My favorite scene is when Electric Slide Tammy reported Homser to the Unamerican Committee.

I’m impressed you were able to write so legibly on your own butt.

Close, that’s the Sideshow Bob episode.

Correct!

Zootopia? Based on what I’ve seen online, who’s getting milked? Anything that moves.

It is Homer who makes him something delicious… But he isn’t supposed to eat it. He has to save…

You’re getting closer, grease or perhaps another food-like substance is involved.

Nope, it’s Professor Frink, Professor Frink, he’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you think!

(But yeah.)

Father of the Year! Correct!

Those are all excellent guesses, but not this episode. I would say this episode features Santa’s Little Helper only for a short scene. He’s perhaps not the best behaved in this scene.

Excellent guess, but that scene takes place at night.

In this scene Santa’s Little Helper is with different members of the family.

Never heard of it I tell you hwat.

I go by how funny the sign is.

Correct!

Why does an ensign get stuck with a bunk in a hallway

Because space is the final frontier, there just isn’t enough on a ship.

But actually I found the bunk in a hallway stuff weird. The ship at any given time is full of civilians, children, people preparing to colonize new worlds, etc. It seemed clear to me that everyone/every family had a nice little apartment they lived in.

I know this was different in the Lower Decks animated show, but was this true in live action?

I also think we see Ro Laren’s quarters at some point and she has standard quarters.

It’s good that Bart did that. It’s very good.

Correct!

But then… where is the rest of the family?

I am confident no one is stealing Bart’s Butterfingers in this episode.

Santa Clarita Diet. It’s not too late (6 years ago) and they could still bring it back for a finale run of episodes or film.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It’s too late (16 years ago) but the show had just started to figure itself out and setup a HUGE cliffhanger that sadly goes nowhere.

Sure, but there is a difference between “required reading” and backstory.

For example at the end of Iron Man 3 Tony destroys all of his various armor and Pepper Potts gets Extremis powers.

At no point after that is Tony missing/lacking for armor nor does Pepper have superpowers. The events of Iron Man 3 are not required to watch any future film.

However Iron Man 3 does deal with Tony trying to recover and handle the stress from the Battle of New York. You can’t watch Iron Man 3 without having watched The Avengers.

But also, sometimes the film can just fill you in. Endgame makes a number of major references to Thor 2. Thor 2, at the time, was the lowest rated and likely least watched film. However Endgame just fills us in on the important parts of that film and we move forward.

Yes, watching the previous films is going to improve future tie-in plot points, but it isn’t always necessary.

explicitly had required reading

I think Multiverse of Madness had more required reading. Wanda wants to save her kids and without WandaVision you’re forced to ask, “What kids?”

For this film I think Kamala being “a big fan” is enough. We don’t need to know how she got her powers for her to fit into this film.

For Monica it’s a little more required, but they basically just speedrun and say “A magical witch gave me powers” and while that’s an understatement you can just sort of accept that she has powers now.

It’s similar to Kamala where we just accept that these two new main characters have powers, and that’s ok since this is their big screen debut.