Editing A Tale of Two Springfields (section)

==Reception==
Colin Jacobson of the DVD Movie Guide gave the episode a positive review saying "Maybe it’s the low expectations that accompany 21st century Simpsons episodes, but “Tale” works for me. It takes a simple premise and turns in a good number of strong comedic bits. Hey, and a mention of “[[Golden shower (urolagnia)|golden showers]]” keeps the Season 12 perverted sexual practices streak going!", although he criticized the animation of the Who other than Daltrey, saying that "That’s particularly odd in the case of Pete, as he’d gone awfully bald and gray by 2000."<ref>{{cite web|first=Colin|last=Jacobson|date=September 2, 2009|url=http://www.dvdmg.com/simpsonsseasontwelve.shtml|title=The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season (2000)|work=DVD Movie Guide|access-date=November 3, 2024|archive-date=November 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103131030/http://www.dvdmg.com/simpsonsseasontwelve.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> Jennifer Malkowski of the DVD Verdict said the greatest moment was a tie between "Sacred bond" and "Who huddle."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/simpsons12.php |title=DVD Verdict Review - The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season |work=[[DVD Verdict]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103131117/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/simpsons12.php |archive-date=2011-11-03|access-date=November 3, 2024 }}</ref> Nancy Basile of [[About.com]] gave the episode a 5 writing "Finally! I loved this episode because, flashy guest stars aside, it got back to the heart and soul of the show."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://animatedtv.about.com/library/reviews/bltwospringfields.htm|title=Recaps for 'The Simpsons' Season 12|author=Nancy Basile|work=[[About.com]] Entertainment|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723131953/http://animatedtv.about.com/library/reviews/bltwospringfields.htm|archive-date=2010-07-23|access-date=November 3, 2024}}</ref>

In 2007, Simon Crerar of ''[[The Times]]'' listed the Who's performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show.<ref name="Crerar">{{cite news|last=Crerar |first=Simon|title=The 33 funniest Simpsons cameos ever|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2021776.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005132549/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2021776.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2009|access-date=2010-08-09|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=2007-07-05}}</ref> There was a backlash from Internet fans who found the scene of Homer nearly getting disemboweled by the badger and showing his internal organs to [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] to be too disgusting for ''The Simpsons'', citing the gore to be more at home in such animated shows as ''[[South Park]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]''.<ref name="Bongo">{{cite video | people=Meyer, George|date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref>