Four Regrettings and a Funeral
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"Four Regrettings and a Funeral" is the five hundred and thirty-third episode of The Simpsons and third episode of the twenty-fifth season.
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Synopsis
Four Springfielders are prompted to try to right past regrets following the funeral of a beloved neighbor. Homer regrets selling his Apple stock to buy a bowling ball, Marge worries she caused Bart’s rebellious streak, Mr. Burns reminisces about a romance he gave up with a beautiful Parisian woman and Kent Brockman admits he was too afraid to leave local news and follow his former partner Rachel Maddow (guest appearing as herself) to cable news.[1]
Plot
Act I
Act II
Act III
Production
The episode guest-stared Joe Namath and Rachel Maddow both as themselves.[2]
The episode featured a tribute to Marcia Wallace, who died nine days before the episode aired.[3]
A scene was cut from the final episode. In this scene, in a moment of truth during Brockman's meeting at the Fox News, Aaron Sorkin appears in a thought bubble above Brockman's head and advises the anchor on whether or not he should work for the cable channel.[2]
Original credits
There was another set of credits to be aired as a tribute to Chip Davis. However, due to Marcia Wallace's tribute instead, the credits were cut from the original airing of the episode. Each scene in the credits is from a previous episode and shows where Chip was in each of these. In the original airing of each of these scenes, Chip was not in any of them. These credits were put into subsequent airings of the episode (International/Online version).
"Mr. Plow"
Reception
The episode was watched by a total of 5.43 million viewers, making it the most watched show of the night, beating American Dad!, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy.[4]
The episode received generally mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. The A.V Club gave the episode a C+ rating and criticized the episode for its "mediocre writing", "shoddy structure" and "flabby, toothless attempts at satire."[5] TV Fanatic compared it to the seventh season episode 22 Short Films About Springfield, "but this time it felt rather disjointed and lacked any real humor." They ultimately gave it a 2.5/5 rating.[6] Film Watch gave an identical rating and named the episode "a letdown as the writers trotted out some tired old tropes and gags."[7] Bubble Blabber concluded, "the four different plots were sloppily put together and really just rehashed from prior seasons. [...] how many Burns love stories have we seen? The Hobbit-inspired intro was legit, but it was all down hill from there."[8] Conversely, Den of Geek gave a positive 4/5 rating, praising the show for "playing with their own publicity" by having 'the death of Springfield’s most beloved character' being a one-time character never seen before.[9]
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References
- ↑ Spoiler TV - "The Simpsons - Episode 25.03 - Four Regrettings and a Funeral - Press Release "
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Inside TV - "Aaron Sorkin to cameo on 'The Simpsons' -- EXCLUSIVE"
- ↑ The Daily Beast - "‘Simpsons’s Marcia Wallace Dies"
- ↑ TVbytheNumbers - "Sunday Final Ratings: 'The Amazing Race' Adjusted Up; 'The Simpsons' Adjusted Down + Final NFL Numbers"
- ↑ A.V Club - Dennis Perkins - The Simpsons "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" S25 / E3
- ↑ TV Fanatic - The Simpsons Review: "Four Regrettings and a Funeral": A Regrettable Episode
- ↑ Film Watch - The Simpsons Review: “Four Regrettings And A Funeral” (Season 25, Episode 3) - WGTC
- ↑ BubbleBlabber.com - Cartoons Covered: Review: The Simpsons ‘Four Regrettings and a Funeral’ - 2013 - John Blabber
- ↑ Den of Geek review - "The Simpsons: Four Regrettings and a Funeral, Review"
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