298. Special Edna (a.k.a. Love and Marking)
gs: Little Richard (Voice of Himself) Marcia Wallace (Voice of Edna Krabappel) Pamela Hayden (Voice of VMilhouse/Jimbo(?)) Tress MacNeille (Voice of Agnes Skinner, others?) Russi Taylor (Voice of Martin Prince) Karl Wiedergott (Voice of Various)
Edna looks forward to the apple picking trip she is going to take Seymour, only he has to cancel because he needs to take care of his mother. Meanwhile, Bart looks for ways to keep from working on his research paper for WWI, including photocopying his butt and joyriding in a Blackhawk helicopter. The day before it's due, he uses Grampa as a resource. Bart receives F for his effort he works on a revised version of the paper after school. When Bart sees how sad Principal Skinner has made Ms. Krabappel when he cancels a date with her in favor of his mother, Bart goes out with her for the evening. At Lisa's suggestion, Bart decides to do more for his teacher, he nominates for the "Teacher of the Year" award. Knowing who she has to put with, the award committee selects Ms. Krabappel as their nominee. The award finals are held in Orlando, Florida at "Efcot Center." As the nominator, Bart (and his family) gets to go to award ceremony as well. Who isn't going, Seymour Skinner of course, that is until he changes mind. Of course, he has to bring mother along. At the award ceremony, Seymour is worried that he will lose Edna forever. He gets Bart to sabotage her chances at winning, but when it comes down to it he can't let Bart go through with it. Edna doesn't win the award, but she does get a marriage proposal from Seymour, with an engagement ring from Little Richard.
b: 05-Jan-2003 pc: EABF02 w: Dennis Snee d: Bob Anderson
NOTE: Blackboard: None.
Couch: In a fry basket the family members (who appear frozen) are dropped into hot oil. The basket is removed from the hot oil and its contents (the deep fried family members) are dropped out of the inverted basket onto the couch. Next a giant hand reaches into the living room and shakes salt over them.
A treasure trove of jabs at Epcot and everything else:
1.) Epcot slogan: "When every other place is booked".
2.) Great moments with Mr. Eisner (based on the rumor that Disney went through all that trouble in the past couple of years, like Disney losing in the stocks, Disney World's/Disneyland's/California Adventure's bad attendance and the failure of "Treasure Planet" because of Eisner's crass marketing of Disney items and bad strategies, execution of things, and ideas).
3.) Eastern Airlines' "World of the Future" ride, a ride made in 1965 telling the riders of what they think of the world in 1987, which doesn't even seem a damn thing like the real 1987 (robots invading the Earth and electric cars that make people gay? That is just not 1987), and for those who don't know, Eastern Airlines is an airplane company that was a famous airplane that went bankrupt in 1990. One year later, another big airplane company, Pan-Am, went bankrupt. It also makes fun of those old "...of the Future" attractions at Disney World from the 1950's-1960's where people look at what people think about life in the 1980's-1990's that when those decades came, it didn't even look like what the rides said. Those are inspired by the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New Yor World's Fair that talked about life in the not-so-disant future, and the name inspired the title of the cartoon show "Futurama".
4.) Enron's "Ride of Broken Dreams" roller coaster that only goes down. It is supposed to be about being a rich man to poor. The roller coaster outline resembles Enron's stock graph. That resembles the Enron bankruptcy scandal in 2002 that began with the company losing money and an official committing suicide to the company finally being shut down.
5.) Disney's Teacher of the Year ceremony is sort of like Grad Nite for high school graduates every year.
6.) When Homer breaks through Magic Kingdom, he approaches a churro vendor. When he asks for one, the vendor asks for 14 dollars. That makes fun of how Disney tends to be expensive with even the most worthless of things.
People Bart thinks of as men being eligible to date to Ms. Krabappel include the drunken version of Barney, Captain McAllister, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Snake, Gill, Grampa, Kirk Van Houten, Milhouse, the pimple faced teenager, Kodos (or Kang?), the guy in the Duff bottle suit, Moe, Hans Moleman, Comic Book Guy, Kearney, Matt Groening, Otto and finally Mr. Teeny.
'Tis yet another breakthrough episode: Ms. Krabappel is now engaged to her boss and lover, Seymour Skinner.
Finally The Simpsons directly satire 9/11: The wrestling scene with "Uncle Slam" stabbing an American flag on "Osama bin Rotten", while "The Secretary of Hate: Colin Kapow-ell" drops anvils on "Rotten"., is based on the main characters in the fight against terrorism.
I believe they already sort of addressed 9/11 in "I am Furious Yellow". Remember? "Bin Laden In a Blender"?
Bender (from "Futurama") and Pikachu make appearances in Bart's hallucination.
Homer yells "Whoo! Purple Rain!" at Little Richard, then says "Michael Jackson told me to shut up" after LR tells him to shut up. He's confusing LR with both Prince and Michael Jackson.
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