Notes for 36ABF13 (Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother) and summer dedication

From	Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu>
Newsgroups	alt.tv.simpsons
Subject	Notes for 36ABF13 (Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother) and summer dedication
Date	2025-09-28 21:07 -0400
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Pretty not-bad episode with a focused and grounded main plot (even if 
the timeline is still stretching and stretching). A couple of pretty 
good gags, too. Lisa's new fashions also call to mind the makeover in 
3F22, firmly 90s, and on that note...

Gee, have you ever wondered what Lisa's style would have been like all 
the way back in the 90s? Of course, we don't have to, as the show was 
already on then, and as impressive as it is to be beginning the 37th 
(air) season, it does keep making maintaining a consistent timeline 
harder and harder for a show whose characters don't age! Just gotta roll 
with it, mostly, but it strikes me as fairly amusing that Dawson's Creek 
heartthrob Joshua Jackson was guest-starring on this show almost 25 
years ago (CABF01 in late 2000, in the middle of DC's run), and now here 
we are with that show fictionalized as a retro aspect of Marge's childhood.

(But one blunder I can't forgive: for all the talk of how 90s the 
knockoff version of the show was, etc., how did the one character have 
an Amelie poster on the wall when that movie's from 2001? It can't be 
from a later season, because that part was specifically stated to be 
from season 1!)


Dedications ahoy
Tonight's season premiere featured, in the usual slot, a dedication via 
caricature to Alf Clausen (or "Sheer Terror" as he liked to be called), 
series composer extraordinaire from season 2 until his retirement a 
decade or so ago. He died in late May, shortly after the season 36 
finale, and I am glad to see someone elected to save the dedication for 
a NEW episode, rather than wedge it into one of the (very few) summer 
repeats that no one watched. Of course, whether this remains on repeats, 
etc. remains to be seen. I won't hold my breath, but I salute Alf.

Another just-after-season-finale death was that of TV luminary George 
Wendt, who got a dedication in the very next summer rerun... on 7/13 
(airing 2 of 35ABF16). Not a lot of summer repeats. This was accompanied 
by a still of his cameo in 2F08. The other summer repeats had no 
dedications (but boy were they time-compressed!).


And finally - for the dozens of people still reading Usenet - a little 
alert that I have once again made some large updates to my Production 
Codes document. This round focuses mostly on expanding information on 
other studios' code systems, but has some added info on 20th Century Fox 
and its related companies too. Whether you've never taken the time to 
learn what these strange alphanumeric codes are, or you've been waiting 
for a new batch of research, pack a lunch and head to 
simpsonsarchive.com/guides/pcodes.html (happy reading)!

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