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| After listening to Ned's bible retellings for hours, Homer wishes he hadn't skipped bail. |
Its St. Patricks Day, but Mayor Quimby has made it an alcohol-free parade given how destructively drunk the town can get on the holiday. Still, somehow, a group supporting the Northern Irish arrive and the regular Irish get into yet another brawl with them, causing all sorts of chaos. In the confusion, some orphans attempt to steal a basket of cupcakes Marge had prepared, but some guy comes and saves them. Marge gives the guy one as thanks, and he comes to love it. He invites Marge to his bakery where he plans on having her bake for his store. Marge gladly accepts. Homer, meanwhile, gets arrested for partaking in the brawl. Because of his arrest history, Homer is put on $25,000 bail. He gets help from a bail bondsman, who promises to pay off Homer's bond just as long as he attends his court session. Homer threatens not to go, when he comes across a bounty hunter, a tough looking guy who captures people who skip bail. Homer thinks that's pretty cool, and since he's been fired from the plant following his arrest, Homer decides to become a bounty hunter himself.
At the bakery, Marge learns in horror that its actually an erotic bakery, but after failing to come up with any reasons against such a thing, she relents and decides to bake for it anyway. Meanwhile, Homer's first perp is Snake, who fires a bullet at Homer after a short chase. Ned Flanders inadvertently deflects it while carrying a pane of bulletproof glass for his store, then talks Snake down long enough for Homer to subdue him. Later, Homer convinces Ned to help him catch bail skippers, and Ned agrees on the condition that Homer does his job lawfully. The two become a dynamic pair for awhile, however Homer's nature soon gets the better of him. After a wild chase to nab Fat Tony, which involves Homer ramming his car into the train Tony had escaped to, Flanders chides how Homer handled it, and the two break up their partnership.
Back home, Homer learns of the secret behind Marge's new baking job, but forgives her because, hey, its erotic cakes. Soon, though, it turns out Homer missed his court date, and though Flanders wants to quit the business, he decides to catch Homer rather than leave it to another bounty hunter. Ned attempts to chase Homer in a rather dynamic series of scenes. It leads up to the two standing on top of a lifted steel beam, but Ned stumbles and is hanging on just barely. Homer remembers the good times he had with Ned and decides to save him, but he, too, falls over and the two fall into a pool of hardening cement. Homer is captured by the regular police and sent to prison, but Marge has paid for Homer's release the next day, giving him a nice, regular cake to tide him over until then.
Quick Review
Season 20 starts off with a whimper. Marge's erotic baking sidestory had potential, but nothing really happened with it, nothing all that funny anyway, and it just fades away near the end. Homer and Ned's bounty hunting wasn't much funnier, and the chase sequence near the end was pretty worthless for comedy. This wasn't much of an episode.
Final Score: 5.8
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