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After Bart has his entire Summer vacation during Labor day, the family decides to do something for Lisa, and they go to the museum, showcasing an exhibit on weapons. With a long line, Homer takes a cut in front of Flanders, as does everyone else, bumping Ned and his boys so far back that the exhibit closes by the time he gets back to the front of the line. He instead checks out an exhibit on man, and is stunned to find that most of the exhibits feature evolution, with a single exhibit mocking creationism. Ned gets offended and brings it up to Reverend Lovejoy who, with the encouragement of his wife, decides to make 'science vs religion' a thing again.
Ned and Lovejoy blackmail Principal Skinner into allowing creationism to be taught at the school. Lisa gets ultra offended at this, and decides to take it to a town meeting, where she says that because evolution and creationism are so incompatible, that both can not be taught at the same time. The town mostly agrees, which means - wait for it - evolution stops being taught as per a new law. Further upset, Lisa attempts to teach evolution herself in secret, but is quickly arrested by the police.
The subsequent trial isn't going Lisa's way either as there's a very pro-creationism feel with the crowd and the jury. Marge decides to take a look at the Origin of Species, the book Lisa was using to teach evolution, when she realizes that the materials within do make some sense. She decides to help Lisa out the next day to take on the big argument the pro-creationists have been using against Lisa: that humans could not have evolved from monkeys. Marge quickly counters this by having Homer attempt to open a bottle of beer, which Homer fails to do so in a very ape-like fashion. Lisa ends up winning the trial (somehow), and she and Ned reconcile, with each still respecting the other's beliefs.
Quick Review
I'll be honest, I was expecting much worse than what I got. Episodes that focus on a hot, controversial topic usually have done very poorly for me these past few seasons, and while this episode is hardly an exception, I was expecting bottom of the barrel material here. Luckily, the cringeworthy stuff was kept to a minimum, allowing the few side jokes that were in the episode to shine. Still not a good episode, but its not as bad as it could be.
Final Score: 6.3
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