While their Fortnite collaboration may be over, The Simpsons TV show is still very much going (and, presumably, will outlive us all). Season 37’s most recent episode, “Aunt Misbehavin’’ found Bart and Lisa taking sides in a bitter spat between Marge’s twin sisters Patty and Selma.
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But the episode begins with a feud between Bart and Homer, after Bart trolls his dental hygienist by devouring a box of triple-stuffed Oreo-like cookies immediately before his appointment. Homer then takes a power drill to Bart’s Xbox, inspiring the boy to seek revenge.
Luckily for Bart, his Aunt Patty has a pre-conceived plan for how to brutally prank Homer. “Perhaps the enemy of my brother-in-law is my nephew,” she muses to herself. Patty hacks into the DMV database by impersonating her newly-promoted sister and has Homer declared legally dead.
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Of course, this isn’t the first time that Homer has been declared deceased on the show, lest we forget that back in season seven, he pushed a lifelike dummy off a cliff into dangerously beaver-filled waters, just to avoid an afternoon of picking up trash with his co-workers.
But Homer was seemingly even more delighted by his most recent faux-demise. He was especially thrilled when Krusty the Clown dropped by the Simpson house to induct Marge into the Krusty Burger Widow’s Free Fast Food For Life Club, flanked by late Krusty Burger mascots Burger Reynolds and Princess Fry.
“I should have died years ago!” Homer exclaims after learning that they’ll have access to an unlimited supply of Krusty Burgers.
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But arguably the funniest moment in the episode occurs during a montage of Homer reaping the rewards of his death, fittingly set to The Traveling Wilburys’ “End of the Line.” After celebrating the erasure of his debts, Homer takes a nap in a hammock and is quickly surrounded by a team of organ donor collectors. But before they have a chance to help themselves to any of his body parts, one of the medics has a heart attack and collapses. The others simply shrug and take him away in a body bag instead of Homer.
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It should be noted that legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky deserves praise for his Simpsons debut as the proudly lame credit card point junkie Merle, who hooks up with Selma. Also, there’s a solid joke about Mr. Burns’ inadvertently smutty vanity license plate.
