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Reviewer: Maximus
Rating: 5 (5 = excellent, 1 = poor)
Favorite Part: When Homer says, "I'll deal with those murderous trolls!"
Least Favorite Part: The commercials. :)
Comments: The best episode ever! The part at the fair was hilarious, The Battle of the bands, The Music Rehearsal, the stuff Marge bought at the fair, The announcer at the race track, Homer, The Jockeys!!, The Pearl guy (Breakfast is served!). The entire episode rocked! So many good quotes ("And away I go", "It's a little late for Lenny", "This kitten's got claws"). This is one of the episodes that makes "The Simpsons" what it is!
Reviewer: Kenneth White
Rating: 1 (5 = excellent, 1 = poor)
Favorite Part: When the episode finished.
Least Favorite Part: The Jockey Elves
Comments: I just read the recent review of this episode and I am disgusted. Best Episode Ever!?! Come on! The whole thing was a terrible mess. Nobody was in character, the jokes were pathetic and overly wacky, there was no satire, and the whole plot just had no flow (if you can call it plot). Homer's pearl dream wasn't even funny, it was pathetic. He eats pearls and then laughs like a maniac. What the hell is funny about that? Compared to his Land of Chocolate Dream and other classics from the golden ages (Seasons 1 - 8) this was pathetic, and just lazy writing. The wackiness was just too much: Moe's heart shaped heart! A mop that eats things! An underground land of Jockey Elves! What the hell were the writers smoking when they thought up this tripe!?!
This is the kind of humor I'd expect in the low-brow "Simpsons" wannabes Family Guy or South Park. Marge laughing like Homer was just wrong, and the Comic Book Guy's interventions were really poor attempts to cover up the poor! quality of the script. If you think this is one of the best episodes, you don't know what the "Simpsons" are about, and I really pity you. I tape all the episodes, and I seriously considered eliminating this one from my collection when I saw it. It's the only episode to do this to me, and the only one that has never caused me at least some form of laughter. I'm embarrassed to think that this is part of my favorite show, and embarrassed of fans who like it and don't know what the "Simpsons" is really about. I pity them.
"The Simpsons" dropped to a new low with this episode after an already huge drop in quality. And before you all call me "Grandpa" and start hounding me for hating the new episodes and tell me to go back to Star Trek, I'll just point out that I'm only 18. If you think this episode is better than anything from Seasons 2 to 5, then you my friend, just don't get what "The Simpsons" is about. It's not about laughs, it's about character, storyline and emotion. James L. Brooks and Matt Groening have said so in countless interviews. Laughs come second to all those things, and this episode didn't even have them. The humor was just crude, wacky and pathetic. The older episodes had wit and satire, delivered to perfection. This was just a mess that should never have happened.
