He was a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory. From there it all went downhill.

You've got the all you can eat lawsuit, Mr. Sparkle, Mojo the helper monkey, and the giant sandwich stuff from the Duff gardens episode.

I think the mention in one of the commentaries that actual last episode they did that year was the Kamp Krusty episode but it was held over for the next season in the end.

It seems to me that whenever Homer was given the B-plot and left out of the main story, they end up outshining everything else from those episodes.
 
"Dad, what if I told you you could lose weight without dieting or lifting a finger?""I'd say you're a lying scumbag. Why sweety?"

One of the subtle things that I've always enjoyed from "Not without My Daughter" is how George Micheal sort of flirts with the security guards daughter, then quickly blows it by once again going to the well with the joke about not being daughter enough.

Here in the boudoir, the gourmand metamorphosizes into the voluptuary!

"cross his arms, nod his head, and look off in the distance"…sure seems to perfectly captures the managerial skills of the Art Howe I remember as manager of the Mets. I wonder if they include that part of story, where Bean calls up Steve Phillips and tricked him into taking Howe off his hands.

It doesn't seem like he;d been in any trouble if he stopped after his comments about thinking he was a Jew, it's the whole part after that about being Nazi and understanding and sympathising with Hitler where seems to loose the crowd.

The only thing between him and us is a thin layer of gabardine…
I'm surprised that the whole going commando thing went unmentioned.

Another Callback
The quilt in the oven was a callback to when Brick was allowed to be home alone.

I like both shows, and I have to say the only similarities are in the word "Middle" in the title and being about white families that are working class. Maybe the reason people think of these shows so similar is the fact that few other shows have depicted families in that type of situation (I can think of Roseanne and…

Looking again you guys are correct, it is just Jeff showing the one red card, though I still got that sense that he was the one hold out based on Annie's being so angry about Pierce giving blanks to Jeff.

Annie wasn't the one hold out
If you watch the last flashback it;s pretty clear Jeff is the one who puts forward the red card in the vote on keeping Pierce in the study group.

How much is left to tell?
I seem to recall the original novel being pretty through in telling that part of the story (which was for the most part used in the second movie).
And is this the same guy who wrote the other non-Puzo Godfather novels? I read the first one, which was OK but kind of screwed around with some of…

It's been fun
Thanks for the write-ups Todd. It;d be nice to have known where they would have gone with some of the tangents never fully fleshed out (i.e. the Brennen and Barry dealings that went on earlier).
Also, to add to the list of things that didn't quite work out, I can;t imagine that a ref could be that obvious…

I vaguely recall that there were also some weird teenage mutant ninja Simpson t-shirts around this time too.

Please refrain from discussing or engaging in any inter-office *bleep* or *bleep* -ing, or finger *bleep* or *bleep* -sting or *bleep* -esting or *bleep* eing or *bleep* or even *bleep* . Oh and if anyone tries anything with my sister Lindsay, I'll take off my pants, I'll show you my *bleep* . And I'll personally…

Also the Krusty Burglar scene.
"Stop! Stop, he's already dead…"

Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Fat Tony: Bart, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Fat Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Fat Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like……

Jimmy James, is that the one that was serialized in the NY Times Magazine some years back?