"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 that hires Homer. The episode has received generally mixed to positive reviews from television critics since airing. Plot Springfield Elementary arranges a field trip to the offices of The Springfield Shopper for the students, with Homer as a chaperone. While the students are introduced to the newspaper's history and operations, Homer smells cake and follows it to a retirement party for the newspaper's food critic, which he crashes before greedily eating the food. The editor, seeing Homer's love of food, offers him a job as the new food critic. He asks Homer to prepare a 500-word sample review. Homer struggles with the review, which is exacerbated by his malfunctioning typewriter (having to not use the letter "e" and a faulty autocorrect), but Lisa helps him. He praises every restaurant he visits, and the people of Springfield begin to grow fat like him. At the Springfield Shopper office, the editor introduces Homer to other critics, who chide him for being too generous in his reviews. Homer gives into peer pressure and writes a series of bad reviews, criticizing everything. When Lisa stops helping him for being needlessly cruel, Homer attempts to continue reviewing by himself, but the quality of his reviews reverts back to his old poor standard. Meanwhile, the local restaurateurs hold a secret meeting regarding Homer's negative reviews and ultimately decide to kill him. One of the chefs volunteers to do the deed by feeding him a poisonous éclair at an upcoming food festival. While Homer goes about his reviewing duties, Bart overhears some of the restaurateurs discussing the murder plot, and he, Marge and Lisa attempt to warn Homer. Although Homer initially ignores Lisa's warning about the murder plot, he eventually throws away the lethal pastry in revulsion when she exclaims that the éclair is "low fat"; it