Reception
In its original American broadcast, "Another Simpsons Clip Show" finished 68th in the ratings for the week of September 19 to September 25, 1994, with a Nielsen rating of 8.7. The episode was the fourth highest rated show on the Fox network that week, beaten only by Beverly Hills, 90210, The X-Files, and Married... With Children.
The episode has received rather negative reviews, since clip shows tend to be among the least favorite episodes among fans. Nevertheless, it is considered one of the better clip show episodes of The Simpsons. The episode has been described as "framed in such a way as to still make worth watching, like a slideshow that's not quite so boring," "another clip show, although not the worst of them," or as "the episode title pretty much says it all". Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said in a review: "The romance related storyline fizzles. That leaves us with a good collection of clips, but since we can already watch them in their original episodes, why bother with this cheap excuse for product?"
Lisa's comments — "romance is dead, it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece-by-piece" — have been used in case studies of the cultural representations of organizations.
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