In this futuristic installment, Bart goes to a clinic to rid himself of his feelings for his ex-wife Jenda, who is now dating a xenomorph-like alien named Jerry, Lisa must choose whether or not to cure her zombie husband Milhouse after he gets bitten by a homeless zombie, and Marge, after putting up with years of Homer dying and being cloned back to life by Professor Frink, loads Homer onto a flatscreen monitor and throws him out of the house.
After thirty years of clones dying, Frink cannot revive Homer but stores his memory in a flash drive, which he plugs into a monitor.
Realizing her husband is just a face on a screen, Marge gives the flash drive to Bart until she is not mad at him.
Jenda is impressed by Bart's newfound maturity and invites him to dinner while Homer watches their sons.
Later, Bart and Jenda resume their habits of not paying attention to each other while Lisa prefers that Milhouse remain a zombie instead of being cured.
Bart and Lisa go to Moe's to deal with their respective marital problems where Marge tells them to stick through it.
Bart and Lisa visit Marge, who is back with Homer after giving him a robot body and new personality.
In September 2013, Entertainment Weekly reported that Amy Poehler would reprise her role as Jenda in a followup to the sixteenth season episode "Future-Drama."
Executive producer Al Jean said that the episode would feature Bart getting over his divorce from Jenda.
[3] A couch gag contest was held the previous season, and Ray Savaya won the Canadian fan vote.
Although she did not win the grand prize, she received a "Simpsonized" drawing of herself and a first season DVD box set.
[3] Bart has his memories altered with a method similarly depicted in the 1990 film Total Recall.