profound or tug at heartstrings, wisely, since it would fail at both. I doubt any such episode will live up to the first few flashback/history episodes or Lisa's Wedding, but this was better than most of that type of the last
decade. For character age play, one-year-ago was pretty well done (I enjoyed the red dress and pacifier origins).

The episode was very very short, though. Too bad.

DYN:
...Lisa's admission essay seems to use a _ instead of a . before the docx

extension?

Previous episode stuff:
8F01: Title puts Lisa in a "Mr. ___" reference and keeps it as "Mr. Lisa" 7F24: Direct reference to her forgotten 8th birthday, and slightly cheesy

return of "Happy Birthday Lisa" and Leon Kompowski (all Kipp Lennon this time)

8F08: Devil Moe makes a new meaning of "Flaming Moe"
3G02: "All in the Family" opening parodied again as act 4 tag (this time with

Norman Lear cameo, then AITF end credits parody)

Meta: too many to mention

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