The Simpsons (TV Series) I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot (2004) User Reviews

A good balance of comedy and emotion

[goonmiles · 7/10 · 17 April 2018]

This episode is definitely one of the best episodes of season 15! Surprisingly funny compared to the other bland boring episodes of season 15, and the A story with Homer and Bart is heart warming and fun. Jokes hit more often than miss on the A plot but the Lisa B plot feels really tacked on and rushed. Lisa's plot isn't bad, it's just painfully mediocre, the Homer and Bart story is what will hold your attention.

Immense

[gianmarcoronconi · 9/10 · 27 May 2022]

Immense episode with a main story that tells of sacrifice and fatherly love in a light, funny and robotic way, too bad for the secondary story which is boring and highly forgettable.

To me, Lisa's side story was better than Bart and Homer's story of the episode

[opalpika1328 · 9/10 · 6 September 2023]

The main story dealt with Homer attempting to bond with Bart, that he even disguised as a robot for a battling robot event for Bart, but that too much reminded me of the South Park episode "AWESOME-O", where Cartman disguised as a robot for Butters, but he did that for a joke, not to bond with him like Bart and Homer. Now Lisa's side story I liked, and it was an emotional one, for it dealt with her losing her cat, Snowball II, who died. She tried to adopt many cats, but sadly they all had sad deaths, all, but one. Lisa almost gave up on finding another cat until Gil's car got wrecked instead of the cat being killed, she then considered it a "good luck kitty" and decided for it to be the new Snowball II, Principal Skinner walks by considering it a cheat to name it that, into which Lisa brought up "Principal Tamzarian" from the controversial episode "The Principal and the Pauper", which made him walk away. Because of that people don't consider this a canon episode, but I count it and liked it. I know how it is like to have a cat die since it happened a lot in my life, which is why I liked Lisa's side story more than the main Bart and Homer storyline.

Much better from S15

[studioAT · 5/10 · 11 February 2020]

This is better. After a run of so-so episodes the 15th series of the show gets back on track with a nice episode that highlights the sweetness in Bart/Homer's relationship.

It's nicely written and play, with some nice emotion in it too.

The B plot involving Lisa/Marge and a lot of cats isn't great, but there is a nice "lets pretend this didn't happen" moment with Skinner at the end.