The animation is excellent throughout all the segments. There is even a flashback to the “you don’t win friends with salad” chant that was met by the cold gazpacho of Lisa’s vegetarianism. It has funny moments, and yet sustains a spooky veneer throughout. Her transformation is artistically rendered. Lisa succumbs to death and absorption in an almost Zen like way, giving up hope so that her brother may live to die seconds later.
If we’ve learned nothing from dystopian movies, we at least know you can make a four part movie from a three part book and there is no hope after the plants go carnivorous. But can we ever get enough Body Snatcher knockoffs? Maggie apparently can, as she reveals a deeply seeded resentment for both her mother and the beloved children’s book Goodnight Moon. So it is with Invasion of the Body Snatchers homages, according to Comic Book guy, whose last words as a disgruntled human, are to give the segment a C-minus. The first segment, “Intrusion of the Pod-Y Snatchers” begins with a word from Mapple Founder Steve Mobs, whose vision of the future have begun to come to pass since his untimely passing and ultimate replacement by a less interesting version of himself. As Lionel Hutz, attorney at law, once asked about Homer, “does this sound like a man who’s had all he could eat?” Interestingly, the episode where the head of the Simpson household didn’t get all he could eat also involved seafood. Not only does Homer out-eat his worthy opponent, the mythically massive Cthulhu, who admittedly ate an amusement park carousel and a scuba diver on his way to the event, but he eats the competition. Further reading: The Simpsons Season 30 Episode 3 Review: My Way or the Highway to Heaven