And then Pierce says "Jewy" and makes it even worse.

I raised in a particularly nutty local flavor of Catholic, and for a while we were going to church every day. I did my research and tried to argue with my mother that because the readings repeat every two years in Daily Mass (and every three years in Sunday Mass), we'd done our time and we were covered. It didn't…

John Elway owns a bunch of auto dealerships in Colorado.

"Car Dealer Shaq, not Basketball Shaq"? That's amazing.

I kinda figured they wouldn't call an episode "Shaq Motors" if they couldn't get Shaq. I also noticed the damage to the door frame before they showed Shaq, so I figured it was coming. Still a delight.

"Shaquille" has a U in it.

Yeah, the two I cited have many more merits than "My Sister, My Sitter" does (and pretty funny B-plots to boot). But there's something fundamentally mean about them that I don't like.

I agree with you. I'm making the argument that being ugly and hard to watch are not characteristics of a good Simpsons episode, no matter how those characteristics may be justified.

Bummer for "Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"; not even the best reference to another fictional Alice in a Troy McClure film.

Then someone should have told them they were making a comedy show, and not a serious drama about family dysfunction.

In the way that was linked in the comment.

Raisin balls.

Because they didn't super-duper think it through? I wouldn't be surprised if they end up moving to a location with arable land.

I liked that he couldn't even get that right. It would be "chicken-ella," not "chicken-monella."

I said it once already, but there's a bit of Fridge Logic I apply here: Herb's last name is Powell, not Simpson, and Homer is dense enough to literally only look in the Simpson family tree and totally forget he has an illegitimate half-brother.

Nah, not really. I mean, they were tools, but it all worked out in the end.

Oh, that was a real person? I thought it was just one of those sitcom names made up for jokes such as this.

He's great and all, but what does Donovan have to do with this episode?

It was fun, but man, calling it "predictable" was an understatement. I guess LaToya covered that though. Just a matter of whether or not and how much that bugs you.

He's a huge Supreme Court buff, you know.