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| More like "Ned 'n Edna's Bland" am I right? |
Auditions for a passion play are happening, but the director makes a stunning move by giving the boisterous Homer the lead role of Jesus Christ instead of Ned Flanders, whose held the role in previous plays. Homer realizes the importance of his role, though, and actually gives a wonderful performance in the play. Ned, who was relegated to a bit part, realizes his error, but at the end of the play Homer's weight is too much for the cross he was 'crucified' on to bear, and he falls over ontop of Ned. An ambulance comes to take Ned to the hospital, and the responders won't let Mrs. Krabappel on - until Ned reveals she's his wife, stunning everyone there.
Homer and Marge visit Ned and Edna at the hospital, where Ned reveals that he kept the marriage a secret because of Springfield's reputation of making every tiny thing big news, which is just what is trying to happen now. Still, Marge decides to host a reception party for the two, and they accept the offer. Meanwhile, Edna finds raising Rod and Todd Flanders to be difficult as the two boys have very narrow-minded views on things. Bart, taking pity on, uh, somehow, advises Edna to expose the boys to the real world, or they'll never survive it. Later, Edna goes in Ned's place to the boys' parent-teacher conferences at their private Christian school. Edna is stunned over how badly science is shunned over religious teachings and makes the decision to pull the boys out and take them to Springfield Elementary instead. Its a move Ned doesn't like, but he relents and lets Edna go ahead with the move. Then Ned has a nightmare where one of the boys graduate college - an East Coast college - and has been corrupted by left-ish philosophies, which horrify Ned.
At the reception, Ned's fears begin to realize when the boys have temporary tattoos, talk back to him and use odd language like "chillax". Frustrated, Ned tells Edna he doesn't like what she's doing to his kids and therefore the marriage is no longer perfect, but Edna retorts that the boys trust her to raise them right, so he should as well. Defeated, Ned sleeps over at the Simpsons place overnight and the next morning he sees Homer and Marge get into a little spat over some new problem of Bart's. He realizes that even if they don't agree on such issues, that doesn't mean the marriage is on the rocks. Quickly, Ned goes to the school to apologize to Edna, and they reconcile rather publicly.
Quick Review
This is the first episode focused on the relationship on Ned and Edna after the vote to keep the two together proved successful. It was a pretty boring episode, actually, with nothing really clicking in terms of comedy. I don't want to say it was a "throw-in-the-towel" effort, an episode written just so fans can see the, hm, results of their summer vote take flight, but the quality of the writing in this episode suggests as much.
Final Score: 5.3
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