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XXIX (Season 30, Episode 4, Aired October 21st, 2018)
Oh, hey, we get the return of the tombstones in this! ESPN is in one of them, which was weird, but I enjoyed “Watermelon Oreos” and “Thinking Nazis are dead.” Anyway, the opening is a parody of the HP Lovecraft story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, though the god here is not Dagon or the Deep Ones, for some reason, but Cthulhu. I suppose Cthulhu is better known Lovecraft water god? Anyway, it’s a good parody if you’ve read the story, especially the strange knowledgeable fisherman, the fish-like appearance of the townspeople revealed and the Lovecraftian fog of the story. Cthulhu’s design in the episode is… alright, but its beak mouth was a little disconcerting. Anyway, good opening, with a funny eat off between Cthulhu and Homer and how the Simpsons eat Cthulhu.
“Intrusion of the Pod-y Switchers” is a parody of the 1954 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and possibly its 1978 remake. It starts with a callback to the Apple parody “Mapple” (could they not come up with another fruit?) from back in the Season 20 episode “MyPods and Boomsticks”, complete with fake Steve Jobs. There’s some good parodies of continued Apple fandom, like the new iPhone or Tim Cook. It turns out that fake Tim Cook is actually part of a race of plant aliens who intend to replace the human population with spores that grow plants that consume people and replace them with deplicates. It’s a novel way of parodying that film, though Comic Book Guy says something weird: That the segment is parodying Invasion of the…
