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Krusty releases a new brand of snacks, which Lisa finds suspicious. Meanwhile, Kent Brockman gets caught lying about an experience of his and is fired from his job as a result. While this is all happening, Homer's latent ambition surfaces and its first order of business is to get Homer dressed for success.
Lisa and Bart come to realize that Krusty's new snack is composed primarily of formaldehyde, which is basically poison. Lisa tries to take the story to the news, but as Krusty is a big donor to big news, they won't take the story. Meanwhile, Kent tries to latch onto
Homer's attempt to dress for success fails when Mr. Burns finds Homer's appearance comical still, and although Homer doesn't regret the attempt, Homer's ambition is kicked out of his head for its failure.
Kent gets advice from Dan Rather to take up Lisa's story because its the ethical thing to do, I guess. Motivated, Kent and Lisa expose Krusty, which is enough to get Kent his old job back at the station, and Lisa receives unpaid credit for his return, the highest honor.
Quick Review
This was a dull, boring episode. Homer's sidestory was short and pointless, and the media storyline wasn't any better. It, again, references events that most people already forgot, and tries to go with a "the current media is pretty bad, except maybe its not?" theme that is rushed and just falls flat.
Perhaps the episode's lone good moment was at the beginning: Bart and Lisa were watching an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon and although it seemed like the cartoon was going to be another artsy reference-fest, it ended up being a quick violence gag like how Itchy & Scratchy should be. It got a good chuckle out of me, the only time the episode was able to do so.
Final Score: 5.9
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