The Blue and the Gray (S22, E13-477)

It seriously looks just like as though an animator forgot to use a fill bucket.

Plot Summary
It's Valentine's Day and as you would expect, Moe is dateless.  He an ad on TV for a Dr. Kissing-her, a supposed love expert, who is hosting a forum on getting dates.  Moe decides the attend the next day.  Meanwhile, its the morning after Valentine's Day, and Homer and Marge are recovering from a wild night.  Marge looks in the mirror and, to her shock, finds a gray hair.  She talks about it with her hairstylist who tells Marge that she's been gray for a good long while, though the toxic fumes in the blue hair dye helps Marge forget that one single fact (clearing up a little contradiction at the same time).  Seeing other gray-haired people leading happy lives with their significant others, Marge decides to ditch the blue and let her hair go fully gray again, stunning the family.

Bart in particular doesn't take this news well while at school, and Homer can't stand seeing the hair though he's able to come up with a flimsy compliment for it.  At Kissing-her's forum, the supposed doctor finds Moe hard to give advice to, but tells him to use a wingman to make himself seem better by comparison.  Moe decides Homer is a natural choice for this role, and Homer is more than glad to do so, especially if it means not being around gray Marge for too long.  Marge initially likes her new change, but things start to sour when other women across town congratulate Marge only for being "brave", and even worse when women she doesn't know starts assuming she's a senior citizen.  Marge talks with Patty and Selma, who both reveal their gray hair is only from all the smoke and ash of their cigarettes, and that the two still have their natural hair color (reddish for Patty, blonde for Selma).  The two realize Homer hates Marge's hair, but Marge refuses to admit anything's wrong.  Then she hears other women talking about Homer during his time as a wingman, and realizes something is, in fact, very wrong.

Marge angrily rushes over to the nightclub where she learned Homer would be, trying to make herself pretty for the club while driving, but that leads to disaster and Marge ends up crashing the car, causing the makeup to get all over her.  Stumbling through strong winds and bramble bushes, Marge ends up with a rather witch-like appearance, but gains easy entry into the nightclub anyway.  Marge confronts Homer over his flirtations with women there, but Homer calmly tells Marge that he is Moe's wingman, and that he can afford to be a wingman because he knows that when he comes home, he'll have a beautiful woman waiting for him.  While the experience also 'probably' teaches the two that true beauty isn't about hair color, Homer does admit that he loves him some blue, and Marge decides to switch back to blue hair.

Quick Review
I feel as though this episode is full of wasted potential.  The episode starts off as another Moe episode, it seems like, but that story dissipates around the midway point once Homer begins as his wingman.  Really, the potential was there for the wingman story to produce much more comedy than it did, but it never happened.  The side story with Bart had its moments too but it was far too short and ended somewhat abruptly.  No, the latter portion of the episode focused mostly on Marge and, sadly, that didn't have much going for it comically.

Final Score: 6.6