Reasonably good (and a relief after some of the episodes this season), with an exaggerated but still grounded plot and good blending with social commentary. It had some problems but still held together.

Other thoughts:
....the gambling "help" number has a redundancy (in "overr8ted")
....now there's a crawl space instead of the basement?
....Lisa rejects the word "homeless" but has no problem with "crazy cat lady"?
....Marge somehow copyrighted "her" shade of blue even though it turns out to be a standard Clairol one (to say nothing of the backwardness of suing PBR, successfully!, for using "her" blue ribbon)?
....Lisa recognizes the "emeritus" title as being unceremoniously fired; I wonder what Alf Clausen thinks about that!

And Mr. Burns's voice sounds WAY, WAY off. Harry Shearer is still credited, and most of the cast's rise in age is starting to show, but I have to wonder whether he's starting to have trouble doing this voice or whether someone else is starting to take that role and/or others of his (or even just doing a last-minute loop when Harry was unavailable).

On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:45:53 -0700 (PDT), Matt Garvey
<garvey@simpsonsarchive.com> wrote:

>And Mr. Burns's voice sounds WAY, WAY off. Harry Shearer is still credited,=
> and most of the cast's rise in age is starting to show, but I have to wond=
>er whether he's starting to have trouble doing this voice or whether someon=
>e else is starting to take that role and/or others of his (or even just doi=
>ng a last-minute loop when Harry was unavailable).

I noticed that too and was wondering why Shearer didn't do Burns'
lines. I was pretty sure I heard his voice elsewhere in the episode,
so it's not like he wasn't around when they were recording it. Maybe
he didn't like the lines and refused to read them? That's pure
speculation on my part of course.

But yeah, that voice didn't sound even remotely like Mr. Burns.

-- Bob