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| Bart can have a pretty mundane imagination at times. |
Springfield is hit with a blizzard, and school is cancelled for the day. Bart wants to go outside, but the blizzard literally won't let him. Worse, the blizzard knocks out the power, leaving Bart unable to enjoy most things. He overhears Lisa and Maggie having battery operated fun and tries to join in, but it just doesn't work out. Lisa mocks that she and Maggie share a special bond because they're sisters, a feeling Bart will never know because he'll never have a brother. Bart walks off stating he doesn't care, but then he has a dream that night where he comes across several well known brothers (Mario brothers, the three Manning brothers, etc.), so upon waking up he does in fact want a brother, and bad.
Bart makes a couple of attempts of getting Homer and Marge to do it, but those don't pan out. He then learns from the bullies that even if he got them to do it, it won't matter because his mom would use pills to stop any babies from forming. Bart locates Marge's birth control pills and tries to replace them with tic tacs, but Marge catches him in the act. After Bart explains himself, Marge convinces him to stop by telling him that the new baby could also be, you know, a girl. Bart realizes his error, and adjusts his plan by going to a nearby orphanage to adopt a new brother. He's kicked out though as boys can't adopt, which catches the eye of one of the orphans inside.
The next morning, Bart wakes up to find that orphan hanging over him. The orphan, Charlie, and Bart quickly spend a lot of time together, forming some kind of brotherly bond. However, late at night when the two are returning from a scary movie Charlie was not ready for, Chief Wiggum appears to take Charlie back to the orphanage. The two boys escape and hide within a snow hill. Lisa quickly locates them and tries to convince him that a young sister looking up to her big brother can be just as good. Bart takes too long to decide, and they get covered in more snow, but Bart and Charlie "warm up" the snow to allow for a quick escape. Still, Bart decides to take Charlie back to the orphanage where, unfortunately, Charlie is quickly adopted by a family with six daughters. As Charlie rides off in his new hell, Homer takes Bart to another scary movie to take his mind off the situation.
Quick Review
This episode wasn't that good. I felt that the storyline of Bart getting his parents to do it was cut shorter than it could've been, and the entire bit was the orphan was mostly boring.
Final Score: 6.7
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