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| Should I make a Stewie Griffin reference here? Oh, I guess I already did. |
Springfield's in the middle of another massive heat wave. Everyone is running air conditioning (except the Simpsons who continue to not have one), which is taxing the city's power. Homer attempts to add some winter by plugging in a dancing Santa, but it proves to be a breaking point for the power grid. The entire town loses power, which prompts a looting spree so grand nearly everyone loots while everyone gets looted, and the police aren't even close to being able to slow it down.
The next day, Lisa finds out that a looter stole her dolls, and Homer decides to investigate. He figures out (well, moreso it lands on his lap) that Jimbo Jones took the dolls and he takes Jimbo to jail. Realizing just how good it feels to be in a position of authority, Homer decides to start up a security team called SpringShield consisting of him, Lenny and Carl. They do a good job, apparently, and the town feels safe again thanks to them. Mayor Quimby attempts to defend Chief Wiggum but witnesses another act of incompetence and, in a fit of rage, removes Wiggum and puts Homer and SpringShield in charge of the city's law.
Homer and his team shut down some weird scheme by the Fat Tony mafia to substitute toy poodles with ferrets, but they get out of jail rather quickly and announce that they'll gun down Homer if he doesn't leave town by noon the next day. Homer seeks backup, but nobody is willing to help. Lenny and Carl even lock themselves in jail, leaving Homer all alone against several mobsters. Noon approaches and Homer confronts them, but just before either he or the mobsters open fire, a mobster gets hit for a shot from an unknown spot. The mafia attempt to figure out who is shooting, but they all get shot in the arm, unable to fire themselves. Homer is glad to survive, and decides to give up his badge to the next person that comes along, coincidentally enough that person being Wiggum. However, Wiggum insists he wasn't the mystery shooter either. As he, Homer and Marge ponder that mystery, its revealed that, yes, it was Maggie that fired the shots with a rifle, with her parents none the wiser.
Quick Review
I'm pretty sure I said this last time, but: the ending was stupid. Maggie held a gun for a shot she never intended to make several seasons ago in a mystery I'm fairly sure was meant to troll its participants more than anything else, and now here we are in Season 13's finale, she's a professional sniper. I mean, what the hell is this? Between this and the previous episode (and several other recent ones), it seems as though the writing staff have no realistic way to end episodes that feature life and death situations and instead use senseless cop-outs like "its an edgy reality show really" and "he got saved by his baby daughter who is a sniper now". This ending just bugged me, especially since it was gaining a little steam with the inclusion of the mafia, and the episode puts a disappointing cap on what has been a disappointing season.
Final Score: 6.4
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