Every year I have such high hopes for the annual THOH, and often, in the past few years, I am disappointed. At least tonight I can say that it was a mixed bag.
The first segment, "B.I. Bartificial Intelligence" had promise and delivered up to the very half assed ending. It's premise was pretty neat but not original for OFF, remember Hugo? But, it did have, what I think is the show's first Kill Bill reference (Bart waking up from the coma reminded me of when ******* ***** aka. the Bride awoke from her coma) and took a few swipes at the Teri Schivo case. I give it a B.
The second segment just plain old sucked. In my opinion it relied way too much on one liners and Burns blowing away everybody in Springfield got pretty boring after awhile. Best line though was CBG's "five minutes of running! Just kill me now!" I give it a C
The third segment could have had more to it, but seemed too short and too rushed. Dennis Rodman's guest appearance just detracted from the whole thing. B-
so my average grade for this episode is a B-