| "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" | |
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| The Simpsons episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 11 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Nancy Kruse |
| Written by | Al Jean |
| Production code | AABF21 |
| Original air date | October 24, 1999 |
| Guest appearance | |
| Ed Asner as the newspaper editor | |
| Episode features | |
| Chalkboard gag | "I am not The Last Don"[1] |
| Couch gag | The Simpsons sit down as normal. Marge notices the name "Matt Groening" written on the carpet, gets up, and wipes the name off. Groening comes in and rewrites his name on the floor.[1] |
| Commentary | Mike Scully Al Jean George Meyer Dan Greaney Matt Selman Nancy Kruse |
"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner" is the third episode of the eleventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 24, 1999. In the episode, Homer becomes a food critic for a Springfield newspaper and ends up annoying the restaurant owners of Springfield after he makes negative reviews just to be mean, advice he took from fellow critics. Springfield's restaurant owners then attempt to kill Homer by feeding him a poisoned éclair. American actor Ed Asner guest starred in the episode as the newspaper editor who hires Homer.
The episode has received generally mixed to positive reviews from television critics since airing.