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SteveDennis Perkins
12/06/17 3:03pm
It’s vocal “cords”, not “chords”. Don’t you guys have a proofreader?
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  Dennis PerkinsSteve
  12/06/17 5:43pm
  Huh. Must have slipped by me. Fixed, and thanks for reading!
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DrewDennis Perkins
12/03/17 11:49pm
I haven’t liked a single future based episode the show has done. Just toss this one in the pile with the rest
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  Gabriel ChaseDrew
  12/04/17 12:31am
  They’re a mixed bag, though I think “Lisa’s Wedding” is a classic.
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  Paul KinseyDrew
  12/04/17 6:23am
  Why does Bart always have to end up a huge loser? Sure, it’s realistic given what we know about the character, but it undercuts all the episodes where he shows us that he can actually be smart when he wants to be. Such a bummer.
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SomeRandomGuyOnTheInternetDennis Perkins
12/03/17 10:34pm
I’m really sick of these future episodes. Sure, some of the callbacks are fun, but all the writers do is just half-ass some “heartfelt” moments between the family and call it a day. It’s not like this show can’t turn in good episodes anymore because it can, but unless it actually waits to age the characters again for the series finale (which, let’s face it, is probably still years away), what the fuck is the point?
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  MwFullerSomeRandomGuyOnTheInternet
  12/04/17 1:46am
  The point is comedy and creativity, mystery solved.
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  SomeRandomGuyOnTheInternetMwFuller
  12/04/17 2:34am
  Of which, in this case, there is none.
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NeuroticmooseDennis Perkins
12/04/17 3:06am
I liked the one where Lisa was President and Bart was a loser who was living with adult Ralph and Homer got up to hijinks searching the white house for Lincoln’s gold (the internet tells me the episode was called Bart to the future) lots of classic lines in that episode “China you used to be cool” chief among them
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  Run John Boy RunNeuroticmoose
  12/04/17 8:39am
  That one was on FX yesterday!
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  hornacekNeuroticmoose
  12/22/17 2:21pm
  “We were left with a huge deficit by President Trump.”
  So funny back then.
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The_MisanthropeDennis Perkins
12/04/17 12:53am
Until proven otherwise, I will still contend that S16 is the best post-Golden Age Simpsons.
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  Dramus18The_Misanthrope
  12/04/17 1:48am
  Why? I’m not super familiar with the post-GA seasons (I watched most of the teen seasons but couldn’t tell you what season any particular ep belonged to)
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  The_MisanthropeDramus18
  12/04/17 1:30pm
  Without boring you with an episode-by-episode breakdown, it’s just because there are a good number of solid, slightly ambitious stories in that season. Sure, there are a few clunkers—I don’t have any love for “Mobile Homer” or “The Seven-Year Snitch”—but on the whole, I really enjoyed most of them. Your mileage may vary, etc.
  A few clips, to give you an impression:
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Jen J.Dennis Perkins
12/09/17 7:08pm
I liked the episode a lot though I do have some complaints about the other episodes that show Lisa’s future...Especially her future being married to Milhouse.
If the writers want to build on this episode they could do things like how Lisa “experiments” with being a lesbian in college as seen in the opening for Future Holidays Passed.
Actually having Lisa with someone other than Milhouse. I think she would’ve worked better with Hubert Wong. (he appeared in the episode twice (once when they were in the same class and he wanted to give her a cupcake and again when they were older and gave her one.) Then again this is my own personal feelings of shipping her with Hubert since I really hate she “settled” for Milhouse and has an unhappy marriage.
Honestly, this episode was great and free of not showing Lisa’s inevitable future of an unhappy marriage.
On the subject of Bart, I really wish they would’ve gone with either his career goal at the end of Barthood where he opened his own bike customization shop or in the episode Lisa’s Future where he was a demolition company. Those seem like things Bart would’ve liked to do with his life and not being a slacker forever.
It’s also great they didn’t drag into the whole Bart and Jendra thing into it. To be honest Bart belongs with a woman like Sherri (as it’s demonstrated that he likes her and she likes him).
But your review of this episode was insightful and pointed out a lot of flaws, strengths, and weaknesses of everything in the episode.
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meroDennis Perkins
12/03/17 11:32pm
ok, ok, i get it. i’m the minority who loves these future episodes. the problem with this one was that it jumped all over the map a bit too much. also, i know this is partly a factor of it being 28 years later, but the fact that the canonical “past” of the simpsons is now the early 90s (the homer and marge hair of those flashbacks was from that episode where homer and marge met in the 90s which was just bad mid aughts flashbacks of friends and melrose place) saddens me, since it means that the story of marge and homer getting together (the way we was), and of lisa’s first word, etc., are relegated to the scrap heap and that’s terrible since they have everything that most modern episodes of this show do not.
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Norm! ChomskyDennis Perkins
12/08/17 12:34am
As a band geek I have long had a problem with how inaccurate the animators make the bari sax. And no neck strap?!
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Gabriel ChaseDennis Perkins
12/03/17 11:36pm
I loved Homer running through the 12 steps as fast as possible and the cupcake gags. I really didn’t understand the need to jump back and forth in time, though as someone who has read a lot of college application essays I identified with the committee’s apathy.
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MwFullerDennis Perkins
12/04/17 1:45am
I consider this episode to be a contemporary Simpsons classic. My rating is an A- all the way.
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