User Reviews

I'm 63 now and was in my 20's in the 1980's - this was a bizarre trek back into that decade.

The concert scene was pretty funny and gave me pause as how we were and how we are now.

If you're old enough, watch and enjoy!

Marge yells at Homer for buying a truck and says that he's never "towed or hauled" anything. However in Season 19 Ep.3 "Midnight Towboy" Homer meets Louie and buys his tow truck from him and starts "Homer's Towing".

Honorable Homer Truck mention: Season 4 Ep.9 "Mr. Plow".

So, Marge saying Homer isn't a truck guy is historically inaccurate. Loved the Morrissey character! Very well done!

The episode itself was fine, nothing special. It was really Lisa destroying other people's spirits with help from an imaginary friends. The truck idea was underused in the episode. The main problem I have is Morrissey is overreacting over this. It's just a CARTOON, come on. Overall the episode itself was fine.

I'm an old geezer and an original Smiths fan from the North West of England.

This was a perfect take on what it meant to be a teenager when The Smiths were a new band but also encapsulated how it feels seeing Morrissey now.

Morrissey's lack of humour about himself and reaction to this episode will surely have a 'Streisand' effect on the viewing figures for it.

The writers nailed it completely and the songs could only have been written from a place of love for the band. Cumberbatch did sterling work, great to see a truly excellent modern era Simpsons episode.

If you want to get rid of the voice actor, just replace the character with a different doctor.

The new voice is not even close. It's jarring.

Lisa discovers the somber pre-emo new wave movement with the ficitonal Quilloughby, a not very thinly-veiled dig at Morrissey.

If you aren't familiar with The Smiths, you may not have gotten how good this is, though at parts it dragged on, and the truck parts seemed a bit forced.

Morrissey is a ripe target for his holier-than-though glum outlook.

Changing actors this late in the game is the sign of a sinking ship. If you want to be so woke, retire the character. The attempt to mimic Dr. Hibbard was awful. The episode started with a major distraction and hope was never restored. I'm sure Kevin Michael Richardson is a talented actor, but he needs to create his own voice.

They've had an amazing run, but it's time to end the show.

As a huge Smiths fan I've gotta say, this is a pretty spot on parody.

The biggest joke is that Morrissey appeared to Lisa at all.

Usually he says he'll show up, but then cancels the day before. 🤣

Very strange episode which attempts to ridicule and bully Morrissey.

The Simpsons continues to scrape the feces caked bottom of the barrel and smear it on our screens.

Pathetic!

Unbelievable how funny this was. If you don't know Morrissey you may not get it,but incredible how accurate this was. And the music,pfft best Morrissey songs I've heard in a very long time.

Problem with this episode is they turn against Morrissey by body shaming him as "fat." Body shaming, in 2021? These writers know better. They portray this vegan as secretly eating meat to paint him as a hypocrite. How is this funny? Only if you dislike him, then the writing is just a low skill hack piece.

The Simpsons always parodied Ned Flanders brilliantly, effectively, and affectionately. They exaggerated his Christian values, and so satire him by measuring him against his own values. They made him too nice, too Christian, and it was brilliantly entertaining. Christians embraced their Ned while America laughed, Homer would take advantage of Ned's generous nature, Ned would always pray for Homer, and always get his daily dose of vitamin church. They never made Ned a secret pedophile, or hypocrite. The writers liked Ned, and good satire requires it.

Maybe they could have portrayed Morrissey as being hounded by police for writing songs about disliked politician dying, like happened after "Margarette on the Guillotine." Maybe you have him jump into the crowd and accost fans for eating meat. His fans know he forbids the theatres he plays to serve meat. And maybe in accordance with how many shows he cancels, that serve as a theme with him cancelling shows, dinners, or any kind of event...maybe even cancel at end of the show. That would have been funny, people would laugh, his fans would enjoy it, that would have been the Good Simpsons come back to life.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but this charming Quilloughby seems to be happy in the haze of a drunken hour. Fat meat eater? - Everybody knows that meat is murder so that joke isnt funny anymore.

Please, Please, Please let me get what I want this time - a funny episode - what difference does it make? Ive seen this happen in other people lives - It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

The writers deserve eighteen months hard labour - seems fair enough.

This Simpsons tell us:every person can become Quilloughby, a misanthropic racialist low IQ troll, just like give this episode a low score pigs, or become the doctor strange, a powerful revenger with full personality charm.

I have zero interest in Morrissey and his nonsense, but my God, even I found this episode embarrassing.

Shall we talk about the concert scene? I'd rather scrub it from my mind, but I'll give my thoughts in brief.

It wasn't funny. It wasn't even comedy. Morrissey's parody character just gave an itemised list of the man's beliefs and behaviour. There was no subtlety, no attempt to spin any of it in a humorous way - it may as well have been narrated by a robot.

Considering how quick and sharp The Simpsons can be at its best, this was hard watching.

Best quip:

"But old Sting is bloody gorgeous... and he knows it."

I noticed that they are now using a thicker line and lower frame rate in animation. You even get those silly en face frames of characters that make you just want to rewind and hit pause at the right moment to look at those silly frontal faces. Well, none of this is bringing the old gold back with this incredibly bad writing and off-putting political agenda happening at the same time.

Just stop making the show.

The new episodes are like ordering the older Simpsons on Wish and getting a poor quality knock off.

I get it, it's fashionable to hate Morrissey, so let's al pile on and run him into the ground. Simpsons was above mob mentality but apparently they're not. Most of the humour was good-natured, but this episode went fully against that legacy and left a bad lasting taste in the mouth that made it hard to bother tuning in again, not that many people are doing that these days anyway.

I guess it drummed up some media attention, for all the wrong reasons but when someone in the relationship changes beyond what you can tolerate then maybe it's time for that friendship to end.

No one likes a bully and this episode felt like it was exactly that. Regardless of what you think Morrissey is or had said or means (who can tell??) this show was beneath the slowly diminishing standards of a once great series.