Episode 4 - I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4 January 2009
Review
Synopsis: Marge gets stuck at the bank during a robbery. She promises Dwight the robber (Steve Buscemi) that she will visit him in prison. But she can’t bring herself to do it. He escapes and forces her to take him to the theme park where his real mother abandoned him. The Good: One or two jokes are passable such as Dwight shooting the alarm at the bank and then during a montage of him stalking Marge she opens the changing room door and it is Moe peeping instead. The Bad: I don’t really see the point of this episode. Dwight isn’t given a back story beyond his mother leaving him. He doesn’t bond with any of the Simpsons characters and he gets even less screen time than Marge. So there doesn’t seem to be a reason why we should care about his story. And in fact the story is pretty sad and depressing. Marge’s fear of him seems pretty real and the show she watches about a man on death row is depressing stuff. There aren’t that many jokes either and it all seems such a waste of Steve Buscemi and bizarrely Julia Louis-Dreyfus pops by to deliver one line. Best Joke: Kent Brockman interrupts an Itchy and Scratchy show with a breaking news bulletin. He says that convicted bank robber Dwight David Dippelhopper has escaped from Springfield Penitentiary. He continues “The escapee left a note saying that he will turn himself in, after he takes care of one unfinished piece of business. The police have issued a statement saying: That seems more than fair.” The Bottom Line: Not funny, touching or interesting. A strange waste of time.
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