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A rare great one, especially considering the shit from the season so far. A truly odd character turn for Homer… it’s almost like he’s being portrayed as a… empathetic, likable person. Then we get the kicker where we find that Homer purposely wiped out his own memory after feeling so bad about spoiling his wife’s surprise, in another strangely thoughtful, but slightly boneheaded move from him. That’s some amazing timing, but I’m willing to overlook it. Homer realizes the truth about what happened as he’s falling, that Marge was planning a surprise party for him, right before he lands on a moon bounce on his party ship down below. This leads to the only big issue I have with the episode Patty and Selma appear at the bridge Homer’s standing off of to berate him and push him off. When he uncovers what he thinks to be Duffman having an affair with Marge, he’s crestfallen, and decides to commit suicide (this’ll be attempt three of the series, for those keeping score). Act two has some great stuff in it within Homer’s mind, with him whizzing past thousands of frame grabs from past episodes to him attempting to physically jostle and alter his memories to get more information about what happened. To jostle his memory, Homer visits Professor Frink, who has a device that allows one to search through their own memories. He knows he would never do something so horrible… but could he? It’s a rare, truly emotional portrayal from the dumb fuck caricature he’s become in recent years. The first act keeps us in the dark as to what happened, and of course we know there was no foul play, but we really feel for Homer in his confusion and disbelief over the situation. Only uncovering bits of Marge reacting resistant to him and getting a black eye, he fears the worst. He returns to an empty home, and struggles to put the pieces together as to what happened. One winter morning, Homer wakes up face down in the snow after a seemingly drunken night he can’t remember. As I mentioned before with “Moe Baby Blues,” this is one of the very few episodes that panicked new Simpsons supporters point to, screaming, “See! The show’s still good! See?!” And as with “Blues,” yes, this is a pretty good show it apes its premise from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, of course, but only in its plot device, crafting a believable and mostly investing story around it.