User Reviews

Remember season 8's "A Milhouse Divided"? Its plot saw Homer get a divorce from Marge so that he could remarry her and give her a meaningful ceremony to replace the previous one. It's one of the greatest episodes from arguably the greatest year in the show's run. Well forget it because that wedding wasn't real.

This episode tells us that Reverend Lovejoy was not a real clergyman at the time he did that particular ceremony so the Simpsons are not technically married. The logical response would be to just head to a courthouse or something and just fill in some paperwork, I mean seriously? You've had the ceremony for goodness sake! But no. This is Zombie Simpsons we're talking about here and so we have them going for a full-on ceremony with Marge turning into a 'bridezilla' type. Naturally, it's spelt out repeatedly just to make sure we get it.

Things get worse as Homer is gone on the big day. Marge, being uncharacteristically selfish in this episode, thinks he's ran away but he's really been kidnapped by his sister-in-laws. They've always disliked him in the past but this crosses the line as we get a very ham-fisted "Saw" parody that just feels mean-spirited AND out of character for the two of them. It's a parody that would feel more at home in an opening segment for a Treehouse Of Horror episode and it's also five years too late to be a relevant 'joke'.

This episode doesn't destroy continuity of a great episode but it does tarnish it, especially whenever you re-watch that episode, and manages that without creating a decent replacement for it. All this and a wasted Sideshow Bob appearance and one of the most unpleasant and meanest treatments of Homer by his in-laws too! This is one of those episodes that, for me, 'never happened' and is best left ignored. I hate to sound all negative but it's true.