REVIEW: That 90's Show

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[Stretch Dude]

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I hereby deem this episode good! Like, "good" good, even. Good enough to ignore the timeline problems.

The plot was pulled off quite well, I thought. Handy thing about flashback episodes, you can just go straight to the point. Professor August...hoo boy, what a character he was. Charming enough to split Homer and Marge up, but annoying enough to drive them back together. I'm not familiar enough with grunge to accurately criticize Sadgasm's music, though.

And the jokes...man, there was some funny stuff here. The Futurama line (heck, the return of the set-up-the-time-period bit), the Back to the Future reference, Professor Moose (that one's still making me laugh as I write this), the gas company guy, most of the over-the-top 90's references... I was laughing pretty hard here. And, of course, the sagest bit of advice the show has ever produced: "A man who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." So true. So true.

Man, the KABF series is working pretty well so far.

[Molloy the Catburglar]

Interesting.  A friend of mine who watches current Simpsons and generally likes it/finds it entertaining absolutely hated this episode and found it idiotic, and said she'd rather watch American Dad.

[Lord Kingsley]

Interesting.  A friend of mine who watches current Simpsons and generally likes it/finds it entertaining absolutely hated this episode and found it idiotic, and said she'd rather watch American Dad.

Dang, that's saying something.

[Stretch Dude]

Interesting.  A friend of mine who watches current Simpsons and generally likes it/finds it entertaining absolutely hated this episode and found it idiotic, and said she'd rather watch American Dad.

Dang, that's saying something.

Indeed. Opinions vary wildly, because I find current Simpsons entertaining, and, as noted, I liked the episode.

I think part of the key is just let go of the whole timeline thing. I dunno.

[gkscotty]

When you ignore the timeline issue, that was really pretty good. I especially loved the Back To The Future ref.

[Molloy the Catburglar]

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From what I understand, her main beef was how "Look It's the '90s!" it was.  "We're watching Seinfeld and listening to Weird Al and Green Day and oh now Homer's Kurt Cobain-ish and Marge has a Monica cut.  See, Because It's The '90s!  Did we mention it's the '90s?"

[Archonix]

As I recall that's actually a pretty accurate portrayal of what the 90s were really like...

[Enhas]

I wish I could have seen this episode, bad though it may or may not be.

I really don't watch The Simpsons much at all..

[Lisabella]

This is one of those eps I, too, expected to hate.  Minus the headache that is continuity, I actually liked this! 

Okay, so the '90's references were a little gratuitous, and Family Guy Did It First when it comes to the Back to the Future joke (and theirs was funnier).  But the episode got the underpinnings of Marge and Homer's relationship right, and the grunge song parodies they selected were pretty inspired.

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I recognized the "Rape Me" and "Glycerine" parodies, but the other song eludes me.

Homer's mock-Cobain-esque life was particularly amusing, too.  I actually found his diabetes to be a bigger plot hole than the THIS IS THE 90'S Thing.

I don't know.  I suppose we're in the position of having to accept that we've reached a time and place where it's no longer feasible for Homer and Marge to have been high school graduates in the mid-70's.  You have to hold aside the canonical issues to enjoy the ep, which is what I've done here.  What you get is a marginally flawed episode.  B+ for the effort, with points taken off for the canonical problems that have made my hobby harder 

((Okay, I'll bite and be the person who admits liking American Dad more than Family Guy...))