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| Bart can't believe these kids are drawing him for art class, moreso than his predicament. |
Marge crashes Homer's car while trying to take the kids to school. Homer gets it repaired, but it'll take a week so in the meantime he's given a loaner car to drive (is this really a thing, I've never seen this). The loaner car is much, much better than his old one, so when Homer's car is fixed, he refuses to go get it, opting to keep the nicer loaner. However, later, Homer sees that his car is being sold for $99 at the car shop, and that a group of low-brow individuals are about to buy and ruin it. Homer realizes his error and quickly reclaims his old car.
Meanwhile, Bart is being upstaged by a new kid at school, Donny. After Homer cheers him up, Bart decides to pull a massive prank on Principal Skinner, which works like a charm. However, when Skinner returns to find who did it, Donny takes the fall. This act gets to Bart, who now considers Donny a friend. However, it turns out that Donny and Skinner are working together, in hopes of Donny getting close to Bart and learning all of his schemes and plots so they can be stopped.
This plan works for awhile, as all of Bart's pranks seem to backfire on him, earning Skinner a good laugh. A frustrated Bart, though, gets help from Groundskeeper Willie, who lets him know there's a rat in his group (but doesn't know who). Bart rounds up his posse, which is him, Milhouse, Nelson and now Donny, and Bart fingers Milhouse to be that rat, stuffing him in a locker some ways away. With that out of the way, Bart reveals a new scheme: to egg Skinner's house with large ostrich eggs. A short time later, though, Bart sees that Skinner's tongue is blue; he had given Donny 'bluevines' earlier as a sign of friendship, and only those things could give a tongue that blue hue. Bart realizes who the real rat is.
On the night of the egging, Bart and Nelson lead Donny to a shack near the school which Willie allows them access too. Bart outs Donny as the rat, who reveals that Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers plucked Donny from an orphanage for the specific purpose of getting close to Bart. Bart then reveals an even bigger scheme that Donny won't be able to stop: destroying Skinner's office with a combination of Mentos and Diet Coke. However, Skinner and Chalmers are both right there, having been tipped off by another mole: Willie. Nelson runs off, but the two capture Bart, and plan on sending him to juvenile hall. Donny, feeling miserable for his part in this, rebels and takes the nearby Diet Coke and Mentos, and smashes them together. Bart and Donny are able to escape the ensuing carnage, and Bart and Donny become real friends with no ulterior motives.
Quick Review
This wasn't that good of an episode. Homer's loaner car subplot was too short for it to have any potential, and the main plot was really lacking in humor, which is a shame given the characters involved are usually good for a few laughs.
Final Score: 6.7
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