Worst Episode: BART TO THE FUTURE
Airdate March 19, 2000
Choosing the lamest ''Simpsons'' episode is like picking the crowning installment of ''Shasta McNasty'' -- it's all relative. So while ''Bart to the Future'' was likely better than anything else on TV the week it first aired, even Mojo the monkey could've banged out a more inventive script: Bart visits an American Indian mystic and foresees Lisa as president and himself as a ponytailed slacker. Plus, the whole looking-into-the-future premise is merely reliving past glory, carried out far more successfully in 1995's ''Lisa's Wedding.'' And you're really in trouble when even Homer -- wasted here as an old man on a wild goose chase for Abe Lincoln's gold -- can't dig up a laugh. We didn't know it was physically possible for something to both suck AND blow.
