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(S17E22)

Buck Mitchell [after causing the Duff blimp to crash]: This is the worst blimp crash ever!

Grandpa: Too soon!

Okay, that exchange cracked me up, as did a few other moments during this episode, such as the television show "Hunch" the family watches in the beginning of the episode which list JD Salinger as a writer in the closing credits. I also liked the "Sexy Marriage Land" song performed by Tabitha Vixx (voiced by Mandy Moore), and Homer becoming indignant towards Marge because she insists on judging him on things he's done, which is so totally unfair.

And that's the thing about The Simpsons. While this episode did have me cracking up a few times, as a whole I felt it could have been better. In this episode, Marge and Homer counsel a minor league baseball player, Buck Mitchell (voiced by Stacy Keach) and his wife, the aforementioned Tabitha, after she performs a rather risque version of "The Star Spangled Banner" during one of the Springfield Isotopes' home games. They hit a snag, however, when Buck thinks Tabitha cheated on him with Homer. In reality, he just gave her a chicken grease neck rub.

I think my main problem with this episode was seeing too many gags that, while funny, seemed like they came a bit to easy for the Simpsons writers, such as Homer talking to a piece of chicken like it was a woman he was hitting on, and Homer also dumping a sackful of baseballs out of a sack too small to actually hold that many baseballs. While I won't write this episode off as a total loss, I can't say it did much for me, either.