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| "This is for Repressed Rage!" Denial About Family exclaims after filling Social Life with hot lead. |
The 4th grade and 5th grade start up an intense rivalry following a poorly officiated dodgeball match between the two. It eventually comes to a head and the two grades agree to a showdown after school. Bart and the 5th grade's apparent leader face off, but both are stunned to find a small sword-shaped scar on both of their hands. Bart asks Marge about it, and Marge tells Bart that when he was little, she took Bart to a "Mommie and Me" toddler gym with three other boys. As the mothers spent time with one another, the boys got into all sorts of mischief. Marge, though, realized the other boys were a bad influence on Bart, and eventually had a falling out with the other mothers, which saddens Marge as she was good friends with them. With Bart's encouragement, Marge sets up a meet with the three mothers.
As the four moms reminisce, Homer is stuck with the other husbands, none of whom are interested in making any sort of attempt at friendship. Meanwhile, Bart reunites with his playschool friends, including that same 5th grader, but he comes to learn that they like to play rough, even for his standards. Still, Marge successfully becomes friends with the mothers again and they all agree to meet up every Tuesday night, giving Marge a social life once again. Bart gets tired of the rough and tough style of the other boys, though, and decides to once again investigate his sword scar, having never gotten a reason for it from Marge. He goes to Dr. Hibbert, who tells him to talk to the comic book guy about it. Comic book guy eventually tells Bart the story behind the scar: seven years ago, on the 4th of July, the boys and their mothers went to see a fireworks show, being operated by the comic book guy. The boys are able to walk away from their distracted mothers, and approach the distracted comic book guy's operating table, shooting off dozens of fireworks at once. A large blazing chunk of fireworks falls right onto the comic book guy's hero sandwich, sending four sword-shaped sandwich skewers flying - right onto the hands of each of the four boys.
Bart comes to the conclusion that Marge broke contact from the other mothers under the idea that their boys were a bad influence on Bart. He decides to try to break them up again so that he doesn't have to deal with the other boys any longer by taping together large quantities of fireworks. Marge catches him in the act, though, and tells Bart that she needs to have a little social life, and Bart relents. At the next mother meeting, Marge tells the other mothers about Bart's plan, and none of them are surprised. They tell Marge that Bart is a bad influence on their kids. Marge takes offense, and has another fallout from the group which is fine for them because they can resume their lesbian activities once more. Marge realized that those mothers were never really true friends, but Bart and Lisa promise to be her friends instead. Marge doesn't tell Homer about this, though, and he's stuck with the other husbands once again, a situation so dull he gladly enjoys the company of Ned Flanders instead.
Quick Review
This was a decent episode, though whenever there was focus on Marge the comedy kinda took a break. The best the episode had to offer came either from Bart or with Homer, particularly when they were with the people they didn't want to hang out with. The bulk of the episode's humor came from those interactions, otherwise the plot with Marge has little to go on.
Final Score: 7.0
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