I try to never go into a new episode of The Simpsons with high expectations, for this reason episodes like "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" and "Holidays of Future Passed" really stood out even more to me. For the first time in nearly a decade I couldn't help but get my hopes up about this episode because "Holidays of Future Passed" is legitimately one of my favorite episodes ever and I would go so far as to say that I would put it alongside the fantastic company of "Homer Badman" or "Last Exit to Springfield". Unfortunately this was the most unworthy of follow ups, sacrificing interesting glimpses into the families future for recycled Futurama jokes. This episode also had a heavy reliance on pop culture references (as most of the new Simpsons episodes unfortunately have), it's boring attempts to parody films such as Total Recall and also basing one of it's subplots on Milhouse becoming a Zombie (Really? Why just why?) make this episode fall into the same groove that the Simpson's have been in for far too long "sometimes hits, but mostly misses". 3 out of 10 Zombie Milhouse and Robot Homer probably would have sounded great to 8 year old me, but present me just wants some sentimental moments sprinkled with classic Simpson's humor.
Review of Days of Future Future
