The Simpsons: 10 Important Details That Are Almost Never Mentioned

In terms of Simpsons episodes that have aged like milk left out in the sun on a scorching hot day, they don't get much worse than 2015's "The Musk Who Fell to Earth."

The episode revolves around entrepreneur Elon Musk, who pays a visit to Springfield and spends a lot of time with the Simpsons, yet the episode largely consists of the writers cosying up to Musk and effectively lionising him as a ne'er-do-wrong super-genius.

It doesn't help that Musk has little comedic timing and what passes for a storyline goes nowhere interesting, but its most egregious sin? Turning Lisa into an acolyte in the cult of Musk.

Lisa refers to Musk as "possibly the greatest living inventor," and while the man's industrial achievements aren't to be sniffed at, Lisa's un-critical brown-nosing of a figure who has increasingly shown himself to be problematic... isn't a great look.

Granted, the episode was released at the peak of Musk's fandom, before the tide of public opinion began to turn against him, yet considering the state of Musk's personal reputation these days, the show's writers' room would probably rather you forget Lisa ever blindly championed him.

While fans have criticised the Lady Gaga-centric episode "Lisa Goes Gaga" for its own celebrity worship, at least in Gaga's case she's a seemingly harmless public figure.

Furthermore, it doesn't feel like she straight-up paid the Simpsons team to make an episode extolling her alleged virtues. Never forget.