Taylor of The DVD Journal thought the best lines of the episode were when Homer arrives at the Bouvier house to pick up Marge for the prom, Selma tells Patty "Marge's dates get homelier all the time," to which Patty replies "That's what you get when you don't put out." IGN ranked Lovitz as the eighth-best guest star in the show's history. In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: "The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together." References External links Fiction set in 1974 1991 American television episodes Fiction with unreliable narrators The Simpsons (season 2) episodes Television episodes about proms