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Some Enchanted Evening
The Simpsons Season 01, Episode 13
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Marvin Monroe is back and this time he's the therapist on the airwaves and KBBL (K Babble!). Also, does the K call signal imply Springfield is on the west coast?
The Bart-prank-calling Moe gags were a staple of the show for years. I wonder why they haven't been doing that lately. I guess it got old?
I've never had pickled eggs. I've never even seen them at a bar. I've always wondered if they're good.
Damn, roses cost $55/dozen back in the season one? I'm pretty sure you can get them for way less even on Valentine's Day these days. Was that florist just taking Homer for a chump?
I love how Homer's five o' clock shadow pops right back into place. I feel his pain.
Call 1-800-YOUSQUEAL. I'm afraid to do it myself because I'm pretty sure that's a gateway to porn. Why the hell does Lisa call that number when she should be calling 911, anyway?
I find it pretty unlikely that Homer and Marge would be able to dance so well.
Homer: "Lord help me, I'm just not that bright." You know, sometimes Homer is pretty self-aware.
CONCLUSION
This episode is pretty good, I guess. Actually, I think of it more as middling. It's the final episode of season one, which is sort of strange because it strikes me very much as a middle-of-the-season episode. I don't know how excited I would be for another episode of the Simpsons after seeing this one and having them go off the air for a few months. Not that there's anything wrong with it ... but as Bart would (later) say, "Meh".
THIS EPISODE'S RATINGS
  2/5 donuts from Statler
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PLOT SUMMARY FROM WIKIPEDIA
Marge is depressed that her husband Homer does not appreciate their relationship. She calls Dr. Marvin Monroe's radio call-in therapy show and the doctor urges her to confront Homer. Homer, who has heard the call on a radio at work, feels bad and brings home a single rose and a box of chocolates. Marge's mood immediately softens, and a remorseful Homer tells Marge he will take her to a night on the town: dinner at a fancy restaurant, dancing, and a night at a motel.
Marge and Homer now need a babysitter and hire Ms. Botz through a local babysitting service (however they have to call themselves the "Sampsons", since they have a rather bad reputation with the babysitting service). On Marge's advice, Ms. Botz puts Maggie to bed and has Bart and Lisa watching The Happy Little Elves. After Ms. Botz leaves the room however Bart tunes into a station airing America's Most Armed and Dangerous (a parody of America's Most Wanted), which profiles a wanted burglar nicknamed "The Babysitter Bandit." A mug shot of the suspect shows Bart and Lisa that Ms. Botz is "The Babysitter Bandit." Ms. Botz enters the living room and realizes that her cover has been blown. Bart and Lisa try to hide, but she easily finds them, ties them up and forces them to watch The Happy Little Elves as she continues packing the family's possessions into her suitcases. Maggie eventually wakes up and goes downstairs to discover that her siblings are tied up and watching TV. Maggie frees Bart and Lisa, and Bart is able to knock out Ms. Botz with a baseball bat.
After tying up Ms. Botz, the kids find all their telephones disabled and go to a nearby pay telephone to alert the authorities. Meanwhile, Marge tries to call home to check up on the kids but gets no answer. Worried, she and Homer decide to go home. They find Ms. Botz bound and gagged in front of the TV. Homer, thinking his children have gotten the best of another babysitter and unaware of her true identity, frees her and pays her handsomely. After advising Homer to keep an eye on Bart, Ms. Botz makes a clean getaway, just seconds before the Springfield police arrive to arrest her. Homer begins to scold Bart for his behavior toward Ms. Botz until he finds a reporter's microphone shoved in his face, telling him he just freed a wanted criminal. Homer attempts to save face by claiming he fought Botz and she escaped, then warning her on camera never to show her face again or she'll have to deal with him. Later that night, Homer moans about his blunder, but Marge cheers him up by saying that if he managed to teach three children to hogtie a perfect stranger, he must be doing something right.
Accessed from Wikipedia on Feb. 21, 2010