Lisa Tries To Fix Burns’s Moose-Take In 'The Simpsons' “The Past And The Furious” Trailer
The Disney+-exclusive episode did not get its trailer until release day
It’s a blast with the past as Disney+ has released the trailer for its second exclusive episode of The Simpsons, “The Past and the Furious”. They’ve done so…on its actual release day of Wednesday, February 12. Literally, it’s a Now Streaming trailer. No surprise considering how close the preview clips of What If…? and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man have been released, but this case reminds me more of the South Park “(Not Suitable For Children)” rollout.
The synopsis is that Lisa, voiced by Yeardley Smith, travels back in time to 1923 and discovers that the Springfield Mini Moose, once key to the town’s ecosystem, were driven to extinction in 1925. Teaming up with young Monty Burns (Harry Shearer), Lisa works to save the moose, but her actions unintentionally shape his future as a ruthless tycoon, putting her on a race against time to save Springfield. The trailer itself has her freak out about the changes first before more sequentially being in the past, finding him as lounge singer Monty B. But there’s also plenty of rapid fire random out of context scenes in the trailer to truly obfuscate figuring out how it all goes down and not give it all away. But um, Lisa’s not actually time traveling. The episode, taking place in a more overindustrialized alternate Springfield with a more ruthless Burns, achieves its time travel with hypnotic suggestion in therapy. No danger or threat of stranding, no lack of modern scenes with Lisa, hm. Probably not one anyone was expecting but she’s also not Stewie Griffin. The ordeal does make her family think that she’s going crazy though, which is in the trailer.
“The Past and the Furious” is the second of three Disney+-exclusive episodes that were announced at D23 in August, beginning with the double-length “O C’mon All Ye Faithful”. That premiered on December 17, marking The Simpsons’s exact 35th anniversary as a full series. It leaves “The Yellow Planet” as the last one awaiting a date (for now?). The Simpsons’s linear season resumes, retaking its 30-year 8 PM timeslot on March 30, bumping down Family Guy, which premieres its 23rd season in that timeslot when Animation Domination returns this Sunday, to 8:30 PM.
