Monday, March 28, 2011

Love Is a Many Strangled Thing

I this episode, Love Is a Many Strangled Thing, Homer and Bart have a chance to work on their relationship. In the beginning of the episode, the family takes a trip to the football super dome. Lisa made a comment about even though she protested against it, she thought it was pretty nice. While inside the stadium, Homer makes a comment that his kids better enjoy this place because they will be paying it off for as long as they live. I think that is an interesting comment talking about how some investments a city makes really aren't worth it. While the game is going on the stadium camera shows all the people in the stands dancing and zooms in on Bart calling him a party pooper for not. Homer then decides to tickle Bart to get him to have fun and in doing so, Bart pee's himself on camera. Marge is upset with Homer claiming he took away all of Bart's self esteem and enrolls Homer in a class for better fathering tips. During Homer's first class he admits he strangles Bart and in an obnoxious attempt to stop Homer's act they strangle him back. This however back fires on the family making Homer actually scared of Bart thus reversing the roles in the household and allowing Bart to be an even worse child. Marge now realizing the therapy was bad, brings Bart in to be fixed now. I find it a funny play on how people will move onto the next problem if when tried to fix the first one, it failed. Bart and Homer eventually bond on the fact the Therapy is dumb and they sue the therapist for strangling Bart.

1 comment:

  1. I also took note of the fact that Marge sends bart to get fixed after therapy messes him up. When I took abnormal psychology we learned about many people who were improperly placed in a facility because they were diagnosed with a psychological disorder that they didnt have. It became an easy solution. The institution, however, ended up making them worse off than they originally were. I think people often read into things way to much when it comes to psychological problems.

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