Holidays Of Future Passed (The Simpsons)

"Holidays of Future Passed" is the ninth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 11, 2011.

Plot
30 years into the future, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are now adults with Bart being a divorced deadbeat dad who's trying to get along with his children, Lisa who has a daughter and her daughter hates her while Maggie is a famous singer who's going into labour.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Unlike other futuristic episodes of the Simpsons, rather than being a vision, it's actually set in the future and future episodes (no pun intended) would also do the same.
 * 2) The episode is a sequel to the episode Future-Drama, where almost all of Frink's predictions came true such as Bart and Zenda getting married.
 * 3) The Christmas Card Photos scene is a great pacing from the modern day to the future. It's well executed and funny, as it shows how the Simpsons grew.
 * 4) While the episode is set into the future, it's not to futuristic, making it more accurate to the real world as opposed to how people in the past imagined the future.
 * 5) Lots of Hilarious moments such as the air travel scene, the scene where clones of Ralph keep dying and the Google Search scene.
 * 6) The famous Treehouse scenes where Lisa and Bart talk with each other about parenting is very wholesome and emotional, it also ends their feud on a good side.
 * 7) Speaking of emotional, it does have more than one emotional and touching scenes such as Lisa finding out that her daughter sees her as her hero and Bart apologising to his kids and they hug.
 * 8) The future shows characters being developed well with Homer finally quitting drinking and becoming a great grandfather who helps Bart reconnect with his children.
 * 9) Lots of characters have changed throughout time and it's hilarious such as Ralph Wiggum becoming a cop like his father.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) The episode became non canon after another futuristic episode called "Days of Future Future" was released and ignores almost everything in this episode.

Reception
The episode received universal acclaim, with huge praise going for the humor and emotional scenes such as Bart and Lisa talking about Parenting.

It's seen as one of the few modern good episodes as well as the best episode set in the Future as well as the best episode of the season. It currently has a 8.3/10 rating on IMDb.

Trivia

 * 1) The episode was supposed to be the finale of the series as the show was at risk of being cancelled due to budget issues.
 * 2) Matt Groening has a minor cameo in the episode as one of the audience in the football match scene, though he's uncredited.