Six years ago would be 2009. Who would have used an analog camera back then? But then again, the Simpsons don't seem all that modern anyway. The show feels more like the nineties with some modern touches than it feels modern-day.

The plot would have worked better if Bart HAD been innocent. Given the way Marge was set up, I thought that was what was going to happen, too. Also, how was turning the sign into FD better than FIE? And is Quimby now dead, or was that another Family Guy gag?

I suspect this is how people get killed most often on the holodeck: they demand the computer to end the program first, and only when it fails do they duck for cover.

And to quote Memory Alpha: "This episode won an Emmy Award
for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama
Series; it was also nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in
Sound Editing for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in
Makeup for a Series." Some positives after all.

They missed a great opportunity to have Spot de-evolve into a sabertoothed tiger and have her prowl Data's quarters. For shame.

Another random, pointless death, Homer trying to kill himself played for laughs, and a rather callous throwaway gag at a character death from when the show still had a shred of dignity? Where is this show going?

I disagree about the adults being wrong for not believing Clara. After all, Isabella WAS imaginary up until that point, and there was no compelling reason for them to believe this had changed. WE know the truth because we can see for ourselves, but the characters cannot. And in the end, Occams Razor applies, even with…

This sort of episode works much better when watching the series decades later, when you have no idea whether or not an actor is about to leave the show, so that there can be some uncertainty when a show suggests a character actually dies.

One plot hole in Disaster: Geordi, the guy with the infrared (among other things) visor, can't see where a wall is hot to the touch.

I thought this episode was funny enough, if intolerably continuity-breaking. I wonder if this would have fared better as a full-length Treehouse of Horror?

Oh, the irony of complaining that there is no B-story…

How nice of the Borg to hang on to Picard's clothes, and store them in a dresser too!

Isn't that last family from The Island of Dr Monroe?

Wow. To both the episode and this review. This episode will launch a thousand essays. I suspect that academia will be talking about this one for years, just as with other earth-shattering South Park moments.