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Lisa is going to be given the award for "Student of the Millennium" for some reason tomorrow, and Marge is going out of her way to make sure Homer attends the ceremony, even doing so less drunk the usual. With Marge's urging, Homer is actually able to make it to the ceremony nearly two hours early. Meanwhile, Marge makes a stop at the bank where, while she's there, a pair of men attempt an armed robbery. Although Homer initially gloats over being at Lisa's thing while Marge isn't, he quickly worries when he finds out the truth. One of the armed robbers freaks out and escapes, leaving just one guy left to leave everyone there hostage: a buggy-eyed creep named Dwight. Marge is able to reason with Dwight, but he'll only promise to turn himself in if Marge visits him in prison. Marge reluctantly accepts, and the situation is averted, though as Dwight is arrested he reminds Marge rather crazily to visit him.
Marge starts freaking out, though, and despite her promise to visit Dwight, she comes up with excuses and reasons to not visit him instead. In prison, Dwight looks on with jealously as Snake gets visited by his girlfriend, Gloria (complete with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as her VA). As Dwight realizes Marge isn't going to visit him, he gets pretty angry, and decides to break out. News of this reaches Marge, and the police aren't in any rush to capture Dwight upon learning he'll turn himself in after finishing one piece of business.
Dwight eventually catches Marge in her car and forces her to drive to an amusement park. As it turns out, Dwight was abandoned by his mother at this park when he was younger, so he wants Marge to recreate that day with the major difference being that Marge not leave him - not that she can as Dwight has her by gunpoint. Chief Wiggum is coincidentally at the same park trying to have fun, but is forced to take action upon learning of the situation. Marge and Dwight go on the viking boats - the same ride Dwight was abandoned - but when Wiggum tries to act, he gets caught inbetween the boats. Dwight gets urged by Marge to help, but falls into the mechanisms though it does save Wiggum. Marge does visit a healed Dwight in prison afterwards, where the two becomes as much of friends as they can comfortably be.
Quick Review
This was a pretty decent episode. The hostage situation at the bank was the best the episode had to offer, particularly the scene with the dye packs, but the rest of the episode has its moments as well. The odd dialogue between Krusty and Dr. Hibbert near the end dragged the episode a bit, but otherwise the episode wasn't that bad at all.
Final Score: 7.1
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