I don't think the people who make The Simpsons ever should have found child abuse funny just because Matt Groening thought he could make his own child abuse funny, and they don't care how bad that joke is anymore because they want to go Little Yellow Book on us by telling us Bart deserves to be abused with no consequences so he won't get worse (which I don't buy for one second) throwing any positive moments he had with Homer from previous episodes out the window. I don't care for Homer, Bart or Dr. Zander in this episode because they all want each other to die. It should have been about Homer thinking about how bad it would feel for someone to hurt him (like Lobster Claws did in Star vs. the Forces of Evil) and should not have suddenly turned Bart mean out of nowhere on a dime, like many bad The Simpsons or Spongebob episodes do. I like Paul Rudd, but I hate this episode and he deserves to have a better episode (which is why I liked having him in Steal This Episode). What is even scarier is that Homer, as a child, treated his father the same way - which I admit, was a little funny for a sense of misdirection in context. Any long-running series where the writers don't care about consistency in their characters because they are too careless to keep it any good will inevitably become as boring as heck, if they don't get too depressing first. I was so disturbed by this episode that I only scored 172 points!