The Simpsons: Coming to Homerica (2009)
Season 20, Episode 21
8/10
The Finale Episode of the Middle Age
24 February 2024
Coming to Homerica is a really good episode. This is the finale episode of Season 20, so let me tell you some of my final thoughts about this season. For me, Season 11-20 would be the middle age of the Simpsons, so next season would start the modern age, and that would be from Season 21-30. After that would be the post modern age, ranging from Season 31-present. Out of all of the middle age seasons, this would be at the bottom of the top 3. The first half of the season feels so different from the second half because of the new HD animation. In fact, any episode with the old animation in this season feels like it was from Season 15. Once this animation change started, the episodes started to get slightly worse. Barely any worse though. If I could mark the end of Season 20 and the start of Season 21, I would say that the end of Season 20 is the last episode of the original animation and the start of Season 21 is the episode with the new HD animation. Even when the HD animation was permanent, this season was still good. The humor was a bit sharper and the episodes themselves were a bit more interesting. I give this season a 7.0 out of 10. Now since I talked about the season as a whole I will talk about this episode. For this season, this is one of the highest rated episodes, and it's really good. The Middle Age was definitely less than perfect, but still okay, but I personally think that this is a perfect conclusion. It's not perfect, but so is the Middle Age itself. This episode has humor flying 300 miles at hour at you. There's jokes every half a second an average. Sometimes, though, those jokes fly a little too fast. In this episode one of the characters might say something funny, and then they rush to the next joke. The speeding bullet jokes is a bit much for me, and I wish that the jokes were a bit slower. Not laugh track slow, but normal Simpsons slow. That's my only problem about this episode though. Besides that, it dives into the topic of immigration, and I like that. The plot is fun and interesting, and I'm sure a lot of people could relate to this episode. It kind of reminds me of an episode all the way back in Season 7. I forget the name, but it was an Apu episode ( we need more of those ) and it also dealt with the topic of immigration. If you want a better version of this episode watch that one. These two episodes are almost the same, but their side are flipped. That episode is on the side of the immigrants, but this one is on the side of the people who are already there. I like how this episode reflects and put perspective on an episode that aired 13 years before this. You could say that the writers couldn't think of anymore ideas so they thought of an old one, which is probably right, but I think of this episode as putting light on two sides and not just one. In all, I give this episode a 7.8 out of 10.
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