YMMV / The Simpsons S16 E11 "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"

• Designated Hero: Lisa overall, for constant using the restraining order to make Bart's life miserable, refusing to remove it until she thinks he's had enough (and it's obvious that him living so long on the backyard that he has become feral is not "enough"), and working very hard to remember three things Bart did for her in order to forgive him.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Dr. Hibbert mentions being sued for sexual harassment. Now bear in mind that he was created as a caricature of Bill Cosby...
  • Gary Busey narrating a video on restraining orders with a story about stalking that's a metaphor for him and a combination of a dozen women becomes a lot less funny after Busey was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a horror convention in August 2022.
  • Lisa inflicting nerve damage on Bart, after "Jazzy and the Pussycats," in which nerve damage proves a Career-Ending Injury after Bart takes up drumming.
• Karmic Overkill: While Bart admittedly deserved to be taken down a peg for his behavior towards Lisa in the beginning, the extreme lengths Lisa goes through to make him miserable is too much to be rewarding in any way. It doesn't help that Lisa herself gets away with all this.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The sequence where Lisa tries to recall good things Bart did for her (just three) would have been a good moment for a Continuity Cavalcade, especially when the show has used it for less serious things (plotwise-speaking). Instead, Negative Continuity wins and Lisa can't remember any of Bart's sacrifices for her behalf during the show's many seasons, and the only ones she remembers happened either in this episode, or offscreen.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: While Bart pulled some pranks on Lisa, it's not hard to root for him given Lisa's reaction.

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