![]() ![]() She undergoes the indignity of the detention frisk, and ultimate shakedown, as Willie mocks her for the tension tooth marks in her pencil and hocks its shavings in the event they turn out to be a quarter ounce of marijuana. Speaking truth to power sends Lisa down the road to rebellion. Miss Hoover, of course, doubles down with what we should take as the overriding school curriculum: Truth has no place in this classroom. So when Lisa calls her for a B minus grade, she’s got a point. ![]() Hoover isn’t up to the job at the time, she’s actually lying down with a bad back and using an app to teach. Normally his head is spinning at the antics of Principal Skinner. In Miss Hoover’s defense, Lisa’s presentation goes over her time limit, but it is rousing enough to set Superintendent Chalmers spinning on his head. Some of the other projects are quite good we learn German chocolate cake was invented by an American named German, who apparently loved cake. Lisa ties this project in with her dreams of Yale, though she has her snooze alarm set to a safety-school wakeup call. She is also the woman who lives at the center of the earth, as Bart observes. Lisa believes she has brought a truly inspired science project into class: she is honoring Gladys West, the woman who created GPS, and took away the excuse of getting lost on your way to places you don’t want to go. But we know from the opening, the day is going to end on a remorseful night on the roof. It’s cute, lightly perilous, and ends with a perfect drop. The breakfast-gravy-Maggie sequence, of course, has to out slip the dog. Santa’s Little Helper performs a greasy but graceless bit of physical comedy, which works even better as it spills out onto the street. The morning sequence is very funny, with gags coming as quickly as you can pour syrup onto melons. The tale spins out as a flashback to the day. ![]() He is very understanding, and she is very vulnerable. Lisa tells the story to Homer, on the roof, while watching a meteor shower. Lisa is a grade A student in a B minus world, and when she stands up against the idiocracy, she strikes a blow for good students everywhere. He’s exposed flaws in the system by accident. Bart Simpson kissed Miss Krabappel in the earliest seasons. She is also one of its least visible, so it is good to see her featured, and flawed. The teachers at Springfield Elementary are big dumb jerks, and Miss Hoover is one of the biggest. ![]() While the payoff gives us something less than a pre-Christmas miracle, but goes very far in redeeming the episode from a traditional copout. The pre-seasonal greetings come with the opening credits, as we see signs to “stay 6 feet away from Santa,” and the couch gag which imagines the family as a Pac-Man game, with hungry, hungry Homer on the move until stupid Flanders ghosts him. This isn’t to belittle extortion, intimidation or other forms of larceny, but this is the twist which Simpsonizes the episode. The Simpsons season 32, episode 9, “Sorry Not Sorry,” teaches a valuable lesson for a hack comedy cartoon: when apologies don’t work, enforce bribery. This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. ![]()
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