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Lisa is brought to trial, responsible for some kind of calamity. With the town's one competent lawyer prosecuting her, Lisa begins to tell her side of the story.
Some time ago, the family goes to the new mall in Springfield, intent on spending a bunch of gift cards Marge had saved. In the process, Lisa comes across Sherri and Terri, who promptly inform Lisa she's as unpopular and friendless as ever before. Meanwhile, Homer gladly buys a new "M"apple computer, and decides to let Lisa use it later to find some friends. Lisa realizes that people are more talkative on the internet and decides to start up a social network of her own with hopes that everyone that joins it will be friends with her.
With the help of the school's brightest, Lisa is able to start up her site, "Springface". Quickly, kids across school starts using it. In no time, Lisa has 1000 friends on it, though she then learns its partly because adults have started using it en masse as well. Sure enough, the entire town is glued to their phones and laptops as they continually monitor their Springface statuses. Having so many online friends, Lisa is devastated to learn that none of them are willing to actually do things in real life, opting to stick to their phones.
The site proves a big enough of a distraction that accidents begin to occur across town, resulting in a few dozen deaths even. The source of the trouble is quickly determined to be Springface, and that's why Lisa is on trial. After a half-assed defense, Lisa relents and accepts the punishment of shutting down Springface. With the site down, everyone just throws away their phones and junk, and the idea of physical activity returns to the town again.
With the episode ending extremely early, two shorts are presented afterwards: Patty and Selma are beating out some Swedish duo at the London Olympics, and a tale about the wicked Bart is told, though its revealed its Skinner trying to prove that pranks don't pay.
Quick Review
I'm not even 30 years old yet and already these newfangled technologies bother me so. Well, not really, its not like I'm not familiar with Facebook or anything, but the open-faced parallel the episode does with it and the movie based on it just does not work. You can tell the writers realized they had a dud on their hands when they left it so short they needed a really long couch gag as well as not one, but two short stories to fill time. There was just so much about the main episode that wasn't funny, it easily makes it the worst episode of the season (...thus far...).
Final Score: 4.7
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