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14th episode of the eleventh flavour of The Simpsons

"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no. Flavor eleven
Episode 14
Directed by Jim Reardon
Written past Ian Maxtone-Graham
Product code BABF11
Original air date February 13, 2000 (2000-02-13)
Guest advent
Shawn Colvin as Rachel Jordan
Episode features
Chalkboard gag "My interruption was not "mutual""
Couch gag The Simpsons come up in on bumper cars. Homer is and so pinned to the wall and slammed repeatedly.
Commentary Mike Scully
George Meyer
Ian Maxtone-Graham
Matt Selman
Jim Reardon
Mark Kirkland
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"Lonely Again, Natura-Diddily" is the fourteenth episode of the eleventh flavor of the American television receiver series The Simpsons, and marks the terminal regular appearance of the character Maude Flemish region. In the episode, she is killed in an accident while watching an auto race, devastating Ned Flemish region and prompting Homer to observe a new adult female for his grieving friend. After a series of unsuccessful dates, Ned begins to question his faith in God. However, his organized religion is restored afterward hearing the female person pb singer of a Christian stone band, played by guest star Shawn Colvin, sing in church. The episode's title is a parody of the song title "Solitary Again (Naturally)" past Gilbert O'Sullivan.

The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Jim Reardon. Maude was voiced by Marcia Mitzman Gaven subsequently regular vox histrion Maggie Roswell had left the prove over a pay dispute, and the producers decided to impale off the graphic symbol to open up upward for new storylines. The episode was viewed in 10.8 million households during its original broadcast on Feb 13, 2000, and was the highest-rated show on the Fox network the calendar week it aired.

A commercial for "Solitary Again, Natura-Diddily" that aired before the episode was broadcast was criticized by many viewers because it appeared the episode would be parodying an incident at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, Due north Carolina that left iii spectators expressionless. So-Play tricks chapter WCCB in Charlotte, Northward Carolina refused to show the commercial, but after viewing the episode they came to the determination that it was not making fun of the incident.

Reviews of "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" from tv critics have been mixed.

Plot [edit]

On a trip to the bird sanctuary, the Simpson family discovers that an oval racing track built around the sanctuary is opening that day, to Lisa's dismay. The family unit watches the stock car race from the stand and sees Ned Flanders and his family, who claims to enjoy the loftier levels of safety the drivers utilise. Later, a squad of cheerleaders fires free T-shirts from air cannons into the crowd, and Homer rudely demands one. Irritated, Maude leaves to buy hot dogs. The cheerleaders send a full salvo of T-shirts in Homer's management, merely at the last second, he spots a bobby pivot and bends over to pick information technology up, merely as Maude returns. The T-shirts hit Maude and she falls over the bleachers to the ground, where Dr. Hibbert declares her expressionless.

Everyone offers their condolences to a devastated Ned, and Bart reluctantly plays a Christian video game with Rod and Todd. Homer accompanies Ned back abode later on the funeral and talks with him subsequently that night when Ned is unable to sleep due to his loneliness and business organisation over having to raise his sons lonely (during which Homer confesses that he parked in the ambulance zone, making it impossible for Maude to be resuscitated). Feeling bad for his part in Maude's expiry, Homer secretly makes a videotape of Ned to show to single women beyond Springfield in guild to aid him get on with his life. In spite of the amateur editing (including footage of Maggie's nascency that Homer could not record over) Ned gets to date several women thanks to the tape, including Lindsey Naegle and Edna Krabappel, but none of them are successful.

On a Saturday night, Ned prays to God, but becomes angry when he feels he is not getting any response. The side by side morning, Ned is notwithstanding aroused and tells his sons he will not be going to church building, scaring them. Guilt-ridden, he later rushes to church building and upon entering, sees a Christian stone band, Kovenant, performing. He is attracted to the vocaliser, Rachel Jordan, who sings about non losing faith in God because He is always there for people. Inspired by the song, Ned later assists Rachel in loading some equipment onto her truck and confides in her of his loss, with which she sympathizes. He and Rachel go acquainted, but she has to get out for the side by side cease on the ring's bout, promising to come back and meet up with him later.

Production [edit]

"Alone Over again, Natura-Diddily" was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed past Jim Reardon equally part of the eleventh flavour of the show (1999–2000).[1] When the writing staff conceived the thought for the speedway parts, they were thinking that it would be a great opportunity for them to go several NASCAR drivers to make invitee appearances in the episode. However, according to Scully, they could not get a single one because "they were all concerned about the style we were portraying NASCAR".[two] Speedway racing is depicted in a negative low-cal in the episode, with an overemphasis on crashes.[two]

The episode features the decease of the character Maude Flanders,[3] who had previously been voiced by cast fellow member Maggie Roswell. This impale-off was the result of Roswell leaving The Simpsons in leap 1999 subsequently a pay dispute with the Fox Broadcasting Company, which arrogance the show.[4] [v] Since 1994, she had been flying between her Denver dwelling and Los Angeles twice a week to record episodes of The Simpsons.[6] [7] She somewhen grew tired of this, and the price of plane tickets was constantly increasing.[4] [8] [9] As a issue, she asked Trick for a pay raise from $2,000 per episode to $half-dozen,000 per episode. Yet, Fox only offered her a $150 heighten, which did not cover the travel costs, so she decided to quit.[10] [11] [12]

Voice extra Marcia Mitzman Gaven was hired to make full in for Roswell's characters,[13] including Maude in this episode and the before episodes of the eleventh season,[fourteen] although the producers decided to kill her off to open up new storylines for the show.[13] Executive producer Mike Scully said it "was a chance for 1 of our regular characters [Ned Flanders] to face a challenge and grow in a new management. The idea came upwards quickly, we all latched on to information technology, and information technology but felt right. We didn't want to kill a character for the sake of killing. We wanted it to have consequences for surviving characters to deal with in future episodes."[15] Roswell returned to The Simpsons in 2002[16] later reaching a bargain with Fox to record her lines from her dwelling in Denver.[17] Since returning, she has voiced Maude in flashbacks and as a ghost.[16] [18] When asked by The Denver Post on how she thought Ned was doing without Maude, she replied: "OK. But Maude was such a vulnerable graphic symbol. Maude and Lisa and Marge were the simply vulnerable characters, really, everybody else has an border. So they [the staff] discovered that arc was lost, and now in that location are a lot of flashbacks with Maude."[18]

Scully has noted that "in that location was a lot of discussion virtually making certain we [the staff] did deal with some of the emotional ramifications of expiry [in the episode] and not just make it all joke, joke, joke. But at the aforementioned time, we're a one-act, they're animated, they're not real."[19] In i of the first scripts for the episode there was a scene in which Rod and Todd discuss their mother'due south expiry. Still, according to Maxtone-Graham, the writing staff decided to cutting information technology because "it just never played annihilation but sad." He added that the writers "really wanted to address how [the children] would feel" but they "could never pull information technology off without it but being pitiful."[xx] Scully has commented that information technology was a "very sweet scene" merely it was also difficult to "get out of it comedically to the next scene."[2]

American musician Shawn Colvin guest starred in the episode as Rachel Hashemite kingdom of jordan,[21] [22] a character that she would later return to voice in the episode "I'thousand Goin' to Praiseland" (2001) from season twelve.[23] In that episode, she stays at the Flanders' house with Ned, and leaves briefly after he attempted to mold her in the image of his deceased married woman. At the end of the episode, however, she returns and has a date with him.[24] Colvin told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that being raised in Carbondale, Illinois meant she did not have to practice much research for the guest advent: "Information technology's just very isolated [in Carbondale]. There was church music and that was about it. [...] I didn't have to dig besides deep for the role. I suppose the whole 'Simpsons' matter is kind of like a hick boondocks."[25] Colvin has shown a segment of her invitee office on The Simpsons during some of her concerts, including one at Cape Cod Tune Tent in 2007.[26] She has also performed the song that she sings in "Alone Once again, Natura-Diddily" in concert.[27] [28] The Wisconsin State Journal reported that during her 2001 concert at Barrymore Theatre, the "loudest audition response came afterward she sang a ditty that she performed as a character on The Simpsons."[28] The song, chosen "He's the Homo", later appeared on the 2007 soundtrack anthology The Simpsons: Testify.[29]

Broadcast and ratings [edit]

According to executive producer Mike Scully, one of the reasons for killing off Maude was to increment ratings.

The episode originally aired on the Fob network in the United states of america on February thirteen, 2000.[30] It tied Dateline NBC for the 17th place (compared the season average of 37) in the ratings for the calendar week of Feb seven–13, 2000, with a Nielsen rating of 10.7.[31] The episode was the highest-rated show on Pull a fast one on that week, and was viewed in approximately 10.8 1000000 households.[31]

Scully has admitted that another reason for killing off Maude was to increment ratings for The Simpsons during the Feb sweeps.[fifteen] To bring in even more viewers for the broadcast, the Simpsons producers chose not to reveal beforehand who the character that would be killed off was to create speculation.[thirty] Fox also decided not to ship out screener tapes to television critics to continue it a secret.[32] Nevertheless, according to an commodity in the Contra Costa Times that was published on the 24-hour interval the episode aired, "all the advance rumors advise that Ned Flemish region' wife, Maude, should sentry her back."[30] The revelation of the episode's title, "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", was one of the reasons that the media and many people suspected Maude.[32] Every bit The Post-Standard 's William LaRue writes, "diddly" is the "familiar greeting of Maude's husband, Ned Flanders."[33] Roswell's announced departure strengthened this suspicion.[32]

Reception [edit]

The episode has received mixed reviews from television critics.

Gregory Hardy of the Orlando Sentinel placed it at number eleven on his list of the show'south 15 best episodes that target the globe of sports.[34]

Writing for IGN, Robert Canning gave the episode a 7 out of 10 rating, commenting that he thought the three acts felt disconnected. He wrote: "Get-go Maude dies, then Ned dates and now Ned questions his religion. To me, these three storylines would have been improve served had they been the focus of their own individual episodes."[35] Canning added that he felt "the episode made a poor choice by rushing through the mourning period and moving right into Ned dating," but that "the dating stuff, while, over again, feeling hurried, was quite funny, especially Ned's date with Edna Krabappel."[35]

DVD Flick Guide'due south Colin Jacobson commented on the episode in a negative mode, writing that it was "a harsh and contemptuous motility [to kill off Maude considering of Roswell's departure], though I could forgive the decision if it produced a more than satisfying episode. Mayhap the writers made this one super-sincere to counteract the inherent cynicism backside its origins, simply the show just seems sappy and lame."[36]

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Randall King wrote in his review of the eleventh flavor of The Simpsons that there is "something undeniably funny about having Maude Flanders die by a barrage of T-shirts fired past air cannons at a speedway. Just the episode Solitary Again Natura-Diddily was proof that the dependably vivid serial could – and did – go seriously wrong when information technology turned 11. Killing off Maude was a sin [...]".[37]

Controversy [edit]

Before "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" was broadcast, a promotional commercial aired on television that featured, amongst other things, the announcement that "one of Springfield's most love volition die"[38] and a snippet of a scene from the episode with the character Lenny, sitting in the speedway spectator stand up, being hit past a car tire,[39] giving the impression that he would exist the i who would die.[40] Many viewers of the commercial, including Speedway Motorsports, Inc. endemic Lowe's Motor Speedway president and public accost announcer Jerry Gappens, expressed their concern as information technology appeared the episode was parodying an actual incident that happened during a speedway race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina, when flight droppings in a crash killed three spectators. Gappens said that doing a parody of that was "a real insensitive thing to do, pretty irresponsible. Manifestly what might appear funny in L.A. or New York isn't funny here in Charlotte."[38] Lowe's Motor Speedway announced to WSOC-Television set'southward Channel 9 Bystander News on February 7, 2000 that they were thinking of placing a complaint to the Fox Broadcasting Visitor.[38] WCCB, the and so-Trick affiliate in Charlotte, refused to continue showing the commercial for the episode.[38] Every bit a result, Fox distributed a new commercial to the affiliate on February 9 that did not incorporate the scene with Lenny.[39]

Antonia Coffman, a spokeswoman for The Simpsons, told The Charlotte Observer that "the Lowe'south incident didn't inspire the scene" and that the episode was not meant to offend anyone.[40] Afterwards WCCB had gotten the opportunity to actually see the episode they decided that they would air information technology, realizing that the original commercial was misleading and that they did non remember the episode was making fun of the incident.[39] In the episode, the viewers tin can see that Lenny tries to get the attention of the cheerleaders by raising his hand so that they aim a T-shirt with the cannon at him. However, he is hit by a car tire instead.[39] Different what the commercial implied, Lenny is non killed and is soon back in his seat.[40] WCCB told the Associated Printing that their estimation of the scene was that someone threw the tire to Lenny because he was raising his paw, and that the tire did not actually come up from a machine crash on the track. Despite this, the chapter announced that they would start the broadcast of the episode with a message warning viewers of the scene anyway.[39] [41]

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External links [edit]

  • "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
  • "Lone Again, Natura-Diddily" at IMDb

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