Plot: Bart gets in trouble at school and is sentenced to a boot camp-like place. Because Bart’s on the “no fly” list, Homer has to drive him to Oregon thus causing Homer to miss a free trip to Vegas with Moe & the guys.
Subplot: Marge and Lisa sell off Bart & Homer’s stuff in a yard sale. Marge sells Homer’s expired pain meds to the locals (at $1/pill) and gets arrested.
Well, the opening (an homage to Bonanza) was funny.
For the most part, I thought this one was really good. I loved the ending.
The “help me Bart/I’m gonna kill you!” bit where Homer’s car was about to go off a cliff went on just a bit too much. Maybe the writers have been watching Family Guy.
I liked the show but I agree on the Cliff part.
The End with Lisa was priceless. The Elephant Ride on the Roller Coaster to the slot machine was too great of a visual.
The Croissant quip was great, BTW: Intro of a new Character? What was the secretary’s name, I didn’t catch it?
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I forget her name, I was just struck by how much she sounded like (Lunchlady) Doris Grau.
And yes, the cliff thing went on too long- as did Flanders singing. If Marge and Lisa had kept talking while he moved around his house, it wouldn’t have seemed so Family Guy-ish.
That was Myra. I don’t recall Skinner having a secretary before.
This episode left me totally cold; I think the only time I laughed was when Moe showed off the new rope he got as part of his settlement with the rope company after the old one failed during his suicide attempt.
I loved that he already had the new one tied into a noose. “Hey, nice rope!”
I liked the bloody “ontology recapitulates philology” in Homer’s brain.
this ep was bad, the cast completely phoned it in, the only time i even cracked a smile was the fate of “Intellectual Homer”…
total waste of an ep, and the new Family Guy is leaving me cold too, then again, i HATE football…
“I’ll start looking for a job in the morning.” Awesomeness.
Flanders singing and Homer in the car bits too long.
A few amusing moments:
-Intellectual Homer
-Lisa’s “I’ll look for a job in the morning”
-The elephant on the rollarcoaster
Thanks, I came in here to ask what that said. I didn’t have my reading glasses on.
I loved the ending. I can picture Maggie and Lisa surviving and thriving on their own.
“Stupid Oregon. Home to evergreen trees, birthplace of Matt Groe-ning…”
OSF got a shoutout! 
“Actually, we’re going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.”
“I’m getting a sweatshirt with Shakespeare’s face on it!”
and later, “Don’t forget to wash your hands, Shakespeare!”
YEAHBABY!
I thought it was an excellent episode.
It was worth it for the entire scene in the diner.
The waitress slamming homer, twice, was funny. (can’t recall the quotes).
And Homer and Bart ripping on the fancy-guys at the next table was great.
“look at me, I’m eating melon for breakfast.” “I’m using a napkin”.
“I want the smiley face breakfast, but can you add a bacon nose, and bacon hair, and put on some bacon five o’clock shadow, and a bacon body.”
Also thought the markge & lisa side was funny.
There were some funny bits with the steam, too. “Look, new kid.”
The Ned singing bit was an homage to the length of that particular song–a seemingly endless list of colors.
Not the best episode but Homer destroying the log cabin “birth place of Matt Groening” was priceless.
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Didn’t Skinner once say that he had neither an intercom or secretary in the first installment of the Who Shot Mr. Burns? episodes?
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Overall the episode was decent. That was the first great ending the show has had in years.
I liked parts of it. Other parts still had me wondering who thought that was funny.
“Oh, and the bacon man lives in a bacon house.”
“No he doesn’t.”
I also liked Homer’s supersonic “D’oh!”
“I bet this looks cool from overhead, though.”