The Simpsons

The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 7

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Summary

The episode introduced a new character, Jessica Lovejoy, who became a potential love interest for Bart Simpson. At church, Bart spotted Jessica and tried to impress her by being on his best behaviour around her but she paid him no attention. Left feeling upset, he decided to do a prank on starts off on Groundskeeper Willie but is caught by Principal Skinner and was put into detention. Jessica witnessed this and was impressed that Bart is a “bad boy”. They get into mischief in the town and Bart realised that she is more mischievous than him. Bart confided in Lisa about his concerns that Jessica was bad news but she can get away with it because she was beautiful so Lisa encouraged him to avoid seeing her for three months. However at church, Jessica decided to steal from the money collection plate, hand over the empty plate to Bart and fled the scene. Bart was assumed by the church community to be a thief and there was mistrust directed towards him. Lisa read out a passage for church the following week and announced for the true money collection plate thief to reveal themself. When Jessica remained quiet, Lisa named and shamed her in front of everyone. The church community searched for the money in Jessica’s room and found out that she stole it because she was crying out for attention from her father. She had to clean the floor of the church as punishment for her crime but was able to trick Bart into cleaning for her while she rode off with another boy.

Humour

It was entertaining to see a different side of Bart Simpson where he is usually the troublemaker in the show but in this episode he tried to behave to gain the attention of a pretty girl. Surprisingly he got manipulated by a pretty girl who caused more problems for him.

Score

6/10

-          Angela

The Simpsons

The Simpsons Season 27 Episode 19

This is a show following the lives of a family called the Simpsons and the adventures they get up to.

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Summary

In this episode, Homer tried to put baby Maggie to sleep. He told her a story of him volunteering to help clean the street with others from the church. The best cleaner would win a trip for two families to the Grand Canyon. The winner was Ned Flanders who was a hated neighbour of Homer's. Reverend Lovejoy suggested the Flanders and Simpsons to spend time on the trip together. Lisa Simpson enjoys the trip by expanding her knowledge of the Grand Canyon by reading a book on the topic and asking the

guide many questions. However there was conflict between the two families. Maude Flanders and Marge Simpson judged the latter's parenting style. Marge is worried about Bart not having manners and misbehaving compared to Rod and Todd who were polite and displayed perfect behaviour. The families encountered a prolbem when the guide fell off the cliff, the trail becomes blocked, there was no signal on the phone and they had no food. Homer and Ned stole food from another group  to feed their family, were threatened with gun shots, filled their empty stomachs and were eventually rescued.

Humour

There are some funny scenes in this episode such as Bart told Nedand the mule to "please be careful" however he disregarded Homer's safety when venturing out to find food and help.

Also Homer displayed stupidity when he was told by Ned to reduce the weight on the raft by throwing away things they don't need. Homer threw away the life vests, spoon and forks instead of a mule. The life vests could save them in a life or death situation in the water whereas the Simpsons and Flanders already had the mules they rode on to the Grand Canyon so there was no need for another mule and it was much heavier than the other objects they had on the raft.

Overall, it was an enjoyable episode that displayed an unlikely friendship formed between Homer and Ned when there was a crisis. Despite not getting along initially, mainly due to Homer's attitude towards Ned, they were able to work together for the safety and wellbeing of their family. However there could have been more action and violence where the Simpsons lives were in direct danger besides having no food and being lost. In one scene there were gun shot sounds but only two shots were visible. Sadly there was a lack of suspense.

Score

6/10

-Angela