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| Tone it down Marge goddamn, at least Smithers has Burns praying for goodness sake. |
Homer's mischief at work lands him a fall through Mr. Burns' trap door. However, the trap door is undergoing renovations, and as a results Homer actually gets hurt from it. Further, because its undergoing renovation, it no longer benefits from old laws which protected Burns from lawsuits. Essentially, Homer has legal grounds to sue. Burns sends Smithers to trick Homer into signing a waiver of liability but it only reminds Homer that he can, in fact sue.
While Homer is recuperating, Marge decides to spend more time with him but does so in such a boring way Homer quickly grows weary of her company. Smithers takes notice of this and decides to befriend Marge, hoping this will somehow get Homer to sign the waiver. However, as the two talk Marge becomes attracted to Smithers and the latter, realizing this, decides to back off. Marge, her sexual tension unresolved, decides to use Homer to relieve herself. Homer realizes what's happened but doesn't care because, hey, sex.
Meanwhile, Lisa catches a fight in the school bus on her phone and reports it to Principal Skinner. In response, Skinner makes Lisa a bus monitor, and Lisa has complete control over student seating. As per usual with Lisa, the power goes to her head but eventually the other students rebel, causing mass chaos on the bus. Lisa realizes that its not that great to be a know-it-all and promises to cut back on it but can't help herself.
Having failed to secure the waiver, Burns orders Smithers to stop visited, which saddens Marge in more ways than one. Realizing that a friendless Marge is no good, Homer decides to tell Burns he'll drop the lawsuit under the condition that Smithers gets to visit Marge again, which Burns agrees to. However, because he made his lawyer upset by giving up the lawsuit, Homer makes it up to him by promising to slip on the courthouse steps to setup another lawsuit, however Marge also gets hurt by trying to stop him. The two reconcile, unable to move on their bed with Grampa spilling hot soup on them all the time, but now they have all the time in the world to talk to each other.
Quick Review
I went into this expecting a marriage-themed episode. It never reaches that level (i.e. one separates from the other or makes the threat), but from Marge wanting to kiss Smithers and takes those sexual frustrations out on Homer, to Homer being perfectly okay with it, to the point where he was willing to drop a lawsuit to keep being okay with it, just didn't sit right at all. I guess I should consider myself lucky that it wasn't another marriage episode but the odd characterizations made me wish it was. Almost.
This episode was another case of where the sidestory was short and pointless. The humor slows to a crawl in the second half of the episode as well. Overall, yet another low-tier episode from what has been another low-tier Zombie Simpsons HD season.
Final Score: 6.2
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