page_title: Moe Baby Blues
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Moe Baby Blues / Reception
caption_attribution_description: American actor Hank Azaria
context_page_description: "Moe Baby Blues" is the 22nd and final episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 18, 2003.
context_section_description: The episode has received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club writer Emily VanDerWerff, who holds the opinion that by the start of the 2000s The Simpsons had declined in quality compared to its earlier years, praised "Moe Baby Blues" for being as good as the better episodes of the series.
  In 2009 she wrote, "No matter how hard showrunner Al Jean tried to bring the show back to its roots after Mike Scully turned it into a cartoonish fantasy early in the decade, there was always something missing. The series, which had done everything, mostly lost its ability to surprise. Every so often, though, it came up with an episode like this one, offering a funny new way to use the characters." VanDerWerff went on to say that "Moe becomes obsessed with caring for baby Maggie, in ways both hilarious and rooted in the characters we’d grown to know. 'Moe Baby Blues' added a new relationship to the show, and represented one of the few consistently funny episodes this decade."
  In February 2012, "Moe Baby Blues" was listed by Matt Zoller Seitz of New York magazine as one of "Nine Latter-Day Simpsons Episodes That Match Up to the Early Classics". DVD Verdict's Victor Valdivia, on the other hand, commented that "even the best episodes [of season fourteen] don't quite rank with the best of the series' classic seasons, but that doesn't mean that they're not worth watching anyways," citing "Moe Baby Blues" as an example and adding that it "gives some much needed humanity to Moe, easily one of the series' most scabrous characters." Screen Rant called it the best episode of the 14th season.
  J. Stewart Burns was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the animation category for his work on the episode,  but lost to Matt Selman, the writer of the Simpsons episode "The Dad Who Knew Too Little". The Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria won an Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" category for his voice-acting work on "Moe Baby Blues". It was Azaria's third win in that category and his fourth Emmy Award overall.
caption: Hank Azaria, who voices Moe and other The Simpsons characters, won an Emmy Award for his work on this episode.
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