History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS25E20BrickLikeMe

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While obviously not on the same level as ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie The Lego Movie]]'', the episode still manages to capture an awesome feel of the characters in Lego form.

* BrokenBase: Is this episode the writer's love letter to the Toys/{{LEGO}} franchise or is it a forced 25-minute advertisement to the recently-launched LEGO Simpsons range? The fact that LEGO is referred directly and not as [[ProductDisplacement a parody brand]] borders on the later part, and the CGI animation used heavily throughout the episode arguably does not help.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Bart's Lego Mech. Sure it helps save Homer, but nobody ever mentions it afterward and immediately after Bart's Lego Mecha gets knocked down, it's dropped (also literally) from the story.

* ShallowParody: Of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', which the show writers seem to have pictured as essentially ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' with bows (and even then apparently no violence).

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people (specifically those who used to love ''The Simpsons'', but stopped watching it when [[SeasonalRot its quality went down the drain]]) were only interested in this episode because of the LEGO sequences.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While obviously not on the same level as ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie The Lego Movie]]'', the episode still manages to capture an awesome feel of the characters in Lego form.
** Although this was averted when the episode was put forward as that year's Emmy submission for the Outstanding Animated Program that year... and became the first (and, to date, only) submission in the show's history to fail to make the shortlist.[[note]]Barring 1993 and 1994, where the show was submitted under the more competitive Comedy Series category[[/note]]
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The ShallowParody of "[[Literature/TheHungerGames The Survival Games]]" really comes off as this (though, unlike most examples of this trope on the latter-day episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', this was a throwaway joke that no one's going to notice because of the Lego animated sequences and ''The Hunger Games'' is still more-or-less relevant to pop culture).

* BrokenBase: Is this episode the writer's love letter to the LEGO franchise or is it a forced 25-minute advertisement to the recently-launched LEGO Simpsons range? The fact that LEGO is referred directly and not as [[ProductDisplacement a parody brand]] borders on the later part, and the CGI animation used heavily throughout the episode arguably does not help.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: In the beginning, Homer talks about how his happiest day was taking Lego Marge's hand in marriage, only to then literally pull out her clawed hand. And then Santa's Little Helper runs into the room and runs off with the hand.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The episode outright states that everything fits perfectly together in the Lego world, so nothing can ever be broken. As any Lego collector could tell you, this statement is simply not true, as Lego pieces can be overused, so they have to be replaced later.
** The scene in the church where they stick the windows onto the brick walls is extremely cringeworthy for anyone who's a fan of Lego. Lego usually provides actual windows for their sets. Also, anyone who sticks a sticker onto anything other than a solid surface is going to regret it immediately.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The ShallowParody of "[[Literature/TheHungerGames The Survival Games]]" really comes off as this (though, unlike most examples of this trope on the latter-day episodes of ''TheSimpsons'', this was a throwaway joke that no one's going to notice because of the Lego animated sequences and ''The Hunger Games'' is still more-or-less relevant to pop culture).

* HilariousInHindsight: While the episode didn't portray the plot of ''The Lego Movie'' [[ShallowParody really well]], it managed to predict the plot of ''[[WesternAnimation/PlaymobileTheMovie Playmobil: The Movie]]'' quite accurately. Which is surprising, since the movie was only announced when the episode came out, with no information on the plot being revealed.