Personal Review :
Quite good, even though Lurleen Lumpkin made her comeback, but I just felt, that she didn’t made any big impact to this episode. Overall, it was nice to see Lurleen again, but she’d probably get more laughs in future cameos than in carrying an entire episode.
Rating by me : 7.1 / 10
Plot ( Wikipedia.com )
Lisa tries to sell Girl Scout Cookies to Mayor Quimby, but finds the entire town treasury empty. Quimby explains the city spent their money on a new slogan, “Springfield: Good”. A town meeting is held to inform the town they have to raise money. They try faking a natural disaster in order to get relief money from the government, but are tricked and end up in more debt than before. Lisa then reveals Springfield has millions in uncollected taxes, and Springfield soon starts hitting up its most notorious tax evaders. In a news report, Kent Brockman reveals that all tax evaders have been caught, and the only one remaining is Lurleen Lumpkin, a country music star who was once managed by Homer and fell in love with him . As the city searches for her, Homer finds Lurleen hiding in his car, and learns that after leaving her, her life had spun out of control.
Homer comforts the nerve-wracked Lurleen, who says she has no money. Homer agrees to take her home, but Marge remembers how Lurleen caused a huge rift in her marriage, and demands that she gets out. Angrily driving her away, she discovers that Lurleen lives with the homeless. Marge begins to pity her. Marge reluctantly allows her to stay with the family. As a thank-you, Lurleen cooks a barbecue for the family, and Marge apologizes about the argument earlier. Lurleen forgives her, and the two become friends. Soon, though, Lurleen is found, arrested, and taken to court. Judge Snyder decides to go easy on her, with one exception: Lurleen must find an immediate way to pay off her debt to society. When the trial finishes, she explains how she can’t pay off her taxes because all her money went to her ex-husbands (who all resemble Homer).
Lurleen becomes depressed, and the whole family soon hears Lurleen singing through the vent about her father. Marge realizes that after her father left Lurleen, Lurleen had given up faith in all men. Marge decides to get the two Lumpkins back on a proper parent-child relationship. Scouring Springfield, she finally finds him in the corner of Springfield. Royce Lumpkin left Lurleen because he realized he could never be a great father. He is now deadbeat. Lurleen forgives him for leaving her, however, and she writes a new song to celebrate their reunion. The two appear to have a newfound happiness, and spend a lot of time together. But Royce decides to leave Lurleen again. Soon a new song from The Dixie Chicks goes on the radio, Lurleen’s father is there, and he claims he wrote the song, a clear plagiarism of the song Lurleen wrote for their reunion. She goes to the basement to sulk. Colonel Homer and Marge come to her, and tell her to take control of her destiny. Lurleen tells the Dixie Chicks that her father stole her song and they proceed to hit him with their instruments. Lurleen becomes the new opening act for the Dixie Chicks. She has a new husband (who has a resemblance to Homer), and Marge threatens her against ever returning.
