“You are as beautiful as your sisters are hideous” is a great line. They didn’t give him something too lyrical or complex to write, but instead used phrases that Homer might actually say to Marge. So personally I thought the ending with Homer writing letters to Marge using his new handwriting was quite nice. It started well with Frink’s musical number, and Homer was given a bit more of a part in this episode, instead of simply being there for a one-second joke. This weeks episode was really good I thought. I don't think laughed once either.ģ/5 for the poll, its really close to 3.5/5, but not quite there. Lisa's plot went absolutely nowhere (seriously, what was the point of that? Lisa never discovers why Ralph scored higher and the only resolution is a revelation that the test was extremely flawed, so what was the point of everything we just saw?).Īlso, in addition to disgusting jokes about Milhouse and Ralph (Milhouse's bleeding and Ralph pooping in his bedroom), there was another joke about Smithers wanting to be a woman because being gay = being trans to the Simpsons writers. Homer finds out he is the dumbest person in town (though I thought the test was not meant to measure intelligence alone?), but all this amounts to is him improving his handwriting (for about 1 minute). 18 minutes in and I felt we were still setting up something that never came. But that could be due to the fact that the whole episode felt like a developing plot that never really got going. This episode seemed to fly by too, which was unexpected, as episodes like this tend to drag.

I like seeing Springfield's Mensa chapter back together, but it worked much better in Season 10 (no need for a song here). It seems pretty clear that the writers have fun making Bart out to be a worthless loser), the episode just wasn't much. Apart from more 'Bart is a loser' jokes (yes, I know that it didn't end up being his test, but we were supposed to think it was without doubting it.

Frink gets testy