User blog comment:SpongeGuy12/How would you make Snow Bored a better episode?/@comment-32202721-20171019235654

I'd change the ending, honestly. The episode struck me as an opportunity to develop Lisa's character and have her learn a lesson, and it... sort of squandered it.

See, when I heard the episode summary, I figured it'd be about the Loud kids teaching Lisa to appreciate idle playtime, and not devote every waking moment to studying and school. Then, as the episode progressed, I figured it'd have her learn that just because one extreme is bad (all work and no play) doesn't mean that the other extreme is any better (all play and no work). Instead, the ending reveals that she was just pretending to go snow-crazy to convince her siblings to want to go back to school, and she finishes the episode just as arrogant as she begins.

"Making the Grade" frustrated me for a similar reason; it just refused to take Lisa down a peg or have her admit that maybe she doesn't know everything. It'd be nine months before we actually did get a Lisa episode like that (I'm referring, of course, to "Friend or Faux?").