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Bart, dressed up as something that resembles Woody Allen for some reason, narrates the story. One day, at school, Bart learns that Mary Spuckler has returned after being gone for just 11 episodes. Mary's acting career is officially over, and she's happily back with her family, and the two decide to resume the relationship they had begun in New York. However, Bart is mostly dismissive of Mary, opting to do whatever he wants and only passing to Mary bland compliments. Lisa tries to warn Bart to pay more attention, giving Homer similar advice at the same time for Marge, but neither one really pays attention. Mary's musical talents earns her a spot in a hillbilly music competition, though she doesn't win. Bart is unable to console her, but a Brazilian record producer approaches Mary with an opportunity and invites her to dinner with his nice looking son. Bart isn't particularly interested in going, so Mary decides to leave on her own, dismissive of Bart.
Gaining the help of a Woody Allen caricature, Bart tries to make it up to Mary, but she no longer cares about Bart and officially breaks up with him. He goes home just in time to see Homer and Marge fighting over something, and yells at Marge over the perception that women never explain what they really want. As Homer sides with Bart, Marge decides to kick both of them out of the house. Homer takes Bart to his usual motel in such situations, full of other depressing husbands and such. Bart tries one more time to call Mary, but she responds with a rather passionate song about how much she's over Bart, which she rather likes.
Homer decides to rally the other husbands, first by having a fun party, but then pools together the resources to invite their wives to the motel as they've gotten a nice orchestra to play a song for them in their attempts to win back their wives' love. For the most part it works. Bart was also able to invite Mary for the same purpose, but she isn't biting, and she leaves with her new boyfriend, the aforementioned Brazilian boy. Back to Woody Allen lookalike narrator Bart, he checks up on Mary's status online, and learns she's married now (because Hillbilly way, I guess) but suddenly her status changes to being single again, and he likes his chances - though its mostly because Mary is now a widow?
Quick Review
Well, this episode has its problems. Lots of them. Here, lets list them.
1) Its not very funny. That's usually a big one.
2) Bringing back Mary Spuckler so soon after she and Bart become a couple, kinda, only to have them break up rather unceremoniously. Its like the writing staff realized after producing Moonshine River that they didn't like Bart having a sustained love intereste and worked like hell to remedy that.
3) Lisa was being rather pushy this time, which is always annoying and unfunny.
4) Even though the episode is about Bart, there was still enough time to throw in yet another "Homer and Marge hit another bump in the road in their marriage" plot, like there hasn't been enough of those.
5) The whole Woody Allen thing was unnecessary. The show has spoofed the guy lots of time in the past, albeit never that humorously, and the heavy theme of it this episode was even less comedic.
I'm just gonna stop there. Its a pretty bad episode, a waste of a Max Weinberg appearance, and is one of the worst episodes of the series thus far.
Final Score: 3.9
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