The Girl on the Bus

Visual jokes, a touch of absurdity, lack of a serious theme... it was really an episode that makes me laugh like the old ones.

I haven't seen one of these for a reeeeal long time.

I found it very weird that Lisa breaks character by skiving off school, and randomly enters the house of a complete stranger? And then is suddenly accepted like she didn't just illegally enter someone's house... Weird.

A strange episode, and even more nonsensical ending.

Wow ! It was such a long time ago I watched a good The Simpsons episode and this episode was really good. Felt like it could've been a storyline from a new The Simpsons movie. And the part about Homer texting Lisa omg hilarious !

As others have said, this is an odd little episode of 'The Simpsons' from the thirtieth series.

It sets itself up to be a musical episode, then ditches that. Then it seems to go down the farce route, then ditches that.

Thankfully it stops itself from becoming a mess, and actually ends up with a nice heartfelt ending.

Personally though I just found all the gear changes a bit jarring. You set yourself up for one sort of episode, and then it keeps going in a different direction so you don't know what you're getting.

There were some nice moments along the way though, and I liked the Ned Flanders and Ralph jokes particularly.

I don't know. It gave me old Simpsons chills so I'm very pleased. The only thing which annoys me is singing every single time...