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8/10
Great Episode that Dealt with a Serious Subject in a Funny Way,
lesleyharris303 June 2014
Specs and the City is a brilliant Simpsons episode with a very well written storyline.The episode starts off really funny,as we see Homer getting use to his new Google Glass-like technology,which was a lot if fun,and then we the episode got a lit more serious after Homer finds out that Marge has been going to marriage counseling on her own.While they were dealing with a serious subject,the show still managed to be funny with being offensive towards this subject,and I love that about the Simpsons,they can still be hilarious without being offensive,if it was Family Guy or South Park it would have gone way overboard with offense.Specs and the City is a very enjoyable Simpsons episode.

Mr Burns buys his employees high tech specs so he can spy on them,while Bart refuses to give Nelson his annual Valentines cards that every kid in school gives him.
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4/10
Overused concepts.
Theraxorterminate25 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I hope this will be the very last time we see these kind of concepts the Simpsons have already used multiple times, especially the "Homer & Marge" plot. If your'e looking for a fresh new kind of story in this episode, then skip this because the plots basically recycles some of the stories we have already seen before but using some special things only to make it look different but still manage to be quite the same. Via the use of the "Google Glasses" (Forgot the parody name). Although despite a few funny moments especially with the glasses this episode didn't deliver anything new and I was not impressed of how the writers would recycle plots we've already seen before.

It makes me disappointed, because after so many years it feels like the writers have cared too much about the relationship between Homer & Marge. It's not only getting annoying, but it will leave you questioning if they can last any longer to be together forever? They start to ignore each other but then 'Snap' just like that they return as a couple again only so that the show can continue without anything changed.

And also the Bart plot wasn't so interesting either. It had to do with Nelson and it happens a similarity to the way of "Homer and Marge relationship", we knew that Bart and Nelson might have become friends at times but suddenly it gets ignored! And at the near ending Nelson thanks Bart for the Valentine's card, but it worries me if the writers is just going to ignore that moment and Bart and Nelson are enemies again.

I don't wanna repeat, but It really makes me disappointed to see how these kind of concepts got used once again. The writers need to stop doing these episodes now and try to write something else instead of relationship problems. It doesn't work with those concepts anymore.

We get it, enough already.
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5/10
The problem with some of these new episodes
santifersan21 June 2023
This episode is one of those that they make in The Simpsons lately that resembles more the style of sitcoms about marriages and neighbors than an actual episode of The Simpsons. They are turning the series into that, a sitcom about marriages and neighbors. In this episode, the focus is primarily on the marital troubles of Marge and Homer. Gone are the days of the show's sharp wit and biting social commentary. Instead, we are presented with a watered-down version of the characters and their adventures.

Furthermore, it gives the impression that they are retconning the show by revisiting themes like Valentine's Day that have already been addressed in classic episodes of the series.

It is an episode that might work well for a lower-profile series with live actors, but not for The Simpsons, which initially laid its foundations on a much more original idea - precisely to parody those shows rather than become one of them.
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