Eeny Teeny Maya Moe (S20, E16-436)

She doesn't want people to care about her height, yet she wears those heels.

Plot Summary
Marge forces Homer to spend more time with Maggie.  After a brief stroll, Homer takes Maggie to Moe's.  Moe is cleaning the bar for some odd reason, revealing that underneath the deep layers of dust there is a window showing a playground for babies.  Homer decides to leave Maggie there while he keeps an eye on her, or so is the theory, anyway.  Moe then gives an explanation for why he's cleaning the bar in the first place.  About a week ago, Moe was at a public library using its internet to chat to a local woman on the internet, Maya, who actually finds him charming.  The two eventually shared photos, and while Maya looked pretty hot, he was amazed to learn the woman found him cute as well, and the two agreed to meet at the bar tonight.  Soon enough, Moe meets Maya, but it turns out that Maya is several feet shorter than what he was expecting.

Maya tells Moe that in the picture she sent him, she was actually standing near a lego building but regardless the two hit it off and have lots of fun together, even if Moe stumbles to refrain from offensiveness.  Soon, though, Maya wants to meet some of Moe's friends.  Moe realizes that most of his bar mates would take advantage of Maya's height, except for maybe Homer, so he has Homer and Marge go with him and Maya on a double date, which is mostly successful.  Soon, Moe finally gathers the courage to ask Maya to marry him, at which point his tensions ease so much he casually lets loose all of the short jokes he had built up to that point, offending Maya who sternly asks him to leave.

While this is all happening, Maggie is having a tough time at the playground Homer is leaving her at as she is being bullied by other, stronger babies, though Homer usually picks her back up before anything serious happens.  Maggie starts freaking out at home as well, leaving Marge to suspect Homer is neglecting his duties.  She sets up a spy camera in Maggie's bow and gets a day's worth of footage, but she doesn't have time to watch the footage.  Eventually, she makes time and sees that Homer goes to the bar while Maggie is advanced upon by the bully babies.  However, the footage then shows Homer coming in to save Maggie, only to get beaten up by a bully baby instead, forcing Maggie to save Homer.  Homer then openly blesses Maggie as well as Marge for birthing her.  Marge praises an unwitting Homer for his heart, and the two make out, I guess.

Moe gets advice to undergo a crazy scheme to win back Maya's heart, going to Dr. Nick to make himself short.  Maya intervenes, telling Moe that if the first then he's reminded of when seeing her is her height, not her beauty, then the relationship just won't work out, and she breaks up with him.  Later, a rather joyous Homer gives the saddened Moe advice that, hey, he's back in his game, and if he had modest success with one woman, then chances are decent he'll have similar success with another woman.  Moe takes the advice to heart and moves on.

Quick Review
This was another decent episode.  In fact, this is the first episode in awhile where nothing within it really bothered me (other than the usual lack of joke quantity I've mentioned in previous reviews).  The Maggie subplot was pretty nice, and the main plot was your typical Moe episode, but it had several pretty good moments to make this one of the better episodes of the season.

Final Score: 7.4