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| Its like Lisa almost wanted Milhouse to get hurt. Milhouse isn't helping his own cause, though. |
After the "H" on Superintendent Chalmer's Honda is stolen, Skinner does a search of every student's locker, ultimately finding it in Nelson Muntz's locker along with several other stolen items. As Nelson is forced to return those items, Lisa chides Nelson for his behavior, while Nelson is further punished by being given a week's worth of janitorial work. Later, during music class, Lisa spies Nelson pulling a prank on Willie, which she finds funny. The laughter is misconstrued by the teacher, and Lisa is given detention. After Nelson pops in to give Lisa tips on making detention less taxing, Lisa takes a moment to look at Nelson, realizing in momentary disgust that she's developing a crush on Nelson.
Meanwhile, Homer finds an auto-dialer tossed away by the police after a telemarketing raid. Despite seeing the consequences of such actions first-hand, Homer takes the auto-dialer anyway and sets up a "Happy Dude" scheme, calling everyone in town in hopes of them giving Homer $1 each under the promise of "eternal happiness". The plan starts off modestly, though at night the auto-dialer is set to redial on Flanders' number non-stop.
Lisa blurts her newfound crush to Milhouse, and has him deliver a message to Nelson: "guess who likes you". Nelson mistakes it as a message from Milhouse, and promptly annihilates him. Afterward, Lisa admits to Nelson that she was the one who wrote the message, and in an attempt to get him to like her has him visit her house (and later vice versa). Nelson proves to be more difficult than Lisa anticipates, but Marge advises her to keep at it.
Lisa dresses Nelson up, and the two have a date up near the observatory. Lisa tries to start up a conversation, but Nelson tires of it and 'shuts her up' with a kiss. He comes to like it, though, and Lisa starts to believe her plan of changing Nelson is working. Just then, Nelson's bully friends - Jimbo, Kearney and Dolph - appear and chide Nelson for his newfound feeling. They found some expired cole slaw they want to sling at Skinner's house, and while Nelson does want to get back at Skinner, with Lisa around he refuses to go, much to Lisa's pleasure.
Later that night, after Lisa went home, Nelson meets up with the bullies at Skinner's house and throws cole slaw at it anyway. The group is forced to disperse when the police arrive. Nelson runs to the Simpson house to get help from Lisa, claiming they're after him for no reason, and she helps him flee. The police arrive at the Simpson house, and open fire. The target: the auto-dialer, which was annoying even Chief Wiggum. The police then force Homer to come to court. Elsewhere, the auto-dialer diversion allows Lisa and Nelson to escape, but Nelson blurts out that he was, in fact, causing mischief at Skinner's place. Lisa finally realizes that she can't change Nelson, and two split up on relatively good terms. Milhouse learns of this quickly and is overjoyed, while some time later, Homer uses the auto-dialer to send a court-mandated apology to everyone, while at the same time hoping they send $1 to "Sorry Dude".
Quick Review
While the Lisa and Nelson plot was okay on its own, Homer's auto-dialer subplot was superb, and both Skinner's and Milhouse's few appearances in the episode were worth several laughs as well.
Final Score: 9.2
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