User blog comment:DandyAndy1989/Honest Opinion: Making the Grade/@comment-24281967-20170421212952

Here's my main problem with the episode, it's that the moral of the story about "being yourself" and not falling into peer pressure is poorly delivered.

Lisa only goes back to her normal self not because she misses being her old self or because she realizes that her new average self is hurting others... but because Lincoln told her to change back to normal. The episode ends up missing the whole entire point of not falling under peer pressure, you're suppose to make decisions for yourself not have others tell you what to do, Lisa doesn't learn this since she changes herself because someone told her to do so and she changes back to her normal self because someone told her to. It makes me feel like Lisa, despite being the smartest one in the family, can't make decisions about her own self unless someone tells her to do so which really annoys me deeply.

Also I was annoyed with how everyone treated Lincoln, he did very little wrong and now everyone wants to treat him like garbage. And most of that was Lisa's fault for putting Lincoln on the spot by telling the family at every moment possible that Lincoln told her to change, as she didn't even realize that her compliment was actually an insult towards Lincoln, does Lisa not know that she's suppose to be super smart?

Otherwise most of this episode was boring as well; the jokes were unfunny, the characters really annoyed me, and the message was terribly executed in the end. The ending was kinda decent when Lincoln got to sit with his friends again but it wasn't enough to excuse the rest of the episode.

I see your points that you made but I'm going to have to disagree with you, I still find Making The Grade to be one of the worst episodes of season 2.

Plus, we really need to stop it with these episodes where everyone just hates on Lincoln for very little to no reason. It's not interesting, it's not funny, and it makes me dislike the characters even more since they end up most of the time out of character.