REVIEW: Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind

Topic: My Biological Romance

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[Stretch Dude]

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Whooo, good episode. Quite lived up to my expectations. Very nice job building up the drama, and I loved how they used screenshots from old episodes to represent Homer's memories. Excellent freeze-frame bit there. Ooh, and the "picture a day" spoof. Quite amusing.

It was a well-put-together episode. So creative, and it really kept me guessing. Splendid job here!

[Ariel Ponywether]

Really good stuff! 

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Homer's flashback as he was tumbling to his death was probably my favorite bit.  Inticate and amusing.  And Duff Man was hillarious for the first time since "Hungry, Hungry Homer"!

Patty and Selma "saving" Homer was especially amusing.

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[Stretch Dude]

Missy, I'm pretty sure it would be an excellent idea to put that second sentence in the spoiler tag.

[Kiyosuki]

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This was my favorite episode of the season so far and in quite a long time too actually, mostly because it did what so many of these new episodes don't really do...it stuck to a narrative. Yeah the visual jokes were there, but usually right now episodes are structured more as a scene by scene jokefest that forms a sort of plot instead of a continuous narrative run off of wordplay, with occasional visual jokes or stuff unrelated to the main plot that supports it rather than distracts from it. It's something this show does so well, and is what I think made it popular in the first place so it's really kind of sad that it doesn't happen more often.

Everything just rolled at a brisk pace though, no musical montage, no overly drawn out scenes (a huge problem for these writers right now it seems like), and all the characters were handled greatly without being either too rigid or too out of control. Especially Homer, Moe, Wiggum, and Frink. There were some pretty clever lines in there too, the quip about Jack the Ripper is some pretty sophisticated stuff to reference which is great. And in the end it all wraps up. The end maybe takes a bit too much time to explain the episode to you, and a lot of it is stuff I think most would know by that point but all and all it's a very pleasant episode. It's really proof that if this series can still do very well for itself if it just gets in better contact with the stuff that made it great in the first place.