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At a street social, Marge befriends a British man who invites Marge to a couples party in a few days. Marge is reluctant to go given how often Homer ruins things, but after hearing Lisa talk about how unnecessary friends are, Marge decides to take Homer and go to the party. However, her fears are realized when Homer quickly ruins what was going to be a fun murder mystery dinner, and the two are quickly kicked out of the party.
Afterward, Marge concedes and comes to the realization that she'll never have much of a social life, but promises that Lisa at least will make a true friend. She along with Homer attempts to invite everyone Lisa's ever known to a party, but only one kid shows up so its abruptly aborted. Soon, though, Lisa befriends a girl from the other second grade class, sharing many of Lisa's interests, including jazz and veggie smoothies. These arouse Bart's suspicions, so he goes and investigates, tailing the girl to a Krusty Burger and witnesses a deal going down. He sells Lisa photos of this transaction, and Lisa learns from the photos that Marge had been paying the girl to be her friend.
Marge doesn't know what to do now, but is advised by Grampa that she wasn't completely wrong in her actions, as Grampa had been paying Lenny and Carl to be Homer's friends since they were kids (something Grampa later reveals to Homer isn't true). Marge goes to talk to Lisa upstairs, but after Lisa bluntly tells her off, Marge begins to cry. Hurting her mother's feelings starts to cheer Lisa up, the realization of which causes Lisa to cry as well. The two make up, and Lisa makes her forgiveness Marge's mother's day present. Later, Lisa tries to make amends with her paid pal, but when the girl reveals not only that she isn't vegetarian, but also likes horse meat, Lisa isn't even going to try to make that work.
Quick Review
This episode isn't anything special. Rather, this episode seemed kinda disjointed at times, shifting from Marge's friend dilemma quickly over to Lisa's friend dilemma and doesn't really do a good job of resolving either conflict. I enjoyed the part of the episode featuring Homer and Bart, but the main plot, whatever consisted of one here, just wasn't all that funny.
Final Score: 6.6
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