 Jennifer Malkowski, who gave the episode a B-, wrote that the episode's "highlight" was a scene in which "Milhouse mourns his 'beautiful eyebrows'" that were burned off by Bart and Homer's model rocket.In 2007, Simon Crerar of "The Times" listed Gere's performance as one of the thirty-three funniest cameos in the history of the show.Ron Martin of 411Mania, who consider episodes about Lisa to be "traditional channel changers", wrote that it "offers one of the worst ‘Lisa episodes’" of the series.