"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" is the third episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on October 24, 1999. Ed Asner guest stars as the newspaper editor.
Springfield Elementary School arranges for the students to tour the Springfield Shopper newspaper office, while the original intent is for the faculty to throw a party in their absence. Homer skips work to serve as a chaperone for the field trip, but he shouts obscenitie...
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"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" is the third episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on October 24, 1999. Ed Asner guest stars as the newspaper editor.
Springfield Elementary School arranges for the students to tour the Springfield Shopper newspaper office, while the original intent is for the faculty to throw a party in their absence. Homer skips work to serve as a chaperone for the field trip, but he shouts obscenities at an ambulance and inadvertently drives Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, and Nelson to the zoo by mistake before arriving at the newspaper office. They arrive just in time for the tour, which passes a characteristically desperate Gil as a phone salesman trying to sell newspaper subscriptions. The tour ventures through the inner workings of the newspaper, including passing the cartoonist behind Mary Worth (who none of the students actually read) and Dear Abby and Ann Landers who are held captive for 23 hours a day in hyperbaric chambers. Homer soon...
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