While season 18 sees a notable drop in quality from 17, this episode sees a return to the form of the classic days.
Bart gets a drivers' license as a reward for putting out a fire, the starting of which, at Cletus and Brandine's chicken shed, was particularly inventive and fun in its presentation. He has a fun romantic plot with an older girl that has laughter and tenderness in equal parts.
The real fun though is with Lisa's subplot of faking Native American heritage to do well at a school project (claiming her roots are from the Hitachi tribe after spotting that as her microwave brand was particularly amusing). Almost prophetic in its subject matter and lingo (she even refers to "cultural appropriation") and with a cynicism and bite that mid-later Simpsons episodes often lack, this part of the episode makes the whole well worth checking out.
Bart gets a drivers' license as a reward for putting out a fire, the starting of which, at Cletus and Brandine's chicken shed, was particularly inventive and fun in its presentation. He has a fun romantic plot with an older girl that has laughter and tenderness in equal parts.
The real fun though is with Lisa's subplot of faking Native American heritage to do well at a school project (claiming her roots are from the Hitachi tribe after spotting that as her microwave brand was particularly amusing). Almost prophetic in its subject matter and lingo (she even refers to "cultural appropriation") and with a cynicism and bite that mid-later Simpsons episodes often lack, this part of the episode makes the whole well worth checking out.