The Wacky Races couch gag is one of my favorite ones of the past few years. Burns as Dick Dastardly had me rolling!
The rest of the episode was another standard Grandpa backstory. And really, those have been done to death at this point. So not much to say here.
Lisa playing online poker for her college fund was a bit of an odd B-plot, but I did think it had its moments, especially once Lisa started hustling people. I was also pretty amused with Bart and Ned making faces on the window.
A pretty ok episode.
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Helen: Tim, what are you doing? Rev. Lovejoy: Bible trivia. Helen: You've been doing that an awful lot lately. Rev. Lovejoy: The Bible is RICH with trivia!
First time I've ever seen anyone on TV wear my school's shirt(University of Missouri Rolla). Granted it was just a cartoon, and they changed the name of the school a few years ago to Missouri S&T, but still.
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Exactly! That was the thing that drove him to go all berserker in there. That and Shae calling him "my Lion", but she was mumbling her lines I could barely make out the "Twyin?".