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Notes for 36ABF16 (Bart 'n' Frink)

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Well that felt like kind of a nothing of an episode. Nice as it is to 
explore unusual character pairings, Bart's role in the title one didn't 
seem right at all, the plot kind of went nowhere, and the B story was a 
little amusing but somewhat obvious. I'm also not sure why this is TV-14.

I noticed that the opening credits were in tiny lettering that's 
recently been used on TOH and similar episodes (I haven't double checked 
but haven't normal episodes still kept the usual size?); maybe that's a 
subtle indication that this is a totally alternate reality after all.

And did Harry Shearer do any voices in this episode? I don't recall 
seeing any of his regular characters but maybe I missed one or he did a 
one-off voice.

Previous episode stuff
3F17: The fact that Martin's character's race(?) is "wee folk" calls to 
mind his shopping bag from "Wee World"
KABF04: College-age Frink has a Sadgasm poster (with fully identifiable 
Homer et al.) on his wall, further twisting series continuity into knots

Meta (ish) stuff (and see previous note)
The "Weird Science" soundalike parody is ever so mildly notable just 
because Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman, of course, wrote the Simpsons theme 
(which we heard for all of 12 seconds tonight).
Bart reveals that he's been essentially doing a blackboard punishment in 
the sand (of his own volition) and says that he does it "practically 
every week" (not lately, he doesn't!).

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Notes for 36ABF16 (Bart 'n' Frink) Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> - 2025-11-09 21:19 -0500
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  Re: Notes for 36ABF16 (Bart 'n' Frink) "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2025-11-19 18:16 +0000
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