Simpsons: Bart kinda sorta supplants Nelson as the new bully, but not really. Lisa is worried she will end up a simple housewife like Marge.
Family Guy: Lois becomes a semi-professional female boxer. There was no B story.
Cleveland Show: Cleveland cheats at a state baseball game in order to get back at his rival. Again I don’t think there was a B story.
American Dad: Stan opens up a restaruant.
Aaaaaaand go!
Wasn’t Lisa already enrolled in some egghead school before? I know Bart became best buddies with Nelson in some show, but I don’t think he ever took over Nelson’s reputation as the class bully. Anyway, some cute lines, but rehash-arama. They could’ve focussed instead on Homer trying to get Maggie her baby Elf figurine with better overall results.
Cleaveland cheats, not bad. Introduces Tim’s son who has possibilities, and enlarged on Holt’s character, who needed some background.
Family Guy - Total rehash. Lois already is a blackbelt, and that episode was much better. The best gag was Cleveland’s happy birthday card. I never thought Cleveland would be the highlight of Family Guy even now when he’s on another show.
American Dad - Great premise, but subpar delivery. In this age of “Top Chef” and Hell’s Kitchen", this looks like the writers weren’t even trying. Subplot of Snot and Julia was actually more interesting, but not outstanding.
Not a bad episode at all. I might tentatively suggest it would have fit well in one of the early seasons. But at this point in the show’s run, there were elements that I’d seen before.
I did love the callback to this at the very end.
Heh. The birthday card mainly amused me because it was 60 seconds they didn’t have to animate. The episode as a whole was, indeed, one of the lamer ones.
The Simpsons episode was just so-so. As Two Many Cats mentioned, there were too many elements taken from previous episodes. For instance, there was the episode where Lisa’s career placement test told her she’d be a good housewife, so she turns into a rebel. Lisa’s desire to be more intellectually stimulated has also been done ad nauseum.
The funniest thing about the Family Guy episode to me was that it was a total rehash of an episode of “Yes, Dear” when Mike O’Malley’s (Jimmy’s) wife Christine joins a gym and boxes really well because she takes out her “husband frustration” out in the ring.
Earlier in the serious Lois started taking Karate classes because she was so frustrated that Peter would walk all over her and so she would take her frustrations out in the ring.
The only difference is she didn’t go crazy this episode like she did in last nights.
But yeah, total rehash.
Oh yes I very much remember that. My point with my post was that this episode was exactly like the Yes Dear one
The best Simpson lines were about how (gloriously out-of-touch) Marge thought that Milhouse might be the bully.