UK: General Simpsons Chat

[4 Alarm Chilli]

Has anyone here heard that season 13 is to be sown on Channel 4 from 8:30 this month! It's the best news ever!

[Drunk Barney]

Yeah, I heard. :) Great news. And to remind yourself of the good news, this is what Adam posted a while back,

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STOP PRESS. CHANNEL 4 SHOW SEASON 13 ON AUGUST 25TH!
I don't know if anyone else use it, but I recently discovered the Channel 4 Sales site, a seperate site to the main one, that provides advanced listings.

http://www.channel4sales.com/schedules/home

According to this, on 25th August, THOHXII will be shown at 8:30pm, followed by The Parent Rap at 9:00pm!
:chug: :party: :dance: :cheer: :coolspot::bang: :hump:
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:chug: :party: :dance: :cheer: :coolspot::bang: :hump:

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:D

[matt228]

EDIT: For anyone who cares, here's C4's new Friday night schedule. And this is better than having a Simpsons double bill, WHY?

8pm - The War At Home
8:30pm - Simpsons
9pm - The Law Of The Playground
9:30pm - The Best Of The Worst (new pannel show about stuff that sucks, in week 1: this schedule)
10pm - The Charlotte Church Show (just, wow...:barf:)
10:50pm - Da Ali G Show
11:20pm - Whatever ("young people" taking over a TV studio, apparently)
Does anyone else think that this would be better:
8pm - The War at Home
8:30pm - The Best of the Worst.
9pm - The Simpsons
9:30pm - The Law of the Playground
10pm - The Charlotte Church Show
10:50pm - Da Ali G Show (if it's new that is - otherwise a repeat should be AFTER the new "Whatever")
11:20pm - Whatever


To be honest, I can't see why The Charlotte Church show would need to be on at 10pm (she's not that rude...surely?)

[The lesson is never try]

hopefully the fact channel 4 is showing season 13 will get lots of new british members, theirs been a rapid decline in british members since about late last year with butters and dorkus leaving, itchay+scratchy getting banned, terrierwilliger dissapearing, rorymitch never on, amir05 also seems to have left as does rowdyroddypeeper, greased scotsman, and snrub. and until he posted in this thread i though not affilitated had left, and apart from adam joining there hasnt been anyone regualr british posters that have joined apart from Stephen McTowelie who joined recently.

[Drunk Barney]

adding to just one more plus: Matt228 is back, very good member indeed. Full of info. :D

[Adamm R)))]

I don't know if there's been any other Simpsons related products from Domino's, except the Ay Carumba Fajita or whatever it's called, but today I watched The Simpsons on Sky for the first time in ages and they were advertising fun-diddly-un-ion rings, which is a terrible pun.

And more off topic than usual here, to H_T, in case you don't read I&S Studios, did you know that you were a character in this (http://nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=57367) piece of crap.

[matt228]

adding to just one more plus: Matt228 is back, very good member indeed. Full of info. :D
Why thank you 8-) :D

[Greased Scotsman]

I haven't left, I've just been on holiday and been busy.

Anyways, I'm back now. *yay*

[H Thompson]

And more off topic than usual here, to H_T, in case you don't read I&S Studios, did you know that you were a character in this (http://nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=57367) piece of crap.

Wow that's unbelivably shit.

[Adamm R)))]

When were you best friends with Cerpin Taxt then? ;)

[H Thompson]

That's the other thing, I haven't noticed him much as a member, but when I do, I usually disagree with him.

[Billy]

Wow, I hadn't realised that the Season 8 DVD was already out in the US. Can't believe we have to wait until October yet again - what exactly is it that takes so long?

They could have at least released it in time for my 18th. Not over a week later.

[Simpsons Forever!]

Another update to the SNPP UK Listings, thanks to Wezzo, but only two pieces of new information.

HABF13 Regarding Margie airs on Sky on 8th October.
HABF16 Homer And Marge Turn A Couple Play airs on Sky on 15th October.

Both air on consecutive Sundays at the usual time of 6:30pm.

[Adamm R)))]

Good update, I'm glad we get the season wrapped up by mid-October. Now we won't be too far behind the US.

[matt228]

It is ridiculous that the S8 release is delayed from 4 September to 2 October. Can you remember how long S3 took to be released? If I remember correctly, S1 was out July 2001, S2 in August 2002, and then S3 wasn't out until October 2003.

Also: It's my birthday! :)

[Simpsons Forever!]

^Happy Birthday, Matt 228 - I'll make you a thread in City Hall! http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=57463

[matt228]

Bump.

The page fell to page 2.

Why do you think that Channel 4 have moved the new to terrestrial episodes to 8:30pm (they were on at 9pm when S12 was "new")? Seems silly to me, when S13 has the only Simpsons episode that will probably be rated 15 (Weekend at Burnsie's).

[Adamm R)))]

I don't think any of their other shows would be OK to show pre-watershed. Most likely, by the time Weekend At Burnsies airs, it could have moved due to some programs finishing. We could even start getting double bills at some point if they've got nothing else to show.

[Simpsons Forever!]

I don't know if anyone else use it, but I recently discovered the Channel 4 Sales site, a seperate site to the main one, that provides advanced listings.

http://www.channel4sales.com/schedules/home


I don't think that link is working for me. I get to the website OK, then click schedules, the page refreshes but nothing else happens. Do I need to click on something else?

[Adamm R)))]

I'm not sure if you need any plug-ins that you may not have to access it (flash player?), but halfway down the page on that link there are interactive schedules and you cycle through the day, channel and time to get listings for.

[matt228]

I don't think that link is working for me. I get to the website OK, then click schedules, the page refreshes but nothing else happens. Do I need to click on something else?
"Please try again later."

Sometimes the site's interactive programme guide is not visible as the page is being updated.

[Drunk Barney]

Why did that quote with Drunk Barney a few posts up come up with my name when I didn't say that???:-/ :-O

[Adamm R)))]

^You quoted it from me without using quote tags to Not Affiliated on the last page.

[Simpsons Forever!]

The link's still not working - I must need to download something. Thanks for the help, anyway.

[Adamm R)))]

One thing that some of you may have completely forgot (I know I did) is season 13 tonight! Enjoy THOHXII and The Parent Rap, well, as much as someone can enjoy them. :chug:

[Simpsons Forever!]

Wow - the day has finally arrived! Channel 4 are premiering Season 13 TONIGHT! I'm looking forward to re-watching Season 13 - I haven't seen these episodes for years and had mixed feelings on the season when I originally saw it. Unfortunately, I'm actually going to miss tonight's double-bill, but I'm taping them and will see them tomorrow...without the adverts!! :D

[Drunk Barney]

Wow, I forgot about that. Good news. I'm looking forward to re-watching The Parent Rap.

[Nameless]

remember its a start-time of 8:30pm, not 9:00.

[Adamm R)))]

Review of THOHXII:

First act was meh, I have no bugs with it, nothing good really. I like the second one (which passed uncut, unlike previously), very good stuff. Now I kept the first parts brief so I can rant here. Wiz Kidz is the worst, most pointless THOH segment ever, I despise it. I'm not sure if you can call it a parody, it shares nothing with Harry Potter. They could've put some effort into it to make a decent parody, but they made it so loose it was horrible. Plus it's not funny, Bart's prince is such a poor attempt at a joke. Overall, one shit, one good and one average equals average, so a straight C. Parent Rap in about 30 seconds!

[Veryjammy]

These episodes are quite embarrassing. The Jean era came at just the right time because the joke writing in these episodes is abysmal. In fact there are barely any genuine jokes in there, we're just meant to laugh at vomiting frogs or Homer yelling and crying over something inane again. I've never seen that in a Scully episode before!

[Veryjammy]

Jesus, did Homer just throw a cinder block at the judge? *shudder*

[Adamm R)))]

The Parent Rap sucked as usual. Little scraps of horrible ideas joined together with all the Scully staples. Too many pain gags, a silly resolution, childish jokes (although I liked "hula out of them!"). D+

[Nameless]

nothing looks to be cut, not that i expected anything to be.

THOHXII - D
The Parent Rap - D+

A great start!

[Adamm R)))]

I just can't wait for Homer The Moe next week now! And I just saw a trailer for The Best Of The Worst. Looks shit, but I'll probably check it out.

[Billy]

I was watching these thinking "Wait, what? I thought Series 13 was meant to be an improvement in quality?".

The fact that they were Series 12 holdovers makes a lot of sense.

[Drunk Barney]

Eh, I liked both of them episodes.

THOH - The first two segments were pretty solid. The thing that let them down, was the the end of part 1, which was poorly resolved. I know it doesn't have to be as it was a THOH, but it just wasn't funny. The Second act is again decent, but not amazing. Not much to comment on, maybe just not quite funny to be amazing. Both solid B+
The third act is quite weak for me. Just a poor basic idea really. It was predictible and hardly exciting. Still pretty funny, but it was just too short and lacked humour (B-/C+) Overall: B

The Parent Rap: Excellent first act, and an overall very good episode, stuffed full of hilarious gags. Act 2 is let down by some odd gags with Moe for example, and the topic just completly changes from what was prooving to be an excellent plot. Nonetheless act 3 picks up again, with a really good last couple of minutes. I loved the Nelson whipping gag and then Chief Wiggums reaction. Anyway decent ending. Overall pretty fun stuff even if the episode did go off the railings at times. B+

[Simpsons Forever!]

First, let me say it was good to see these episodes again and it was worth it after the extra year that Channel 4 made us wait for them, even if they're pretty bad episodes. C4 must think we're idiots - complaining about how they don't show brand new episodes, yet when they finally do, we complain about the episodes they show!:crazy: Well, it's all part of being a Simpsons nerd.

THOHXII - I only like the middle act, the other two are very bad, worse than I remembered. C

The Parent Rap - OK, actually, although most of the jokes were based on pain, they were at least mildly funny. I also like Judge Harm's character; it's good to have a "Big Meanie" in town - makes for some entertaining viewing, at least. B-

I look forward to Homer The Moe next week, as I've only seen the episode once. From what I do remember, it's like a bad version of Flaming Moe's.

[Nameless]

Trust me, looking forward to Homer the Moe is punishable by death in several Simpsons circles.

Any articles about the ratings for the first new episodes since February last year? At all?

[Drunk Barney]

Meh, I didn't mind Homer the Moe. On first viewing I thought it sucked, but after second viewing I thought it was pretty decent to be honest. Nothing really new about the episode, and it ended in typicall Scully fashion, but the actuall ending was very sweet and well done. I won't be able to see the episode next week, but I have it on DVD so I'll probably watch before the next episode comes on to keep inline.

[Adamm R)))]

Any articles about the ratings for the first new episodes since February last year? At all?
The Channel 4 Sales site has ratings, but at the moment it goes up to Thursday, so it should become clear in the next day or two.

[H Thompson]

Parent Rap didn't seem that bad to me, there were two decent screw the audience gags. Homer's response to her saying "that quilt was handed down to me by my grandfather" and maybe I'm crazy but Marge's line about how the costume shop would be furious if they knew they were using it for real. was very funny. And there were just a few touches here and there that seem quite meyer esque to me. So it's more of a C- than D+ to me.

[Drunk Barney]

So it's more of a C- than D+ to me. - Sorry but that's just nerdy. :D you know it deserves more than that anyway! :D

[simplysimpsons]

THOH12: Better than I thought it'd be. Homer was extremely obnoxious and a complete jerkass, even for a THOH, in 'Hex and the City' (D+), 'House of Whacks' was great, especially the ending (A-) and 'Wiz Kids' I found good, even though I havent read any of Harry Potter (B), C+/B- overall.

Parent Rap: Homer was obnoxious as hell, and I wish more time could have been spent on Homer and Bart instead of Marge and Homer trying to get back at Judge Harm. But as it's still in the reigns of Scully I can't say I wasn't expecting it. I thought it was done in typical season 12 style: A lot of bad jokes (pain gags mainly) but a lot of hilarious stuff too, that you don't really find in recent seasons. Mixed bag, but overall good, B- I liked the animation in this a lot.

Nameless: I'll post up a ratings report monday. I don't think they'll be sky high, as C4 haven't publicised s13 enough except for a few mediocre trailers, hopefully it'll be at least 2 million viewers though.

[H Thompson]

So it's more of a C- than D+ to me. - Sorry but that's just nerdy. :D you know it deserves more than that anyway! :D
Well I've pretty much given up on grades, and I know it's quite an insignificant difference, but you know what I meant, it's just a bit funnier than I remember.
And strangely I had no problems with Homer throwing a cinder block, bearing in mind how hateful the character is, It seemed quite understandable.

[Veryjammy]

I would really struggle to find anything I liked in the episode. The focus continually shifted so by the end you have Homer and Marge sinking the judge's boat after being cornered by a giant sealion or something, when it should have been focusing on Bart and Homer's relationship. There was an abundance of wacky crap throughout the episode like the fibre-optic cable and Marge and Homer walking around in stocks. I just couldn't get on board with anything that happened, it was quite ludicrous. Homer was shit, crying over inanity, being a jerk, then trying to have sex in front of Bart, the 'bonding' talk with him and Bart on the power plant cooling tower was badly written. Judge Harm was a resolutely unfunny character who comes out with shit about her being a little boy or something. Just typical Scully 'here's a character who makes no sense, how hilarious'. It seemed like they tried to fit some emotion in there but coming in the middle of such shit it seemed misguided and out of place. The ending made a joke out of what was essentially a hit and run. The whole episode was so stupid in all respects that I have no idea why it gets any praise at all.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I missed all of this due to being on holiday (which was great by the way - I went to this remote Greek island called Symi...not that anyone cares, but I felt I had to share).

Did Channel 4 do anything special for the premiere?

[Simpsons Forever!]

No, not like with Season 12 - they made that a special night because they started showing The Simpsons then. They just showed a double-bill and a few adverts in the preceding week.

[simplysimpsons]

Three distinct cuts from the 5:20pm showing of THOH12, one from each part, may be useful for the censorship site (and transcripts are blatantly copied from SNPP!):
Hex and the City:
After Homer insists again his state of uncursedness, a helicopter crashes through the ceiling onto Lenny and Carl. Lenny insists on dying first so he doesn't have to see Carl die. Carl's fine with that so long as Lenny hurries. They both die. Homer is remorseful over their death ... and then he notices that Moe is in the pickled egg jar.

House of Whacks:
In the middle of the night, as everyone is asleep, Pierce starts his evil plan. On the stove, bacon starts to cook. Homer wakes up, says "Mmm, unexplained bacon", then sleepily walks to the kitchen. Ice cubes fall out of the refrigerator onto the floor. Homer slips and fall onto the table, which then lifts up, forcing Homer into the garbage disposal. Blood splatters on the walls and the Ultrahouse lens. (cut instead to a shot of the house for about 1/2 second)
The next morning, the shades open and cast light on sleeping Marge...

Wiz kids:
Montymort topples over and shrinks back to normal size. Lisa takes off the helmet and hugs Bart.
Slithers: Oh, sir, in death we shall be together always! [sobs and eats Montymort whole]
Bart and Lisa: Eww!
In this one, they show Slithers eating Montymort part way, but not the whole thing

[Adamm R)))]

Thanks simplysimpsons, I was wondering if they would cut it today. Don't forget this one when the new censorship guide is being put together.

[Nameless]

I thought they would cut Homer's brain bulging out the back, but there you go.

There are two lines in Parent Rap I find funny, namely Marge's line about the costume shop and, for some reason, "Maybe I should be a milkman!" Other than that it's horrible, random stuff, with an awful plot that completely shifts focus in the third act from a poor Homer/Bart bonding story to some crap about walking around in stocks, houseboats and cinderblocks.

[Adamm R)))]

Any news on Friday's ratings yet? Channel 4 Sales has put up the ratings for Friday...at 6pm, as well as Monday's 6pm slot, so it looks like they aren't going to bother putting those ratings on their site.

Also, no one mentioned Wezzo updating 3 days ago, but it is a very minor update.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

This page (http://www.channel4sales.com/audience_data/overnights?thedate=2006-08-25) says The Parent Rap got 1.872 million (assuming that figure is the viewing figure and not something else; the 6pm episode says 1617.3). But the THOH episode is missing, for some reason.

[Simpsons Forever!]

That's not great ratings - yesterday's 6pm Simpsons got more viewers than that (1.877m).

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Hmm maybe that's wrong then, because that section shows 1877.3 for Tuesday, which I guess is the 1.877 million you mean. Are the figures meant to be thousands?
Anyone know the best place to find ratings?

[Adamm R)))]

Hmm maybe that's wrong then, because that section shows 1877.3 for Tuesday, which I guess is the 1.877 million you mean. Are the figures meant to be thousands?
Anyone know the best place to find ratings?
I don't know the best place, but when you click on the program from the schedule page, it brings up a little info box about the show which shows ratings. This is where I was originally looking. The average audience for most episodes is about 1.5 million according to that.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Just thought I'd paste Billy's post here from thread in Simpsons on the Web about Britsons, since most of you probably haven't seen it.
Think I've just remembered a cut that isn't on any of these sites. I think the bit in bold was cut out of Dog of Death on Sky about four years ago:

Brockman: "Can you get a shot of me? *photo appears in corner* There we go. In other news, er...tragic mix-up today in Cleveland...many people killed...er...g'bye!"

Weird that it's not listed anywhere, though...is it just my faulty memory, or did they really cut that out? I assumed at the time it was because of 9/11, but even if it was it'd be a pretty weird cut.
Anyone else remember this?

[Adamm R)))]

I thought I did, but then I realised that I was probably thinking about the Koala Lumpur thing. I think it may have been cut.

[Billy]

Thanks for posting it here.

When I saw the Koala Lumpur cut on the Britsons, I immediately thought "Hey, that's like the old Dog of Death cut". I'm sure I remember it cutting away after Kent's "There we go", but then again, I thought the last word out of Moe's "Well, that was an antique. Craaap!" was cut out of Burns' Heir on the BBC, but when I found a tape of its premiere in 1998, it was there.

Maybe someone who has old tapes can check? Looking at old schedules Dog of Death aired pretty often on Sky four years ago.

[Adamm R)))]

Homer the Moe was really horrible. It's full of jokes, pretty much each one falls completely flat. Homer sinigng to REM was just about the only good thing. The plot was resolved in a really poor quick-fix way. REM's appearence was pretty stupid, but at least they poked a bit of fun and it wasn't one of those unnatural cameos. Overall, poor. D

[simplysimpsons]

Homer the Moe:

To say that this episode was bad would be an understatement. It sucked. I thought the concept was good, but it ended up like Flaming Moe's, the Bart Sells His Soul subplot and Dumbbell Idenemity thrown in a blender and the worst parts taken out. The Bart digging plot went nowhere at all, the episode was full of horiffic jokes, most of which could have been taken from the worst of season 11 and 12. Homer was a complete and utter obnoxious jerkass throughout. And what was with the professor walking into the lake? what the hell was that, a joke? The episode itself wasn't wrapped up properly, either. And what was the Yellow Pages thing all about? A paid advert or something?!
Parts I liked: The prank call to Homer, also I thought the 'M' bar was a great satire of the way classic bars are being 'upgraded' and made 'up to date', ie pretty much wrecked. That part was very funny. If they stuck to that tangent more, ie how Moe was handling the new bar, and more of its 'features', the episode could have actually been very good - but we were stuck with one of the worst episodes of the Scully Era.
(Hopefully) this will be the worst of season 13.
Grade: D

And MediaGuardian never posted up ratings for OFF for last week, irritatingly! Hopefully they will for today on monday.

[Nameless]

Thankfully I forgot to watch it as I (less thankfully) already have it on the Gone Wild DVD.

Although Homer smashing the jukebox and then losing several quarts of blood...What the hell is that about?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

"After Chernoble, my penis is falling off."
Pretty much sums up the episode.

[Adamm R)))]

Although Homer smashing the jukebox and then losing several quarts of blood...What the hell is that about?
Bleeding is funny apparently.

Anyway, I wanted to watch The Best of the Worst, so I left my TV on for Law of the Playground. Again, how awful is that show? TBotW was pretty funny, David Mitchell is pretty much the only funny thing, Johnny Vaughn is annoying.

[Billy]

Homer the Moe is a bad, bad episode. Ok, there were some funny parts (Homer almost fainting, and, er...erm.) but then you have stuff like that weird professor suicide scene, and the plot just made no sense (Bart's digging a hole, but...it's just a story made up by Homer! Moe finds Homer's 'bar', and...Homer starts a hunting competition!).

This episode made no sense! Tell the people!

[H Thompson]

Bleeding is funny apparently.

Anyway, I wanted to watch The Best of the Worst, so I left my TV on for Law of the Playground. Again, how awful is that show? TBotW was pretty funny, David Mitchell is pretty much the only funny thing, Johnny Vaughn is annoying.
David Mitchell appears on loads of crappy shows and is usually the only good thing in it. This was a lot better than a lot of other panel shows since there weren't many people to take time away from him saying funny things.

[matt228]

I'm back!

I spent a week in Icmeler, Turkey. It's 8km (5 miles) from the resort of Marmaris. We never knew about the bombings until we were on the bus on the way to Marmaris on the Monday morning. We got off in Icmeler, needless to say! Driving through Marmaris on Tuesday and Thursday, however, nothing seemed to have changed since we drove through it on the previous Friday, from the airport. Overall, it was a fantastic holiday (though the sunburn wasn't great - mid 30s to low 40s). The locals are really friendly, the food & drink is cheap, there's NOTHING wrong with the place whatsoever. Even the dolmus (bus service from Iclemer to Marmaris) was good - you stood on the side of any road and stook your hand out, and they stopped for you! They dropped you off wherever you liked for between 40 and 60p. "Avoid public transport"? I don't think so. We got back home at 10:30pm last night, and this morning we woke up to an amazing amount of rain. That certainly brought us back down to earth!

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Heh, last week I was in Symi (which I mentioned above), which is a small Greek island, but it's very close to Turkey. In fact when we went on a round the island tour, we could see Turkey.

Anyway, I wanted to watch The Best of the Worst, so I left my TV on for Law of the Playground. Again, how awful is that show? TBotW was pretty funny, David Mitchell is pretty much the only funny thing, Johnny Vaughn is annoying.
Yeah I did the same. LotP is pretty boring. Pointless nostalgia.
And I loved the Best of the Worst. I didn't find Vaughan too bad, but Mitchell was definitely the star of the show.

[matt228]

Note to any moderators: is there any chance you could make this thread a Sticky thread?

[Adamm R)))]

^I don't think they would want to (or it is even that necessary) as they want as few sticky threads as possible.

[The lesson is never try]

Note to any moderators: is there any chance you could make this thread a Sticky thread?


not much point to be honest, since this is usually posted in everyday, and if it does slip to the second page theres usually some news that bumps it back up anyway, plus its pretty much always near the top so there isnt much need.

[H Thompson]

Homer the Moe is one that gets incredible hate, that just doesn't seem that bad to me, the hunting trip tangent ruins things, but it actually does a decent-ish job of exploring moe's character, his characterisation is fine here, he's always quite likeable, far better than a lot of Jean episodes.
And I absloutley love the gag of Moe pointing to the picture and saying "I put this up recently, and it's a good thing I did, because it really illustrates my point" sometimes self aware jokes like that just come across as lazy, but I think it works great here, plus the dialouge is just so funnily written. And there's some decent jabs at the whole trendy wine bar type culture.

Plus, I'm going to come out the closet and say it...
I like the digging tangent, I like the whole "what the fuck" factor of it.
and the cancer thing makes me chuckle. The way it just comes so abruptly and the way that moe doesn't get what's going at first and then slowly realising it.
C+

[matt228]

I agree with H_T on this one. Homer the Moe was a fairly good episode in my opinion. Yes, the hunting scene was ridiculously un-fitting for and episode about Moe changing his bar into a new trendy club, but the digging scene at the start was a good start at least. I would rate the episode as among the best of S13 (and S13 is my favourite post-classic era season). B-.

[Simpsons Forever!]

Homer The Moe was actually better than I thought. The re-opening of the bar as "m" did seem similar to Moe's sudden success and popularity in Flaming Moe's, but most of the jokes were OK. Homer was a bit OTT and could have been toned down a bit, but he also had some really funny moments - "Cecil is a girl's name!" Overall, quite a good episode, considering it was made as part of Scully's S12 run. B-

[Nameless]

was anything cut from today's T4 showing of 'the parent rap'?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Nothing was cut as far as I can tell.

I thought there was something at the end, right after the kids go to hug Homer and Marge. You can see Homer's mouth move. However, it's exactly the same on my downloaded copy, so I guess it's a line that didn't make the final cut in the US.

[matt228]

Any hopes of Simpsons double-bills replacing Law of the Playground when it finishes (last episode on 8th September) have been quashed. A new show called "Star Stories" starts at 9pm on 15th September.

[snrub]

Star Stories actually sounds quite promising - it's by the creators of Peep Show.

(Also for any other Peep Show fans - check out "That Mitchell and Webb Look" on bbc2 next Thursday. Went to the pilot of this and if it ain't the next Little Britain -but cleverer and funnier- then the people of this country are morons)

[simplysimpsons]

I'm kind of glad there aren't any more double bills of new episodes. Not that I don't like them, but we'd get through the season in 11 weeks, I'd much prefer season 13 lasting 21 weeks ;)

[Billy]

Anyone know what else to add to the UK section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_of_The_Simpsons#United_Kingdom ? The entire last paragraph is mine, and I've added a bit to the other two paragraphs as well. Was just thinking of any other UK facts that could be on there...

[matt228]

Star Stories actually sounds quite promising - it's by the creators of Peep Show.

(Also for any other Peep Show fans - check out "That Mitchell and Webb Look" on bbc2 next Thursday. Went to the pilot of this and if it ain't the next Little Britain -but cleverer and funnier- then the people of this country are morons)
David Mitchell isn't really my cup of tea. He's OK in small doses (and indeed is very funny on panel shows) but I don't think I could bear to watch a full series of his.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Hey guys, I've started moving Butters' cuts pages over to Simpson Crazy. I decided to reformat them all, and do a page per season, rather than per episode. Also, identical cuts by different channels are grouped together. Let me know what you think of it thus far:
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/ukcuts/

[Adamm R)))]

Looks good. Did you just copy the cuts list from The Britsons, or have you included other sources or even the "old cuts" page from The Britsons? Anyway, it looks nice.

Don't forget everyone A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love is on in 7 minutes! I'm looking forward to this, I've only seen it once - on original airdate.

[matt228]

Also, identical cuts by different channels are grouped together. Let me know what you think of it thus far:
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/ukcuts/
I like it!

Here is a message from Butters (former webmaster of the UK cuts page):
Sup niggas?

I've seen the cuts page on Simpsons Crazy and I am impressed. It's good to see what a competent HTML editor can do with about 100 crap files I zipped up. I'm very much liking the layout and (the much better) logos used for each cut. Very classy. [-->joke about gays here just so you know Matthew hasn't made this up himself<--] . Congratulations, Scott (and anyone else who was involved?) in making what looks like it is going to be 10x better than my original site.

Good luck and hope you all get girlfriend like me, Butters.

[Nameless]

Burns in Love is better than I remember, probably C. Good jokes are pistol whip, "...bowling alley?", "where'd you get that pie?" "windowsill", most of the Chinatown stuff, chinese keyboard...it's got quite a lot of funny stuff, but it isn't really a very engaging plot.

Oh well, only one more Scully holdover to go, then I remember the start of the Jean run being pretty good.

[Adamm R)))]

Anyway, I liked A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love, it had some good gags (pistol whip could've come right out of a classic era episode). Homer didn't annoy me to much, which as you know is a huge Scully era problem. I didn't mind the plot, I just didn't like the ending. The person looking like they were going to make the "right" choice, but picking the wrong one anyway seemed familiar and predictable, is it from another episode? Overall, best of the holdovers. B

Heheh, good message from Butters.

[623058]

Hey guys, I've started moving Butters' cuts pages over to Simpson Crazy. I decided to reformat them all, and do a page per season, rather than per episode. Also, identical cuts by different channels are grouped together. Let me know what you think of it thus far:
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/ukcuts/

the site LOOK great, and I see the cuts are in RED,
overall great, keep up the good work!

[Nameless]

^^Matt228, yeah they are, they're in red.

They're not in red for me...

[matt228]

They're not in red for me...
They aren't in red on my AOL browser but when I opened the page in Internet Explorer it displayed fine. Nameless, if you're on AOL too perhaps you should try that.

EDIT: Extra note from Butters: the "lil' bastard" kit in 1f19 was cut on sky as well

[H Thompson]

Seemed a lot worse to me, I've got into Seinfeld since I saw this for the first time, and it really made me conscious of just how bad the writing on what's her names character was. A few good gags don't stop it being a dreadful episode. goes down to a D+/C- to me.

So If I'm going to regrade the season so far I'd say
THOH XII C- missed the repeat
Parent Rap D+ to C-
Homer the Moe C to C/C+
Hunka Hunka C to D+/C-

[simplysimpsons]

A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love

After last week, surprisingly good. I thought Burns and Homer weren't too badly characterised at all, especially for the scully era, and there were a lot of funny moments with Smithers in the first act. The episode progressed nicely, although the ending was a bit of a cop-out (after all Snake did to Gloria, she still wanted to be with him...?) and Homer tagging along with Burns was fairly predictable (for the Scully era at least), plus there were a few off jokes (like the paint can one). But I liked it quite a lot. I thought Bart, Lisa and Flanders in shock was hilarious, and there were a lot of other funny moments, many from Burns. "There's a pie in it, tubsy!". Definitely one to keep. B+

I like the look of the cuts site, scottvivian, well done on that ;)

[Nameless]

Nay, I am on the Explorer of the Internet too.

THOH XII: D down from a D+
Parent Rap: still a D
Homer the Moe: didn't watch, probably still a D
Hunka Hunka C up from a D+

What a great start!

[Billy]

Hunka Hunka Burns In Love was pretty good. I have a bit of it on tape from an early 2002 Sky One showing, but this is the first time in ages I'd seen it full. Nice use of 'quick' gags, like Mr Burns with the magnifying glass, and the oxygen mask later on. Even the weiner gag didn't spoil it.

And great start to the cuts page! Keep it coming! When you get to Trash of the Titans, you might want to note that Sky's improved the second 'wankers' cut over time - originally it was an abrupt fade-out after Mr Burns gets hit by the spoon, but now they just edit out the word, so he pops up over U2, says nothing, and pops back down again.

[George Cauldron]

Hey guys, I've started moving Butters' cuts pages over to Simpson Crazy. I decided to reformat them all, and do a page per season, rather than per episode. Also, identical cuts by different channels are grouped together. Let me know what you think of it thus far:
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/ukcuts/

Pretty good so far! By the way, Sky also cut the Lil Bastard Clock Tampering Kit from their showings of The Boy Who Knew Too Much.
On a slightly related note, what are you going to do about bits that were once cut by Sky years ago, but are now shown? Do they get a mention? (EG: "Damn you, paparazzo!" cut from Rosebud after Princess Diana's death)

Oh and I meant to watch A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love but missed it because I forgot it was on, and then I thought it would be on at 9pm.

[simplysimpsons]

...When you get to Trash of the Titans, you might want to note that Sky's improved the second 'wankers' cut over time - originally it was an abrupt fade-out after Mr Burns gets hit by the spoon, but now they just edit out the word, so he pops up over U2, says nothing, and pops back down again.

I thought BBC2's version of the cut was the best. When he pops up over U2, BBC2 had him saying "Ow!" again, which was unintentionally hilarious :LOL:

[Veryjammy]

That was actually the first time I've sat through Hunka Hunka in its entirety. It was ok, nothing to get offended over but nothing all that great. Some good jokes but the plot was really really boring.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I really liked Hunka Hunka this time round. The only bad parts were Homer talking about wieners and Burns' lame chat with the family as they walk into the sunset.

Isn't Butters banned from here? How did he see my post?

Looks good. Did you just copy the cuts list from The Britsons, or have you included other sources or even the "old cuts" page from The Britsons? Anyway, it looks nice.

On a slightly related note, what are you going to do about bits that were once cut by Sky years ago, but are now shown? Do they get a mention? (EG: "Damn you, paparazzo!" cut from Rosebud after Princess Diana's death)

Currently it's just current cuts, but I will put the old cuts on the same page I think. I'd like to do something to separate them though. I was looking at uk.media.tv.simpsons on Google Groups the other day (I used to post there years ago!) and saw mentions of several cuts. Sky were pretty agressive with the scissors after Diana's death, I think every car crash was taken out of the show!

They aren't in red on my AOL browser but when I opened the page in Internet Explorer it displayed fine. Nameless, if you're on AOL too perhaps you should try that.

They're not in red for me...

Hmm...weird. I thought the AOL browser is just an Explorer shell (i.e. it's just Explorer running inside another program). I made a small change to the page, does it work now? Do you see some yellow boxes on the page? What browser version are you using? (Help>About will tell you)

[The lesson is never try]

I really liked Hunka Hunka this time round. The only bad parts were Homer talking about wieners and Burns' lame chat with the family as they walk into the sunset.

Isn't Butters banned from here? How did he see my post?





Currently it's just current cuts, but I will put the old cuts on the same page I think. I'd like to do something to separate them though. I was looking at uk.media.tv.simpsons on Google Groups the other day (I used to post there years ago!) and saw mentions of several cuts. Sky were pretty agressive with the scissors after Diana's death, I think every car crash was taken out of the show!





Hmm...weird. I thought the AOL browser is just an Explorer shell (i.e. it's just Explorer running inside another program). I made a small change to the page, does it work now? Do you see some yellow boxes on the page? What browser version are you using? (Help>About will tell you)

probably looked as a guest.


Anyway hunka hunka burns was a surprise i never realy liked it but its a solid B- now, quite a few funny points in the episode, with some great homer-burns comedy, nice to see burns in a good role as well, overall its a good episode, not great with a bit of a poor plot but some very good humour which the jean era could use.

[matt228]

Hmm...weird. I thought the AOL browser is just an Explorer shell (i.e. it's just Explorer running inside another program). I made a small change to the page, does it work now? Do you see some yellow boxes on the page? What browser version are you using? (Help>About will tell you)
Unfortunately, no it still isn't highlighted in red or in yellow boxes on my AOL browser. It's AOL 9.0 - the cuts are highlighted on Internet Explorer.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Well, after some research, the only conclusion I can come to is that AOL 9.0 is a broken piece of software. My page is basic HTML and CSS, which according to Wikipedia has been supported in IE since version 3 (which came out 10 years ago!). The only other possibility is that you have disabled something in the browser unwittingly.

Also you might like to know that according to several websites, it is classified as "badware" (see http://stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=aol082706). I strongly recommend getting rid of it asap. I would also recommend switching to Firefox or Opera, but they're not for everyone; IE suffices.

[Nameless]

v6.0

[Adamm R)))]

Currently it's just current cuts, but I will put the old cuts on the same page I think. I'd like to do something to separate them though. I was looking at uk.media.tv.simpsons on Google Groups the other day (I used to post there years ago!) and saw mentions of several cuts. Sky were pretty agressive with the scissors after Diana's death, I think every car crash was taken out of the show!
Good stuff, I can't wait to see it completed. And remember, if any episodes from seasons 1-6 (or whatever the pages are that don't work on the Snipsons site) that are listed as having cuts and you can't find info, I'll look in that book and see if I can get any info.

[matt228]

Well, after some research, the only conclusion I can come to is that AOL 9.0 is a broken piece of software. My page is basic HTML and CSS, which according to Wikipedia has been supported in IE since version 3 (which came out 10 years ago!). The only other possibility is that you have disabled something in the browser unwittingly.

Also you might like to know that according to several websites, it is classified as "badware" (see http://stopbadware.org/reports/reportdisplay?reportname=aol082706). I strongly recommend getting rid of it asap. I would also recommend switching to Firefox or Opera, but they're not for everyone; IE suffices.
I can use IE instead of my AOL browser but it tends to be slower than AOL and the only benefit to my mind is your page appears in correct formatting and sometimes SNPP pages revert to their previous update or fail to update on AOL - however I think I will start to use IE more often since it seems to work more (slower, but more).

[matt228]

Apologies for the double post.

You might be interested to know I'm at the University of Cambridge (King's College) from tomorrow (Sunday) until Tuesday of this week so I won't be online during those dates. I'll reply to all emails/messages etc probably on Wednesday.

[Billy]

Just noticed the cuts page has added old Season 5 cuts too. Nice work, Scott.

A note, though - the old Sky One cuts for "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" were still edited in February *2002*. I know this because there's posts from me in uk.media.tv.simpsons at the time noting this, but by June 2002 the cuts were restored.

When you get to Season 4, The Itchy and Scratchy Movie (which along with Treehouse of Horror V was one of the most cut episodes ever) was also still cut in March 2002, and probably started being uncut around the same time as the above.

There's also an old Sky cut from Lady Bouvier's Lover that isn't listed:
Burns: Smithers, guess what happened to me last night?
Smithers: I don't know, sir. You had sex with that old woman?
Burns: She said "no" to me! Do you know how many women have said "no" to me? One hundred thirty, but only one since I've become a billionaire. And _she's_ the one for me. I'm in love!

Omg sex. Again, still cut in early 2002, but restored by the 12th June 2002 showing.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Thanks for the info, Billy. It looks like we crossed paths in uk.media.tv.simpsons. Small world, eh? ;)

As I was trawling through posts in uk.media.tv.simpsons, I came across this post from me, 5 years ago...
what is the problem? yes im sure every1 will be upset if they see a train
crash!!! they don't have to watch the episode!!!!!!!! there could just b a
warning before or something if they really felt that people will get upset.
god I can't believe how much of a noob I acted, even at 16...

Anyway I've added more to the page now; I think that's Season 5 complete. It includes some things I found on the NG regarding Diana's death (they were such pointless cuts). The reason I put the Feb 2000 date is because that's what Butters said on the old cuts page. Is that correct in most cases? Maybe I should just remove all dates unless we know a rough one (eg early-2000, mid-2002).
http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/ukcuts/

Regarding the problems seeing colours some people are having: I found an Accessibility option in IE (Internet Options > General tab > Accessibility...) that turns off all colours in web pages. You don't have that on, do you? (May be something similar in AOL) I have IE 6.0 too and the colours show up fine.

Also, does anyone have any ideas how I might contact the owner of The Snipsons? His name is Ben Nunn, I tried emailing the address given on the archived version of the site, and also his address from the UK newsgroup, but both bounced.

[Adamm R)))]

Awesome job Scott, that's every cut from season 5 I've ever heard of and a couple more. I laughed at the censorship of "you two screwed up royal!".

Oh and Wezzo, if you see this, maybe you should replace the link to The Britsons on the SNPP page with a link to the SC page.

[Nameless]

nope, not checked.

although the cuts are now indeed are red, can't think what was wrong before...

[Adamm R)))]

By the way everyone, don't forget that the first new episode to be shown on Sky in 4 years, The Monkey Suit is on in an hour.

[simplysimpsons]

Homer the Moe definite cuts: (and the episode would have been better this way, IMO!)

Homer tries fixing the jukebox, and smashes it with his fist. Blood appears and starts spraying profusely from Homer's wound. Homer screams in agony.
Lenny: Homer, are you OK?
Homer: (still bleeding, thumbs up, fainting) Heyyyy!

At Home, Homer is out of a job. He forces Lisa to smoke a cigarette and pours a drink for Bart. (I haven't got the actual transcript of this, so if someone could post it up, just make sure the cigarette bit is cut)

Moe is still talking with the models.
Model: After Chernobyl, my penis is falling off.
Moe: And "penis" is Russian for...?
Homer: Moe, we want our bar back!

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Hah. Channel 4 hacked up Homer the Moe in the 5.15 slot. Cuts:
- Homer's blood spraying out everywhere when cutting himself on the jukebox.
- Homer giving a cigarette to Lisa
- "After Chernobyl, my penis is falling off" (probably the only cut I'd agree with, because it's a horrible line anyway)
- Homer getting his head cought in the bear trap

EDIT: damn you simplysimpsons, you got there before me!
oh, regarding the penis thing, I think the part where Homer goes back to the oxygen tank was also cut (to discourage kids relying on oxygen?)

[Billy]

Yeah, I was cringing at my posts from when I was 13 too.
Sorry about that! I was in a hurry to post and accidentally forgot to delete
the last message.
Sorry everyone!

That was after the Lard of the Dance capsule was first posted, and I replied saying something...accidentally quoting the entire, 1772 line capsule in my post. Up there is my subsequent grovelling apology.

But yeah, regarding the cuts page...I think those episodes I mentioned earlier were just ones they missed at the time. Here's what I wrote in February 2002:
Anyway,I'm surprised no ones mentioned that 1 or 2 years ago Sky and the BBC decided to uncut a lot of episodes,like 'Treehouse Of Horror V' and 'Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming'
And a month later, regarding the Snipsons (still online at the time):
Well there is this UK site but it's drasticially out of date-later in 2000 Sky and BBC restored half of the footage on these pages that they originally censored. I remember watching Treehouse Of Horror V once and seeing about 60 seconds new footage!
Looking at Web Archive The Snipsons was last updated in January 2000, so 'later in 2000' fits with the February 2000 date.

It's kinda weird, though, as there's one post from February 2001 saying that they saw Rosebud on Sky 'recently' and Burns' "Damn you paparzzo!" was cut...but Sky One didn't show it at all from August 1998 to October 2001, as during that period BBC2 had the rights to Series 5. So I dunno what's going on there.

[simplysimpsons]

^ Yeah, you're right, scottvivian! I knew there was something missing with the oxygen part, knowing c4 they probably thought it as a drugs reference. And I missed the bear trap one!

Thinking about it, I can't remember Michael from R.E.M. threating Homer with the broken bottle either, was this cut?

So to add these cuts:

Lisa: Dad, you shot Moe!
Homer: What? Oh, this time I really am gonna faint! (he does so, and his head gets caught in a bear trap)
Homer: Owww! Son of a...

(at "M's", Homer, Barney, and Carl are at the oxygen bar)
Carl (out of breath): Hey...Lenny...uh...jump on my chest.
Lenny (in a giant hamster wheel): I'm trapped! This is creative design run amok!
Homer: That's it! I'm talking to Moe!
(jumps up, then begins to faint after taking off the oxygen tube. He puts it back on and continues to breathe) (followed by the models cut).

[Simpsons Forever!]

I'm surprised to say I liked A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love, when I saw it again on C4 - I'd only seen this episode once years ago and nothing had stood out about it, so I wasn't expecting much. ButI found it quite funny. Homer was especially funny when Snake kidnapped him and Wiggum/Smithers were above average for the episode, too. Gloria as a character was pretty one-dimensional, but Burns had a side to him we rarely see nowadays, making the episode interesting, too. So, as I'm pleasently surprised, I'll give this episode a B+.

EDIT: As for tonight, I predict A- for The Monkey Suit, but not confidentally, as it got mixed reviews here when it originally aired.

[Drunk Barney]

I was on holiday, and just missed it coming back shortly after it, and will hopefully watch it next week. I also missed Homer the Moe, but will watch on DVD soon (maybe tonight)

But I've seen A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love a few times and think it's very good. It's just plain fun. A-/B+

[Nameless]

oh, regarding the penis thing, I think the part where Homer goes back to the oxygen tank was also cut (to discourage kids relying on oxygen?)

So why didn't they just remove the entire oxygen tank thing?

Oh, and I am trying to dissuade nobody from The Monkey Suit, but it's awful.

Really.

[Adamm R)))]

I enjoyed The Monkey Suit. I found the plot very interesting and I thought Lisa was good too. I liked 3 jokes, which is a season 17 record: Homer on a trampoline, (what appeared to be) Milhouse dressed as Lisa and of course Little Moe Syzlak, that was the first good laugh I've gotten from the show for a while and was much better than the other two, because it wasn't ruined by some crappy bit afterwards (Marge getting on the trampoline and Milhouse turning out to be Nelson, respectively). I didn't really like all of the stuff in act one before the main plot started, plus a few jokes fell flat here. Overall B+

Also, I'm looking forward, but the last two episodes sound crap.

EDIT: 2500th post! :chug: I've been posting way too much lately.

[Drunk Barney]

Eh, I'm sure we're not going to complain /\ :D

I was unable to watch The Monkey Suit, as I got called away after the first 2 or 3 minutes. Damn! Bart's Summer wish list was good. Infact it was a fantastic start. I didn't have time to record it either. Oh well, I'm sure I'll see it some time in the near future. And I have yet to see The Wettest Stories Ever Told yet as well!

[Nameless]

Neither are scheduled for a repeat for the rest of the month, so unless you're going to download them you'll have to wait.

Of course, I wouldn't bother, but that's just me.

And whilst the whole 'Bart's summer in one day' thing is one of the few good things the episode has going for it, it's recycled from 'Spelling'.

[Marge For President]

I actullay laughed at Marge getting on the trompoline, oh well. I also kind of giggled at Little Moe Syslak but really that was it. As for the story, there wasn't anything wrong with it except for the fact the main plot outline was already done in the episode with the angel, it was good then. C.

[snrub]

Been touched on already, but The Monkey Suit was a very recycled plot from Lisa the Skeptic without any of the emotion - felt mostly like a teaching aid that was never supposed to be aired, I mean yes I've heard of evolution, most people have and it just kept reinforcing my point. Maybe it lost something as creationism isn't as big a deal over here as it is in the US?

[Billy]

The best part was Bart's Summer-in-one-day bit, but it confused me - here, in early September, it made perfect sense. But seeing as it aired in the US in May, it'd have made no sense whatsoever, surely?

Turns out that it was just an outtake from 2003's "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" which they put in this one when the episode was too short. That also explains why Bart was watching Men in Black 2 at the cinema, when that film's years old...it'd be something like Snakes on a Plane now. Oh wow, imagine the fun the Simpsons would have with that.

As for the rest...meh.

[Simpsons Forever!]

That was a good, but weird start - basically an alternate opening to I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can. I wonder why they waited 3 years to sneak that deleted scene into an episode, as it was really good! The rest of the episode was alright, but we've basically seen this thing before. There were two really good jokes - the Little Moe gag and Homer's onion and peas rant - for some reason, I found that hilarious! Overall, though, nothing special. B

[Nameless]

I suppose they couldn't wait for the S14 DVD and Monkey Suit was the best episode to fit it into.

[Veryjammy]

I guess they were so desperate for material that they inserted a barely funny 5 minute chunk from an old episode to pad it out ;)

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I really liked The Monkey Suit when I first saw it. This time it was still quite funny, but it had lost something. Maybe I just noticed the annoying things more, like "This room's nice" going on for a minute. And the ending is way too abrupt. Ned just goes "You win Lisa" and everything is wrapped up. But a lot of the jokes felt like they could be lifted right out of the classic era.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Question:
When C4 aired Mr. Plow during the day over Christmas, they cut the "pornography" line. Was this the first airing, or had it aired intact previously? Also has it been restored yet? Britsons says that in the next airing it was cut, but it may have been on again since then.

Also, can anyone confirmthe cuts to The Talltale Head? Britsons says the line "Most lynch mobs aren't this nice" was cut on Sky. I'm sure something was cut at the end from the BBC version, too.

[Nameless]

"Most lynch mobs aren't this nice" is cut.

You might want to add something about some dialogue near the end that appears on the original FOX airing and C4 only...?

[Simpsons Forever!]

Only 1.2 million viewers tuned in for Friday's A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love on Channel 4. That's really low for a new episode!

[Nameless]

Oh yes, and I forgot to ask, was Homer shooting himself with a gun cut from The Monkey Suit on Sky?

[Simpsons Forever!]

^Nope. Neither was the Milhouse on a rack bit cut.

[Turambar]

wazzzup.
i thought it was so funny when milhouse walked out of the exhibit and was like twice as tall as he was before :silly:

i agree that this episode was just a recycling of the plot for 'Lisa the Skeptic', which was in my opinion a great episode.

can anyone tell me;

1. why was maggie in the bin?

2. why was nelson dressed as milhouse dressed as lisa?

3. why was nelson dressed as todd?

4. and why did miss hoover play and 'ominous drum' whilst willie collected their books on evolution?

is this all american humour that we're supposed to get :confused:

[simplysimpsons]

Only 1.2 million viewers tuned in for Friday's A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love on Channel 4. That's really low for a new episode!
C4's publicity for season 13 was too little, too late - the ads started 1 week before the show, far too late, and they were pretty poor. There were no magazine or poster ads, either. Not forgetting the constant promises and letdowns on when s13 was going to air, and the change of time from 9pm to 8:30pm (it should have stayed at 9pm). 1.2 million is definitely something for c4 (and us!) to be concerned about, especially seeing as s12 averaged over 2 million.

[Nameless]

wazzzup.
i thought it was so funny when milhouse walked out of the exhibit and was like twice as tall as he was before :silly:

i agree that this episode was just a recycling of the plot for 'Lisa the Skeptic', which was in my opinion a great episode.

can anyone tell me;

1. why was maggie in the bin?

2. why was nelson dressed as milhouse dressed as lisa?

3. why was nelson dressed as todd?

4. and why did miss hoover play and 'ominous drum' whilst willie collected their books on evolution?

is this all american humour that we're supposed to get :confused:

1. I've forgotten, haven't seen the episode since I first watched it back in May
2. Dumb joke
3. Dumb joke
4. Willie told her to

[Adamm R)))]

Question:
When C4 aired Mr. Plow during the day over Christmas, they cut the "pornography" line. Was this the first airing, or had it aired intact previously? Also has it been restored yet? Britsons says that in the next airing it was cut, but it may have been on again since then.
It was previously intact, but they cut it for a 4:00pm showing on Christmas day, that I know for sure. They MAY have left it cut after this.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

1. why was maggie in the bin?

2. why was nelson dressed as milhouse dressed as lisa?

3. why was nelson dressed as todd?

4. and why did miss hoover play and 'ominous drum' whilst willie collected their books on evolution?

A wizard did it.

[Simpsons Forever!]

C4's publicity for season 13 was too little, too late - the ads started 1 week before the show, far too late, and they were pretty poor. There were no magazine or poster ads, either. Not forgetting the constant promises and letdowns on when s13 was going to air, and the change of time from 9pm to 8:30pm (it should have stayed at 9pm). 1.2 million is definitely something for c4 (and us!) to be concerned about, especially seeing as s12 averaged over 2 million.

Channel 4 probably didn't have enough money to promote S13, as they'd already wasted loads promoting it for Autumn 2005, like on the back of every copy of One Step Beyond Forever, so I guess the ratings are entirely their own fault.

[viewer of tv]

Hi everyone, I thought that I would mention that there are some cut segments listed on the britsons website that can now be classed as archived cuts on the new site, as they appear to be re-instated by Sky One. They are only a few small segments:

1, In the Season 2 episode ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’ the line “Holy moley, the bastard’s rich” is now included in the Sky One showings of it.

2, In the Season 9 episode ‘The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons’ the segment where a sign at the beginning of the episode reads ‘Today: Batchelor Auction, Tomorrow: I Retire Ya Bastards’ and then the workman who has written the sign falls off his ladders is now included in the Sky One showings of it.

3, In the Season 16 episode ‘All’s Fair In Oven War’ James Caan’s line at the end “That’s it, next time, I fly” is included in the Sky One showings of it, but the other cut segments remain cut. I can’t remember myself whether this line was cut in the first place, but as it is listed as cut in the britsons; I thought I’d mention it.

4, In the Season 16 episode ‘Midnight Rx’, the part where Ralph’s pupils dilate after he is given a pill by Chief Wiggum is included in the Sky One showings of it. The part where Ralph then says “I’m cuckoo for contraband” remains cut, however. Again, I can’t remember whether this was originally cut or not, but I’m mentioning it because it is listed as cut on the britsons.

[matt228]

It was previously intact, but they cut it for a 4:00pm showing on Christmas day, that I know for sure. They MAY have left it cut after this.
I'm pretty sure they left it cut.

I'm back from Cambridge by the way. It was really good. I recorded The Monkey Suit so I'll probably have that watched by Friday (perhaps even tonight).

ITV1's Saturday line-up this week is fantastic (non-Simpsons related, though it is UK related, so I only half-apologise), in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.
6:45pm - The X Factor (auditions - of course the best part of the show)
7:45pm to 9pm - Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (new series!)
10pm - Parkinson (guests are Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and Matt Lucas and David Walliams. I'm sure they'll have replaced Justin Timberlake too after he pulled out for medical reasons).

The only bad part of that night's schedule is some shitty drama at 9pm.

Also, I checked the new UK Cuts site on Simpsons Crazy. Obviously it's still in development but it's looking very promising. The colours still aren't working on AOL but they remain fine on Internet Explorer. I hope that you don't run out of time to do the site though (the domain for The Britsons expires at the end of this month) - I suppose you'll have saved all the pages, have you?

1.2 million viewers?! Channel 4 have no-one to blame but themselves, the millions of unfaithful "fans" who didn't watch and also their significantly delayed airing of the season. And the crappy marketing strategy (have a few trailers a week before the first episode; don't bother with billboards, posters, a longer TV campaign, radio advertising or magazine/newspapers!).

Also, am I the only person who thinks that the UK & Ireland page is overdue an update? 27th August is over 2 weeks ago!

[Nameless]

First time on Xmas Day it was cut, then it was cut on the first 6pm showing, then some time after that it was reinstated.

[Simpsons Forever!]

The Blunder Year is on Channel 4 tonight, but I'm not really looking forward to it, as this is one of my least favourite episodes ever. Hopefully it'll get stronger ratings than last week's new episode, although yesterday's 6pm Simpsons pulled in over 2 million viewers, which is pretty good.

[simplysimpsons]

Cut from Homer and Apu!
James Woods: OK, good. Book me a flight, rent me an igloo, and tell those dorks at the Kwik-E-Mart that, boom! I am outta here, I'm a dot, I'm gone, OK? What do you mean, I gotta give two weeks' notice? Why you frickin', no good, motha [beep] [beep] [beep-beep-beep] cheese! ...No, not you, I'm just talking to my oven.
Weird and noticable cut, especially since they allowed Kent Brockman's "It's about f[beep]ing time!" from Bart's Inner Child, and the 'totally sick, twisted, f***ed up animation festival' banner from Tale of two Springfields...

EDIT: I'm actually looking forward to the Blunder years a lot, as it's the very last Scully episode I haven't seen!

[Drunk Barney]

The Blunder Year is on Channel 4 tonight, but I'm not really looking forward to it, as this is one of my least favourite episodes ever. Hopefully it'll get stronger ratings than last week's new episode, although yesterday's 6pm Simpsons pulled in over 2 million viewers, which is pretty good.Where do you find out this info, and if you give me a site can you tell me what to do next. I can never usaully find it!

[viewer of tv]

[QUOTE=simplysimpsons]Cut from Homer and Apu!
James Woods: OK, good. Book me a flight, rent me an igloo, and tell those dorks at the Kwik-E-Mart that, boom! I am outta here, I'm a dot, I'm gone, OK? What do you mean, I gotta give two weeks' notice? Why you frickin', no good, motha [beep] [beep] [beep-beep-beep] cheese! ...No, not you, I'm just talking to my oven.
Weird and noticable cut, especially since they allowed Kent Brockman's "It's about f[beep]ing time!" from Bart's Inner Child, and the 'totally sick, twisted, f***ed up animation festival' banner from Tale of two Springfields... [QUOTE]





Yes, I noticed that too. One thing that annoys me about Channel 4 is that they will show an episode unedited, but then will air the same episode again with cuts. In my opinion, they should only make further cuts to an episode if they get an upheld complaint by Ofcom (and they didn't when this episode was last shown). One thing I do like about Sky is that the first showing of an episode is usually how the episode will remain for future showings.

The only exception to that should be if something bad like a plane crash happens after an episode had been shown and they have to edit any plane crashes from future showings of the episode, because not doing so would get them an upheld complaint by Ofcom.

Apologies if I've not made any sense!

[matt228]

Note to "viewer of tv": For future reference, to end a quote you need to put /QUOTE in square brackets at the end of the quote, rather than just QUOTE.


Apologies if I've not made any sense!
You made perfect sense so don't worry yourself over it.

[Adamm R)))]

Blunder Years is weird, I don't think that it had too many flaws, but it just didn't feel great. The main things I didn't like were the lumberjack thing, narrator Lisa and the whole feel that it's just full of odd revelations for the sake of having them. The humour was OK, I loved the callback to Bart the Daredevil. And Homer wasn't too poor either. Overall C-

Next week should be interesting. And I believe it's the first Jean episode to be shown on terrestrial TV in the UK.

[Nameless]

Where do you find out this info, and if you give me a site can you tell me what to do next. I can never usaully find it!

He's using either www.barb.co.uk (http://www.barb.co.uk) or www.channel4sales.com (http://www.channel4sales.com)

And I believe it's the first Jean episode to be shown on terrestrial TV in the UK.

Not if you count the Jean & Reiss era ;)

And was the Alternative Christmas Message classed as part of the Jean era? That'd make an interesting bit of trivia...

Blunder Years is awful except for the end-credits banter. Paper towels absorbing an entire river? What the hell? And there's the numerous continuity problems its brings up. D

A really great run so far!

[simplysimpsons]

Yes, I noticed that too. One thing that annoys me about Channel 4 is that they will show an episode unedited, but then will air the same episode again with cuts. In my opinion, they should only make further cuts to an episode if they get an upheld complaint by Ofcom (and they didn't when this episode was last shown). One thing I do like about Sky is that the first showing of an episode is usually how the episode will remain for future showings.

Yeah, very true...another thing is they used to leave...questionable...stuff intact, and now it's all cut...

Anyway, time for a Blunder Years review!

Call me crazy, but I really did enjoy it. The Burly subplot was kinda dumb, and too long, but it kinda led into the plot fairly well. I liked the Frink joke and the clue into Smithers. Homer screaming was a bit grating, but not too bad.....after this, though, the episode was really good. I always love flashbacks and the ones here were no exception. Moe was hilarious in both flashback and normal form, and the gradual revelation of Homer's fear was a bit quick for my liking but introduced well. Burns and Wiggum were both excellent, and I kinda liked the conclusion, although I wish a bit more time was spent on it (Smithers' realisation, more background into Smithers Sr would have been good too). A bit of wasted potential there that could have been explored more instead of the Burly plot. I enjoyed it overall though, the quality of the last two holdovers gives me the impression Mr. Scully ended on a high. Grade: B

My other major thing would be who was filming that 'safety video', it would have been more impressive and realistic if it was, say, static black and white cctv camera footage or something. It didn't really make any sense of who could have been filming it.

[Drunk Barney]

I skipped The Blunder Years for The Green Green Grass, which wasn't very good (about 5/10). I'll catch up with TBY when it airs on a sunday.

[Veryjammy]

I missed most of The Blunder Years, not that I'm particularly bothered.

Is anyone watching Star Stories, which is on afterwards? It's pretty funny

[Adamm R)))]

A really great run so far!
Treehouse of Horror XII - C
The Parent Rap - D+
Homer the Moe - D
A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love - B
The Blunder Years - C-

Could be worse, but certainly could be a lot better. The best is yet to come.

And by the way, Star Stories seems to be another Channel 4 comedy flop...

EDIT:
Is anyone watching Star Stories, which is on afterwards? It's pretty funny
It seems a bit obvious and tired to me. Poking fun at Posh and Becks just feels like it's been done a million times before to me.

[Nameless]

I skipped The Blunder Years for The Green Green Grass, which wasn't very good (about 5/10). I'll catch up with TBY when it airs on a sunday.

The what?

And what does everyone think will be cut from TBY on Sunday's repeat? 'Wacky tobacky', perhaps?

[simplysimpsons]

^ eh, I switched off after about 10 minutes. overblown, loud and just...well...not very good. (kinda like green green grass, which I unfourtunately saw an episode of the last series, except the only thing that's loud is the canned laughter.) I'm really looking forward to She of little Faith, I've yet to see it (and most of the DABF run!)

Yeah, that could be cut, also the corpse scene will probably be shortened or cut completely (so we don't actually see its face) as that was pretty gruesome. I wouldn't be surprised if some of Homer's screaming was cut, either

[Adamm R)))]

And what does everyone think will be cut from TBY on Sunday's repeat? 'Wacky tobacky', perhaps?
That's likely, but remember, it's A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love on Sunday, they're one behind because of the double bill. AHHBIL may have some of the violence near the end removed, I think (Snake pistol whipping Homer).

[Drunk Barney]

The what?


It's spin off from Only Fools and Horses, with Boyice, Marlene and there son. Boyice is being chased by a gang. So they move and get a house on a farm in Shropshire.

[Billy]

Sky One aired 'The Way We Weren't' immediately before The Blunder Years was shown on Channel 4. It's as if they were deliberately showing how the show's continuity keeps changing.

I've never really minded The Blunder Years. Homer's screaming was pretty annoying, but there's a clever flashback to Bart the Daredevil (anyone remember Homer's "There have been lots of classic Simpsons moments" used in the Sky One promo?), and Moe's just great throughout.

[matt228]

Last time I rated this episode I seem to remember giving it either a D- or an F. I have recorded it (Sky+ series link for the 8:30pm episode), so I'll try and get into it again. The B-plot of this episode is possibly the worst ever. The A-plot didn't impress me last time either:

Treehouse of Horror XII - A/A-
The Parent Rap - A-
Homer the Moe - A-/B+
A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love - B+
The Blunder Years - F (will re-rate once I've watched it again)

[Veryjammy]

It seems a bit obvious and tired to me. Poking fun at Posh and Becks just feels like it's been done a million times before to me.

It wasn't really poking fun at just them though. It was poking fun at the conventions of fawning media portrayals of stars; the wilfully contrived dramatisations, the need to force real people into convenient dramatic caricatures, the skewing of the facts etc...It was meant to be loud, silly and overblown.

[H Thompson]

Oh really, I just natrually assumed it'd be shit, I should probably give it a chance then.

[AbsolutelyNothing]

I'm not in Britain but i'm curious about something. How come you guys are so far back in episodes than here in North America. Doesn't seem fair considering Britain's fanbase is about the same size as North America's fanbase.

[Nameless]

Terrestrial viewers are just getting S13 for the first time, but Digital viewers see Girls Just Want To Have Sums for the first time on Sunday.

Although most of us just download the episodes.

[Adamm R)))]

It wasn't really poking fun at just them though. It was poking fun at the conventions of fawning media portrayals of stars; the wilfully contrived dramatisations, the need to force real people into convenient dramatic caricatures, the skewing of the facts etc...It was meant to be loud, silly and overblown.

Yeah, I do understand that, but I just think that Posh and Becks is a parody that's been done so many times that it just isn't funny anymore. Next week might be more interesting, it's George Michael.

[matt228]

Next week might be more interesting, it's George Michael.
I didn't watch this week's for the reason that I don't particularly care about Posh & Becks. I think George Michael is a drug-fiend so won't watch that either. He's gay - so what? Who gives a shit?

I'm going now to watch "The Blunder Years".

P.S. Sunderland's first home game since Keano took over is today at 3pm! I'm so happy I renewed my season ticket.

[Drunk Barney]

Ah Man United, they do so much for English football don't they Matt!:D

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I like the Blunder Years. It had very little that's grossly offensive like other Scully episodes. Only annoying thing is Homer screaming IMO.

And "Star Stories" was hilarious! As VeryJamy said, it was poking fun at the media more than the celebrities themselves. If you saw the advert for it, it's as if the whole thing could be an article in Heat, et al.

The what?
It was on the other side. [pun intended]

[Reverend Lovejoy]

I
And "Star Stories" was hilarious! As VeryJamy said, it was poking fun at the media more than the celebrities themselves. If you saw the advert for it, it's as if the whole thing could be an article in Heat, et al.


I agree. I saw Star Stories, too.

[matt228]

Man Utd didn't do it, Keano did it. Quinny is Sunderland's real saviour for taking over, if he hadn't done that we would never have gotten Keano.

In other news, I've re-watched The Blunder Years. I must have been really critical last time I watched it. It really isn't that bad. The worst parts were the Burly B-plot being dragged out far too long (the prank at the start was good however), and Homer screaming for FAR too long. Also, why was Smithers (Jr) wearing glasses as a baby? C/C-. That ranks it way higher than the absolute piles of shit Saturdays of Thunder, Bart's Friend Falls in Love and Saddelsore Galactica.

[Nameless]

That ranks it way higher than the absolute piles of shit Saturdays of Thunder, Bart's Friend Falls in Love

...

To avoid this post from looking like a complete nonevent, Girls Just Want To Have Sums is on tonight!

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

yeah I'm speechless too, nameless

[Simpsons Forever!]

The Blunder Years was awful, just as bad as I remember and one of the very few episodes I give a big, fat F to.

[Simpsons Forever!]

Where do you find out this info, and if you give me a site can you tell me what to do next. I can never usaully find it!

The direct link is: http://www.channel4sales.com/audience_data/overnights

And sorry to double post, but Wezzo's updated again for October, in which we can look forward to the UK Premiere of Season 18! Here are the new episodes showing on Sky in October:

8th October: HABF13 Regarding Margie
15th October: HABF16 Marge and Homer Turn A Couple Play
22nd October: HABF15 The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and her Homer *S18 PREMIERE!*
29th October: HABF18 Jazzy and the Pussycats

Fantastic line-up - at least 4 solid weeks of brand new episodes! :D

[simplysimpsons]

A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love cuts!:
Cut 1:
Burns: Great Heavens! It's one of those nude female fire stations!
Burns: *sighs, and goes to leave* I'll always be second fiddle to some kitten stuck in a tree. Smithers!
Smithers is trapped in a corner by some of the club dancers
Smithers:Aaaahhh!

Cut 2:
Homer injects himself with Burns' aphrodesiac. Cut to the Simpson house, he runs upstairs, drooling, carrying Marge, and slams the bedroom door. Cut to Homer and Marge in bed. Cut to each of Bart, Lisa and Flanders' shocked impressions.

Ehh, they were fair, but the first one was especially noticeable. I was surprised Homer's paint can on weiner line was left in.
^ EDIT! Great news, Simpsons Forever!

[Nameless]

i don't believe he ever actually injected himself with the aphrodesiac ;)

[Adamm R)))]

Awesome news about the premiere! We'll be almost up to date once again.

And also, I wonder why C4 are so scissor happy with these episodes? The first cut is pointless.

[Nameless]

Awesome news about the premiere! We'll be almost up to date once again.

And also, I wonder why C4 are so scissor happy with these episodes? The first cut is pointless.

You might want to correct your signature, it's 18 not 17 ;)

First cut makes sense to me...presumably they're trying to leave out 'adult' content.

[Adamm R)))]

You might want to correct your signature, it's 18 not 17 ;)

Wow, I'm bad with numbers in this thread.

And to think they call me "add 'em". :rimshot:

[Adamm R)))]

Girls Just Wanna Have Sums was a bit meh. I loved the I&S musical. Too much of the episode was consumed by the boy/girl difference humour, which was pretty bad, most of it seemed a bit too "have you ever noticed how men always leave the toilet seat up?", in other words, very obvious and bland. Skinner's stuff was a bit too odd, I didn't really like it. One joke made me smirk, that was Homer in the doghouse literally. The biggest laugh I got out of the episode was the odd looks that my family gave me when I said the soloution to the equation (YxY=25) out loud. Overall, C

[matt228]

yeah I'm speechless too, nameless
I really hated those two episodes. Especially Bart's Friend Falls in Love.

[Nameless]

and...why did you hate them, exactly?

[matt228]

and...why did you hate them, exactly?
I didn't like the plots. Especially BFFIL. Saddlesore Galactica's 3rd act is quite possibly the worst act ever.

[Nameless]

Saddlesore is irrelevant; I only quoted Fall in Love and Saturdays :P.

[matt228]

Saddlesore is irrelevant; I only quoted Fall in Love and Saturdays :P.
Plot issues for all 3.

[Drunk Barney]

Matt - in response to your question on the front page, yes I do read it from time to time but I wouldn't be bothered and would fully understand if you decided to give it up. :)

[matt228]

Matt - in response to your question on the front page, yes I do read it from time to time but I wouldn't be bothered and would fully understand if you decided to give it up. :)
All the information can be found at the SNPP UK & Ireland Listings (http://www.snpp.com/upcoming/uk.html) page, so I will not be updating further. Hitherto I think most people have just been using SNPP anyway. Thanks for a reply!

[Simpsons Forever!]

Girls Just Want To Have Sums was a good episode, but not quite good enough to give an A to. The ending was much too sudden again, even though the plot was strong. B+ 4/5

[FuriousGeorge]

"Girls just wanna have sums" wasn't a bad episode, but the "battle of the sexes" stuff did drag on, and the ending was too sudden with no resolved issues about the school. Lisa undercover as a boy was entertaining, especially the nickname toilet.

[Greased Scotsman]

Sums? Meh. Good bits, bad bits. "Twenty-seven" was freakin' hilarious.

I have always loved Blunder Years, and rewatching it didn't change anything. And I don't get all the criticism levelled at Homer The Moe. I liked it (first time I'd seen it in years).

And I have Hunka Hunka Burns recorded on Sky+, and those edits you guys were talking about aren't there - the episode is uncut. At least for me.

It's good to be back.

[Simpsons Forever!]

The Blunder Years picked up 1.6m viewers - way better than last week's episode.

[Billy]

Girls Just Wanna Have Sums - pretty good. And Greased Scotsman just reminded me of '27!', the best gag there.

Yikes, big leap for Season 13 on Channel 4. Maybe it's the start of a slow improvement as people actually start to realise these are new episodes?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Just noticed a cut in The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace on Sky One tonight. I'd never noticed it before, and it's not listed on Britsons:

Homer: Oh, that. I stuck a couple extra legs on there, 'cause I kept tipping over when I was trying to invent stuff.
Lisa: They're on hinges. That's really ingenious, Dad!
Marge: It could save lives!
Homer: Really? You think it's a good idea?
Bart: Oh, yeah! Safety sells! Especially to lame-os.
Marge: I'd buy one.
Lisa: Me too.

I definitely remember the line, probably from the BBC. Does any know if it has been cut on Sky previously?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

edit: stupid wireless crapping out, the first post must have got submitted somehow...

[George Cauldron]

Just noticed a cut in The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace on Sky One tonight. I'd never noticed it before, and it's not listed on Britsons:

Homer: Oh, that. I stuck a couple extra legs on there, 'cause I kept tipping over when I was trying to invent stuff.
Lisa: They're on hinges. That's really ingenious, Dad!
Marge: It could save lives!
Homer: Really? You think it's a good idea?
Bart: Oh, yeah! Safety sells! Especially to lame-os.
Marge: I'd buy one.
Lisa: Me too.

I definitely remember the line, probably from the BBC. Does any know if it has been cut on Sky previously?

It must have been cut on Sky all the time since it was first shown, because I cannot recall the "especially to lame-os" line at all. I've never heard it before. So I checked the snpp.com capsule to see if it was ever there (not that I don't trust you, sorry!) and lo and behold, the line existed. Why would Sky cut it? It's a seemingly harmless line.

[Nameless]

And I have Hunka Hunka Burns recorded on Sky+, and those edits you guys were talking about aren't there - the episode is uncut. At least for me.

We're discussing the version C4 edited at 5pm, not the 8:30pm one.

[Billy]

I would only guess that some guy at Sky thought 'lame-o' was a slang term for a disabled person or something. Lame-o.

On a similar note...does Bart the Mother have a 'In Memory of Phil Hartman' card at the end? Because I've never seen it in any airing.

[George Cauldron]

Neither have I. Nor has the 'In Memory of Steven Jay Gould' card been seen at the end of another episode. I don't know who the guy was outside of his guest appearance, and I'm sure a lot of UK viewers don't know who he was, but still, that's no reason to edit it out.

[Ivan]

I would only guess that some guy at Sky thought 'lame-o' was a slang term for a disabled person or something. Lame-o.

On a similar note...does Bart the Mother have a 'In Memory of Phil Hartman' card at the end? Because I've never seen it in any airing.

I know I'm not from the UK so really have no right to post here, but thought I'd say the "In Memory of Phil Hartman" card only appeared on Bart the Mother's original airing. Personally, I think they should include it on the episode for the season 10 dvd.

George Cauldron, the name Steven Jay Gould rings a bell, but I can't remember what episode he appeared in...little help? :confused:

[George Cauldron]

He played the scientist guy in Lisa the Skeptic. I can't remember what episode his 'In Memory Of...' card appears on (I haven't seen it!) but I think it's in season fourteen.


The episodes we get here in the UK are usually always the original aired episodes in the US, which makes the edit to Bart the Mother all the more surprising.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

It must have been cut on Sky all the time since it was first shown, because I cannot recall the "especially to lame-os" line at all. I've never heard it before. So I checked the snpp.com capsule to see if it was ever there (not that I don't trust you, sorry!) and lo and behold, the line existed. Why would Sky cut it? It's a seemingly harmless line.
Yeah I made sure to check the SNPP capsule; that's where I got the dialogue for the scene from. Funny no one noticed it before.

Another random comment that I meant to post with the cut: what is with the poor audio quality on that episode? From the point when Homer says "All week it's been my lifelong dream..." (just before that cut), to some point in the Edison museum, the audio goes fuzzy. It wasn't as noticable when I watched it last night, but I remember it being quite poor on previous viewings.

[Adamm R)))]

I can't remember what episode his 'In Memory Of...' card appears on (I haven't seen it!) but I think it's in season fourteen.

Papa's Got a Brand New Badge. And that censorship of 'lame-o' is just...well, lame-o.

[matt228]

I know I'm not from the UK so really have no right to post here, but thought I'd say the "In Memory of Phil Hartman" card only appeared on Bart the Mother's original airing. Personally, I think they should include it on the episode for the season 10 dvd.
You have every right to post here - as long as you talk about UK-related topics (mainly in relation to the show) I don't see why not. Why would they take the dedication out of an episode - I would've thought that it's better to leave a reminder that they miss the person rather than just say it once. It will probably be in the S10 DVD.

Which episode was the dedication to George Harrison included? I seem to remember seeing it fairly recently, perhaps it was S13?

[Simpsons Forever!]

It was A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love, I think.

[Adamm R)))]

It will probably be in the S10 DVD.
Don't be so sure. Team Homer lacked it's original Doris Grau tribute. And apparently Mother Simpson original had a tribute to Jackie Banks, someone who worked in the animation dpartment.

[Ivan]

It was A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love, I think.


Looked at the One Step Beyond Forever Guide, and I believe that's correct. You guys are pretty lucky. Out of all the Jean seasons, 13 is the only one that hasn't currently aired where I live. And neither has seasons 10-12...(well maybe that's a good thing...)

[Greased Scotsman]

On other UK-related news, did anyone else hear about Top Gear's Richard Hammond being critically injured in a land-speed record attempt for the new series?

He's in a critical condition at Leeds General Hospital. I really hope he puls through - the show just wouldn't be the same without him.

[Adamm R)))]

^Yeah, I hope Hammond pulls through.

Was there a cut in She of Little Faith when the rocket took off? For me, the episode was muted for a second or two. It could've been just my TV, but was there a cut there? My guess would be that C4 removed some flashes of the rocket taking off.

EDIT: Review time:

I really liked She of Little Faith. The jokes were pretty good and the characters were all good enough. It felt very fresh after watching the holdovers. I have a few bugs with it, but nothing major. Overall A-, great start Mr Jean, the show really has a great future with you, I'm sure in 5 years time, we'll all be in love with your new episodes! ;-/

[simplysimpsons]

^ I thought that was my TV reception going! I'm not sure what that was about, was the flashing from the rocket really that bad for C4 to do such a sloppy cut?

Anyway, She Of Little Faith: good and very enjoyable episode. Definitely toned down from the Scully era. One or two questionable scenes like the bacon/butter thing, and the middle part of the episode was a bit dry - they could have explored more with Burns running the church. But there were a lot of laugh out loud scenes like Flanders' rocket packing itself away, and 'you'll get yours!'. I loved the ending, too- B+/A-

[Reverend Lovejoy]

Anyway, She Of Little Faith: good and very enjoyable episode. Definitely toned down from the Scully era. One or two questionable scenes like the bacon/butter thing, and the middle part of the episode was a bit dry - they could have explored more with Burns running the church. But there were a lot of laugh out loud scenes like Flanders' rocket packing itself away, and 'you'll get yours!'. I loved the ending, too- B+/A-

She Of Little Faith is my favourite episode of season 13, but I agree the middle scene should have been improoved. They should have focused more on the church in general - the rocket scene went on way too long, IMO.

[Adamm R)))]

Haha, is anyone watching Best of the Worst at the moment? There is a couple that got married in poor Simpsons costumes and their vow was "'till death do us Bart". :LOL:

[matt228]

Haha, is anyone watching Best of the Worst at the moment? There is a couple that got married in poor Simpsons costumes and their vow was "'till death do us Bart". :LOL:
I love it how David Mitchell mentioned that even on The Simpsons, "Bart" isn't a verb.

[matt228]

On other UK-related news, did anyone else hear about Top Gear's Richard Hammond being critically injured in a land-speed record attempt for the new series?

He's in a critical condition at Leeds General Hospital. I really hope he puls through - the show just wouldn't be the same without him.
Sorry for double-post.

Should anyone be interested, the Top Gear and Braniac: Science Abuse (although this year's series of Braniac was his last) presenter Richard Hammond has been moved from intensive care in his hospital, and his condition has been downgraded from "serious but stable" to "stable" (on Wednesday night it was "critical"). It looks like he'll pull through.

[Adamm R)))]

^Good news about that.

Anyway, a couple of side notes, BBC2 are showing The Shining at 10:30pm today and if you haven't already seen it, I'd recommend watching it. Not only because it's a good film, but it really adds another layer to The Shinning and you really appreciate how good the parody was, when now they're making half assed attmepts that sort of resemble the original, like Wiz Kidz.

Also, new QI next Friday at 10pm!

[H Thompson]

She of Little faith is mixed.
I can't belive how utterly loathsome marge is in this episo