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In the interest of not freaking Simpsons nerds out, I've hidden what some might consider a spoiler from the April 17, 2005 episode below.
update (from Matt): now that it has played out on the west coast, here's a 3.5Mb video clip from the show, demonstrating the tivo sounds and tivo spoof OS of Professor Frink's astrology machine.
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Pity the 'spoiler formatting' didn't carry over to the RSS feed. Now this week's Simpsons is ruined for me. ;-)
Posted by: Kevin Fox | April 17, 2005 at 09:31 PM
Didn't work in the RSS feed, but I don't care because I saw the ep first anyways. Just thought you should know that anyone who subscribes to your blog via RSS would've been spoiled...
Posted by: Jonathan | April 17, 2005 at 09:36 PM
Rock on! That was a great clip - right down to the Tivo noises :)
Posted by: Nino | April 18, 2005 at 06:31 AM
> now that it has played out on the west coast...
Hello?? Most DVR owners don't watch programs when they air. :)
Posted by: Don | April 18, 2005 at 08:36 AM
I can't get this video to play. What codec does it use?
Posted by: Mike Frisco | April 18, 2005 at 09:55 AM
It's MPEG2, try using VLC from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ to open it.
Posted by: George Hotelling | April 18, 2005 at 10:18 AM
Hah! Thats great - The remote is the dog bone remote too.
Posted by: Curtis | April 18, 2005 at 04:49 PM
You can Download a Free Mpeg2 Codec that will work with Windows Media Player here:
Stinkys-MPEG-Codec
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Stinkys-MPEG-Codec.shtml
Posted by: Intrepid | April 30, 2005 at 12:44 PM