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Ahoy, and welcome to Talking Simpsons,

A window into our madness.

I'm one of your host, the unquestioned Lord and Master of the World, Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons, who is here with me today, as always. Urge to kill Fading. Fading. Fading. It's Henry Gilbert. And who is our special guest on the line? Hey there. I'm Ian Jones

Cordy and, oh great, now I got to work in the dark. And this week's episode is Treehouse

of Horror, five. Oh, goody, the sea monkeys I ordered have arrived. Look at them,

covert and keeper. Sir, they're the new winter caretakers for the lodge. Yes, they work heard and they play heard.

This week's episode originally aired on October 30th, 1994, and as always, Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real world history.

Stargate tops the box office.

One of my favorites, the Gargoyles debut in syndication,

and Rare's fighting game, Killer Instinct,

makes a splash in arcades this week.

Though, of course, with arcade game releases back then,

the internet is even the Wikipedia is like citation needed

for October 28th,

1994, but let's just say

that's when the Midway published

rare developed fighting game came out.

I didn't play that until it came home to

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