The pacing is certainly quality Simpsons -- chuck every frame that bogs down the joke.

Xyler is dreamy, always.

Whatever happened to that? Fuck Family Guy and its kill a joke beyond beating a fossilized horse skeleton, and all its copy cats.
You're right about the Conan-era Simpsons characters. Simpsons characters after that are just paper thin stereotypes.

You'll all hate me for this, but I didn't like Conan's episodes that much, including the Monorail one, compared to the other writers' episodes. They sort of set a precedence of parody throughout the episode (as obscure to a 90s kid like me as they were) where the entire episode was a parody of.. something: in Monorail's case, it was The Music Man, and in Homer Goes to College it was Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds. They were two great episodes but they lacked the heart of other episodes in the season. He also wrote Bart's Girlfriend, but I think that was it. That episode did have said heart, but a lot of what you see on Family Guy and other shows is kind of the fault of the popularity of those episodes, the Monorail one in particular.

Pacifica is rich and stuck up and always felt the need to show Mabel up, in spite of her always beaming optimism and kindness. It grated her after a while that she tried to be friends with everyone and Pacifica seemed bent on making her feel inadequate, until the end of this episode where they gave her a ride home and you begin to see how isolated she has been. For a while she really resented Mabel for uncovering unsavory lies about an ancestor of hers that helped found the town.

Then in a later episode you learn her parents make her a nervous wreck, keep her on a short leash where she barely knows how to be independent, and she has been feeling the weight of their family's awful doings for a while. She takes the first step towards being her own person by siding with Dipper over them in an attempt to save the townspeople.

The show has a lot of undercurrents of rifts caused by class that would not be touched by 100% of shitty Disney sitcoms which happily ignore that reality. Again, I don't know how this even got on the air.

I don't get why you like characters in the alpha bitch trope.

Evilhomer has a femdom fetish.