Look at all the activity happening right now. Jeez, wonder how bad Season 27's R&R threads are gonna get.
Act 1: Still liked the R&M couch gag. Long, but eh, rather take funny, pointless filler than, well...the filler usually put at the end of episodes these days (including that random "post show jug band" for this episode). Homer reacting to the dog was funny, though went a bit long. Guess these are the complicated math jokes the writers mentioned about...huh (though there were a few freeze frame moments that might be good). Liked seeing the college nerds again. Oh joy, they finally made a Michael Bay jab, complete with Azarias generic male voice. Ugggh. So the school gets the new latest technology, but then it's all destroyed by an electric explosion, or something. Eh?
Act 2: HI random teacher we've never seen before (oh wait...right). Odd forward Lisa angle there with Willie. And now Lisa's intrigued with Willie for some reason? New alternative teaching methods that don't always work. That could lead to some good satire, right? Nope, instead these methods actually do work. So much so that Willie's teaching of basic math helps the team do extremely complicated algebraic looking problems at the end, even though all the Woldorf methods really seemed to teach was just basic divisions and adding. Also Homer sings and suddenly enjoys the Wulderf methods now, for some reason that they don't go into.
Act 3: Willie makes Bart math team captain. *insert rushed math team plot that could've taken up the entire episode, but instead just focused on unfocused random shit* Teams tie, Bart obvious wins it for them, Lisa's drunk on Mountain Dew because why not, post show jug band (whah?), the end.
Yet again, another disjointed, "okay" Season 26 episode with not much to talk about.
Overall: 6/10, or 3/5 for the poll. Lower standard, aye!