Is "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" that bad?
I've been watching RealJim's video on the Golden Age's "Hidden Duds", and this was #2 on the list, even going as far as to call it his least favorite episode on the list, and the one Season 7 episode he regularly skips.
He claims that the episode's premise of Sideshow Bob threatening to nuke Springfield over "trash TV" and then stealing a Wright Bros plane in an effort to kill Krusty when that fails serves as a progenitor for some of the teen year's dumber premises (e.g. the Jockey Elves and the surfing from "Great Money Caper"). He also claims that the set piece of the air show is also dull. Although he does like the army jokes and R. Lee Ermey's Col. Hapablap, he calls it a "flimsy story where they repeatedly have to contrive ways to keep things moving along."
At the end of the video, he states that none of the episodes on the list are bad, but then says, "except for that Sideshow Bob terrorist plot", implying that he has reservations regarding "Last Gleaming". So, is he right to call it a Golden Age stinker (that isn't from the first 2 seasons), or is he blowing it out of proportion?