TV Recaps Reviews

Duffman shows up to Moe’s bar offering free Duff’s beer giveaway stuff. When Homer shows Bart all his new Duff goodies Bart shows little interest in it. Lisa debates Nelson’s stupidity after he trips Milhouse and teases him. Nelson tells Lisa he bows to her logic. A teacher overhears Lisa’s debating skill and invites her to join the debate team. Ralph has to stand in as Lisa’s podium since the school has little funds for the debate team.

Lisa debates about cars and energy. The brunette debater Megan harasses Lisa during their debate, teasing her about being empty headed because she’s blond. Lisa loses the debate by “a hair”.

Mr. Burns and Smithers discuss how the company can get rid of their excess plutonium. Mr. Burns suggests Smithers find the biggest idiot of their employees and slip the plutonium into their backpack, which turns out to be Homer. Smithers slips the plutonium into Homer’s new Duff duffle bag while he and his buddies sit and eat lunch at Springfield Union Station, clothed in their Duff beer clothes and swag. When a business man mentions great mac and cheese in another town, Homer runs off to get some, leaving his Duff bag. A woman sees the unattended bag and immediately screams “unattended duffle bag”, to which everyone in the building starts running thinking it is a terrorist bomb. The police and the bomb squad come in to investigate. The bomb squad decides to blow up the bag. The news comes on that night with a story of the duffle bag being blown up along with the deadly plutonium it contained, no doubt a terrorist plot. The plutonium apparently creates a large number of Hulk types from the explosion.

Springfield’s mayor talks to the town to calm them down from the terrorist attack. The mayor hires an englishman, Nigel Bakerbutcher, to deal with the terror issue in Springfield. Bakerbutcher tells the crowd London is protected by the greatest security cameras available. Bakerbutcher proposes to the town to incorporate the camera system and they agree.

Marge gets Lisa a book about being different, but the book doesn’t impress Lisa much. Bart and Lisa watch Krusty as he does a long string of blond jokes. Lisa tells Bart he is blond too, but Bart says the dumb blond jokes only apply to women.

Chief Wiggum watches a huge wall of TV screens with the latest crimes. Wiggum can’t find any crimes on the screens so he instructs his team to find guilty people. Wiggum has a team of volunteers, including Marge and Ned Flanders, who are willing to watch the security screens to look for troublemakers in town. After Ned catches a couple making out and breaks up the action, he gets into telling everyone what they should be doing, becoming Big Brother over the city-wide microphone. Marge thinks they are prying too much into people’s lives.

Lisa is in the bathroom with a hair dyeing kit, determined not to come off as a dumb blond. Homer, Carl and Lenny hang out at Moe’s, betting on the weather forcast. When Homer wins the bet saying there will be golf-ball size hail, Ned as Big Brother interrupts via the camera in the bar and tells Homer to give back the money. Homer decides to go home and leaves the bar, immediately being pelted by golf-ball size hail.

Ned gripes at Bart for all the infractions he does around town. When Bart gets home he decides to moon Ned in the camera. Bart realizes there are some blind spots on the camera and makes a border around an area in his yard where he can do what he wants without Big Brother watching.

Bart and Homer sell time to townspeople in the blind spot in their back yard, where they can do whatever they want without Big Brother watching. Marge catches Bart and Homer in the act. Ned overhears Marge talking about the blind spot in their yard and discovers their secret.

Megan debates the topic of dressing in uniforms. As Lisa’s turn comes up to debate, she takes off her hood from her hooded sweatshirt to reveal brown hair, and everyone in the auditorium gasps. Lisa tells the debate judges they are judging her because of her hair color and that these dated cliches must stop.

Ned finds Homer and the rest of the townspeople letting lose in Homer’s back yard. Homer tells Ned they are sick of the Big Brother citywide nagging Ned is engaging in and the spying makes people act worse, not better. When Homer tells Ned he is acting like God, Ned takes Homer’s remarks to heart. Homer and Ned decide to destroy all the security cameras in Springfield, making a huge mess as they break cameras all around the city.

As Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles watch TV, the englishman, Nigel Bakerbutcher, appears telling the audience the reality show “The American Oafs” based in Springfield is no more. The Queen says “I will miss that Ralph Wiggum, he reminds me of my boy”. Prince Charles carries his cat on a pillow and complains to the Queen mother that his cat’s breath smells like cat food.