# Simpsons 3/15: "Gone Maggie Gone"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-15-gone-maggie-gone/489573>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-15-gone-maggie-gone/489573 "2009-03-16T00:37:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-15-gone-maggie-gone/489573/21 "2009-03-17T00:56:33Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> I’ve learned the hard way to allow some overlap in my DVR recordings where Fox is concerned. For the Simpsons, I start the recording 2 minutes before the scheduled start.

That’s what I have set up now. I already had it set to run two minutes long at the _end_… anyway they’ll rerun it eventually.

Thinking about this one, I can’t think of the last time I saw a new episode that was this funny. My guess it it’s been at least a handful of seasons. I can name favorite stories, but ones that were this consistently funny? That’s tough.

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-15-gone-maggie-gone/489573/22 "2009-03-17T02:21:32Z")

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I agree, funniest in a long time. I liked the pirate nuns a lot, especially the fencing with rulers and the parrot nun.

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**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-15-gone-maggie-gone/489573/23 "2009-03-17T07:07:38Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> I’ve learned the hard way to allow some overlap in my DVR recordings where Fox is concerned. For the Simpsons, I start the recording 2 minutes before the scheduled start. Since I also DVR King of the Hill, which immediately follows it, I don’t worry so much about the end. If it gets cut off at the end, it’ll be at the start of the KOTH recording. But I also do the same for House. I’ll add 2 minutes to the start and extend the end by about 2 or 3 minutes more.

Hell, I remember having to do that with a VCR! What the hell good is a DVR if we’re not moving forward? Don’t the TV stations have some sort of “show start” signal that they can send to signal the beginning of a show??? And NOT cut off the end of a show? I hate being able to record a show and miss the last 3 minutes… GRRRRRR!!!

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