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| If I had understood the reference, I probably would've found this even less funny. |
Homer's Vegas wife has died from an overdose. At the funeral, Bart interrupts the proceedings over and over again, eventually enraging everyone. Homer and Marge take Bart to a psychiatrist, who recommends Bart expend his energy with a drum set. Amazingly, Bart takes a liking to drums, and spends all day and night working on his skills, even while asleep. To allow Homer and Marge to sleep once in a while, Lisa takes Bart to a Jazz club she frequents. She invites Bart to join her onstage for a performance, and the two do well. Lisa sees two other jazz musicians taking an interest, and Lisa believes their interest is for her saxophone playing. However, afterword, she learns in disgust that the two were actually interested in Bart's drumming abilities, even inviting him to their troupe.
Bart becomes an overnight success, even gaining a jazz nickname ("Tick-Tock"). Lisa, whose jazz nickname is now "Downbeat", can't stand that Bart has become so successful so fast in something Lisa has spend most of her life trying to succeed in. Marge decides to lift Lisa's spirits by going to a dog pound and getting her a puppy. Lisa chooses a nice looking puppy over an ailing one, but is haunted by it that same night, claiming that because she didn't pick it its going to get put to sleep soon. Lisa goes right back to the pound to get that puppy, but is guilt-tripped into adopting several other animals so prevent them from getting killed. Soon, Lisa has an entire animal troupe with her, that she tries to hide in the attic. Quickly, she goes back up to keep the troupe quiet, but finds Bart up there with his jazz pals, when suddenly a small tigers accidentally bites Bart in the arm.
Bart's tendons are so torn in the arm, that Bart will be unable to drum again. There is a surgery that can repair it, so Bart's jazz pals decide to hold a benefit to raise the money. Meanwhile, Lisa has been forced by police to find someplace to put her animals or animal control will take care of it themselves. Bart sees this and, upon realizing the chain of events that led to it, decides to take action. At the jazz benefit, he proclaims that all of the proceeds will not go to fixing his arm, but instead towards building an animal shelter in Lisa's name. Lisa goes up to thank Bart for his generosity, and Bart's jazz pals may or may not have implied they're going to try another benefit to fix Bart's arm again.
Quick Review
I didn't enjoy this episode. The White Stripes cameo early on was terrible, the worst part of the episode, and the odd plot the followed it hardly did anything to get the episode back on track. The two jazz musicians were probably the best the episode had to offer, but they couldn't save this wreck of an episode.
Final Score: 4.9
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