sentences:  Despite this, the Fox Network finished the night fourth overall in ratings.Robert Canning of IGN called the opening segment, E.T., Go Home, "the weakest segment because it just wasn't really all that funny", and thought the end of the segment was the weakest part of the episode, writing "watching the military decimate the aliens and then seeing Homer use a pillow to suffocate Kodos at the end was really off-putting.The deaths weren't funny, just uncomfortable."