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Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?)

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  Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?) Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> - 2025-11-02 20:50 -0500
    Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?) NOSPAM.Dumas.Walker@darkrealms.ca (Dumas Walker) - 2025-11-04 08:36 +0000
      Re: Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?) Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> - 2025-11-04 22:33 -0500

#8471 — Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?)

Argh. Maybe it would be good to run with the logic that if there aren't 
any more good flashback stories to tell, perhaps one shouldn't be told. 
If one is, though, it ought to be better than ridiculous nonsense with 
abysmal characterizations. Seriously, I get the idea of exaggerating 
Homer's worse tendencies for an episode, but why does the first act or 
so of this tale show past Homer not as well-meaning but inept, but as 
basically a sociopath? I really checked out with that. Too much, not 
made up for by the end (and the steady flow of ungrounded nonsense).

Previous episode stuff
3F02: Bart using dino sponges for a prank (more successfully here)
9F08: Bart's clown bed makes an appropriately timed appearance (yet no 
attention is called to its possible contribution to his problems)
CABF22: Apparently Judge Harm was making life difficult for the Simpsons 
years before they ever met her
3F03: Paul McCartney among the (very hard to read) 
second-half-of-credits lefties in the gallery

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  Re: Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?)
  By: Matt Garvey to All on Sun Nov 02 2025 20:50:47

 > Argh. Maybe it would be good to run with the logic that if there 
 >  aren't
 > any more good flashback stories to tell, perhaps one shouldn't be 
 >  told.
 > If one is, though, it ought to be better than ridiculous nonsense 
 >  with
 > abysmal characterizations. Seriously, I get the idea of exaggerating
 > Homer's worse tendencies for an episode, but why does the first act 
 >  or
 > so of this tale show past Homer not as well-meaning but inept, but 
 >  as
 > basically a sociopath? I really checked out with that. Too much, not
 > made up for by the end (and the steady flow of ungrounded nonsense).
 
The "Bart being left handed" thing is something I would have expected 
 to be
revealed during several past episodes that revolved around Flanders 
 and/or the
Leftorium -- in particular, "When Flanders Failed."
 
There were so many past opportunities for that, it almost felt like a 
 retconn.
 
Argh, indeed.

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#8474

On 11/4/2025 8:36, Dumas Walker wrote:
>    Re: Notes for 36ABF17 (Bad Boys...for Life?)
>    By: Matt Garvey to All on Sun Nov 02 2025 20:50:47
>
>   > Argh. Maybe it would be good to run with the logic that if there
>   >  aren't
>   > any more good flashback stories to tell, perhaps one shouldn't be
>   >  told.
>   > If one is, though, it ought to be better than ridiculous nonsense
>   >  with
>   > abysmal characterizations. Seriously, I get the idea of exaggerating
>   > Homer's worse tendencies for an episode, but why does the first act
>   >  or
>   > so of this tale show past Homer not as well-meaning but inept, but
>   >  as
>   > basically a sociopath? I really checked out with that. Too much, not
>   > made up for by the end (and the steady flow of ungrounded nonsense).
>
> The "Bart being left handed" thing is something I would have expected
>   to be
> revealed during several past episodes that revolved around Flanders
>   and/or the
> Leftorium -- in particular, "When Flanders Failed."
>
> There were so many past opportunities for that, it almost felt like a
>   retconn.
>
> Argh, indeed.
>

To be fair, Bart's been pretty clearly portrayed as a leftie for the 
entire series (as influenced by his creator's own sinister leanings), so 
this part was hardly a surprise or a grand reveal, though it is a little 
odd that no one mentions this in When Flanders Failed, especially when 
Homer is mocking the entire idea of the store...

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