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by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/J._Stewart_Burns" title="J. 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Stewart Burns</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Featured music</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"<a href="/wiki/I_Feel_Free" title="I Feel Free">I Feel Free</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Production code</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">VABF18</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Original air date</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">October 2, 2016<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2016-10-02</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary"><span class="nowrap">Guest appearance</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data ib-tv-episode-guests"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allison_Janney" title="Allison Janney">Allison Janney</a> as Julia</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary" style="background: #CCCCFF; padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em;">Episode features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Couch_gag" class="mw-redirect" title="Couch gag">Couch gag</a></th><td class="infobox-data">An unseen player attempts to capture all of the Simpsons in the style of <i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go" title="Pokémon Go">Pokémon Go</a></i>, except <a href="/wiki/Homer_Simpson" title="Homer Simpson">Homer</a>, who proclaimed he is too fat, and a hammer knocked him out.</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header noprint summary">Episode chronology</th></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width: 100%; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0; text-align: center;">← <b>Previous</b><br />"<a href="/wiki/Monty_Burns%27_Fleeing_Circus" title="Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus">Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus</a>" </td> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0 0.2em 0.1em; text-align: center;"><b>Next</b> →<br />"<a href="/wiki/The_Town_(The_Simpsons)" title="The Town (The Simpsons)">The Town</a>" </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_28" title="The Simpsons season 28"><i>The Simpsons </i>season 28</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes" title="List of The Simpsons episodes">List of episodes</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Friends and Family</b>" is the second episode of the <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_28" title="The Simpsons season 28">twenty-eighth season</a> of the American animated television series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i>, and the 598th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> on October 2, 2016. The episode was written by <a href="/wiki/J._Stewart_Burns" title="J. Stewart Burns">J. Stewart Burns</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Lance_Kramer" title="Lance Kramer">Lance Kramer</a>. </p><p>In this episode, Marge and the children are hired as Mr. Burns' family, so Homer bonds with his female neighbor while they are away. <a href="/wiki/Allison_Janney" title="Allison Janney">Allison Janney</a> guest starred as Julia. The episode received positive reviews. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_and_Family_(The_Simpsons)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Mr._Burns" title="Mr. Burns">Mr. Burns</a> goes to an appointment with his <a href="/wiki/Psychiatrist" title="Psychiatrist">psychiatrist</a> to deal with his anger issues. Much to Burns' anger, Dr. Nussbaum gives up on his case after seventy years and says that he will never be able to have a family. Shortly after Burns leaves the room, the doctor dies. During his funeral, Burns pays for his tombstone which has "Paid for by C. Montgomery Burns" written on it, angering everyone there. Escaping from the angry mourners, Burns and <a href="/wiki/Waylon_Smithers" title="Waylon Smithers">Smithers</a> accidentally run over <a href="/wiki/Professor_Frink" title="Professor Frink">Professor Frink</a> who is wearing virtual reality glasses. Burns gets interested in the technology and takes it home where he has a lot of fun with them. However, Smithers reminds him that the last thing his doctor said was that he needed a family, and suggests programming a virtual reality family to test out this idea. </p><p>At the family tryouts, the Simpsons are the ones who stood out the most to Burns, so he decides to hire them. Burns has intended to be the father of the family, so <a href="/wiki/Homer_Simpson" title="Homer Simpson">Homer</a> is sent back home. During the first recordings, Burns enjoys the experience and hires the Simpson family for ten years. At home, Homer misses his family at first, but he later realizes that he could have fun by himself. While lying naked on the roof at night, he meets his neighbor Julia. They quickly befriend each other over their love of beer and hatred towards <a href="/wiki/Ned_Flanders" title="Ned Flanders">Ned Flanders</a>. </p><p>At the recordings, the rest of the Simpsons are already tired of their job and Burns, angry at them, gives up on starting a family and fires the Simpsons. When the family gets back home, <a href="/wiki/Marge_Simpson" title="Marge Simpson">Marge</a> finds out about Homer's friendship with Julia. She gets angry, thinking that Homer is cheating on her with Julia, but when Julia comes in through the back door, she assures Marge that she and Homer are just friends and that she would not steal a man who is in a committed relationship. Julia leaves after telling Marge that she and Homer are lucky to have each other, and Marge, though she accepts Homer's friendship with Julia, is still a little angry with him. But after Homer explains some things that Julia taught him that can improve his relationship with Marge, she forgives him and they embrace, which is seen by Julia and her fiancé, who works as a pilot. </p><p>The episode ends by fast-forwarding a few years into the future showing most Springfieldians, including Homer and Marge, using virtual reality glasses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_and_Family_(The_Simpsons)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2016 at <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con" title="San Diego Comic-Con">San Diego Comic-Con</a>, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Allison_Janney" title="Allison Janney">Allison Janney</a> would guest star in an episode this season.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Execute producer <a href="/wiki/Al_Jean" title="Al Jean">Al Jean</a> described her character, Julia, as someone who likes beer and Homer, which upsets Marge, even though she has no romantic interest in Homer.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_and_Family_(The_Simpsons)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"<a href="/wiki/I_Feel_Free" title="I Feel Free">I Feel Free</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a> is heard while Homer is at home. He watches the <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Academy_(franchise)" title="Police Academy (franchise)">Police Academy</a></i> films and ends up lying on the roof like <a href="/wiki/Snoopy" title="Snoopy">Snoopy</a>. Luigi tests Homer and Julia by having them eat spaghetti like the title characters in <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_and_the_Tramp" title="Lady and the Tramp">Lady and the Tramp</a></i>. While Burns tests the virtual reality glasses, the Simpson children's heads briefly turn into <a href="/wiki/Zoidberg" title="Zoidberg">Zoidberg</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/Futurama" title="Futurama">Futurama</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Perkins_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perkins-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Purported_foreshadowing">Purported foreshadowing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_and_Family_(The_Simpsons)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Purported foreshadowing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2024, viewers noticed similarities between this episode's virtual reality plot and usage of the <a href="/wiki/Apple_Vision_Pro" title="Apple Vision Pro">Apple Vision Pro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were reports of people on the subway or walking on the street wearing the Apple Vision Pro which was similarly depicted in the episode with characters wearing similar goggles.<sup id="cite_ref-Cost_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cost-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Social media posts declared the incident another <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons#Purported_foreshadowing_of_actual_events" title="The Simpsons">prediction</a> by the series.<sup id="cite_ref-Cost_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cost-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Friends_and_Family_(The_Simpsons)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Friends and Family" received positive reviews from critics. </p><p>Dennis Perkins of <i><a href="/wiki/The_A.V._Club" title="The A.V. Club">The A.V. Club</a></i> gave the episode a B− stating, "Thankfully, while 'Friends And Family' never quite comes together, each story has its charms. Latter-day Simpsons has a bewildering tendency to jam two possible A-stories into the same episode, shorting them both. Here, the blame lies more with how damned long it takes to get to the plot(s), but, by the time the sweet ending rolls around...the consistent gags and smidge of heart wore me down."<sup id="cite_ref-Perkins_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perkins-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tony_Sokol" title="Tony Sokol">Tony Sokol</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Den_of_Geek" title="Den of Geek">Den of Geek</a></i> rated the episode four of five stars commenting, "Lines aren’t everything, especially in animated entertainment and this episode has dozens of sight gags, many of them are happening in the background...I don’t use this word lightly, but this episode was excellent."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Friends and Family" scored a 2.6 rating with a 9 share and was watched by 6 million people, 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title="The Simpsons season 7">7</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_8" title="The Simpsons season 8">8</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_9" title="The Simpsons season 9">9</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_10" title="The Simpsons season 10">10</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_11" title="The Simpsons season 11">11</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_12" title="The Simpsons season 12">12</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_13" title="The Simpsons season 13">13</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_14" title="The Simpsons season 14">14</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_15" title="The Simpsons season 15">15</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_16" title="The Simpsons season 16">16</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_17" title="The Simpsons season 17">17</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons_season_18" title="The Simpsons season 18">18</a></dd> <dd><a 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0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Monty_Burns%27_Fleeing_Circus" title="Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus">Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Friends and Family</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Town_(The_Simpsons)" title="The Town (The Simpsons)">The Town</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XXVII" title="Treehouse of Horror XXVII">Treehouse of Horror XXVII</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Trust_but_Clarify" title="Trust but Clarify">Trust but Clarify</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/There_Will_Be_Buds" title="There Will Be Buds">There Will Be Buds</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Havana_Wild_Weekend" title="Havana Wild Weekend">Havana Wild Weekend</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dad_Behavior" title="Dad Behavior">Dad Behavior</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Traction_Hero" title="The Last Traction Hero">The Last Traction Hero</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Nightmare_After_Krustmas" title="The Nightmare After Krustmas">The Nightmare After 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