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The plot leading up to the clip show part is good, and the April Fools theme was clever. They choose good clips to put in the clip show.

For a clip show its definitively one of the best ive seen in any sitcom. Half the episode is not from previous episodes and the other half is well introduced and placed.

8/10.

The fact that The Simpsons has been one of those series that declines in quality over time is what gave me the idea of watching anthology series by ordering the episodes in a certain way to feel that they improve instead of worsen as you watch them. It's not always about going from lower to higher quality, if that's what you think, it's much more complex and varies depending on the series and the method to apply. But thanks to my wonderful invention, it was with this episode that I started to understand why The Simpsons lost quality.

This is the first truly good episode within my viewing method, and ironically, it is a clip show. But after having seen hundreds of mediocre or horrible episodes that are typically viewed with my current method of watching The Simpsons, this is the one that gives you the key to understanding the curse that the series suffered to end up being what it is today.

This episode, within my viewing method, shows us what made the golden age of the series great, and that was dramatizing everyday life with cinematic tension music. The fact that in those old episodes everyday life was portrayed with that special humor and tense music made viewers at the time see the series as a kind of messianic show that came to tell us, "you won't do worse than The Simpsons in life." And that was therapeutic, it was like a ray of hope in a life of suffering that people experience on a daily basis to encounter a series like this, which with its incredible narrative resources of tense scenes, tense music, and touching moments like Lisa playing the saxophone for her father, was so well done that it served as therapy for people who watched the series at that time and identified with the same difficulties as the characters in the show. But when the series ceased to be like that, it lost that therapeutic value. In addition to that, the movies they parodied were reproduced not only in concept but also in atmosphere, music, editing, and direction, and they took as an element to parody precisely a difficult moment in the characters' lives with which we could identify, and that was very therapeutic. But the series stopped creating that wonder over the years, transforming later into a simple, tasteless, and vulgar comedy series, and of course, that no longer had any therapeutic value.

So for you, it may be just another clip show, but for me, it is a compilation of therapeutic scenes from the golden age of the series, and it's as if my viewing method for watching The Simpsons is a movie that is finally reaching the climax, where interesting things are starting to happen in the story.

This is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of the Simpsons and believe it or not, I found it to be quite enjoyable. The episode mainly relies upon usage of flashbacks from previous seasons, but that brought back memories and it showed the improvement of the show in storytelling and animation. I loved the cultural references, mainly to Barney resembling the chief antics in 1975's One who Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.

In this episode, "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show," after Homer played practical jokes on Bart because of April Fools Day, Bart vows revenge. But it goes a little too far when Homer is seriously injured, thus each family member giving their favorite memories of Homer.

Overall, this is a great episode. About as great one could hope for in a clip episode. The episode is funny and had some good lines from Grampa and Dr. Hibbert. The episode is a little dramatic though and it gets pretty sad when the family express their love to an unconscious Homer. Another solid episode in the books. I rate this episode 9/10.

Usually these clip show episodes are embarrassingly weak. Most long running sitcoms have them. This is a gem because Homer is such a fascinating character. When Homer nearly dies from an exploding beer can, shaken up by Bart, his doctor asks the family how he got all these lesions on his body. The explanations are scenes of abuse in previous episodes. They are nicely choreographed in the plot, with additional events taking place. Oh, somewhere along the way, Homer loses 5 percent of his brain.