Rate & Review- Team Homer

[Prune Tracy]

It's a pretty funny episode, but not the best. 4/5.

[Real Melvin]

It's amazing that I'm the first person to rate this episode below a 4/5.

I haven't seen the episode recently, so I'm lost on the specifics, but I just wasn't too wowed by it. The main plot breaks down into two things: one) about Homer being nice to Burns, something that he doesn't ever have a choice in and in which nothing really happens rather than plays out from the start-- Burns accidentally pays for the team, wants to join, forces himself into the team, they try to get him out, he stays anyway and I think some feelings are hurt along the way. In a way it suffers just how the other aspect of the plot works-- Homer's team goes through the motions of the bowling championship, playing games, until they get to the end, and then it ends. I just don't feel any reason to think it's a narrative, even if some jokes are funny (though really not as funny as typical Mirkin besides the Moleman thing).

The main plot is still fun, but I wish more time had been devoted to the school subplot, which once underway only has a 10 second scene to show Bart's forgotten ways before the rain comes down. I take the impetus of it as being the one last hurrah for Bart's bad-boy nature (in the classic era at least). It has the chance of becoming funny, but they keep the wackiness of the idea of the plot out of the humor of it-- school uniforms turn students into zombies until the shine of color unexpectedly comes through and the spell is broken. Think of all the radical books/films which have this premise (I can't think of the "original"/famous example), but I don't believe they ever do reference anything with it.

So yeah, not enough time to take on an interesting Springfield Elementary plot (and the last potential exploration of Bart's Season 3 coolness in the schoolyard), and a funny-enough main plot which just doesn't quite do much for me in its course.

[Bella Drape 'er]

The uniform subplot could have been longer, but I'm not complaining.

Fun episode. 4/5

[HMS pinafore]

not the one classic to rule them all but still a fun episode about homer and his bowling team

4/5

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

A very funny 4/5, 8/10 episode.

[Bartesque]

A very funny 4/5, 8/10 episode.

Same. Well done to an extent, Mr. Scully.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Good gag episode 5/5.

[zach]

A+

[SimpsonsAUS]

Not among my favourites of all time, But a good example of a fun Oakley & Weinstein episode which is solid throughout and with some great gags.

[Sinister Burns]

Team Homer was Mirkin.

[Blobulle]

Not that funny (and I hate the end).
3.5/5 => 4/5

[Insecthero]

Pure freakin' gold, and one of my all-time favorites.