Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
As The Simpsons kicks off its 29th season, there's literally nothing the show can attempt that it hasn't done at least once already. That includes kicking off the season with a gimmicky themed episode that transplants the citizens of Springfield into a strange and unfamiliar world. "The Serfsons" basically played out like like the show's answer to Futurama's "Bender's Game" - an amusing but ultimately forgettable detour into a world of fantasy tropes.
Watching this episode, I was torn over whether the writers would have been better off focusing on spoofing one particular fantasy franchise rather than the "one size fits all" approach we see here. This episode included nods towards Game of Thrones (the White Walker character, the George R.R. Martin cameo), Lord of the Rings (Hobbits, Ents, palantirs and Sauron's nose), the Chronicles of Narnia (Aslan) and the menagerie of Dungeons & Dragons. There was even a random He-Man reference thrown in thanks to Duffman's distinctive armor. At the same time, the writers focused at least as much time poking fun at medieval feudalism and the fact that modern life isn't always as different as we'd like to believe. It was fun to see this episode cast such a wide net, but you have to wonder what the show could have accomplished with. say, a dedicated Game of Thrones parody.
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