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Here's how RW members rated this race (307 votes).
In short: Great training race for London MarathonDate of review: March 16, 2008
In short: A great race despite the weather In full: A well organised race, efficient and friendly marshals and a route on quiet roads made a rainy, windy run bearable. thanks to all involved.Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Hats off to the marshalls who make it all worthwhile running.In full: Hideous race for me as just recovering from a virus so hadn't really run for three weeks, but the enthusiasm of all the marshalls was fantastic - also my running partner who dragged me, literally for the last 3 miles! Hope FLM is kinder to me!Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Great marathon training runIn full: Thank you to everyone involved you did a great job. The weather suited me down to the ground too as I hate getting too hot! Keep up the excellent work.Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Thank you marshalls for standing in the rain all morning!In full: I ended up doing 15 rather than 21 purely because I would have been too cold and wet to be out for another hour but as ever it was a great event. Just a shame we couldn't have had a dry / warmer day.Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Superb marshalling and organisation despite the dreadful weatherIn full: A very well organised race. Car park well sign posted and easy to find. All mile markers very visible. Marshalling and water stations were fabulous - everyone was well prepared, professional and very encouraging. Considering the low cost of this race the organisers have done a fanstatic job. Great FLM preparation. Thank you!Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Well organised scenic and great marshalling In full: The marshalls were great. Always there to tell you the right direction to go and very friendly and encouraging. Even craked a few jokes on the way which was nice!! The weather was not great but I'd assume that was the case for everyone today throughout the UK. Its a great way to get in your long run(s) if you did the 21, before London. The car park I parked in was a 5 minute walk from the end of the race and no traffic to get in the way so that was great. All in all a great race and prep for the big one!!Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: A good value race, great marshals, very supportive. The continual rain and wind made for a tough race but v friendly.. Thanks MABAC.Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: Superb organisation that puts a lot of the 'bigger' races in the shadeeIn full: It gives me great pleasure to review this race. I had read the reviews beforehand but was suprised at what a pleasant, well organised, fulfilling race this was.Plenty of free parking close to the start and well signposted was a perfect start. Course was undulating with a slight hill to start, but it was great to tick off the miles knowing that at 9 miles you had a 6 mile loop to mix things up again and then could join the slower runners on the second 6 miler to make life more interesting.Water stations supplied orange squash which helped pick the legs up and water stations came thick and fast. Mile markers were clearly visible.I thouroughly enjoyed the race and feel far more prepared for London having done it.Stangely though - did anyone else notice the large number of 'roadkill' toads on the course!!!! Bizarre.I'll be back next year - definately if they keep the price at £9.00!Date of review: March 16, 2008
In short: perfect pre-marathon preparation (I hope)In full: The car park was already getting full by the time I arrived half an hour before the race start but it was well signed and there were others that may have been less busy. The marshals were great helping me find the loos in the Leisure Centre and then the start. Indeed throughout the race, their support and encouragement was second to none. The weather was a relentless dampening drizzle and the wind seemed never to be behind me. I was very unsettled by cars on one section (that we had to do twice) that seemed to roar past far too close and too fast. Nevertheless, a great race to prove to myself that the LFM in less than a month isn't going to be as painful as I had once fearedDate of review: March 16, 2008
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The Lakefield Fitzsimmons Towing and Repair Junior C Chiefs held their Safetalk on Saturday with the team attending the morning session and community members attending the afternoon session.
Cecilia Marie Flynn the Livingworks head instructor from Hamilton facilitated the sessions.
Cecilia was pleased that the OHA and in particular the Lakefield Chiefs are bringing this program into their communities, stating it is long overdue and the more people that are exposed to the talk the more lives that potentially will be saved.
Safetalk is the acronym for Suicide Alertness For Everyone and the four step process is Tell, Ask, Listen and Keepsafe.
Forty-nine people including players and community members attended the two sessions and were taken thought the four step process.
"This program is designed to give individuals some tools to assist them should they be exposed to someone that may be considering suicide," says Bob Campbell a director with the Lakefield Chiefs. "We feel that our team and all the people that attended the talk are now better equipped to deal with this complex issue."
Partners Team 55 member Dr. Kristen Kelly, Lakefield Lions Club member Kit Martin and the Lakefield Fitzsimmons Towing and Repair Junior C Chiefs were very pleased with the turn out at the talks and believe this partnership was very beneficial. As one parent put it, "The only thing that could have made this better is if my son was here."
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Initially I was stoked for today. It was my off day so I got up at a decent time, painted my finger nails and even did laundry. I even took an hour to crimp my hair which looked so cute.
Then I decided to go to dinner with some coworkers at Applebees because I thought it would be cool and fun. Wrong.
First of all, I had only hung out with two of the people who were going to be at this dinner outside of work. Whitney and "Tony." Whitney is one of my good friends who I really enjoy hanging out with and the other who is a complete fucking moron majority of the time. I've only seen him once outside of work, and I was kind of hoping it would be my last. ANYWAY
I decided to stay in my car until Whitney got there because she's the one who invited me. So as I'm getting out of my car I leave the keys in the ignition and lock my door. So cool, I'm locked out of my car. At least it wasn't running this time.
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So then I got a headache. And that sucked. (It's gone now after some liquid gels.) And Andrea and Courtney came to Applebees after we ate to help me break into my car. So that worked out.
I then went to my sister's house for a little bit and then came home whereupon I wanted to soak the day away in a nice bubble bath like I do pretty much every night. To prepare for my bath, I always run the water and set my iPad on the edge of the tub because yes, I like to surf the web in the bathtub because being in the bathtub makes everything better including Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and even Netflix. (Special thanks to Lauren for that luxury, life as improved so much.) So anyway, I didn't really realize Friskey, my pathetic, over-weight excuse for a cat, was in my room. Subconsciously I knew she was in my room, but I just don't dedicate every thought to things like… "Oh, Friskey is walking from my vanity into the bathroom, I wonder what she's gonna be up to in there." So I'm just minding my own business while the tub is slowly but surely filling up. And then I hear this heart dropping splash and a thud and I see Friskey dart out of my bathroom.
There it was, my brand new iPad 2, the love of my life… sinking to the bottom of the tub. It was completely underwater. My heart seriously felt like it stopped. I think I now know how Rose felt when she saw Jack going down. Or pretty close, anyway. Cause really, my iPad is like the closest thing I have to a significant other. Luckily, my cat-like reflexes kicked in, and I think I was able to save it. I dried it off really quickly. The speakers are still working and everything, I'm just too nervous to plug it in to see if it will charge. My day as sucked enough, I'll try tomorrow.
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The recent arrest of the alleged Billings rapist, who is a registered sex offender, is leading to questions about companies and background checks.
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Toby Griego worked at Mattress Land for seven months and then was arrested Monday for two sexual assaults of Billings women.
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"The most important thing is for an employer to have a consistent process and to make sure that they're pulling background checks and checking references that are consistent with the position they're hiring for," said Maria Sewell, Billings Job Services employment specialist.
Mattress Land president Craig Barthel tells us in the twelve years he has run the business, he does not know of an employee committing a crime. He says no one knew Griego was a registered sex offender in New Mexico. Barthel could not comment on the exact process his company goes through for background checks because of pending investigation
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Background checks don't always mean criminal checks either.
"Basically character references," Sewell explained. "It's basically a way for an employer to know that they're hiring the right person for the right job."
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Widow of Scottish asbestos victim seeks out husband's former colleaguesThe widow of a former Scottish university laboratory research technician who reportedly passed away as a result of malignant mesothelioma is encouraging her husband's former colleagues to come forward with evidence to help aid her battle for asbestos compensation.
According to Herald Scotland, Robert Burns died of mesothelioma at the age of 75 in September 2010 after he was allegedly exposed to asbestos at a number of universities where he was employed between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Burns' work reportedly called for him to help make equipment that was used in students' classroom projects, the news source said. Burns' wife, Jane, who is seeking asbestos compensation from the parties allegedly responsible for the exposure, called on anyone with additional information to speak up and assist the investigation.
"I hope that anyone with any information about the working conditions in the university labs or who knew and worked with Robert will get in touch," she told the Herald.
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Delays and travel chaos continue as services resume
Rail delays and travel chaos continue although many services are returning to normal.
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- On South West Trains, 90% of routes are now open, although with a reduced level of service.
- London Midland said services in and out of London Euston were operating with delays of up to 30 minutes.
- Northern, First TransPennine Express, Scotrail and Merseyrail were all reporting normal service.
- A reduced timetable is in place for Southern services
- There are delays of up to 60 minutes for the rest of the day on Chiltern
- Virgin Trains said a full service was being run for the rest of the day, but delays are possible.
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STAR readers have helped crown medics from the rheumatology department of Whiston and St Helens hospitals with this year's People's Choice Award.
The devoted team collected the honour at the hospitals' annual staff awards presentation evening in Liverpool.
Former Brookside actor Philip Olivier was on hand to deliver the prize.
The St Helens Star People's Choice Award gives readers the opportunity to reward the hard work of local hospital staff by nominating the individual or team who went the extra mile with treatment or service.
The rheumatology team was nominated by readers for providing first class care for patients with acute and chronic long term conditions – standards that have earned this team of experts international recognition.
Highly commended in the category was Helen Thornton, a diabetic nurse specialist, whose passion, innovation and dedication earned praise.
She was joined by the Lilac Centre team, who often go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure patients being treated for cancer are given as much care and support as possible.
Also on the evening, one lucky member of staff, porter Joseph O'Flaherty, walked away with the keys to a new Ford Fiesta, generously donated by Polar Ford St Helens, Runcorn, and Warrington.
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A CHALLENGING 12 day fundraising walk for the MS Society UK is set to raise thousands to go towards a cure for the illness.
The 'Wainwright's Coast2Coast MS Walkroute' starts from St Bees on Saturday August 30 and concludes at Robin Hood's Bay on Thursday September 11.
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Second arrest in connection with rape of 11-year-old schoolgirl in Jubilee Park in Lower Edmonton
6:41am Tuesday 27th November 2012 in News By Hermione Wright
A second man has been arrested in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl in a park on Friday.
The 18-year-old man was arrested at an address in Edmonton last night on suspicion of raping the girl in Jubilee Park in Lower Edmonton. He was taken to a north east London police station.
A 26-year-old man was arrested yesterday and has been bailed until late December while police investigate.
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PASCO, Wash. - Hundreds of students from Mid-Columbia and Umatilla school districts spent the day mingling with best-selling authors. More than 900 students and 16 authors participated in the annual "Cavalcade of Authors" held at Columbia Basin College.
Students were required to read at least one book by four different authors before attending the writing conference. The workshop included writing sessions, Q&A's and autographs by the authors.
Elena Rangel, 9th grader at Chiawana High School, expressed how surreal it was actually meeting the authors.
"They're known all around the world for their books and I actually get to go home and say I met an author. If someone's reading that book, [I can say], 'I've met that author.' That's so cool!," said Rangel.
The "Cavalcade of Authors" continues to see growth. Within 5 years, participation has increased from 2 schools, in the first year, to 23 schools this year.
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The mother of two young boys enjoys sharing her love of science with children.
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LUDOWICI - The Long County Board of Education decided at its October meeting, to nix the idea of building a combined elementary/middle school and instead is looking at the possibility of building a new high school.
During its monthly meeting, the Liberty County Board of Education approved a new, large-scale data warehousing computer system for tracking and analyzing students' standardized test scores and performances. The system costs just under $45,000, which includes the initial installment and the first year of data collection. According to the board's projected budget, the data warehouse will cost around $20,000 a year to maintain.
Midway Middle School will have a math and science family fun night, "The Amazing Math & Science Race," on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Donna Smith's second-grade class from
Button Gwinnett Elementary and Snelson-Golden Middle School both made Adequate Yearly Progress standards, the nationwide education evaluation system part of the No Child Left Behind Act, after a re-evaluation at the end of the summer session.
SAVANNAH - Thomas Z. Jones, who has led the transformation of Armstrong Atlantic State University from a quiet commuter campus of 5,400 students to a residential university of more than 7,000 students, has announced that he will leave his post as president of AASU effective June 30.
The corporate office for Keep America Beautiful announced a Liberty County school has ranked nationally in the 2008 Return the Warmth Program. First United Methodist Pre-K and Kindergarten placed 19th in the national plastics recycling effort, with approximately 1,000 schools competing in the nation.
Live Oak Public Libraries programs at the Liberty Branch Library and Midway-Riceboro Branch Library during October include:
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. - Dollar General recently announced that Bradwell Institute in Hinesville has been awarded a $1,881 back-to-school grant.
It was nearly a year ago when Heather Brancato and a friend volunteered their time and skills to paint murals on the walls of Helen's Haven, a counseling service for children that serves the Atlantic Judicial Circuit.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released a Web site that tracks, down more than $14 billion in spending throughout Georgia's 180 school systems and more than 2,000 schools.
Elizabeth Pirkle, daughter of Bob and Laura Pirkle, was elected student council president for 2008-09 at Savannah Country Day School. The president is voted on by all of the school's students.
Smiley Elementary School held a "Goodies for Grandparents Day" Friday, in honor of National Grandparents Day, which was Sept. 7. The day kicked off as Principal David Edwards welcomed a packed gymnasium at Smiley.
ATLANTA -- Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says her two children were "pretty nervous" for her when she appeared on the Fox television program "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?"
ATLANTA -- Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says her two children were "pretty nervous" for her when she appeared on the Fox television program "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?"
The newly formed Liberty County Association for Gifted Children met Tuesday to inform parents about the new program.
The United States Achievement Academy recently announced that Tia Ayana Gonzalez of Hinesville has been recognized as a student of excellence in science.
The Liberty County School System, through the teaching and learning department, will offer Focused Learning After School Hours (FLASH) courses for all teachers beginning this month. One-hour FLASH courses, held on announced days, will provide resources, tools and take-away items for the teachers' toolkits. For each 10 FLASH courses completed, educators will earn one Professional Learning Unit.
For the past 15 years, the Liberty County School System has contracted the Student Transition and Recovery Program as a means for discipline and behavior intervention.
James Long of Ludowici has won of the Interstate Resources Scholarship Program sponsored by Interstate Resources, Inc.
The Long County Recreation Department held its annual Back-to-School Bash on last Saturday, and according to Randy Simmons, this year's turnout was one of the largest since the event's inception.
The Liberty County Chamber of Commerce will put on the Progress Through People Luncheon at noon Thursday, Aug 21, at the Performing Arts Center in Flemington.
Though Coastal Georgia's summer weather is far from over, summer vacation officially ended for Liberty County School System students Wednesday.
SAVANNAH - Armstrong State University recently was named a Yellow Ribbon Program school in recognition of its support for veterans and active-duty military students.
The Liberty County School System's transportation department hosted its first back-to-school barbecue luncheon Monday as a show of support for district bus drivers.
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If the FDA gives its permission, ophthalmologists may be on their way to stopping and even reversing age-related macular degeneration with an implantable mini-telescope. Developed by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, it works with the eye's cornea making the retinal image larger. The scope consists of a 4.4 x 3.6 mm glass cylinder with wide-angle micro-optics to produce telephoto images. Currently about 1.75 million Americans suffer from the disease and the prediction by NIH's National Eye Institute is that it will almost double by 2020 because of all the baby boomers that will be aging in the next 2 decades.
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When the San Francisco 49ers saw the clock reach zero on Sunday afternoon for a victory over the Detroit Lions, head coach Jim Harbaugh enjoyed an exuberant celebration that included dancing and jumping across the middle of the field. It ended with a hand shake, more of a slap, with Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, which didn't sit well with the coach. That led Schwartz to run after Harbaugh once he left the immediate area. Schwartz had to be held back to end the confrontation.
After the game, Harbaugh told reporters that he gave Schwartz "too hard" of a handshake, but Schwartz is also known for his excessive celebrations. According to Schwartz, Harbaugh shoved him out of the way and cursed at him, but there's no way to verify the validity of his comment.
The NFL will certainly look into this situation and possibly fine Schwartz for the altercation, but this would likely be a far bigger story if it happened between two players.
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George Takei reached the final this evening but eventually came a very respectable 3rd in the UK reality show. The man was a joy to watch over the last 3 weeks. He came accross as a man of integrity,charm and warmth. He was also very funny indeed.
all the other contestants (and the British public) loved him especially the eventual winner joe swash who says he is now a life long friend. he called him 'gorgeous George' throughout!!
for a man of 71 to be subject to that gruelling period of time doing challenges, horrible tasks and trials was amazing. well done Mr Takei, live long and prosper.
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Over seven years, the Boston String Quartet has vibrated strings in collaboration with artists such as John Mayer and the Boston Ballet, stirred the air molecules at Symphony Hall and PBS, and performed by invitation for former President George H.W. Bush. With this deal, eighth-note connoisseurs can wrap their eardrums around the quartet's dulcet tones as they present "Xibus," an evening of contemporary and classical that marks the zenith of a two-day workshop collaborating with Finneytown High School orchestra students. Over the course of the evening program, the quartet and the students will cajole their chordophones into ringing out in harmonious arrangements of music by Carlos Santana, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Bill Gates's new Viking-punk band, as well as performing original compositions by members of Boston String Quartet.
Music director Lewis Buckley headed the U.S. Coast Guard band and conducted several prominent New England symphonies before landing at the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, which has been tickling eardrums with woodwind, brass, and percussion concerts since 1971. "An ACB Preview" celebrates the 75-member symphony's invitation to play at the 2012 annual conference of the Association of Concert Bands with a sampling of the program they'll perform for a national audience. The concert kicks off with Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, which recasts six English folk songs as lush, wind-powered melodies free of interrupting Robin Hoods. Principal oboist Elana Lorance takes charge in James Kessler's Hudson River Rhapsody and a new transcription of Gershwin's An American in Paris ends the evening with Gallic-via-Broadway aplomb. Starting at 1:30 p.m., a preconcert talk by maestro Buckley unveils some of the music's hidden features and lets uncertain ears nuzzle the score.
Music connoisseurs and building buffs regard Symphony Hall as one of the finest concert halls in the world. Sixteen replicas of Greek and Roman statues line the walls, and its airy space lends a majestic resonance to each string pluck and unexpected sneeze. Opened in 1900, Symphony Hall was the first auditorium designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustic principle, sloping inward to help focus the sound of the orchestra's stirring string renditions.
Devoted exclusively to performing and recording new orchestral music, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project aims to rebuild the aural bridge between audiences and composers with passionate concert experiences. On January 27, BMOP showcases the works of five different composers, amassing a talented quintet of revered, modern-day soloists to mesmerize ears with incongruous sounds. The world premier of Eric Chasalow's horn concerto bares the brassy measures of French hornist Bruno Schneider, and Air: Concerto for Theremin uncannily mimics human voices with an electronic instrument that refuses to pause for breaths or answer text messages in between verses.
New Bedford Festival Theatre is devoted to musicals. Since 1990, they have entertained over 200,000 audience members with Broadway-style shows that span the genre's past and present. Staples such as Cats and The Producers balance lesser-known works such as La Cage aux Folles and The Producers 2: Playbill of Revenge to enrich the cultural knowledge of the public. And their efforts have not gone in vain. The New England Theatre Conference awarded New Bedford Festival Theatre the Moss Hart Award for its performances of Les Misérables and Hairspray.


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"Guess what, Homey? There's going to be twice as much love in this house as there is now!" – Marge Simpson
"We're gonna start doing it in the morning?" – Homer Simpson
"No." – Marge Simpson
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"Thanks, Zombie Simpsons!" – The Cruise Industry
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"Don't forget to check out the galley. That's real shag carpeting!" – Captain McAllister
The title of yesterday's episode, "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again", is a reference to a famous 1996 David Foster Wallace article for Harper's, in which he embarked on a giant luxury liner to experience the narrow, selfish, and vapid thinking that underlies the modern cruise industry (as well as the bland and mostly uninteresting people who think of it as the height of fun). It's an enjoyably cruel piece of writing (it was later used as the headline piece to a book length collection of essays he published), and you can read the whole thing in PDF format. The subtitle is "On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise", and the main point is that cruise vacations are mercilessly inhuman.
Wallace held the cruise industry in utter contempt, and not without cause. It's environmentally disastrous, ethically compromised, and generally unpleasant on anything deeper than a surface level. The spectacular sinking of the Costa Concordia in January is only the most high profile of the industry's problems. Two years ago, they kept sending tourists to their fenced in resorts in Haiti while people were dying in earthquake rubble. Crew members, who work long and extremely stressful hours, routinely disappear without a trace. And just a few weeks ago, two fishermen died on their disabled boat when a cruise ship failed to rescue them even though the crew had been alerted by passengers to their presence. In other words, this is an industry that places a higher priority on cheesy lounge acts and shuffleboard than it does on human life, and it is ripe for parody and satire.
David Foster Wallace knew that the only way you could say something honest or interesting about cruise ships was by reveling in the ugliness that props up that gleaming facade of stark white hulls and perpetually happy people. Zombie Simpsons borrowed his title, and then did the opposite, making their cruise out to be so awesome and perfect that they actually wrote a song about how awesome and perfect it is. I realize it's not their job to do exposes on irresponsible corporate behavior, but by sticking with such a sunny perspective they limited themselves to only the safest and most tame kinds of comedy (when they were bothering to attempt humor at all).
Of course, the episode did eventually descend into post apocalyptic chaos (and I thought we were done with the "Outlands"), but only after acting as an unpaid and unquestioning endorsement for most of its run time (and concluding that the only way to have a bad time on a cruise is to take one with Bart Simpson). And, it goes almost without saying, no part of the episode made the least bit of sense, from the completely unnecessary (and exposition filled) scenes where the family paid for the vacation, to Bart's panic after the song, to the immediate descent of the ship into Mad Max 4: The Wet Warrior, to a quick sketch or two in Antarctica. Along the way, characters wander in and out of scenes for no discernable reason, the plot swings wildly from one idea to another, and most of the stabs at being funny are paint-by-number bricks like this:
Lisa: It's so diverse! I've died and gone to a PBS kids show.
[Kids in wheelchairs roll up out of nowhere.]
And this:
Marge: You'll never guess how many bath towels they gave us. Enough!
Bart: And there's a DVD library of movies that haven't been released yet! Whoa. Whoa.
The episode wasn't completely without its charms, "Magazine Hater" magazine is pretty clever, and the cult of the lifeguard isn't a terrible idea. But, again and as usual, the stuff that has a little bit of thought to it is drowned in a sea of garbage that can't rise to the level of being semi-clever or even coherent. When this is your ending . . .
. . . the ship has irreversibly foundered.
Anyway, the numbers are in and they continue to be historically bad. Only 5.00 million viewers sat through last night's infomercial for Carnival and company before hitting up the buffet. That ties last year's "The Great Simpsina" for the fourth lowest number ever. The post-New Year's episodes of Season 22 generally hovered around six million viewers. Season 23 is down to five million, and routinely fails to get even that many.
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"The Blunder Years" Makes Baby Jesus Cry
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"When are we going to get to my first word?" – Lisa Simpson
"Your what what?" – Homer Simpson
"My first word!" – Lisa Simpson
"Ah, you don't want to hear that story. I know, I'll tell you about the time I got locked in the bank vault with Mr. Mooney. It was another one of my harebrained schemes." – Homer Simpson
"Dad!" – Lisa Simpson
"Wait a minute, that was The Lucy Show!" – Homer Simpson
I like to point out how they frequently ignore the episode during a lot of these Zombie Simpsons commentaries, but for the actual listener it's maybe the best part. Toward the end of this one, Al Jean tells some stories about his time writing for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, and it's both funny and interesting. The episode flat lined well before he got off on this tangent, so nothing of value was lost.
Nine people on this one, including Carolyn Omine as the lone woman.
0:30 – During the introduction, Jean mentions that he wasn't the show runner yet, but was lurking. This leads to some pointless banter between him and Scully.
1:40 – The original title here was "Smithers' father's apparent murder".
2:40 – Mike Scully's in a different room because he's working on Parks & Recreation.
3:00 – Jean finally starts talking about the episode by helpfully informing us that the paper towel guy "Burly" is a parody of "Brawny".
3:30 – Paul Newman called in his part over the phone from a movie he was working on.
4:10 – Long silence.
4:20 – Tragedy of tragedies, they changed the real "Brawny" logo a year after this. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart have broken into Flanders house for some reason.
5:10 – After much paper towel discussion, someone mentions that he'd lost the DVD they sent him of this episode so he tried to watch it on-line on some website, but a sex quiz came up after it started playing.
5:40 – Jean tries again to bring up the show, but instead of talking about what's actually going on, which is boring, he opts to talk about how when they first did their flashbacks to the 1970s Brad Bird advised against it. He said they tie themselves in knots if the show ran ten years. Everyone laughs.
6:20 – Harry Shearer's wife Judith Owen does the singing here, and they take a minute to plug her albums.
6:40 – This was the first time they'd used the Pimento Grove as a setting since the early seasons, so they had to update the look.
7:00 – Quick story about how Hank Azaria got to meet Jerry Lewis and it was the rare case where the celebrity lives up to your expectations.
7:20 – Now they're talking about all the old characters who have portraits on the walls in the background.
7:30 – Jean recalls a time Mike Reiss got invited on stage by a hypnotist, and the guy leaned into Reiss and whisper yelled "Just do what I say!". I can't do Jean's delivery credit, but he told it really well. Everyone on the commentary laughed and so did I.
8:30 – After a brief discussion of Smithers foreshadowing Act 3, there's a pause before they pick up talking about the guy who drew a lot of this. He's working in video games now.
9:00 – Homer's just screaming now. Jean recalls that it got a big laugh at the table. I'll bet it did.
9:15 – Points for consistency, they're cracking up as Homer continues to scream.
9:40 – See above comment.
10:20 – After a long silence, Jean mentions that while he's sure most people know this, the title is a play on The Wonder Years.
10:45 – After a quick flashback to Homer falling down the cliff in "Bart the Daredevil", they mention that they kept the clip short because they didn't want people to think it was about to turn into a clip show.
12:00 – Not much commenting going on other than the occasional desultory laugh.
12:20 – Jean enjoys the television absurdity of how everyone remembers flashbacks even though they've never remembered it in any other episode.
12:30 – They compliment a joke that's coming up, and then nobody laughs at it when it happens. Weird.
13:30 – Long silence.
13:40 – Silence broken when someone asks if anyone had any good procrastinations when they were supposed to be writing this episode. No one responds and it's back to silence.
14:10 – General discussion of who was the first one to come up with the idea of someone remembering things and then narrating over them.
14:30 – Finally talking about the episode again, flashback Homer just found a corpse and they're recalling the debate over how gruesome to make it.
15:20 – Ian Maxtone-Graham's dad writes books about ocean liners. That fact came up after a good thirty seconds of "huh?" type conversation.
16:10 – Talking about how they should bring "Mesmerino" back. Why would they do that?
16:20 – Someone asks Jean if he ever wrote a Carnac the Magnificent bit when he was writing for Johnny Carson. Jean recalls that the best one they ever wrote they sold to Alf: The answer is "St. Elsewhere" and the question is "What is the message on Mother Teresa's answering machine?". Another answer was "Red Square", and the question was "What's that spot on Gorbachev's head?", which they accidentally used twice and didn't realize it.
17:05 – Still talking about Carson. This is far more interesting than the episode, which is now looking for a body. I would happily listen to Al Jean talk about The Tonight Show for at least an hour.
18:00 – Complimenting themselves for bringing back the ultra absorbent towels from the beginning to drain the water out of the basin to find the skeleton.
18:30 – A lot of compliments for the set here, from the shape of the skull that Bart apparently brought with them to the trap door under the bear in Burns' office.
19:10 – Discussing the difficulty of getting mystery stories right, specifically mentioning "Who Shot Mr. Burns", which seems to me to be the first mystery. Huh. Oh, and Burns is now conveniently showing them a movie in his office, but no one's talking about that.
19:30 – Much laughter as they joke about how they were originally going to show this as security camera footage, but then didn't. As usual, no one is talking about what's going on in the episode.
20:30 – Here's an interesting tidbit, they have three models for 1970s Burns that they use.
21:30 – Hank Azaria improvised a lot of the filler at the end, and was apparently very happy with it.
22:10 – As the credits roll, they're discussing an alternate ending that didn't make it where Homer kept screaming.
22:30 – And we close with Homer screaming over the 20th Century FOX logo. They laugh.
Crazy Noises: Lisa's First Word
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"In a moment, we'll look at the courageous Korean gymnast Kim Huyang, who made a perfect dismount on what was later revealed to be a broken leg." – Olympics Announcer
In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we're keeping up our Crazy Noises series for this brief, amazing interruption of Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we've elected to use the technology that brought the word "emoticon" to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have a really good reason why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (surprisingly enough not on "fjord").
The discussion below completes our usual trio of posts (Ratings FAIL, Compare & Contrast, Crazy Noises) after a new episode airs. And while it's been enjoyable pretending that "Lisa's First Word" was the greatest Zombie Simpsons episode ever, tomorrow it's back to our regularly scheduled programming of looking at the innumerable ways Zombie Simpsons falls short of its predecessor. A special thanks goes out to our old friend Friz for this comment and to this anonymous commenter for the two notes that finally got my rusty brain in gear on this. Though I wish I'd thought of it Sunday afternoon instead of Sunday night, that would've been a fun fake preview to write.
But I don't think this whole thing was just filler, or even a belated and overly long April Fools prank. The fact that FOX broadcast a great episode at 8pm on Sunday for the first time in forever was useful because it gave us an opportunity to subject a genuine classic to the same kind of minute scrutiny that we apply to Zombie Simpsons. We're not exactly neutral observers, so this was hardly a controlled experiment, but picking through "Lisa's First Word" closer than I ever have before was an interesting exercise nevertheless.
On some level, it's not at all surprising that a show as carefully crafted as The Simpsons would stand up to close inspection. After all, these are episodes that are notorious for containing jokes, asides and references that people don't catch even after multiple viewings. But until I wrote that Compare & Contrast post yesterday, I'd never noticed the way "Lisa's First Word" kept bringing up its main plot themes throughout the course of the episode. Oh sure, I saw it happen every time I watched it, but the structure of it was never something I'd actively considered.
More broadly, this applies to just about any episode. With The Simpsons, each episode gets better the more you think about it. Picking up new subtleties and catching things you missed is part of the fun. Zombie Simpsons works the other way, it gets less entertaining the more you consider it. Cheap jokes get worse when repeated, plot kludges get less defensible, and all the problems and inconsistencies that were glossed over the first time become more and more pronounced.
[We thought we had Dave this week, but he managed to escape again. I should probably up the bounty on his head.]
Charlie Sweatpants: Okay then, let's get going.
Mad Jon: I watched the broadcast version, but there was nothing different than the normal episode. I was figuring on a shout out to E. Taylor, at least more than the special guest voice credit.
Charlie Sweatpants: Nothing?
Mad Jon: Nothing. Not a note, recognition of gratitude, or extra anything.
Charlie Sweatpants: That might have required a production assistant to spend ten minutes producing something. Hardly worth it.
Mad Jon: Very true.
Someone will have to fire that agent.
Charlie Sweatpants: I'm sure there are things wrong with this episode, in that there are perhaps a few lines here or there that might have been tweaked or delivered differently to make me laugh harder, but at this level that's like complaining that one of those mirrors NASA uses to see stuff that's 9 billion years old isn't smooth enough. If it was the size of the Earth the biggest bump would be a couple of centimeters, and criticizing that is nitpicking of a scale even I can't condone.
Mad Jon: I agree. However, after watching it, including all commercials just for the hell of it, I couldn't help but think what it would have been like in HD. Not that I want it in HD, but more along the lines of "What if this WAS a new episode."
My conclusion is that most of the Zombie Horde wouldn't care for it.
Charlie Sweatpants: Animation wise, I assume.
Mad Jon: Push aside the cultural references, as they were at least 19 years old, even though I assume most of them were timeless enough, but the joke style wouldn't have gone over.
Charlie Sweatpants: How do you mean?
When I put the DVD versions up on my big screen the blood dripping on "I'll Be Back" looks fantastic.
Mad Jon: No, push that aside too. I am talking about what you and I would consider jokes. Think of the simple humor, based on a family barely stringing it together, with subtle, situational jokes. Now think of trying that on someone who has been conditioned to laugh at overtly physical comedy and random scene changes. I mean come on, this episode really REALLY has continuity. People who watch the Zombie episodes would undergo culture shock similar to a WWII vet who hid in a cave for 30 years.
Not that I give a rats ass about that. I just happened to be thinking about it.
Charlie Sweatpants: Just because someone has been raised on gruel doesn't mean they can't appreciate steak and potatoes.
Mad Jon: I know, but this is just such a style change. It's a great style change, and I know there are people who live with the Zombie episodes that love the real Simpsons, but I can't believe that the people who openly support Zombie Simpsons could get down with the good stuff.
There are lots of people who don't like steak.
And I would imagine that I could find a larger ratio of them at a vegetarian buffet than I could at Golden Corral.
Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah, but it's not like this episode lacks for physical comedy. Between Itchy & Scratchy, Sideshow Bob nearly getting decapitated, the supine Swede . . . there's more people getting hurt in this episode than in most Zombie Simpsons.
There's that other stuff going on around it, but if you were just watching for that this episode has you covered.
Mad Jon: Agreed, but the tone is so different. Ok, I don't want to argue with you on this point. It is distracting us from the episode, and it was just something I was thinking about when I should have been paying attention to my sales manager this morning.
Charlie Sweatpants: Fair enough. How about a lighting round? Bonus points for the smallest number of words you use to describe it. I'll go first.
The clown bed.
Mad Jon: Spit in every 50th burger.
Charlie Sweatpants: Fretful mother magazine.
Mad Jon: Oh damn you.
Charlie Sweatpants: Damn you, I was going to say "Bart's first word", but yours is shorter.
Okay then, "Rendering Plant".
Mad Jon: I was also thinking, "Shove-it" or "David Hasselhoff"
Charlie Sweatpants: Crooked 50s game show.
Mad Jon: Just came on the market.
Charlie Sweatpants: I could use a TV tray.
Mad Jon: You smell that?
Charlie Sweatpants: Shaving their backs 9,000 miles away.
Mad Jon: Iron helps us play
Charlie Sweatpants: Going to start doing it in the morning?
Mad Jon: Gotch'er wallet
Charlie Sweatpants: Look, a fjord.
Damn it, wrong episode.
Mad Jon: Maggie related, but yes, wrong one.
Although you almost got me to say "Wow, Two!"
You're Funny!
Charlie Sweatpants: That's real shag carpeting!
Mad Jon: Who's cuter now?
Charlie Sweatpants: You personally stand to lose forty-four million dollars.
Mad Jon: It's right there!
Charlie Sweatpants: No wonder he won Minnesota.
Mad Jon: He'll tire himself out
Charlie Sweatpants: Hibbert's beaded dreads.
Mad Jon: Homer's living room vision
Charlie Sweatpants: The way only one of Lisa's eyes open after Patty kisses her.
Mad Jon: Love that spout medley
Charlie Sweatpants: You don't have a Cousin Frank.
Mad Jon: Since I'm returning your second born
Charlie Sweatpants: I started, so you get last go, but . . .
"Takes one to know one." "Swish!"
Mad Jon: Oh jeez, that's a topper. but….
Girls just wanna have fun.
Charlie Sweatpants: The professor was right, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. Well played, sir.
Mad Jon: It's actually kind of frightening how non-difficult that was. I am seriously considering cutting back the nights I go to bed with a Simpsons DVD on 'play all'.
Charlie Sweatpants: I see no problem with it.
Mad Jon: Yeah, that seems like an empty promise.
Charlie Sweatpants: I don't think there's much left to be said. The world will little note, nor long remember and all that.
Mad Jon: Yeah, I don't know what else to say, except what a rare deal this is, eh? Would you have ever imagined FOX doing this kind of thing? I mean, especially without any real acknowledgement for why they were doing it.
"Dad-dy" could have been anyone, it just happened to be someone famous who died.
Charlie Sweatpants: They did the same when Michael Jackson died, but that was in the summer when nobody gives a shit anyway.
Mad Jon: Yes well, this is first run time baby, and there were black bars on the sides of my screen.
Compare & Contrast: Flashback History
Tags: And Maggie Makes Three, Lisa's First Word
"Aw, it's a boy, and what a boy!" – Homer Simpson
"Uh, that's the umbilical cord. It's a girl." – Dr. Hibbert
Continuing on yesterday's theme of the astonishingly excellent episode that aired on Sunday, this week's Compare & Contrast is highly abnormal. Instead of highlighting how Zombie Simpsons takes ideas that have already been done and manages to make them worse in every possible way, this week's post gets to stack up two episodes that take equal care with their stories, characters and jokes. Because while the concepts here are similar, nothing is repeated and everything ties together.
Unlike more recent flashback episodes, "Lisa's First Word" never resorted to the rampant retconning of Season 19's "That 90s Show" or the bizarre multi-time frame plots of Season 20's "Dangerous Curves". Instead, like "And Maggie Makes Three" before it, it told a simple story about kids changing Marge and Homer's life, and told it well.
They're being funny, but they're also trusting the audience to remember this.
In the very first flashback scene we see a young (and not yet bald) Homer greeted after a day at the power plant by toddler Bart. Their first interaction, a mere two minutes into the episode, sets up a theme that will continue throughout: the flat refusal of Homer's kids to call him "Daddy". Bart does it here, and again when they arrive at their new home; and Lisa pulls the same stunt at the end. What's so great about it is that none of these occasions are treated the least bit seriously. At the opening we see Bart, still in diapers, deliberately taunt Homer. In the middle Bart tells Homer that their new home "sucks"; Homer asks him not to use that word, but to call him "Daddy". At the end, Lisa successfully pronounces "David Hasselhoff", but is utterly bewildered by her father's request that he be called anything but "Homer". Each one builds on the others, Homer's mounting frustration definitely included, which makes the finale, when Maggie does call him "Daddy", both sweet and funny. Sweet because it happened, funny because Homer wasn't there to hear it.
Homer closed the door seconds too soon, and an episode's worth of buildup pays off.
The other theme of the episode is Bart's increasingly hostile attitude toward his new sibling. After initially thinking the baby might be useful for such things as deflecting blame and stunt ramps, Bart quickly realizes that a second child means less attention for him. Once again, this is established early and gradually. After Bart's unrealistic expectations about using the baby to sop up spills, he loses the apartment he called home, his mother has less patience for his usual antics, and he's forced from his reassuring crib into the hilariously nightmarish clown bed. No one incident is invoked as a clumsy turning point as in so many Zombie Simpsons episodes, instead a number of indignities accumulate to make Bart hate Lisa.
But Bart's feelings toward his new sister never cross the line into genuine malice or danger. Even when he's got the scissors out, the show never implies that he's about to actually hurt her. Quite the opposite, in another of the brilliant little plot folds, Lisa takes Bart's antics toward her as play (note her pleased giggle when he puts her in the mailbox). That affection is what ultimately resolves the flashback plot, which in turn sets up the resolution for the overarching plot of Maggie's first word. It's a story within a story, and both are seamless and smooth, which means none of the humor ever feels out of place or out of left field.
Compare that to the similarly life changing events of "And Maggie Makes Three" and you'll see the same type of nested, mutually reinforcing stories at work. That episode opens with some enforced family time leading to questions about why there are no pictures of Maggie in the photo album. The purpose of the flashback is to explain the lack of pictures, but that concept is quickly subsumed (though never forgotten) in the larger tale of how Maggie came to be.
Note Maggie's pained and disappointed expression as she looks at Homer. It's there for a reason.
As the flashback opens, we see Homer emerging from the events of "I Married Marge" (well, after his awesome Die Hard fantasy). In that episode, he had to put the welfare of his wife and child ahead of his own. No more eating cookie dough for dinner for him. By the events of "And Maggie Makes Three", Homer's years of "mind numbing, back breaking labor" have let him claw his way out of debt, which allows him to, for a brief moment, put his own happiness once more in the forefront of his life. Along the way, the theme of Homer ignoring Maggie (i.e. having no pictures of her) is constantly reinforced, both within the flashback (Homer's near pathological inability to understand that Marge is pregnant), and back in the present (Homer nearly sitting on her).
As the story progresses, the coming of his third child spoils Homer's brief "waking coma" reverie, and he's initially unhappy. He still does what he has to do, including going back to Mr. Burns, literally on his hands and knees, but he doesn't like it. Just as with Bart's resentment of Lisa, however, Homer's resentment of the yet to be born Maggie is played entirely for laughs. There's the way he cracks pathetically less than ten seconds after vowing to bear his burdens alone. Then there's his resigned attitude towards the birth of "another mouth", which evaporates the instant he lays eyes on his new daughter. Even in that moment, as "awwwww" worthy as any in the history of television, sentiment is never allowed to dominate the proceedings. Homer's wildly inaccurate first impression of the umbilical cord sees to that.
But having wrapped up the flashback plot, the story still hasn't resolved the first issue: the missing pictures of Maggie. And there, just as in "Lisa's First Word", the two stories come together right as the credits roll. There are no pictures of Maggie because the circumstances of her birth, and Mr. Burns' "special demotivational plaque", mean that those pictures are always needed at the power plant, the place Homer crawled back for a girl that, at the time, he had never seen.
When the job's done right, there's no need for schlock sentiment, the real kind will appear on its own.
Still Got the Magic
Tags: Lisa's First Word, The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show
"It's back to the basics, classic Itchy & Scratchy!" – Bart Simpson
"We should thank our lucky stars they're still putting out a program of this caliber after so many years." – Lisa Simpson
From time to time, people ask us what we would do if Zombie Simpsons ever broadcast a good episode. Would we kick it just because it's Zombie Simpsons, or are we open minded enough to say that, yeah, even here in 2011 the show can still be good? Well, I'm here to tell you that last night's episode on FOX was outstanding from end to end, with a great story, fantastic writing, and more quotable lines than we usually see in a whole season of Zombie Simpsons. Let it never be said that we at the Dead Homer Society doesn't know quality television when we see it.
"Lisa's First Word" was another flashback episode, in this case to the events surrounding Lisa's birth during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. As you'd expect, there were a lot of jokes at the expense of the 80s and 80s culture, but it never felt like a "destination" episode where they go someplace and just make a string of unrelated gags about it. Instead we got delightfully silly period pieces, such as having the immigrant kids' stickball game be played in a video arcade instead of the street, and quick, knowing laughs at everything from David Hasselhoff and Carl Lewis to Walter Mondale, Cyndi Lauper and M*A*S*H.
The story itself was just as great. Seeing how Lisa was born, how Homer met Flanders, and even how the Simpson family came to live on Evergreen Terrace is the kind of elegant, revealing and downright funny fan service that has been so sorely lacking in recent years. After Flanders introduces himself in a very Flanders-esque way ("The handle's Flanders, but my friends call me Ned"), Homer dislikes him immediately without any overwrought histrionics or cliched backstory ("Hi, Flanders"). And when Homer has to ask Grampa for a loan to buy a house, the show never lets the bittersweet emotion of a family transitioning from one generation to another overwhelm the fun. Not only did Grampa win the house "on a crooked 50s game show", but the touching moment when Homer invites Grampa to share their new home is used as the setup for a punchline about how quickly and callously Homer sent his father to the dreary Springfield Retirement Castle. The whole thing was fantastic from start to finish.
Anyway, the numbers are in and they are eye-poppingly awesome. "Lisa's First Word" was watched by 15.5 million U.S. households, making it the most watched episode in six years, since that one that came on right after the Super Bowl. Curiously, this excellent new episode is not available yet on Hulu.com.
There's no guarantee that they'll be able to return consistently to this stratospheric level of quality. And the description of next week's episode, in which Marge becomes obsessed with peaches, Lisa becomes a magician's assistant, and a number of famous people guest voice themselves, isn't encouraging. But if they can routinely put on something as beautifully animated (the spaghetti slurping scene was gorgeously drawn), fast paced (they covered a ton of topics in just twenty-two minutes), and laugh 'til you cry funny ("I think his name is Mother Shabubu now") as they did last night, then we'll have no choice but close up shop on this here blog because there will no longer be any need for it. Here's hoping.
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
Crazy Noises: Boy Meets Curl
Tags: Boy Meets Curl, Lisa's First Word
"Ohhh doctor! We are seconds away from the 100M Butterfly and with the East German, heh heh, women, shaving their backs 9,000 miles away, the Americans are heavy favorites." – Not Keith Jackson
In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we're bringing back our "Crazy Noises" series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we're still using this "chatroom" thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on "patriotism ").
One of the nice things about actually posting these chats is that, unlike Dave and Mad Jon, if there's something I forget to complain about I can rectify my omission by complaining about it now. And when we did this chat I forgot to complain about the "opening ceremony" thing. It goes on for a full minute and has, wait for it, two jokes. It takes Costas fifteen seconds just to set up the one note Ivan Reitman gag which then drags on for another twenty seconds. You could've kept all the jokes and gotten the whole opening ceremony scene down to ten seconds just by getting rid of the Costas exposition and not milking the "who you gonna call" thing. But then you'd be fifty seconds further away from a "whole" episode. They're so transparently desperate to fill time that they might as well just give up and install a laughtrack.
Charlie Sweatpants: Shall we commence with the curling?
Mad Jon: Ok
Charlie Sweatpants: I'll start by going out on a limb and saying that I hated this fucking episode.
Mad Jon: That may have been the worst episode I have seen in a long time. I would have to go back and check but I don't think I say that too often. I think I usually say "That episode sucks" or something.
Dave: It was undoubtedly and unrepentantly stupid, a massive waste of 23 minutes of my life.
Charlie Sweatpants: The thing that really bothered me is that this is the kind of episode that they can sometimes scrape up to almost Season 12 standards. They've got a fresh topic to mock, they have the family go somewhere, there's lots of new things.
Dave: It's the copout setup, right?
Mad Jon: I think that has been a theme for the last few episodes.
Charlie Sweatpants: And yet, all they came up with was a bunch of montages, several curling scenes that were identical and two subplots so sparse that can't even be called "B".
Mad Jon: But still, curling is terrible.
Charlie Sweatpants: Curling is like any other niche sport, it's laughable to everyone who doesn't love it. The same is true of NASCAR, ballroom dancing, and consensual sodomy.
Dave: It's hard to mock something that no one cares about, and they didn't even do a good job of it. It could've been any other sport really.
Mad Jon: I think that the only thing I thought was almost funny was when homer said "There's a winter Olympics?"
Charlie Sweatpants: The montage, or what Homer said?
Dave: Are you guys getting my messages?
Mad Jon: Because that's how I feel. I have tried to get into the winter Olympics. But each time I do I turn the TV on and see ski jump or curling round robin or sprint biathlon, and I lose any patriotism that may have been there.
Charlie Sweatpants: I got "It's hard to mock something that no one cares about, and they didn't even do a good job of it. It could've been any other sport really."
But I kind of ignored it. Don't take it personally.
Mad Jon: And the montage was what I meant, with Santa on the diving board. It was bit of visual humor.
Dave: I won't. I just got a red nastygram saying the group didn't receive my chat.
Charlie Sweatpants: I hate it when that happens.
Mad Jon: I have had a couple of those tonight.
Charlie Sweatpants: It's 2010, you'd think a company as evil and powerful as Google would've figured out a chat concept that AOL mastered in about 1994.
Dave: They've had a rough week. But I digress.
Charlie Sweatpants: I kinda liked the Santa montage until they showed him trapped under the ice, not that that wasn't kinda funny, but as soon as he broke though my first thought was "he's gonna be trapped under the ice" and then when they did it I was massively disappointed.
Mad Jon: Yeah, but I knew it would end poorly and stopped paying attention 4.5 seconds in.
Charlie Sweatpants: I mentioned this in the recap post, but I did laugh at the Swedes, "Joy is but the shadow pain casts."
Mad Jon: Oh yea, I liked the Swedes. The first time at least.
Dave: Out of context that's funny, yeah.
Mad Jon: I thought I was going to have to turn in my resignation after the Mrs. Skinner montage.
That was almost it.
Charlie Sweatpants: That whole pole vault thing? That was awful.
Dave: Angry, spiteful Agnes is funny. Regretful, bitter Agnes is not.
Mad Jon: Real terrible.
Charlie Sweatpants: You've got it there Dave, when Agnes is sad we have to pity her and pity for old women is not something I enjoy. When she's angry she's funny.
Also, their goofy reconciliation at the end was nauseating.
Dave: Would you have it any other way?
Mad Jon: I now have another reason to wish for a meteorite to hit Bob Costas.
So I got that going for me too.
Charlie Sweatpants: He's pretty small, the usually astronomical odds against that are even worse for him.
While we're on Costas, I have a bone to pick.
Mad Jon: Go for it.
Charlie Sweatpants: When he talks about how Olympic coverage feeds on tragedy, that could've been great. But it wasn't because it was exactly the kind of fake self deprecation that sports announcers actually do.
If they'd had him darkly muttering about how awesome it was that Marge was hurt it might've worked, but instead they just had him reciting the kind of pat, harmless crap that he does in real life.
I wasn't surprised, they did the exact same thing when they had Mitch Albom on, but still. Targets this show once bit into it now gums for awhile and then lets go.
Mad Jon: Now why don't you criticize the quartet on the deck of the Titanic.
Charlie Sweatpants: The violin player was half a beat behind the whole night!
Mad Jon: But in seriousness, I agree with what you just said.
Charlie Sweatpants: About the violin player?
Dave: About everything, I think.
Charlie Sweatpants: Sorry, I was going for Moe in Flanders' bomb shelter there but I forgot you can't hear me.
Mad Jon: I can't think of a sports commenter other than Keith Jackson who I don't want to not be alive any more.
And Dave was right.
Dave: People tell me that quite often.
Mad Jon: Well then you are a better man than I.
Charlie Sweatpants: While we're on the topic of weak subplots, on a scale of one to incessant, broken smoke alarm how annoying was Lisa's subplot?
Dave: Incessant with a touch of odiousness for good measure.
Charlie Sweatpants: Are we then agreed that Lisa's subplot was so boring and pointless that we have nothing to say about it?
Dave: I think you were building to something, but otherwise agreed
Mad Jon: Yeah, that was pretty bad.
Pin addiction? Really? Couldn't it have been some British Colombian delicacy or something?
Dave: Oh god, I just remembered the upside down dancing muzzle.
What did I do to deserve that?
Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah, if ever there was cry in pain for needing fifteen extra seconds, that was it.
Dave: To whom was that supposed to appeal?
Charlie Sweatpants: Though Homer's little speech about curling was awfully bad as well.
I think it was supposed to be from Henry V, but the only thing that tipped me off was the background music. What a blatant time eater.
Mad Jon: I was definitely a little more ashamed than normal while watching that bit.
Charlie Sweatpants: Though blatant time eater was more of a theme to this episode than curling.
Mad Jon: Touche salesman.
Dave: What's the opposite of shame?
Mad Jon: Pride?
Dave: No, not that far from shame.
Mad Jon: Less shame?
Dave: Yeah.
Charlie Sweatpants: The hallucination, the bobsled thing, the repetitive curling scenes, even the Three Stooges thing, everything was stretched, even by the standards of Zombie Simpsons. Those were pretty far from shame and pride. Indifference, I think, was quite close.
Mad Jon: I wish I could do my job drunk, you know, like a Zombie Simpson writer.
Charlie Sweatpants: That may be giving them too much credit. Maybe the rotisserie chicken place changed their spices.
Dave: Arsenic.
Mad Jon: "Ok guys, think of an Olympic sport to lampoon this winter. You know, like… Curling. Only more dynamic and interesting!"
"…Curling ok with you guys?"
Charlie Sweatpants: Uh-huh.
Okay, do we have anything else to say about this?
Mad Jon: I'm cashed.
Dave: Me too.
Charlie Sweatpants: Well then, I hereby declare us all gold medal winners.
Quote of the Day
Tags: Lisa's First Word
New Digs
Tags: Lisa's First Word
Quote of the Day
Take this episode, please!
Tags: Lisa's First Word, The Front, The Way We Was
"It'll be great to see the old gang again, Potsie, Ralph Malph, the Fonz." – Homer Simpson
"That was 'Happy Days'." – Marge Simpson
"No, they weren't all happy days, like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back." – Homer Simpson


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Appropriate for CKD, Dialysis, Diabetes
3 salmon fillets (3 oz. each)
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup butter (Smart Balance or other Omega–3 healthy spread)
Salt and Pepper to taste
4 thinly sliced lemons for garnish
Lemon Sauce
1 ½ cup fat free half and half
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup butter
¼ cup flour
1 tablespoon cooking sherry
1 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ cup sliced almonds for garnish on salmon fillets
In a large skillet melt butter or Omega–3 healthy spread. Once skillet is medium hot, place salmon fillets on skillet and salt and pepper to taste. Pour the lemon juice onto salmon fillets and cook until done and flaky. Keep warm.
Lemon Sauce:
In a small to medium sauce pan melt butter under medium heat. Once butter is melted and bubbling add flour to make a flour mixture (often called a roux). Slowly add the half and half, constantly stirring until it reaches a slightly thick sauce. Add sherry, lemon juice and sugar.
Place salmon fillets on individual serving plate and pour ¼ cup of lemon sauce on top of fillet. Garnish with sliced almonds and lemon slices on each plate.
Calories 490, protein 20.6 g, carbohydrates 6.5 g, fat 27 g, sodium 18.5 mg, potassium 298 mg, phosphorus 150 mg.
This recipe was submitted by Letty Moreno-Brown, MS, RD, LD.


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"A large shrimp's rostrum is harder and sharper than a ballyhoo's," says Lingo. "Trout, reds and snook eat them all the time. A ballyhoo's bill is no trouble for a hungry trout."
Lingo does not believe that only game fish of the south Texas Gulf coast consistently feed on ballyhoo. It's reasonable to assume that ballyhoo are an important forage species wherever they are plentiful. "With the amount of overlap among the species' natural ranges, I'm sure these predators feed on them elsewhere."
Ballyhoo are most plentiful beginning in early spring, with young-of-the-year 'hoos recruiting into the biomass. These fry grow quickly and are fully recruited when they reach four to six inches long. These medium-sized halfbeaks inhabit grass flats, where they remain until they attain full size at 12 to 14 inches, when they move out passes and inlets and into the open Gulf.
Local anglers commonly refer to medium-sized ballyhoo as "greenbacks" or "trout candy." They rival live shrimp as the most popular natural bait along the south Texas coast. During peak season (April to September), bait shops such as White Sands Marina sell 60 to 80 bags of five ballyhoo each every week.
Night Duty
The young-of-the-year ballyhoo school around the lights of piers and docks, where predators attack them with abandon. Trout get so involved in tearing into these juvenile halfbeaks that they will eschew every other bait. I've fished pier lights on more than one early spring night and seen solid 2- to 4-pound trout rolling and chasing 'hoos under the lights, only to have them completely ignore traditional baits such as live shrimp and finger mullet. Even the ever- popular "Speck Rig," tandem jigs with night-glow plastic tails that have accounted for literally millions of speckled trout over the years, didn't warrant a second glance. It can create the sort of situation that leaves anglers talking to themselves.
"When that happens, the only thing you can do is try to catch some of those ballyhoo," says Martinez. "Some fishermen take fine-meshed nets and try to scoop a few for bait."