User Reviews

Kind of like this.

Needed more of a real life conflict to it.

It's interesting and it's kind of fun watching Homer accidentally ruin Lisa's soccer fun along with Marge ruining Bart's MMORPG game fun on accident too.

The story with Marge and being an online gamer was fun and original. The Homer plot was not very interesting. I give it 7 because it is a better episode than most in this season!

Starring: Dan Castellaneta as Homer, Mel, Grampa, Krusty. Julie Kavner as Marge Nancy Cartwright as Bart, Kearney and Nelson. Yeardley Smith as Lisa. Hank Azaria as Apu, Moe, Snake, Dr. Nick, Cletus, Comic Book Guy. Harry Shearer as Skinner, Flanders, Lovejoy, Mr. Largo, Mr. Burns.

Also with: Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott.

I really liked this episode!! It's really rare that we get an episode with a great plot and a great sub-plot, but they managed to make one. Marge gets into the internet and begins playing an on-line game that Bart plays. When Marge get in to Bart's personal gaming life, Bart gets angry. Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa have troubles while Homer coaches here soccer team. The Marge-Bart plot was very imaginative and well written, and the Homer-Lisa plot was very funny. One of the many great episodes making up what's turning out to be a really spectacular season.

My rating: *** 1/2 out of ****.

Episode that tells exactly why mothers should not meddle in what their children are doing, the secondary story instead tells why fathers should not meddle culminating in a big one that's why parents shouldn't meddle.

A lot of people seem to overlook the middle era of the Simpsons, and it is commonly said that classic Simpsons is great and after season 9 it all went downhill. Honestly we really should give the middle seasons some love as in my opinion it has some of the best episodes in the show and the animation is amazing. But, to continue about the episode. I loved that Marge tried to form a bond with her son on the computer game. And the reaction to Marge not having an email address was HILARIOUS. And I really liked the B-plot as well with Homer being involved in Lisa's soccer game, but I must say that although it was good it was certainly not as memorable as the main storyline. And I LOVED the BBC documentary spoof at the end, and unlike a lot of episodes the ending did not seem like filler. Not the best episode ever, but certainly within my top 50 best Simpsons episodes...

Me and a lot of Simpsons fans have waited eagerly for this new episode. This episode is about discovering for Marge and as Lisa says "you are just like Christopher Columbus, you discoverd something millions knew about already" A great episode, Homer once again shows his love for Lisa by sacrificing himself and in the end it turns out well in the end. We find the Simpson's enjoying internet again as we seen when Homer was Mr X and revealed secrets about the community. This time its Barts and Marges time and they meet all the normal people in Springfield trough a online mulit player game. And in a documentary Lisa is watching we once again find the song Barber' Adigo for strings. A great episode and now we look forward to next weeks episode!

This episode seemed weak and far fetched.

We follow Marge Simpson who have discovered an online roleplaying game called Earth Realms. Soon she discovers that almost every single inhabitant of Springfield plays that exact game, and that her son is a highly feared villain in the game.

This part is absurd in many ways and bare very little resemblance to how real online roleplaying games are played. This makes a mockery of the younger audience, who can easily see that the script writers doesn't waste time on research. Of course you can say that since it is a satiric comedy primarily for adults, it does not have to be accurate. But I fail to see why not. They could easily have made the same story portraying a real MMORG (Massive multiplayer roleplaying game) without using every cliché in the book.

In this episode we also follow Lisa Simpson who have found a liking for football (soccer for you Americans). Homer Simpson steps in as a referee and all kind of hysterical comedy ensues... That is if you think that showing an stereotypical American who doesn't understand the rules of football is funny. This part is even more absurd. The only thing we get out of it is, that it is important to play fair and that European football is tainted by violent supporters. Brazilian football star Ronaldo appears as a guest star, but that is both unnecessary and not funny at all. One has to ask why he is there at all. He bares no real significance to the storyline, and he is so out of place that one has to wonder if the writers just wanted somebody famous to be in the show.

The whole episode fails miserably to deliver on the comedy side, and all we get is a quaint and poorly written episode that portraits both online role playing games and football in an inept and naive way, lacking the usual finesse and relevance.

I really loved the first seasons of the Simpsons, but I think their humour is not fresh anymore. This episode is another proof. The magic that The Simpsons had was trasfering into scene simple situations of the everyday life but in a funny way. The new chapters are about extravagant situations which make no sense at all. The Ronaldo dialogue is annoying, the chapter has a lot of emphasis on a boring online game. Then we have the typical opinions of the writers about various subjects like Christopher Colombus discovery being insignificant or football making whole continents insane, those are also quite annoying, specially because of the emphasis they are given.

There aren't as many really good episodes of 'The Simpsons' as there used to be. In an average series there's probably more bad than good ones nowadays.

This is a decent enough episode, but has a stronger B story than A, with Homer becoming a ref at Lisa's football (or soccer) match.

There is some lazy humour along the way, but this is one of the better episodes from S18.