User Reviews

I think if you cling on to the original canon then you'll only end up bitter and disappointed. The show at this point was thirty three years old (yes, you did read that right - 33) and in order to keep it fresh the show had to make this change to the timeline.

Do they abuse it? Oh gosh yes. Here we see many fine examples of that.

However, taken on its own merit there's a lot to like, and I certainly don't see this episode as being in the same league of ones to bring the show into disrepute as those that littered the period after the so-called golden age.

There's some nice moments, there's a sense of heart - canon aside this was fine.

Here's why: Lisa acts like pretentious and smug like a narcissist, they forgot Kent won the lottery many many episodes ago, the sliding timeline that makes the logic about Lisa being Bleeding Gums' "fan" at 8 incoherent, suddenly there are immediately many songs made after Bleeding Gums's "own son," 'Sax on the Beach' used to be the only album he ever released in this episode yet they made it sound like he had more, the repetitive jokes about repetiton become less funny after the first time they repeat, Bleeding Gums' family life is somehow both separate and not separate from his performer life, they forgot that Hibbert and Bleeding Gums are relatives, Round Springfield specifies that he never had a family despite the laywer somehow knows he had a son, and it's presented on Smartline as if everyone knew he had a son except Lisa, his son is able to afford a nice house despite being unable to afford a cochlear implant, the emotional moments are genuine but they happen so instantaneous that it doesn't even matter-- they lack the gradual buildup that Moaning Lisa and Lisa's Substitute have-- and the plot never gets anywhere with Lisa's adventure. It takes her 4 minutes to get to the record place and oh suddenly she's apologizing to Monk the next minute then the episode's over after one sweet sequence.

The only funny humor in the whole episode was the Disney+ joke where they literally outright mock Disney+ as if they want to be canceled, and that joke where the guy slips on the floor-- especially when all of the fluid animation was wasted on that.

I will acknowledge that it's heartwarming and creative creative that the conflict of the episode was about how Bleeding Gums's song was used without permission and his son would have never been able to tell because he's deaf and despite being able to read lips, he still can't tell because the song is being played in the background and the words are different. But it's executed so badly that it doesn't even touch the viewer's heart for most of the time.

No wonder this got below a million viewers.

Yet another shoehorned character to satisfy the woke crowd. I haven't watched the show in two years or more and I tuned into this one just to see where they were. Too bad. I wish I hadn't. I'll go back to watching season 1 through 15 now thanks. It's time to end this mess. It was time when they switched character voices. Or maybe 10 years ago when they had a talking rag in the cockamamie episode.

But enough is enough. It's not funny, it doesn't make sense, it pays no attention to the history of the show and it's just plain boring.

This show has become a steppingstone for Hollywood writers trying to get a foothold. It used to be a destination, now it's a start. Hopefully the show has finally become unprofitable and will soon be canceled.

Heartbreaking what has happened to this once glorious and beloved franchise.