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| Never before has there been such rage towards a barbecue pit. |
Marge urges Homer to actually do something on the weekends. With home repairs on the docket, Homer goes to a hardware store to get related materials, but is sidetracked when he sees an infomercial for a barbecue pit, and decides to build one himself. Although he has Lisa cement the base, Homer tries to build the rest by himself, and the result is a bumbling mess of junk that certainly won't be barbecuing anything. After failing to both return and dump the mess, Homer drives it back via a wagon attached to the back bumper, but the weight of the mess pulls the bumper off and crashes into a car behind him, which prompts Homer to flee the scene.
Some time later, the woman whose car was hit by the mess finds Homer via the license plate on the bumper but instead of suing Homer like everybody else, she instead praises Homer for the creation of the barbecue pit mess, calling it a work of art, a display of expressive anger or some such. It gets taken to an art show and is promptly bought, technically making Homer a professional artist, much to Marge's chagrin (after all, she actually is an artist).
Homer goes to work on making more rage-induced works, and even gets to have an art show dedicated solely to his work. However, upon revealing the new works, everybody shows disdain as the new works are hardly any different from the original, and Homer is cast off as boring and repetitive.
Homer is depressed from this, and a trip to an art museum with Marge does little to cheer him up. Lisa then advises Homer to try something grand, and Homer is able to come up with a crazy idea to make himself artistically relevant again. Stealing doormats and placing them over sewage drains, putting snorkels on all of the animals at the zoo, and then opening up every hydrant in town causes the town to flood a full story and then some. With the art community loving the act and townsfolk appreciating the romantic sentiment of it, I guess, Homer's creation is labeled a success, and Marge makes up with her artist husband.
Quick Review
I should really come up with a word for episodes that start off very strong but taper off toward the end, such as this episode. The adventures of the barbecue pit had lots going for it, but when the plot of artist Homer takes over, the laughs were few and far between, though Homer's dream of him being attacked by various works of art was well done. I don't even think Homer's final 'art' is plausible, but that didn't sit right with me either.
Final Score: 7.8
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