Whiskey Business (S24, E19-527)

Does this really happen to anyone?  Is this really a plausible situation?

Plot Summary
At the bar, Moe is once again depressed, and he finds the distracted Homer, Lenny and Carl unable to help him out.  Having lost the will to live again, Moe decides to hang himself.  However, the wooden beam he attached the noose to breaks, catching the attention of his customers.  Homer is able to give Moe CPR, saving his life.  Moe's optimism for life is renewed, but only for a moment as he's reminded his life is still awful.  Marge barges in to yell at Homer, but Homer tells Marge what happened to Moe and she, too, becomes worried.  So much so that she decides to take Moe on a road trip to brighten his outlook, which Moe is somewhat eager to do.

Marge leaves Grampa in charge of the kids, and Bart in charge of Grampa while she and Homer take Moe to Capital City.  While in Capital City, the two take Moe to a suit store and buy Moe a nice, new suit.  Moe is ecstatic with his new suit, and afterwards decides to clean up his dusty old bar.  Refurbishing the place as "The New Moe's", Moe gets new customers to come in.  The two want to drink something relatively old, but Moe only has one such drink: homemade bourbon.  The two men love the drink, and reveal themselves as venture capitalists who love both Moe's drink and his suit, and are willing to give Moe as much money as he needs to start up a business based around the bourbon, an offer Moe easily accepts.

Meanwhile, Bart distracts Lisa by buying her tickets to a jazz show (where she becomes offended over the place's use of a Bleeding Gums Murphy hologram full of advertising, which she protests to no avail) so he can set up a wacky water slide in the backyard.  Grampa shows up and accidentally goes into the slide, taking a nasty hit at the end.  Bart is able to give CPR to the old man to save his life, but with him in bad shape Bart hides him in the basement to nurse him back to health without his parents learning he wasn't able to take care of Grampa.  Grampa comes to appreciate Bart's care, but when Bart starts questioning whether he feels better, Grampa feigns injury to spend more time with Bart.  Bart eventually catches on, but when Grampa explains his reasoning, Bart forgives him and the two bond.

Moe's new business is a success, and the venture capitalists decide to put Moe's business on the stock market.  Moe is once again happy, but tragedy occurs when a thread from his suit gets stuck in an elevator door, causing the suit to fall apart.  Late that night, Moe goes to the Simpson place in ruins, but Marge convinces him that it wasn't the suit that made his business, it was his drink and charisma.  The next day, at the stock exchange, Moe learns that, hey, the suit was a pretty big part of it, as his appearance in his normal garb scares everyone and Moe's stock goes down the drain.  So, its back to normal for Moe, though with his latest experience he decides to leave his old friend the noose alone until the holidays.

Quick Review
For an episode that had three plots, it was awfully boring.  The Lisa storyline was by far the shortest, having only two scenes, but was awful enough to drag the episode down just by itself.  Bart's and Moe's stories weren't much funnier if not less cringeworthy, and it makes for a decidedly subpar episode.

Final Score: 5.1