"The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" is the fourteenth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
The episode focuses on Artie Ziff, who takes residence in the Simpson family's attic after declaring bankruptcy.
However, at the theater, all the kid-friendly movies are sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy teen comedy.
Artie explains that his Internet business, Ziffcorp, crashed in the dot-com bubble, and he lost all his money.
[4] On Four Finger Discount, Brendan Dando and Guy Davis thought the episode did not have much substance even with the appearance of Artie Ziff.
They also thought the "strike rate" of the episodes written by Castellaneta and Lacusta up to this point in the series "is not great".
[5] In 2023, Florencia Aberastury of Comic Book Resources wrote that it was questionable that the Simpsons family members ignore Marge's objection to Artie staying with them despite him assaulting her in the past.