Lisa can't play her saxophone peacefully at home, so she relocates to a bridge. Billie Eilish randomly finds her there looking for new talent.
Probably the stupidest plot in all of the shorts. By now there is no logical explanation required whatsoever for a celebrity to appear. Billie just happens to be in Springfield and we don't know why. She's also a weirdo who has her agent hold her upside down talking to the girl playing sax under the bridge.
There's not a friendship "developed" between Lisa and Billie, we are just supposed to get excited about Billie Eilish guest starring in a short. It pales an incredible amount to Lisa seeing lonely jazz player Bleeding Gums Murphy sounding away his sorrows in the middle of the night. Coincidentally both involve a bridge. But while here it's a cheap joke, there it serves as a meeting place for a profound and emotionally revealing connection of souls. It's not just beautiful and atmospheric, it does a great job at making you care about Lisa's feelings of alienation and desire to find like she belongs somewhere.
This is Simpsons in 2022 though, so any sublety or finesse you might expect will not be present. Instead we get Lisa monotonously saying that her father couldn't care less about her music, and if he seems to it's only because he's drunk. They prefer presenting it like the whole family is miserable and never in sync with each other rather than attempting something more nuanced. Lisa is a victim of everyone's stupidity or ignorance and she's a perfect angel who can do no wrong.
And of course, there is nothing funny whatsoever. Not even a mild chuckle, every single joke lands with a thud. The worst one has to be spiders crawling out of Billie's mouth, which is so bafflingly dumb that I'm at a loss for words. Was I supposed to laugh at how gross it was? How random it was? I honestly cannot tell what the punchline is supposed to be.
Dear Al Jean and Disney, please get it through your heads nobody wants these lazy advertisements that only get produced as money-making filler for the platform! They are embarrassing and tarnishing The Simpsons' name more than the show itself already does.
