Reception
In 2003, Annie Alleman of The Herald News named the episode her all-time favorite Simpsons episode. The same year, writers of Entertainment Weekly listed it as the twenty-second best Simpsons episode of all time. They elaborated that "You've gotta admire a show that lands the greatest names in rock and then gives them as much respect as a brown M&M. While rockers have always shone in 'Simpsons' solos, the Stones so giddily mock their hall-of-fame status it makes "Strummer" the series' Woodstock: a classic-rock show even Disco Stu could get behind." Robert Canning of IGN in a Flashback Review gave the episode a 8.6 saying it was "Great" and also stated " In a season that I generally see as ho-hum ("Pray Anything" is the only other episode I rate highly), "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" simply rocks". In 2007, Simon Crerar of The Times listed Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello and Lenny Kravitz's performances among the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show. In 2011, Kravitz revealed that his greatest achievement was the appearance on The Simpsons in the eyes of his young relatives. He explained that "To my nieces and nephews appearing on 'The Simpsons' was when I actually made it. All the other stuff doesn't count." New York magazine named the episode one of the top ten later Simpsons episodes. James Greene of Nerve.com however, put the episode seventh on his list Ten Times The Simpsons Jumped the Shark, criticizing "shoehorning six rock stars into a Homer-recaptures-his-youth story" and the fact that "the episode's namesake, Joe Strummer, wasn't even in the fucking thing!"
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)