Ae Bonny Romance
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"Ae Bonny Romance"
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Episode Information
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"Ae Bonny Romance" is the eighth episode of broadcast season 35 episode of The Simpsons and the seven hundred fifty-eighth episode overall. It originally aired on December 3, 2023. The episode was written by Michael Price and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars Karen Gillan as Maisie MacWeldon, Paul Higgins as Hamish MacWeldon and the Ticket Booth actor, and David Tennant as Pa MacWeldon.
Synopsis[edit]
- "After Groundskeeper Willie goes missing, Bart gets a call from him telling Bart that he needs him. The Simpsons then go to Edinburgh to find him, where they realize that Willie is getting married to his young love, Maisie. Meanwhile, Lisa explores Edinburgh on her own."
Plot[edit]
At Springfield Elementary School, the boys in the fourth-grade class are told they have to dance with the girls for gym class. The boys are horrified because they do not want to get cooties, so Bart runs to the nurse's office to get band-aids so they do not have to directly touch the girls. When Bart hands them out, the kids all start to feel weird. Bart then realizes that he gave out nicotine patches to everyone, and the kids all start rampaging. After the rampage, Bart receives detention, despite his claims that he does not mean for it to happen. He is sent to help Groundskeeper Willie in his shack.
At home, Homer and Marge lie in bed looking at social media when Marge gets an invite to a destination wedding. Homer rants about destination weddings and how much he despises them until Marge eventually accepts the invitation, planning to use the miles they have accumulated to pay for the flights. The next day, Bart is still in detention with Willie when he tells Willie that the only crime he committed was not wanting to dance with girls. Willie then opens up to Bart about a girl he once loved, Maisie, who broke his heart. After this, Willie moved to America. Bart and Willie bond over their dislike of girls and become friends.
One day, Willie goes missing and Bart cannot find him anywhere. Willie then video calls Bart, telling him that he needs him. Bart goes home and convinces Homer and Marge to take the family to Edinburgh to find Willie. When they arrive, the family travels to the MacWeldon Distillery, which is where Willie is in the video call. They enter the building and find that a party is going on, which Willie reveals is being held because he and Maisie are getting married. Willie and Maisie show a video of their story, revealing that Maisie's family had told her Willie had been killed by a sheep, which is why she never met up with Willie to run away to America together. Maisie only found out Willie was still alive when she saw a TikTok video of Bart and Willie, so she reconnected with him. Willie then ran back to Scotland to marry her. Bart is upset because he thinks he and Willie share a connection over their dislike of girls.
While Homer, Marge, and Bart attend wedding events, Lisa explores Edinburgh and visits the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. During the wedding events, Homer gets angry about having to attend them due to his dislike of destination weddings. Marge and Homer argue over this. Later, at a rehearsal dinner, Bart asks Lisa for advice. Lisa tells Bart that Willie has never been happier and that he should let him be happy with Maisie. Meanwhile, Marge gets drunk and makes a speech about Homer and how unromantic he is. After the dinner, Willie asks Bart to lead the dance and takes him to a group of girls. Bart gets angry and complains about how men do not let men down. He throws the wedding cake out the window, angering Willie and Maisie.
The next day, Marge wakes up with a hangover and finds that Homer is not in bed because he is mad at Marge, and Marge is still mad at him. At The St. Andrews Golf Club, where the wedding is being held, Bart overhears Pa MacWeldon talking to Hamish and Owen about how the wedding is only happening so they can use Willie's peat-sniffing ability to make them richer before they cast him aside so Maisie can get a better husband. Bart confronts them about this and is locked in a tower. Meanwhile, Marge gets a video sent to her by Homer of a dolphin and baby gorilla playing together, which reminds her of the two of them. She runs off to find Homer and they make up, then decide to make love on the golf course. As the wedding starts, Bart escapes from the tower by tying together sleeping masks he finds in the gift bags to make a rope. He stops the wedding and tells Willie that the MacWeldons just want to use him. Maisie says she had no idea her family planned that and tells Willie that she truly loves him. To prove it, Maisie breaks his nose so he can never sniff peat or smell anything again. The wedding goes on and Willie and Maisie get married, then return to America together.
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