![]() Pamela Reed is well cast as the voice of Ruth Powers, and it is a clever self-revelatory observation that her skin is smoother than American cheese, but their scenes together have too much of an easy sheen. Being cornered by emotion should bring out the kinds of Moe-isms which inspired Lisa to rebrand him as an angry poet but, in “The Wayz We Were,” his caustic wit is dulled. This isn’t in response to his lovelorn demeanor, but because he’s not his usual anti-effervescent self. What doesn’t work is how it turns Moe into mush. Tonight’s episode discusses the elephant in the room, meaning Homer, so we know this is no mean feat for such a mean tempered barkeep. He’s carried quite a few episodes of the series, and also once carried Homer away from the middle of a boxing match. And it’s not that Moe is not a leading man. We can completely accept the premise: he is stuck in a traffic jam, sees the only woman he’s ever loved in the rearview, and happy endings ensue. For years we’ve watched Moe go from pug ugly to fugly and pug fugly to eating his own pickled eggs. That might explain why he is sadly miscast. ![]() Love meant never having to say you’re sorry until The Simpsons’ “The Wayz We Were.” Moe himself puts it best at the ending, the song is pretty good, but the movie, well, he didn’t like it. ![]() This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.
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