Bart the Cool Kid

I can prove mathematically that this generation which has pushed to such decline is poorly educated and simple minded. Parents should be ashamed of their kids. How miserable has The Simpsons become - from a beloved comedy show with hilarious antics and well developed stories, to a disgraceful painfully unfunny advertising platform. Just pull the plug already please!

I'm very happy to boost the score of this episode, because I thought it was good.

I liked that it focused on the Homer and Bart relationship without making the former an idiot and the latter overly bratty.

It's always fun when the show takes swipes at pop culture as well, and that's delivered with aplomb here.

I think some people on this site just see anything the show produces beyond the year 2000 as being rubbish, and are almost afraid to give it a chance to impress them again. I thought there were many an impressive thing here.

I would say that the scene whilst the end credits were going was unnecessary though.

It always feels like they're following a trend and trying just a little too hard to be funny - and it comes off as focusing a whole episode onto a single concept.

However, this does it better than most. Season 33 has been fairly solid so far, but I am hoping for less of these modern episodes, and more of a return to classic storytelling or brand new ideas.

Watching this episode only for The Weeknd, and this was much worse than the American Dad episode, which wasn't good either. Not only did I notice so many animation errors (there's a scene where Homer just starts sliding backwards with the camera and it looks wrong), but I didn't even smile or chuckle once, just straight faced or growing by how painful it was to watch the writers try to be hip and cool by having characters blog. This show that used to make fun of society is now falling for all the tropes and pitfalls in life that the original series would comedically make fun of.

I wasn't aware this episode was a celebrity cameo piece, and considering a lot of the recent cameo episodes this is definitely one of the better ones. Still has a lot of that modern, lame Simpsons humor; but having the conflict be that middle aged men getting into Supreme fashion is kinda funny; too bad that was less than half the episode. Also the plot was driven by Homers "friend" selling him scam sneakers, but like... who was that guy? I don't watch the Simpsons so I'm not an expert, but they just randomly gave Homer a friend that just scams people. Don't know if that's supposed to be a new character or another celebrity cameo, but it just comes off as weird. Honestly not that bad, but still meh overall, which is sadly the high bar in modern Simpsons.