The chalkboard gag reads: I did not predict any of this crap! That is the show swatting away thirty years of people posting old screenshots and insisting it saw the future. Then it goes ahead and does an episode about screens ruining people, which is exactly the territory that meme lives in. Yellow Mirror sat at number two on Disney+ in the United States this week, eight days after it arrived on August 26. It is the Simpsons take on Black Mirror, two separate stories, both about a device. The first one is the reason people are searching. It takes the episode where this whole family started and says it never happened. The half hour in question is The Way We Was, from 1991. Homer and Barney get detention for smoking in the school bathroom. Marge is there too, sent down for burning a bra at a rally. Homer looks at her and that is that. It was the show's first flashback, it is where the whole family comes from, and it was directed by David Silverman. Yellow Mirror opens by putting Ho...
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