The Simpsons (TV Series) The Man Who Came to Be Dinner (2015) User Reviews

Wait, this isn't Halloween.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 28 January 2021]

The Simpsons visit a mundane amusement park, the final ride takes them on a very strange journey, to the home world of Kang and Kodos.

This definitely has the feel of one of the Halloween episodes, it's wonderfully zany and surreal. I loved the way the episode played out, the jokes, and the fact that it's just plain weird.

You think you're in for a run of the mill episode, it takes a real turn for the weird.

The animations are incredibly good. This came as an unexpected surprise, 8/10.

The first appearance by Kang and Kodos outside the Halloween episodes

[llltdesq · 8/10 · 9 February 2015]

This is an episode of The Simpsons. There will be spoilers ahead:

This episode features the Simpsons going to the planet of Kang and Kodos as captives. They get there through an elaborate and extended jape at Disney, which the show has been known to do on occasion. The Simpsons go to an amusement park, one only thinly disguised as Disneyland, with plenty of jokes at Disney's expense, all of which are gratuitously hilarious. I particularly like the first ride, which Maggie gets to pick, the sanitized Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which takes all the fun out of things and the references to Star Wars being their property now.

The Simpsons mistake a spacecraft for a ride at the park and wind up being taken for a ride. A certain squirrel and two moon men make a cameo which is not for the squeamish. I almost fell out of my chair.

The Simpsons wind up a zoo exhibit and Homer winds up on the menu, escapes with help from rebels against the ruling class on the planet and then returns in time to try to rescue his family. It turns out that the Simpsons are essentially poisonous to the aliens because of their diet (even Lisa, who is humbled a bit by certain observations). The Simpsons head out for home, with Maggie as pilot.

The end credits feature Simpsons takes on characters and scenes from Star Trek. All in all, a very good episode. Recommended.

Hilarious and Really Strange,

[lesleyharris30 · 9/10 · 6 March 2015]

The Man Who Came to be Dinner is a terrific Simpsons episode with a very well written storyline and a ton of very funny scenes. It is a really strange episode, it feels like a Trrehouse of Horror sketch stretched out in to one episode, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely like to see more zany and over the top Simpsons episodes in the future, I think this season has shown with episodes such as Treehouse of Horror 25 and Simpsorama that fans adore the weirder episodes, they're always fun and I feel like the writers are leaving their comfort zone when they do it. I really loved seeing the family visit Kang and Kodos home planet, we've seen it briefly before, but in this we really get to see what their planet is like and many other aliens as well. The Man Who Came to be Dinner is a very enjoyable Simpsons episode.

Homer and the gang are whisked across across the galaxy and forced to become zoo animals on Kang and Kodo's home planet.

How to Cook For Fourty Humans?

[tankd-44225 · 10/10 · 13 August 2018]

Well, Lisa was right. On the first Treehouse of Horror episode, even though it was contrast to this episode.

Yawn.............

[Filvies144 · 3/10 · 24 October 2015]

The episode starts out with the Simpsons going to a boring amusement park, until getting abducted by aliens. It starts out watchable, but then it gets really boring. I got so bored I started doing something else halfway through. After the Simpsons landed on the alien planet, I just stopped caring. I can't believe how overrated this episode is! Sure it shows Kang and Kudos outside of a Halloween episode, but boy it was wasted. But one unusual thing about this episode is that the town people are completely absent, other than cameos during the credits. I don't think that this episode is as bad as some other atrocities like Miracle on evergreen terrace, but it still is very bad. I think that the Simpsons should just make another movie, and that's it because I think that Homer, Bart, Marge, and Lisa (excluding Maggie) have been all used up by now.

One of the worst things I've ever seen

[martinrobbins-50463 · 1/10 · 28 November 2018]

The highlight of this disaster was the stomping on the classic joke from Deep Space Homer, an absolute abomination that has nothing simpsons about it. All characters without charm and a nonsensical story line that would barely work in a tree house of horror. Probably the worst episode I've seen, the way it's going though, sadly I'm sure that'll be beaten

Possibly a New "Worst Episode Ever"... What Happened to the Simpsons?! (Mild Spoilers Possible)

[RoboGarrett · 10 May 2020]

What used to be the best comedy on television - and even one of the best of all time - is now a weekly exercise in complete futility. The jokes, stories, and characters no longer make any sense whatsoever. Ever episode is just a disjointed, convoluted mess, falling from one random joke to the next, and the jokes aren't even funny any more. I honestly think the reviews of 9 and 10 posted here are just members of the cast and crew - how can anyone in their right mind laugh at any of these jokes, or enjoy such a random mess of a "story?"

The Simpsons go to an amusement park, use up all the random "amusement park" jokes they can think of - including reusing TWO of the jokes they did much better in the fantastic episode, Itchy and Scratchy Land (Jurassic Park send-up)... then one of the rides becomes Kang and Kodos' flying saucer, because... well they're completely out of ideas I guess? And Kang and Kodos are popular parts of the once good Halloween episodes?

Anyway the flying saucer then goes to the alien planet, including a very long sequence in which they once again completely copy a successful old joke they already did (Homer the astronaut eating potato chips). Not funny as a gag, but as a minute long bit? So tedious I thought my eyes would start bleeding. Then they're put in a zoo and they use up all of their random "alien" and "we're exhibits in a zoo" jokes. Then in a very stupid made up way they are freed and fly home, suddenly doing a Star Trek parody and doing hammy Star Trek end credits (already done on at least two other shows).

Do you know why Kang and Kodos are fan favorites? Because they are SPECIAL and not overused. We have to wait until Halloween to see them, other than the occasional cameo gags. Now they are ruined for me because of this stupid, useless, and worst of all completely unfunny episode. They were completely wasted here!

I have completely given up on this show. How on earth are they still making this, when it is so very bad every week? Sure, it was once fantastic (the best!) but how many years do they get to coast on memories of how good they USED to be?

1 out of 10, but only because zero is not an option. This was terrible!

Not unfunny, but damn what the hell is this?!

[tcamyuntoldartist · 1/10 · 17 July 2022]

Not only it is a Halloween episode told as a regular show, but the characters are completely in their silly careless, "whatever, this isn't canon" indifferent attitudes even though what's happening to them is life threatening and 100% real! Doesn't make any sense, i cannot do anything else but giving it a rejecting 1 star.