Wild Barts Can't Be Broken vs. Summer of 4ft2

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Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

The Simpsons are at Springfield War Memorial Stadium watching the Springfield Isotopes baseball game. After the first pitch Homer, becomes disappointed by the poor performance of the Isotopes and waits in the car. Six months later, he enters Moe's Tavern and is informed by Lenny and Carl that the Isotopes are in the playoffs, and have, so far, been playing well. Homer quickly joins in with the fans to support the Isotopes, who end up winning the National League pennant. To celebrate Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney go on a drunken binge and accidentally vandalize Springfield Elementary School.

The next morning, Homer discovers his car, which is badly damaged, and is oblivious that in reality he and his friends were responsible. Chief Wiggum blindly jumps to the conclusion that the vandalism at the school is the work of kids and immediately enforces a curfew on all of Springfield's children, prohibiting them from being on the streets after sunset. Bart and Lisa, as well as the other children of Springfield, are annoyed with not being allowed out after sunset. The children soon rally together to rebel and see an old drive-in horror movie which they saw advertised on television, called "The Bloodening", a film recently discovered in a concrete vault after it was deemed too violent. While at the movie, the movie was interrupted as they are caught by Chief Wiggum. As a punishment, the children must clean a police billboard with Wiggum on it.

The children then set up a radio show called "We Know All Your Secrets", in which they expose the secrets of the adults of Springfield like the kids in the movie. The children are tracked down at the billboard by Professor Frink's machine, and an argument between the children and the adults ensues. Unfortunately, the argument rouses the ire of Grampa and the other senior citizens trying to get some sleep, and they vow to teach both groups a lesson. Their revenge turns out to be enforcing a curfew banning everyone under the age of seventy from the streets after dark, which is a measure that passed by a single vote, due to Homer refusing to cast a ballot.

Summer of 4ft2

Lisa finds out on the last day of school how unpopular she is when nobody cares enough to sign her yearbook, while Bart makes people feel grateful that he signs theirs. Meanwhile, Ned Flanders offers the Simpson family the use of his beach house in Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport over the summer, though Homer makes Ned work on his faulty septic tank before he agrees. Marge likes the idea and suggests that Bart should bring Milhouse and that Lisa should bring a friend too. However, Lisa has no friends to bring and decides to change her image as a result, deliberately leaving behind her un-stylish wardrobe. After reaching the beach house, Lisa lies to Marge that she forgot to pack, so they go shopping for new clothes. Lisa buys a new set of clothes that she believes will make her look "cool", and goes to look for some likeminded people her own age. Marge, now feeling left out, decides to focus her parenting on Maggie, who looks worried. Homer, in the meantime, buys a large firework to celebrate Independence Day, only for it to backfire due to a fast-burning fuse; he initially throws it in the fridge, but changes his mind when he remembers the beer inside and instead chucks it in the dishwasher, causing it to rupture a pipe.

When Lisa succeeds in making friends with a group of local children (in particular a girl named Erin), Bart becomes jealous and complains that they should be his friends. He tries to steal her new friends from her with a skateboarding display, but they find his effort pathetic and shun him, which Bart blames on Milhouse. Lisa is then spending more time with her new friends, to the point where they hold a beach party to celebrate the 4th of July. Bart then decides to take revenge by showing her friends the yearbook and all of Lisa's deeply nerdy real pastimes. As her new friends stare in shock at Lisa's nerdy hobbies, Lisa runs off in tears.

The next morning, Lisa is furious with Bart for exposing her true self. She is about to pour maple syrup in Bart's eyes when Marge tells them about a carnival happening later that evening. They all go, but Bart and Lisa continue to bicker and fight, right up to when they ride the bumper cars and Bart rams Lisa's car out of the arena. Feeling dejected, Lisa decides to leave, concluding that she was probably never meant to have friends, and Bart feels guilty for hurting Lisa. When Lisa returns to the beach house, she finds her friends in the act of seemingly vandalizing the Simpsons' car. Thinking it's some sort of cruel prank, she simply tells them to finish it and leave, but it's then revealed they were actually decorating the car with sea shells in her honor, at which point they tell her they don't care that she's smart because she's a good person and they learned stuff from her. Lisa is thrilled, but Homer shows up and screams in horror at how his car got messed up. Before leaving Bart presents Lisa with her yearbook, which now has wonderful messages from her new friends and even Milhouse. He reveals he felt guilty for hurting her, so he explained his behavior to her new friends and asked them to sign her yearbook. Lisa forgives Bart, while Marge tells Homer that the kids should've cleaned out the shells before gluing them to the car, as the Simpsons are followed by seagulls trying to eat the mollusks inside.

[stip]

Summer of 4ft 2 for Milhouse, but this is the weakest matchup this section

[tragabigzanda]

Summer of 4ft 2 for Milhouse, but this is the weakest matchup this section

[Simple Torture]

Neither of these episodes grab me. If I remember correctly, Wild Barts treats drunk driving as a pretty big joke which is out of character for the show. Stip's right, though, Milhouse is great in 4'2''.