The problem is that [...] too often it seems like little more than an overbudgeted, double-length episode of the Next Generation television series.

As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, but on reading the script for episode three, they asked Postgate to remove some " Clanger-speak ", explaining that although whistled, " you can ’ t say that on children ’ s television [...] you just can ’ t ".

Andrew Leal wrote, " The plot is standard [...] recalling nothing so much as a more graphic episode of Filmation's He-Man series.

[...] With this episode, The Simpsons had its premise down, and it certainly had its edge.

" In the Chicago Sun-Times, Ginny Holbert rated the episode three stars, and wrote " The clever series [...] stars an appealing group of actors who are just a bit funnier and better-looking than your average friend " but that Joey and Rachel's characteristics were under-developed.

Gustelle and Oliveira define DPH as " dissociative, trance-like, [...] but, unlike a daydream, [...] not self-directed "— however, daydreams and waking reveries are often characterised as " passive ", " effortless ", and " spontaneous ", while hypnagogia itself can sometimes be influenced by a form of autosuggestion, or " passive concentration ", so these sorts of episode may in fact constitute a continuum between directed fantasy and the more spontaneous varieties of hypnagogia.

The beginning of the episode thus shows that those with white skin can be uncivilized savages and those with yellow skin can be civilized and rational [...] This would be counter to the hegemonic representation of Asians in the United States media ; that diverse collective of peoples are consistently constructed in film and television as a menacing ' yellow horde.

Catharine Lumby of the University of Sydney cited the episode as an example of good satire as it " managed to explore a lot of issues in quite a deep way [...] without being overtly political " which she claimed, along with the episode's humor, made its anti-homophobia message more successful than that of other gay-themed shows like Queer as Folk.

" According to Knight Ridder, " some conservative groups [...] growled in advance over the episode ", but most pre-broadcast publicity was directed at the outing.

Kennerley further wrote that " based on this episode, [...] The Simpsons is in top form.

The list stated that the episode " offers three completely different tales, [...] boasting a potent combination of wit and humor " that, " the laughs never end " and that it " does a great job of incorporating Halloween-themed stories with the standard Simpsons charm ".

The episode was " so long " because, according to Oakley, " all three of these segments are very complex stories [...] and it's hard to fit three complete stories into 21 minutes.

" Kay McFadden of The Seattle Times wrote that the episode is " certainly not on a par with that all-time doppelganger classic, " Treehouse of Horror VII ", [...] still, No. 9's dialogue is sharp and there's reassuring continuity to such beloved institutions as Itchy and Scratchy.

He concluded his review by writing that the episode is " mediocre [...] at best.

Commenting on the episode, Selman said " It's kind of a combination of really nice, observational designs and then just [...] things that are deliberately wrong.

" That was kind of fun for me to try to make this stuff [...] as crazy as the story is, make it realistic ", Kirkland commented on directing the episode.

In the DVD commentary for the episode, the episodes showrunner Mike Scully opined that " there is a lot of truth in this story [...] There are certain requirements that the school has to meet in order to get state funding, and there are things that they'd rather look the other way on if it's gonna cost them money.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide called it " An odd episode [...] that goes on a bit too long and could probably have done with an entertaining B story.

Scully jokingly said that the episode was " thrown together [...] without thought or structure " by the writers.

[...] Throughout this episode, Apu's identity is reinforced as exotic other, but not so much as ' South Asian ' other, as an ' American ' ideal other, that more wholesome, romantic male juxtaposed to the Duff drinking, couch potato male typified by the men of Moe's bar and Homer Simpson.

" They also argued that the episode, as well as the series as a whole, offers a kind of intellectual defense of the common man against intellectuals, which they opined " helps explain its popularity and broad appeal [...] Saved Lisa's Brain " defends the common man against the intellectual, in a way that both the common man and the intellectual can understand and enjoy.

Jonathan Gray analyzed the self-referentiality in The Simpsons in his 2006 book Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, writing that " Sitcoms constantly ' reset ' themselves, living in [...] an ' existential circle ' in which nothing really changes, and every episode starts more or less where the last one started ; and The Simpsons frequently plays with this sitcom clock, and with the amnesia of sitcom memory.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

In the words of James Rachels, " Ethical egoism [...] endorses selfishness, but it doesn't endorse foolishness.

In the words of James Rachels, " Ethical egoism [...] endorses selfishness, but it doesn't endorse foolishness.

[...] It doesn't matter if you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, or a crack rock in your mouth.

Kirk's internal dilemma about what the future holds was echoed in the main theme: " It's Kirk taking control one last time and as he looks out into the stars he has the spark again [...] But there's an unresolved note, because it's very important that he doesn't trust the Klingons.

[...] Columbia's new CEO, Dawn Steel, said ' Whatever David Puttnam said before doesn't interest me '".

" AllMusic wrote, " Since the Manics deliver these charged lyrics as heavy guitar-rockers, the music doesn't always hit quite as forcefully as intended ", stating that the " relatively polished production and big guitar sound occasionally sell the music short, especially the lesser songs ", but calling the band's passion " undeniable, even on the weaker cuts [...] Debut albums rarely come as ambitious as the Manic Street Preachers ' Generation Terrorists.

Producer Sam Newman described him as " a very unique character " who " doesn't fit to the generic character molds you find in many other games, books and movies [...] not good, he's not necessarily evil -- Kain does as Kain believes ".

His curveball is thought to be especially difficult to hit, in 2004 Sandy Alomar Jr. called it the " best breaking ball I've seen ; Bert Blyleven doesn't throw it better [...] you don't know where it's going to land.

[...] The humor that is derived from the multiple movie and literary parodies was enough to leave a last impression on us as an audience-and who doesn't like a robot whose primary function is to find donuts?

In it, The Shinning segment was described as " a parody [...] with such detail comic timing " and that it " ranks with the great [...] spoofs of all time ", and the Time and Punishment segment as " one of the most beautifully random moments in Simpsons history ", but also said that the Nightmare Cafeteria segment " doesn't shine as brilliantly ".

Time noted that " he's sexy, but she doesn't need men [...] she's kind of there all by herself.

[...] " It doesn't take much to get Kelly angry but it ’ s all over very quickly.

[...] In my opinion it is better for the book to appear mutilated than for me to say what I don't believe.

When incarcerated in June 2006, on unconnected charges of corruption ( see below, " Arrest and imprisonment "), Vittorio Emanuele was recorded admitting that " I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them French judges ", leading to a call from Dirk Hamer's sister for Vittorio Emanuele to be retried in Italy for killing her brother.

[...] I have absolutely nothing left to say, except this: you have beaten me.

[...] I want to say I love you.

" Kavner believes he is " a true film-maker, one that has something to say, continually experimenting on different themes within his own film-making ," adding that " anything ever does, I always want to do, [...] I don't even have to read it.

One can easily guess what a European historical and existentialist philosopher might reply [...] You ask me, he would say, to ' die to History '; but man is not, and he cannot be anything else but History, for his very essence is temporality.

In my family they used to say that the Serbs in Bosnia were much better than Serbs in Serbia [...] and remember, the defense mechanism was not created through a short period of time ; it take decades, centuries [...] I am a biologist and I know: most capable of adapting and surviving are those species that live close to other species from whom they are endangered.

Producer Ralph Winter said, " We were not looking for someone to say ' Okay, I'll do it ', but people who were excited by the material [...] and would treat it as if it was the biggest picture ever being made.

Later, Paul Fry argued against McGann's stance when he pointed out, " It scarcely seems pertinent to say that ' To Autumn ' is therefore an evasion of social violence when it is so clearly an encounter with death itself [...] it is not a politically encoded escape from history reflecting the coerced betrayal [...] of its author's radicalism.

2005 ), the Seventh Circuit declined to extend Lawrence to cases of consensual adult incest, although it did say that Lawrence v. Texas was " a new substantive rule and [...] thus retroactive ".

[...] About once a quarter we go for dinner and I say ' are you ready to work here yet?

" This is the first time I say this – We contacted [...] the opposition to encourage them and to facilitate the process of dialogue with the regime.

Cherniack announced his retirement from political life in October 1980, saying " I am selfish enough to want a little more private life and have for some time [...] There comes a time in a person's life when he has a right to say I want to be relieved of the burden ".

As Léautaud would say, I could do without laws [...] I think most people couldn ’ t.

We may assume that in the dissolving process of the earthly union of body and soul and with the progressing breakaway from earthly entanglements, a special awakeness accrues to man [...] in which he can say yea or nay to God.

" During the performance he stated that " You can tell is not something we had a burning desire to do, but we did it because we love Touch and Go we love Corey Rusk [...] When history talks about rock music it has a tendency to skip from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana, something started in the 1980s and you're seeing the evidence of it all around you ", remarking that the label was " the best thing to happen to music in my lifetime, and we did this to say thanks ".

[...] very store in the country telephoned to say, ' Look, you have to tell people.

[...] Some might say we are now paying the price for the so-called ‘ benefits ’ of the multicultural society, the product of almost uncontrolled immigration and the abuse of asylum.

He would later say of this time: " I stayed in Europe for more than twenty years ; I worked in an Industrial Chemistry Laboratory [...] attended some secret socialist-oriented meetings [...] studied a little literature ; learned languages and directed a Reading and Writing School in a small Russian town ".

[...] t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market.

" Paula Nechak of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the film " simply another in a long line of utterly unnecessary remakes that, having nothing new to say, clutch at crassness and dumbness ," while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that while " the screenplay [...] makes the most of Thornton's dry, skewed humor, [...] nothing happens here that would distinguish this film from other sports movies.