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| Bart, sampling various failed sketches for "Fry's girlfriend for an episode". |
Homer's bad eating habits catch up to him and he dies. At his funeral, a grieving mass becomes relieved when Professor Frink reveals he's saved Homer's memory and brain patterns, and has transferred them into a new body, essentially getting a second chance at life. When that body dies the same day, Frink presents a second clone of Homer, and thus a cycle of Homer dying and 'reviving' over and over again starts up, a cycle that lasts 30 years.
Now 30 years in the future, Homer dies again, and in the now ho-hum ceremony Frink reveals that all of his clone bodies have been used up, and Homer is now forced to live on in a flash drive as data. Marge quickly becomes sick of this nonsense and after an hour of dealing with Homer bopping around screens at home, she kicks Homer out to live with her deadbeat son, Bart.
With this episode essentially being a sequel or, more likely, an alternate version of Holidays of Future Past, Bart's shattered relationship with Jenda is revisited, with Bart living in the no-longer-in-use elementary school and Jenda having custody of their two kids. Lisa is also having marital problems with Milhouse, as Lisa's charity work at the zombie shelter makes it hard for the two to see each other. Making matters worse for Bart, Jenda is now seeing Jerry, some kind of alien, and Bart's attempt to find a new woman in life is met with self sabotage. Milhouse tries to confront Lisa at the zombie shelter, but his racism towards zombies causes one to bite him, turning him undead. Meanwhile, Bart sees a clinic where people can have their memories altered to help them move on from unfavorable experiences. Bart requests to get help moving on from Jenda, and the worker there is more than happy to oblige.
From there, Bart has no trouble talking to, and having sex with, multitudes of women of various ages, races, and alien species. The next time Bart meets with Jenda, Jenda quickly falls back in love with Bart and his newfound optimism, but when they attempt to get back together, things fall apart again quickly. Meanwhile, Milhouse has become a zombie, but is receiving shots to cure him from it, which will take a couple of weeks to complete. However, zombie Milhouse is more aggressive and alpha than living Milhouse, which really turns Lisa on and she faces a dilemma as to whether she should keep the brand new dead Milhouse, and return to the alive yet wimpy one.
At Moe's bar, Bart and Lisa meet up to discuss their respective problems when they learn Marge is behind them. She tells them that once they've made their choice in life romantically they should do anything they can to stick to it. Then she electrocutes herself so that she can join Homer in the virtual world for a brief moment before the two supposedly turn themselves off, I guess? Resolute, Lisa decides to have Milhouse finish his cure while Bart decides to break off from Jenda again once and for all.
Suddenly, Bart wakes up, having just finished up his memory alteration, with everything he experienced past that point being a dream used to help cope with his new change (a plot point used from a Futurama episode). Bart feels great, though, and returns home to find Homer in a new robot body with a personality upgrade, and Milhouse still a zombie because the idea of a zombie cure existed only in his dream.
Quick Review
With the oddness that is this episode, it turns out to be really boring. Not a whole lot of material turns out to be all that funny, and the zaniness factor coating what is a triple-threat marriage episode makes for a worthless combination for humor. Its one of the season's weaker episodes and, amazingly, the weakest flash-forward episode of the few that exist.
Final Score: 6.0
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