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| Kinda surprised he hasn't eaten his shorts and gone full naked out there. |
The school goes on a field trip to see a glacier, and Bart is giving Lisa a particularly hard time on the trip, harassing her throughout. It reaches a climax when Bart throws a snowball at her, causing Lisa to fall into the watery remains of the glacier, getting seaweed and frog remains on her. Lisa officially has enough of Bart's antics, and by the next day she shows Bart a restraining order she had placed on Bart. Now Bart can't get within 20 feet of Lisa, Homer giving Lisa a makeshift pole to ensure this. This causes Bart great inconvenience as he can no longer do most things without getting in Lisa's range. Marge feels bad for Bart, and tries to have the restraining order lifted in court. However, with Judge Harm overseeing the case, Bart's snide remarks only increases the distances of the order to 200 feet, meaning Bart can't even be near the house if Lisa's inside.
Meanwhile, Homer goes to a Walmart knockoff to find Grampa working there as a greeter. After a cart accident cripples Grampa further, Homer takes the reins and greets his ass off to customers. As a reward, the store's manager promotes Homer to full-time greeter which Homer gladly takes. However, the manager soon overworks Homer, blackmailing him with forged deportation, and even forces him to stay in the store overnight. However, the other employees there help him see the bright side of things: they can loot the store of all its good without any repercussions, and Homer is all over that.
As the Simpsons house is now somehow in front of a massive forest, Bart becomes one with nature and the feral things that lie within. Marge worries further, and tries to convince Lisa to drop the order. Lisa refuses, though notes that if she or Marge can come up with three nice things Bart has done for her - ever - she'll think about it. They only come up with two, but later in the day Lisa spies Bart making a 'statue' of Lisa using hay and wicker. Taking it as nice gesture #3, Lisa goes out to make amends with Bart, stating she'll drop the restraining order. Even though its quickly revealed that Bart was going to burn the mass of hay in some kind of rage, Lisa learns she misses how Bart tries to lie his way out of things, and burns both the order and her range pole in the fire.
Quick Review
This was an alright episode. Gary Busey's guest appearance was better than what I was expecting, and the overall plot did fine for awhile until it fizzled near the end. Homer's subplot had its moments before it, too, fizzled at the end. Hell, this episode was doing fine until the whole thing fizzled at the end. It didn't end well, but it still turned out okay.
Final Score: 7.3
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