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Lisa and the rest of Springfield Elementary's math team competes in a local competition against Waverly Hills but gets blown out in every sense of the phrase, except the literal one. The three judges of the competition, the three college nerds Homer once befriended, and who have since struck it rich thanks to a popular phone app they developed, decide to help their old elementary school by upgrading its tech to modern times. However, Skinner uses a power strip that isn't a surge protector to plug in all of the new servers and such, causing a quick overload of electricity, effectively shutting down everything.
With the school now with no technology or power, Lisa finds a sudden interest in Groundskeeper Willie's odd, (supposedly) ancient Scottish measurements for science while he's doing yardwork. Soon, Lisa proposes the "Waldorf" method of education, which proposes students can learn without the use of any educational materials by making everything more hands on with what's available, "winging it", as it were. Everyone in school gets to liking it pretty quick and more resistant stalwarts such as Homer give in soon enough.
For being the one to introduce it to Lisa and subsequently everyone else, Willie gets named coach of the math team. Soon, Willie witnesses Bart throw one egg, and believing it to be a perfectly calculated throw, he makes Bart captain of the team. Soon, the Springfield math teams gets its rematch against Waverly Hills, and with their new methods of math and Bart's last second save, the team earns the win thanks to, basically, lower standards. Afterward, Willie reveals that his methods are not based on science but (supposedly) an old Scottish way to hang sheep thieves and such.
Quick Review
Wow, what a mess of an episode. First of all, the plot is short; the episode starts with a very lengthy couch gag featuring Rick & Morty, which lasted over two minutes. There was another half-minute of filler at the end with the Simpsons playing hillbilly music for no apparent reason, detached from the rest of the episode. The main episode was quite short.
It was also very bad, the worst episode of the season. I can even make a claim that its one of the ten worst in the series thus far; it scored low enough to do so. I was worried that, when previews suggested plenty of heavy math jokes, that they'd be too tryhard to be funny. Well, there weren't that many math jokes, and they weren't too bad, some were pretty clever, but otherwise most of the comedy in the episode was sorely lacking in delivery, and humor.
The plot, as brief as it was, could barely hold itself together. The first part of the episode was mostly references and "hey look at all this tech, we're tech-savy are we cool yet". The middle portion was just dull and the last portion just dragged on in what felt like nothing more that simple plot progression. Last episode was half of a disaster, this episode is definitely a full one.
Final Score: 4.0
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