Marge quickly becomes monstrous, confirming the suspicions about her insecurities from the book. ..
Marge is ready to stab Maggie to death but is interrupted by the family. Later the same day, Marge follows Maggie with a knife in her hand. However, Maggie outsmarts Marge and manages to tie her up. After a little struggle, Marge finally gets hold of Maggie. However, when Maggie lovingly touches her cheek, she realizes she was being possessed by the Pookadook monster. She apologizes to Maggie for her behaviour. When the demon takes the form of smoke, Marge collects him through the vacuum cleaner.
The next scene takes us straight to Tokyo where Lisa finds a Death Tome which is the diary of the god of death. Any person whose name is mentioned in the diary will meet their death, but there’s one catch: the cause of death can never be repeated. Though not convinced of the book’s magic, Lisa keeps it with her. At home, she hears a tv report that a cute cat is being held hostage by a crooked man with a gun. She decides to test whether or not the diary can really be used to bring somebody to an end. She pens down the guy’s name in the diary, and within moments he dies from a heart attack. ..
Shinigami, the god of death, tells Lisa that he is also known by the name Steve Johnson. Lisa offers to return him the Death Tome, however, he suggests that the diary is hers since she has already used it. Knowing, she is in charge of death, Lisa goes on to kill anybody who has anything to do with evil. Even Shinigami is surprised at the way she is taking her job. She finds tremendously creative ways to kill people including a toilet alligator.
L, a highly-revered detective, correctly explains the cause of the mysterious deaths taking place in the city. Lisa decides to kill L, but she must know his full name in order to kill him through the Death Tome. In a strange turn of events, she kills Shinigami and becomes the Shinigami and leaves with Bart who knows about her secret.
In the future, Homer is discussing monorails with his family. A couple of robots do a hard reset on Homer and take him to the cyber experiment unit. A lady tells Homer that even though he might feel like a man, he is actually an expensive intellectual property. Homer is now a robot.
Homer manages to escape from the robots and finds his family. He soon finds Marge and everyone else, and heads out to escape the tyranny of robots. The family pretends to be robots in order to avoid suspicion. ..
After being attacked by a horde of dwarf robots, the Simpsons family tries to fight them off with t-shirts. They then run the robots over with their car and escape. This proves to be a sound and safe strategy, as they end up having dinner at Bob’s Burgers. ..
The Episode Review
The episode is based on popular plots from the shows it parodies, but it makes no sense to anyone who hasn’t watched the shows they parody. Is it worth a watch? Well, there is nothing to admire as such, but the popular plots that the episode is based on make it watchable. ..
