Wow, that's the Plopper moment everyone was excited about? At least they use her sparingly, unlike the rest of Cletus' family. Ain't that right? Stabbed in Jail?" - Best line of the episode.ĭia-Betty is back. "We name all out kids after stuff that will happen to them. 3/5.ĭamn, they are making Mary into a one-dimensional hick character like Cletus. Again, not a lot of laughs, but some nice buildup, mixed in with some terrible jokes (Barry Bonds, the growth hormone thing). They missed a chance for a nice meta reference, they could have had Cletus dancing like Homer did when Lisa played a jug in Homer the Vigilante. This episode has some nice animation, well done Nancy Kruse. They took a great scene that started with Bart feeling bad with and ruined it by mentioning her. Oh great, another meta reference, this time for Tress MacNeiile. They did an okay job of building Bart's relationship with Lou, but there wasn't much for laugh out loud moments. Nice montage, but again it didn't have much of a payoff considering that it was a minute long. Wow, a montage that doesn't have some kind of pop culture song, that's something they don't do often. The segment with Bart driving the tractor was kind of long without much payoff, although the joke about the manure shooting out Pirates of the Caribean 3 DVDs. Instead of this crappy clown/transformers show, why couldn't they have had an episode of Itchy & Scratchy? And it looks like I was wrong about the filler. Wow, that rabbit at the beginning of the act looked really weird. Semi-long opening, hopefully this means the episode isn't packed with filler, which has been a problem with the show as of late. Here are notes I made as the episode airs.