Nobody ever agrees with me that Woodrow Wilson was the worst. Sigh.

White gold! Texas tea! ….sweetener!

Hmmm, interesting parallel. And I will say I didn't expect that one to really be them. How about normal episodes?

The main thing I remember was a profile of the family and W's political education that suggested that he was a total mama's boy. And we saw how THAT manifested.

I remember seeing that line a bunch, but the scene where Homer asks Marge if he should become president for her was new to my memory, and one that yeah, could easily be cut for syndication.

All right, I've dropped in an edit. As I mention, part of the reason is that I think I assume that any time the Simpsons had a celebrity play a major role in an episode, they got that celebrity voice. Are there major counter-examples to that from this era?

Uh, you'll note I was responding to someone claiming it was.

There's nothing in the Wikipedia entry that says it wasn't actually Bush, and the Background section implies that it is.

Oops. Huh. You know, I watched the episode when it aired, saw it advertised, knew the history of the show with the Bushes, and have never once in my life questioned that it wasn't George Bush Sr. They got so many guest stars in those days! Why not Bush?

It was only in the movies briefly as a vision of the potential future that Frodo sees in, I think, Lothlorien. And the climax of it gets shifted to Sarumon and Wormtongue on the tower in one of the scenes in the RotK Extended Edition.

Just a tech issue. Apparently it's on The List Of Things To Do

Yup.

The original last episode, "The Gift", I assume you mean.

There are CHANGES, but I don't see the changes as being "less RPG." The same kind of RPG-lite choices are in both games, at roughly the same intervals. It's more "combat requires more attention now" which, well, lots of RPGs give lots of attention to combat.

Yeah, I know. One of the weird things about modern RPGs is that BioWare invented the chatty side characters as an accident of their plan to have BG1 be a multiplayer D&D simulation.

Yep. This is another case where B5's position as a doorway between procedural and serialized TV is very relevant. It's an age before constant Previouslies.

you just broke Khalid's heart.

I think B5's has a stronger narrative pull because it's not a massive surprise. dropped in after the apparent climax. We knew that dealing with Earth was always going to be necessary, where the Scouring was more like "oh, and then also this."

there are changes to the overall tone and narrative structure. The sort of open "you're playing Babylon 5!" fades a bit. It's more BSG in ME2, and favors smaller-scale action set pieces. I tend to like all three games about equally, but if you struggled with the combat/interface of ME1, ME2 is a huge improvement.

The reputation of ME1 as being more RPG and ME2 as being more shooter is one of constant bafflement to me. The combat is significantly better in ME2 and 3, yes, but it's no less an RPG. Unless you define an RPG as "horrible inventory interface" and "too many pointless options when leveling up."