{"id":376442,"date":"2026-08-31T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376442"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:20:06","slug":"the-simpsons-has-just-released-a-new-episode-its-unlike-anything-youve-seen-so-far-and-it-wants-to-change-the-series-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-simpsons-has-just-released-a-new-episode-its-unlike-anything-youve-seen-so-far-and-it-wants-to-change-the-series-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 has just released a new episode. It\u2019s unlike anything you\u2019ve seen so far and it wants to change the series completely."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a while now since even we die-hard Simpsons fans got tired. We\u2019ve seen the same episodes a thousand times and we still keep finding new gags, but the series has run aground, in its modern episodes, in a sea of mediocrity from which only the odd episode like Pixelated and Afraid<\/em> or A Serious Flanders<\/em> escapes (if you haven\u2019t seen them, you\u2019ve got homework now). The series has discovered that it\u2019s better when it references itself or when it rummages through the past to surprise the only viewers left: the longtime ones. And along these lines, the latest Disney+<\/a> exclusive special has delivered a little story that\u2019s going to delight all of us fans who\u2019ve spent decades following its adventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not who we were<\/h2>\n\n

In the middle of season 2 of The Simpsons, with 1991 only just begun, Homer and Marge told the story of how they met in high school in 1974. The episode was called The Way We Was<\/em>, it was a big hit and it laid the foundations of the love story of the family\u2019s parents, which many people didn\u2019t understand. 35 years have passed since it aired, and The Simpsons isn\u2019t just still standing, it\u2019s gone back to its classic style of animation<\/strong> to tell an alternate universe in which Marge didn\u2019t exist, Homer never got married and became a millionaire in spite of himself.<\/p>\n\n

The episode in question is called Yellow Mirror<\/em>, and it uses the Black Mirror<\/em> premise to tell two \u201cstrange\u201d stories about the family, in the style of the Halloween specials. The second is a tablet rebellion against the town led by a Maggie Simpson who definitely hasn\u2019t understood that kids shouldn’t have screens and that, frankly, suffers from far too many of the problems of the modern series. But the first one, oh the first one, is an absolute delight. In it we get an alternate universe in which Homer, sick of hearing yet again the story of how they met, stares intently at a lamp until he discovers, right in the middle of the flashback, that he hit the wall<\/strong> (a gag that is, indeed, in the original episode)… and when he wakes up, he had imagined his entire life.<\/p>\n\n

All the Simpsons plots, including the one where Bart has an elephant, had happened in his imagination, and, like a deranged Matt Groening, he creates a series with that family he lived with, in his mind, for years: the Sadsons. It is, at the same time, a celebration of The Simpsons\u2019 legacy, a sad story, a reflection on fame and an episode packed with gags like we hadn\u2019t seen in a long time. In the end, Homer becomes a kind of all-powerful creator, mad, deranged, willing to do whatever it takes to get back to his normal life<\/strong>, the one he only ever dreamed. Or maybe not?<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s not the first time the series has toyed with its own mythology (there\u2019s the famous \u201cfinal episode,\u201d or that time Anonymous \u201chacked\u201d the feed<\/a>), but it\u2019s true that, in the sea of mediocrity it has got us used to season after season, it\u2019s nice to see that The Simpsons can do more than churn out repetitive episodes with mediocre jokes<\/strong>. Back in the day they were kings, and this episode shows that it could still be that good. They just need to put in a little effort and remember that the heart of the series was never the jokes about physical violence, but a family that, despite everything, loves each other. There\u2019s no need to bang your head and rewrite the past to know it, but hopefully it helps them give it some thought.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a while now since even we die-hard Simpsons fans got tired. We\u2019ve seen the same episodes a thousand times and we still keep finding new gags, but the series has run aground, in its modern episodes, in a sea of mediocrity from which only the odd episode like Pixelated and Afraid or A … Continue reading “\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 has just released a new episode. It\u2019s unlike anything you\u2019ve seen so far and it wants to change the series completely.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":376441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376443,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376442\/revisions\/376443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376442"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376442"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376442"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}