 |
| Marge is pleased because she learned sweat cleans the suit. |
The town is broke, and after trying to scam FEMA backfired when a guy posing as FEMA scammed them, they're left even more broke than ever. However, Lisa learns that the town can get back a ton of money if (most) everyone simply pays their back taxes. Quickly, that happens, and everyone is eventually accounted for save for one person: Lurleen Lumpkin. A news story appears about her continued tax evasion, and Homer is reminded of how she is, and how she attempted to "bunk" with him that one time, much to Marge's anger. To Homer's surprise, Lurleen appears in the back seat of his car one day as she continues to hide. He offers to let her stay at his place, but Marge immediately refuses, and takes Lurleen back to her home: under a bridge. Marge isn't so mad at Lurleen to let her stay with hobos, so Marge relents and lets Lurleen stay at her house anyway.
Despite that, Lurleen is quickly located and sent to court, where she's ordered to pay $100 a week to pay off her taxes. Lurleen gets a job at Moe's but she's not interested in dating anyone, not even Lenny. Even though Lurleen has had three previous husbands who all suspiciously look like Homer, Lurleen seems to have issues with men. Quickly, though, Homer and Marge learn that this is because Lurleen was abandoned by her father at an early age. Marge decides to find Lurleen's father, a redneck deadbeat dad, and reunite him with Lurleen. Lurleen couldn't be happier, and after the two spend some time together, Lurleen even writes a song dedicated to him. However, that night, Lurleen's father sneaks away to abandon his daughter yet again.
As if being dumped by her father a second time isn't bad enough, the next morning Lurleen and the Simpsons are stunned to hear a song very similar to hers being sung by the Dixie Chicks, and its revealed on TV that their new manager is Lurleen's father. Lurleen is pretty much ready to quit everything at this point, however Homer in his old Colonel Homer gear appears, but its really Marge in a similar-looking outfit that challenges Lurleen and tells her to stand up for herself and confront her father. She goes to a recording studio where the Dixie Chicks are writing another variation of that song, and hits her father over the head with her guitar. She tells the Dixie Chicks who really wrote that song, and the four of them team up to beat up the deadbeat. Afterwords, Lurleen is allowed to go on tour with the Dixie Chicks as a lead-in, and thanks the family for their help, though Marge insists privately that Lurleen never shows her face again.
Quick Review
This was a pretty bad episode. There were a lot of jokes, well, attempts at jokes that just didn't pan out or were hard to sit through. The idea of bringing back Lurleen after sixteen years isn't that bad of an idea by itself, but from how the plot and jokes set themselves up, this episode really seems like a lazy effort. An attempt at drawing in viewers who liked Colonel Homer (which was one of Season 3's weaker episodes, mind you), where its seemed like the writers just mailed it in for the day.
Final Score: 4.7
No comments:
Post a Comment