Very, very lame. Snowball II is callously killed off in a pathetic "B" plot, with a whole bunch of other dead cats to follow. Oh yeah, real funny guys. Who wrote this episode, Beavis & Butthead? Meanwhile in the "A" plot, Homer fights ED-209 in a Battlebots parody that might have been funny had it aired 3 or 4 years ago.
Maybe FOX could hire me if I could come up with some similarly asinine storylines? How about:
Santa's Little Helper is eaten by Kim Jong Il, causing the Simpsons to go to Korea!