The Musk Who Fell to Earth

I have been a fan of the Simpsons for a long time and I have watched every single episode at least once.

There is no interesting plot, the entire episode is one long suck-up to some "inventor" guy that is so full of himself that it makes the episode so annoying that it is very hard to watch without turning it off in disgust and boredom.

Why the Simpsons can fall so low at doing entire episodes based basically on nothing, except some guest doing his/her own voice, is beyond me. Many of the characters act completely out of character just to give as much space as possible to the guest star? what for? What's the point? I watch the Simpsons to have a laugh and relax for half an hour. There already is far to many programs about glorified interviews/talk-shows about specific persons on TV and if I wanted to watch one, I would have turned on one of those shows. It is not Simpsons role to do them! Based on this, I have to say that this episode stand out as the worst Simpsons episode I have ever seen.

... Not deifying them. His treatment in this episode is so bizarre and out of place for a show with this legacy.

It gets 2 stars because there are a handful of okay jokes and any inclusion of Arnie Pye is worth a star.

But the worst aspect of this isn't Musks inclusion in the episode, it's that of all people Lisa is the most sycophantic. What an appalling betrayal of her character, Lisa would despise someone like Elon.

Matt Groening had his name removed from the sixth season episode A Star is Burns, due to the forced inclusion of Jay Sherman, a character from another Fox show. I can't imagine why he'd want his name on this.

I'm genuinely shocked this is currently rated at 5.6 on here. Did the producers learn nothing from "Lisa Goes Gaga"? Dedicating a whole episode to one (and I use the term loosely) - celebrity - does not work in modern Simpsons.

Firstly, what's the point in Musk? I honestly think of him as so irrelevant. So why on earth did they feel the need to give him so much air time? Secondly, he CANNOT voice act. He sounds so dull and bored in the episode. Did they only capture one take?

The plot line is stupid (especially the first bit - putting an eagle in a sack and almost beating it is just offensive to me); the jokes are not funny; and Musk is definitely one of the worst guest voices they've had on the show.

This show needs a bullet to the back of the head PLEASE.

The Musk Who fell to Earth is a decent Simpsons episode with a mediocre storyline and a few funny scenes, but certainly not enough. They make the same mistake here as they did with Lisa Goes Gaga (my least favourite Simpsons episode ever), in which the episode focuses way too much on the guest star, pushing the main characters in to secondary roles, I really don't like this as we watch the Simpsons to see characters like Homer and Bart, not an animated version of a celebrity. Another issue is that Elon Musk is not well known, he may be a billionaire, but he is not a household name and I am sure I'm not the only person that looked him up on Wikipedia to see who he was, also he isn't an actor so his voice work is very poor and he clearly dosen't know comedy. It's not the worst episode ever, but it honestly isn't far from it, there were some funny parts and I don't hate the Musk who Fell to Earth, but I couldn't say Simpsons fans need to watch it either.

When billionaire entrepreneur and inventor Ellon Musk swings by Springfield, he has big plans for the Nuclear Power Plant

This is when they started force-feeding Elon Musk to the people big time. The biggest hoax since Einstein, if you ask me. He even appeared on three consecutive shows. That's just crazy. I thought he was a new character to the show. At this point I had no idea of who this "genius" was.

There are funny moments and good episodes on season 26. This is not one of them.