The Simpsons continues to go off the rails and out of control in its eleventh season. Things get super crazy as Homer and Mel Gibson team-up to make a movie (“Beyond Blunderdome”), Bart becomes a faith healer (“Faith Off”), a biker gang abducts Marge (“Take Me Wife, Sleaze”), Lisa stumbles upon the nefarious plans of an evil toy company (“Grift of the Magi”), Mr. Burns has the Simpsons house sit for him (“The Mansion Family”), and Moe becomes a soap opera star after having plastic surgery (“Pygmoelian”). Additionally, the show make some major character changes (all of them bad) by killing off Maude Flanders (“Alone Again, Natura-Diddily”), having Barney go sober (“Days of Wine and D’oh’ses”), and giving Apo and Manjula quintuplets (“Eight Misbehavin’”). Unfortunately the writing is all over the place and is more concerned with setting up jokes than story and character. Although, the outrageousness borders on brilliance in the clever parody episode “Behind the Laughter.” And there are a lot of fun cameos from Mel Gibson, Ed Asner, Lucy Lawless, the B-52s, John Goodman Gary Coleman, Britney Spears and many many more. While on the whole The Simpsons is still pretty entertaining, Season 11 has some real dreck that drags it down.
Review by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2022-06-20T00:00:20Z
The Simpsons continues to go off the rails and out of control in its eleventh season. Things get super crazy as Homer and Mel Gibson team-up to make a movie (“Beyond Blunderdome”), Bart becomes a faith healer (“Faith Off”), a biker gang abducts Marge (“Take Me Wife, Sleaze”), Lisa stumbles upon the nefarious plans of an evil toy company (“Grift of the Magi”), Mr. Burns has the Simpsons house sit for him (“The Mansion Family”), and Moe becomes a soap opera star after having plastic surgery (“Pygmoelian”). Additionally, the show make some major character changes (all of them bad) by killing off Maude Flanders (“Alone Again, Natura-Diddily”), having Barney go sober (“Days of Wine and D’oh’ses”), and giving Apo and Manjula quintuplets (“Eight Misbehavin’”). Unfortunately the writing is all over the place and is more concerned with setting up jokes than story and character. Although, the outrageousness borders on brilliance in the clever parody episode “Behind the Laughter.” And there are a lot of fun cameos from Mel Gibson, Ed Asner, Lucy Lawless, the B-52s, John Goodman Gary Coleman, Britney Spears and many many more. While on the whole The Simpsons is still pretty entertaining, Season 11 has some real dreck that drags it down.