Great couple of posts, Geekhis - although, I'm
still wondering when we'll see a bit more detail on
Aladdin.
BTW, for the Three Faces post (even though I am aware it's old news by this point), here's a little headcanon I have for NF. When they were first casting the show, Yeardley Smith and Judith Barsi auditioned for each other's part (Barsi for Lisa, Smith for Maggie). Basically, the idea Groening and co. have is that they use an actual kid for Lisa (well, Barsi would be in her early teens by this point, so not really a "kid" anymore, but you get the idea...) and adult VAs for Bart and Maggie to show that Lisa's a bit more innocent.
However, when doing some "test" dialogue together, the voice director asks Smith and Barsi, as a bit of an experiment, to swap characters - and Groening and co. find themselves enjoying the performances so much they decide to keep the swap.
If it's more from the kids perspective I wonder if people will be debating if things really happened or the kids just exaggerated/imagined the weirder stuff.
Interestingly, something similar to this (whilst the weirder stuff is real) goes in the character of Burns, at least initially. Before the show gets a retool (and he becomes a more prominent character), Burns is basically a child's image of their parents' boss (I was going to say "dad's boss", but, of course, sometimes the mum works and sometimes both parents work...) - mean, grouchy and, maybe, engaged in some kind of sinister scheme.
This is based on something Groening said OTL about Marge's hair being, at least in part, a small child's perspective of an ordinary hairstyle.
Re: a bit more on
Earth vs. Bart Simpson, because I'd really gone into depth in how this one played out....
1. It's a dream Bart's having after a trip to a natural history museum.
2. Aside from the Optimus Prime-voiced brachiosaur judge (which I cannot
believe nobody commented on), the jury are all dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals - basically, the idea is they didn't go extinct because of humans, so they're the perfect impartial jury.
3. The episode's a big tearjerker - it's chronicling a big subject and it doesn't hold back. It's many kids' first introduction to things like the thylacine, the Carribean monk seal and the Steller's sea cow... and how they met their tragic ends.
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