The summer of non-canon back end streaming exclusive holdovers
continues. As a non-canon episode this was pretty decent, especially
since I was lucky enough to realize what it was spoofing as I pondered
the -ley in the title for the nth time and realized it was the only
character name not simply copied over in the first few minutes.
Actually, realizing it's The Talented Mr. Ripley occurred to me shortly
before noticing the letters in the name. (I am only familiar with the
1999 movie, not the book or its other adaptations/followups.) With that
pat on the back out of the way, I think it did a pretty good job, adding
more dramatic irony at the end than I seem to recall from the source
material, character gags not bad (but Wario... paging Family Guy), etc. Interesting stylistic choice to make it ALL black and white (except for
one part, and, oddly, the end logos; FG's 2021 noir episode used B&W
there!). I don't know who chose the secondary end credits font for the
crowded pages, but it doesn't really fit.

BUT SPEAKING OF TEXT: it took me several hours from sitting down to
finally finishing watching as I tried troubleshooting (and experiencing
some other unrelated setbacks), because of a GLITCH in the D+
presentation. (I am trying to keep my thoughts on the episode separate,
but I'm a little cranky.) Did this happen to anyone else? Forced
captions, the kind you normally would get to translate onscreen text
while listening to a dub, kept popping up despite my settings and
despite the fact that I was listening to the English audio of an English language show, and English subtitles like these simply have no need to
exist, let alone be forced on! There were many in the first minute or
so, and they vanished after I reloaded the episode, but a batch of half
a dozen or so from "art junk" about 4.5 minutes in all the way through
the end of act 2 did not disappear no matter what I did. Different
devices, rounds of updates, even a step where a support representative refreshed my account or something and I had to log back in... nuttin'. I
hope this gets fixed swiftly.

Previous episode stuff
7F22*: "My name is Seymour Skinner" to bank teller in silly voice is
very similar to impersonating Mr. Burns at the post office (except he remembered the first name!)

*Aptly, too, in a meta sense: IIRC is this is the only other episode to premiere in July in the entire history of the show!

Goof
Chalmers makes a joke calling Simpsley a primate, though humans are
primates. Perhaps excusable in the same way calling someone an animal
can be an insult, but still worth spreading the word on.

The new Lunchlady Doris list (it's the voicing, not being canon):
HABF15, JABF02, KABF06, LABF08, MABF12, NABF11, NABF13, NABF15,
NABF16, PABF06, PABF15, PABF19, RABF03, RABF09, RABF10, RABF11,
SABF07, TABF16, XABF21, ZABF06, ZABF08, QABF03, QABF12, UABF19,
OABF15, 35ABF02, 35ABF05, 35ABF18, 35ABF17, 36ABF04, 36ABF19


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

Eh, I didn't like this one. I never saw The Talented Mr. Ripley. Maybe that's why.


Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

The summer of non-canon back end streaming exclusive holdovers
continues. As a non-canon episode this was pretty decent, especially
since I was lucky enough to realize what it was spoofing as I pondered
the -ley in the title for the nth time and realized it was the only character name not simply copied over in the first few minutes.
Actually, realizing it's The Talented Mr. Ripley occurred to me shortly before noticing the letters in the name. (I am only familiar with the
1999 movie, not the book or its other adaptations/followups.) With that
pat on the back out of the way, I think it did a pretty good job, adding more dramatic irony at the end than I seem to recall from the source material, character gags not bad (but Wario... paging Family Guy), etc. Interesting stylistic choice to make it ALL black and white (except for
one part, and, oddly, the end logos; FG's 2021 noir episode used B&W there!). I don't know who chose the secondary end credits font for the crowded pages, but it doesn't really fit.

BUT SPEAKING OF TEXT: it took me several hours from sitting down to
finally finishing watching as I tried troubleshooting (and experiencing
some other unrelated setbacks), because of a GLITCH in the D+
presentation. (I am trying to keep my thoughts on the episode separate,
but I'm a little cranky.) Did this happen to anyone else? Forced
captions, the kind you normally would get to translate onscreen text
while listening to a dub, kept popping up despite my settings and
despite the fact that I was listening to the English audio of an English language show, and English subtitles like these simply have no need to exist, let alone be forced on! There were many in the first minute or
so, and they vanished after I reloaded the episode, but a batch of half
a dozen or so from "art junk" about 4.5 minutes in all the way through
the end of act 2 did not disappear no matter what I did. Different
devices, rounds of updates, even a step where a support representative refreshed my account or something and I had to log back in... nuttin'. I hope this gets fixed swiftly.

Previous episode stuff
7F22*: "My name is Seymour Skinner" to bank teller in silly voice is
very similar to impersonating Mr. Burns at the post office (except he remembered the first name!)

*Aptly, too, in a meta sense: IIRC is this is the only other episode to premiere in July in the entire history of the show!

Goof
Chalmers makes a joke calling Simpsley a primate, though humans are primates. Perhaps excusable in the same way calling someone an animal
can be an insult, but still worth spreading the word on.

The new Lunchlady Doris list (it's the voicing, not being canon):
HABF15, JABF02, KABF06, LABF08, MABF12, NABF11, NABF13, NABF15,
NABF16, PABF06, PABF15, PABF19, RABF03, RABF09, RABF10, RABF11,
SABF07, TABF16, XABF21, ZABF06, ZABF08, QABF03, QABF12, UABF19,
OABF15, 35ABF02, 35ABF05, 35ABF18, 35ABF17, 36ABF04, 36ABF19

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the entirety of the newer simpsons are just utter dog shit

On Fri, 2026-07-03 at 17:45 -0400, Matt Garvey wrote:

The summer of non-canon back end streaming exclusive holdovers
continues. As a non-canon episode this was pretty decent, especially
since I was lucky enough to realize what it was spoofing as I
pondered
the -ley in the title for the nth time and realized it was the only character name not simply copied over in the first few minutes.
Actually, realizing it's The Talented Mr. Ripley occurred to me
shortly
before noticing the letters in the name. (I am only familiar with the
1999 movie, not the book or its other adaptations/followups.) With
that
pat on the back out of the way, I think it did a pretty good job,
adding
more dramatic irony at the end than I seem to recall from the source material, character gags not bad (but Wario... paging Family Guy),
etc.
Interesting stylistic choice to make it ALL black and white (except
for
one part, and, oddly, the end logos; FG's 2021 noir episode used B&W there!). I don't know who chose the secondary end credits font for
the
crowded pages, but it doesn't really fit.

BUT SPEAKING OF TEXT: it took me several hours from sitting down to
finally finishing watching as I tried troubleshooting (and
experiencing
some other unrelated setbacks), because of a GLITCH in the D+
presentation. (I am trying to keep my thoughts on the episode
separate,
but I'm a little cranky.) Did this happen to anyone else? Forced
captions, the kind you normally would get to translate onscreen text
while listening to a dub, kept popping up despite my settings and
despite the fact that I was listening to the English audio of an
English
language show, and English subtitles like these simply have no need
to
exist, let alone be forced on! There were many in the first minute or
so, and they vanished after I reloaded the episode, but a batch of
half
a dozen or so from "art junk" about 4.5 minutes in all the way
through
the end of act 2 did not disappear no matter what I did. Different
devices, rounds of updates, even a step where a support
representative
refreshed my account or something and I had to log back in...
nuttin'. I
hope this gets fixed swiftly.

Previous episode stuff
7F22*: "My name is Seymour Skinner" to bank teller in silly voice is
very similar to impersonating Mr. Burns at the post office (except he remembered the first name!)

*Aptly, too, in a meta sense: IIRC is this is the only other episode
to
premiere in July in the entire history of the show!

Goof
Chalmers makes a joke calling Simpsley a primate, though humans are primates. Perhaps excusable in the same way calling someone an animal
can be an insult, but still worth spreading the word on.

The new Lunchlady Doris list (it's the voicing, not being canon):
HABF15, JABF02, KABF06, LABF08, MABF12, NABF11, NABF13, NABF15,
NABF16, PABF06, PABF15, PABF19, RABF03, RABF09, RABF10, RABF11,
SABF07, TABF16, XABF21, ZABF06, ZABF08, QABF03, QABF12, UABF19,
OABF15, 35ABF02, 35ABF05, 35ABF18, 35ABF17, 36ABF04, 36ABF19

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

Good news and bad news.

The good news is that, some time between the 9th or so and the 13th, the subtitle glitch got (mostly) fixed. I see now that Lisa has a line in
Italian when she first appears and this is subtitled in English, as a
closed caption, so maybe that has something to do with the
erroneous/redundant subs. However, it loses major style points for not
being part of the episode itself. And I say it was mostly fixed because
I still saw at least one (new!) wrong caption - in this case, a few
frames of a line of dialogue just inside the bank, which did not appear
when I went back later. Weird.

But the bad news: in that same time, D+ modified the way credits are
handled in a way that so far seems to have no remedy and I consider
completely unacceptable for presentation (especially presentation of
something that's supposed to be exclusive to this platform). Previously,
soon after the credits began, they would shrink into a tiny window so something else could be promoted (and possibly autoplayed); selecting
the credits to bring them back and rewinding (to any point) would stop
it from happening again during that playback session. NOW, in a browser
it shrinks them every time; on Roku (for me anyway) it pops up a
gigantic ribbon of recommendations (which takes a few clicks to dismiss because first it becomes a for-you button in the corner), better than shrinking but also not possible to forestall by letting it happen once.
Also, I haven't looked at other episodes, but this happens extremely
early, before even the cast credits begin - in fact, it's on the last EP
card, which also means the gigantic promo popup covers some of the text!

Only time will tell what happens next. I have already complained to the company, for whatever good that will do.

On 7/3/2026 17:45, Matt Garvey wrote:

BUT SPEAKING OF TEXT: it took me several hours from sitting down to
finally finishing watching as I tried troubleshooting (and experiencing
some other unrelated setbacks), because of a GLITCH in the D+
presentation. (I am trying to keep my thoughts on the episode separate,
but I'm a little cranky.) Did this happen to anyone else? Forced
captions, the kind you normally would get to translate onscreen text
while listening to a dub, kept popping up despite my settings and
despite the fact that I was listening to the English audio of an English language show, and English subtitles like these simply have no need to
exist, let alone be forced on! There were many in the first minute or
so, and they vanished after I reloaded the episode, but a batch of half
a dozen or so from "art junk" about 4.5 minutes in all the way through
the end of act 2 did not disappear no matter what I did. Different
devices, rounds of updates, even a step where a support representative refreshed my account or something and I had to log back in... nuttin'. I
hope this gets fixed swiftly.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.18
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)