"…the disaffected young son of an art dealer (Cynthia Nixon) and a publishing scion (Pierce Brosnan). Working at a fancy bookstore somewhere in his 20s…"

It's got a lot of good gags, but I found the "Homer is a homophobe suddenly (and in this episode only)" thing to be a little forced. I did enjoy the call-back a few seasons later when he included it in his list of previous careers.

"Hey have you seen the power-lifter with the prolapsed butthole? Hold on, lemme find it!"

I remember when the Nut Tree was still actually a thing … toy store, train rides, overpriced gift shop, overpriced restaurant, airplane museum, pumpkin patch and scarecrow maze in the Fall …

The Praetorian Guard look like something that's going to get fixed in post.

At least it's not a six-foot-tall green Trix rabbit.

But Tamriel is still totes legit, right?

Re: Papa Roach. Having also grown up in Vacaville, CA I always found that promo picture of them standing in some kind of inner city/post-industrial ruin to be hilarious.

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Bender was a usually-great character who had an unfortunate tendency to drift into Jerkass Homer territory a little too often.

As someone who saw this as a six-year-old in 1977, one of the best parts of the re-release was getting to see it in a theater with six-year-olds seeing for the first time. Yeah, little dude who went "WHOOOOAAH!" when Luke first fires up his lightsaber … I know exactly what you mean.

"Hey, everybody, an old man is talking: Having been born in 1978 …"

GodDAMMIT!

We'll be heading out to the bar later but I don't have any cash. Might need to swing by the Ass-To-Mouth.

"You know, Tom, that Greatest Generation of yours also produced the fucking genocidal monsters who were trying to take over the world."

They didn't bother with the hiding-under-the-desk-crap when I was growing up, but they sure did fill our heads with how shitty everything would be after the inevitable nuclear holocaust. Fortunately, we lived about 20 miles from a major Air Force base so most of those discussions were prefaced with "Now we, of course,…

Well that was the time frame in which I first discovered booze and weed.

I must have missed the thing with the napkins.

Took me a couple of read-throughs on that headline before it dawned on me that those were band names. I thought I was having a stroke. Need more coffee.

William Marshall was a stone cold badass.