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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This one is actually interesting for a couple of reasons!

The episode has a controversy warning on the Simpsons fan wiki. Apparently, "Fans and critics generally agree that this episode goes a bit too far with its mistreatment towards Bart." This is an absolutely bizarre opinion, and some quick googling shows that the internet is full of people saying strange shit about this episode.

The first part of the episode is Bart bullying Lisa on a field trip, tripping her and humiliating her in front of their classmates. She finally snaps and gets a restraining order on Bart, and begins poking him with a 20-foot stick. They go to court to get the restraining order lifted, but Bart is sexist towards the judge, and she instead extends the distance to 200 feet. Bart has to go live outside, but he's kinda into it. In the end Lisa forgives him for almost no narrative reason.

People on the internet who spend their time discussing a Simpsons episode from 2005 use some interesting language when talking about it. Bart's bullying is repeatedly called "a prank", but Lisa's revenge is "abuse", "torture", and "ILLEGAL". People are even pretending to care about "continuity" between episodes! I can not help but to see this as a gendered thing, and those critics as weird incels.

CW: Gary Busey's sex crimesThe second interesting thing was a guest appearance by Gary Busey, the actor and recently alleged sex pest. He plays himself in an instruction video about restraining orders, and the joke is that he has a restraining order from 12 women who "couldn't deal with [him] because [he's] too real". My take here is that wow it sucks to be a woman in Hollywood when your abuser can go on the Simpsons and joke about the truly heinous stuff he did, continue to work in the industry, and only face some consequences 17 years later.

It's nice that there was a B-plot, those do a lot for the pacing.

Number of jokes that were pretty ok: 13 (!)

And this might be only in contrast to the season 30+ dogshit I watched recently but,

Overall rating: 6/10

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Any episode where people are mean to Bart gets the fans riled up

If you're feeling up to it, look at the discourse around S18-E18 "The Boys of Bummer" where the plot is the town harrases Bart over bungling a little league game

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