(By the way, Bart writes, “I was not nominated for best spoken swear word.”) Love it! Mary enters her song in a hillbilly talent contest. When she loses and turns to Bart for comfort, he blows it again. He knows this when Mary leaves with a Brazilian record agent, telling him, “Everything’s fine.” Guys, when a woman says those two words, know that you are in big trouble. Everything is NOT fine. See Bart’s flash forwards to relationship disasters and you’ll see what I mean. Bart returns home to find his parents fighting over a lack of communication on Marge’s part. When Bart points out that women don’t say what they mean until it’s too late, Marge shows them how she’s feeling by kicking BOTH of them out of the house. They go to the saddest bachelor apartment complex ever, with crime scene tape, dead bodies in the pool and a sign in each unit that says “No sobbing after 10 p.m.” Even the party they have is sad, with a spoken word album playing as the guys make punch out of Krusty’s powdered mix water, and hand sanitizer. In the end, Homer and the boys organize and invite all of their women to a grand romantic gesture to win them back. Everyone is successful, except for Bart and Mary. Even though he sings and gets down on one knee to apologize, Mary runs off with the handsome son of the record producer. Final review: Everyone got that? Good. Happy Valentine’s Day!
