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| Ironically, the Miami Dolphin's helmet logo no longer wears a helmet. Good research, writers! |
After some inconsequential shenanigans with an eagle, the Simpsons are visited by a small spaceship (which incinerates the eagle). Coming out of the ship is Elon Musk, whom Lisa immediately identifies as a well-renowned inventor and entrepreneur. Elon is apparently in a slump and is traveling around the world in his spaceship looking for ideas. Soon, he finds inspiration in Homer's random thoughts. Homer takes Elon to the nuclear plant, and gives suggestions to Mr. Burns. Burns strikes a deal with Musk to forcefully pump more electricity into Springfield, thus potentially increasing Burns' profits while Musk demands no monetary compensation. Smithers is highly suspicious of Musk, but Burns pays no mind to him and carries on. Meanwhile, Homer and Elon become good, good friends.
Soon, Springfield becomes somewhat of a "city of tomorrow" type place with self-driving cars everywhere and such. Soon, Burns is ready to have Elon announce the plant's quarterly report, only to be stunned to learn that the plant lost $50 million. Turns out, Elon is just your average "ideas guy" who just wants to "save the planet", caring not one iota about finances or money. Having lost so much money, Burns is forced to layoff most of the nuclear plant, including Homer.
Springfield falls into a deep depression as a result, and Homer realizes it may be time for Musk to move on, getting advice on breaking up from the person who knows best: Marge. Making it more awkward is Elon saving Homer's life during a botched assassination attempted by aged snipers hired by a vengeful Burns. Even so, Homer tells Elon he doesn't want to be with him anymore, and Elon is prompted to leave town, realizing that the world just isn't ready for his ideas yet, but he has a hard time forgetting his short time being with Homer, and his last final idea: the dolphin in the Miami Dolphins' helmet logo is also wearing a helmet.
Quick Review
Al Jean stated that he didn't want this episode to be a "kiss-ass" episode to Musk, kinda like what happened with Lisa Goes Gaga, and wanted to poke fun at Musk's ego and whatnot, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that was the case.
Much, much of this episode was spent portraying Musk as your perfect image of a visionary whose only fault is being unable to deal with money, and even then he goes a mini-tangent about wanting to rid the world of financial systems, with a straight face of course. From the moment he landed in the Simpsons' backyard in his own personal spaceship to the very last minute of the episode, the entire time was basically the Elon Musk propaganda half-hour and while I can't really deny some of the work he's done (though PayPal is not that great, come on), that's no reason for the episode to just gush over him like they did.
The episode lacked in jokes and humor, and most of the humor that there was did not come from or was related to anything regarding Musk. Musk's lines were oddly delivered throughout and any "humor" derived from him wasn't that good. You'll see the score below, and it probably should be lower to be honest, but this is not a good episode in any capacity.
Final Score: 6.1
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