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| Bart, excelling at something he's never shown to even wanting to do previously. |
Bart, suddenly into rap, wants to go to a rap concert featuring a rapper he likes in Alcatraz. Homer initially lets Bart go if he came up with the money to buy a ticket himself. Bart does so, but Marge stops him from going anyway. Upset that Homer 'sold him out', Bart decides to go anyway, sneaking out through the window. At the concert, a rather fortunate mic drop allows Bart to go on stage to rap alongside Alcatraz. He gets a ride home with the rapper, and gets a shirt from his as well. As he sneaks back in, he overhears Homer and Marge. They know Bart's gone, and if its to the concert he's going to get it. Bart comes to face two option: be an adult and admit his wrongdoing, or be a kid and worm his way out of trouble. Bart chooses the latter, sending the two a 'letter' informing them that Bart has been kidnapped.
Bart gets help from Milhouse on a place to hide out, going to Milhouse's dad's apartment. Chief Wiggum promises to find Bart, but is laughed away by the press because Wiggum has been so incompetent at his job. After a dream where he gets encouraged by Barney Fife (or Don Knotts, Wiggum isn't sure if he's in character or not), Wiggum buckles down and starts to track Bart. Bart starts to stage a phony kidnapper phone call to keep up appearances, cooking up "Chintzy Pop" oven-top popcorn in the process. Bart is forced to hang up early as Milhouse's dad returns from his scarecrow job, but Wiggum is able to identify the Chintzy Pop noise in the background. He goes to the Kwik-E-Mart to figure out who buys his favorite brand of popcorn, when Apu gives him the names of the only two people dumb enough to buy such crappy popcorn: Clancy Wiggum and Kirk Van Houten. Wiggum enters Kirk's apartment, finds Bart and arrests Kirk on kidnapping charges. Milhouse gets on Bart for what happened, and Bart decides to confess.
Wiggum, though, has been promoted to police commissioner for saving Bart. When Bart goes to confess to Wiggum, Wiggum decides to keep it a secret between them, not just for Wiggum's sake, but Kirk's as well; Kirk's new status as well-known felon has gotten him a following of groupies who just want to do him over and over again. Bart decides to follow along. However, Lisa uncovers the shirt Bart got at the concert, but threw away as he began his kidnapping ploy. Lisa goes to Homer to inform him of her suspicions, but Homer tosses the shirt into the fireplace as it turns out Homer's been paid lots of money (which he's already lost) for the movie rights to Bart's story which must be kept as true as possible.
Undeterred, Lisa gets help from Principal Skinner to uncover where Bart was the supposed night of the kidnapping. Wiggum becomes aware of this, and gathers Homer, Bart and Kirk to figure out what to do about Lisa. They figure out that they need to talk with whomever Bart was with that night to uphold the lie, so they go to visit Alcatraz. However, Lisa and Skinner are already there, having seen footage of the concert which confirm's Bart was there at the right time and date. Bart tries to convince Lisa to keep the lie going as its not hurting anyone, but Lisa sticks true to the truth. Alcatraz notices this deadlock and decides to offer a solution: a pool party, which satisfies everyone except Lisa somewhat, but whatever.
Quick Review
Well, this episode was better than the last three, but that's not saying much. I liked how the plot was developing during the middle of the episode with Wiggum and the cover up, but the beginning of the episode was cringeworthy to sit through, and the episode ended on such a stupid cop out (uh we don't know how to resolve this normally, so pool party time!) it really hindered this episode's quality.
Final Score: 6.5
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