Tuesday, December 18, 2007

"The Simpsons" Recap & Review - "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"

The Simpsons
"Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"


Original Airdate 12/16/07

Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer

This was a weird one. Good, but weird. The episode starts with an Ice Age parody featuring Groundskeeper Willie getting attacked by a bunch of squirrels. It’s snowing in Springfield and Homer wakes up in a snow bank with no memory of the previous evening.

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  1. The Simpsons
    "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"


    Original Airdate 12/16/07

    Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer

    This was a weird one. Good, but weird. The episode starts with an Ice Age parody featuring Groundskeeper Willie getting attacked by a bunch of squirrels. It’s snowing in Springfield and Homer wakes up in a snow bank with no memory of the previous evening.

    Homer swears off drinking as he heads home to find the place empty. If there was drinking involved there’s only one person who can get to the bottom of why Homer can’t remember anything: Moe. At the tavern, Homer learns that he came in the night before wanting to forget something, so Moe mixed him up The Forget-Me Shot. It’s a crazy mix of a bunch of alcohol (almost like a Flaming Moe, but way more potent) toothpaste and the venom of the Louisiana Lobotomoth.

    After hearing about the crazy drink, Homer starts to put the pieces of the lost night back together. He has a bunch of crazy flashbacks and convinces himself that he caught Marge cheating on him with another man, punched her in the face and threw everyone out of the house, but that’s not really what happened.

    Professor Frink hooks Homer up to his memory recovery machine. It’s supposed to be painless, but just as he’s about to crank it up, Frink tells Homer he’s going to feel a slight pinch, followed by an extremely painful pinch which means that the machine is about to start boring into Homer’s skull.

    Now things get really trippy as Homer floats above Springfield in a memory bubble. He can relive any memory from his past and starts with a pleasant memory of sledding with the kids through a snow sculpture contest. Homer can’t figure out how to navigate his bubble by himself, so he grabs memory-Lisa to help him out. Memory-Bart tags along, but only if Homer will let him beat up the 10-year old Homer in his memories. That’s not much of a challenge and memory-Bart ends up beating up 20-year old Homer as well.

    Eventually Homer finds the memories from the night before and it turns out Marge wasn’t cheating on him with another man. She was just planning Homer’s surprise birthday party with Duff Man.

    The party is on the Duff yacht and Homer lands at the party after Patty and Selma through him off a bridge. His life flashes before his eyes and it’s a total Youtube video of of a picture of Homer a day for 39 years (other videos available to watch next: Kitten Smokes on Toilet).

    Everyone at the party fills Homer in on the previous night and he realizes that since Marge was going all out for the party the least he could do was to be surprised. So that’s why he turned to Moe’s Forget-Me shot.

    The show ends with the party yacht heading out into the horizon with a “The End?” on the back. Was this the last new episode in the can before the WGA strike?

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  2. We should be getting the whole season. Simpsons episodes are written well in advance

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