Uncut Femmes

"Uncut Femmes" is the 17th episode of the thirty-second season of the American animated sitcom "The Simpsons", and the 701st episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 28, 2021. The episode was directed by Chris Clements, and written by Christine Nangle. In this episode, Marge participates in a jewel heist, and Clancy Wiggum's wife Sarah Wiggum receives a temporary retcon for this episode as being an ex-criminal.
The episode received generally mixed reviews and was watched live in the United States by 1.22 million viewers.
Plot.
After discovering something terrible in the nuclear power plant, Waylon Smithers bribes Carl to keep what he has found quiet by giving him tickets to a Bob Seger rock concert. He invites Homer to join him, and he leaves Marge to chaperone a field trip on a World War II battleship, to her dismay.
At the field trip, Marge pairs up with the seemingly-boring Sarah Wiggum. After the latter sneakily tricks the children into going to bed early, Marge realizes that Sarah is not who she seems and is hiding her boisterous personality from the other mothers. The two are soon kidnapped after spending all night together, and Marge and Sarah find themselves in the lair of two women that Sarah surprisingly used to thrive with. 
The other burglars, Erin and Bette, explain how, while they and Sarah were heisting a museum where Chief Clancy Wiggum was on duty, the fourth member of their team - Lindsay Naegle - betrayed them and had them arrested. However, Sarah was spared the fate due to falling in love and having slept with Chief Wiggum. They plot to steal the Hourglass Diamond from their betrayer and Marge turns out to be useful in the planning, so they recruit her for the heist. 
They execute the heist perfectly until Naegle realizes she has been robbed. Naegle calls the police, and when they arrive, Homer and Wiggum instead apologize to their wives. While attempting to stop Marge and Sarah herself, she ends up tumbling down the long amount of stairs, allowing Marge and Sarah to escape publicly with the jewel, much to the surprise of Patty and Selma and their friends back at the Simpson house.
Production.
Casting.
Nick Offerman guest-stars as Captain Bowditch, Megan Mullally as Sarah Wiggum (who was originally voiced by Pamela Hayden), Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Natasha Rothwell as Bette, Bob Seger as himself, and Tiya Sircar as Erin. In addition, Dawnn Lewis becomes the new voice of Bernice Hibbert while Tony Rodriguez voices Julio in this episode after his singing voice was previously done by Mario Jose in "Diary Queen".
Reception.
Viewing figures.
In the United States, the episode was watched live by 1.22 million viewers.
Critical response.
Tony Sokol with "Den of Geek" said, ""Uncut Femmes" is a fun and playful movie satire. It captures the suspense, romance, glamour and pace of a heist film, but puts "The Simpsons" touch on it. Marge shines in the unexpected, manages to clean house at the same time, and brings Homer into an understanding. The crooks get away with it, and nothing will change. Like so many crimes in Springfield, it’s got Chief Wiggum on the case, and that’s like having no one at all." He also gave the episode four out of five stars.
Most critics said this episode was out of left field, and that Sarah's personality and backstory makes no sense and isn't who Sarah actually is or suits her well, since her personality was mainly established by her actions and not really by talking, which are completely different then in this episode and not like how she was before, and as for the backstory, we learned before in "A Star Is Born Again" that Clancy planted drugs on her so she would "notice" him so he has an excuse to arrest her and then fall in love with her, despite her not doing the drugs, or doing any crime, which also implies he was already a cop before he married her and not a security guard. Critics have also said that this plot line would've worked if instead of using Sarah, they used a brand new character, with some even saying this episode didn't feel like a Simpsons episode at all.
Retconned continuity.
This episode turned out to be non-canon due to show runner Matt Selman answering people's tweets regarding why Sarah got a different voice in this episode and why she was portrayed like this, as well as why did nothing about her make sense regarding this ex criminal stuff. He said "everything and nothing is canon" as well as the fact they changed her voice for this episode for the story and plot line to work implying that if Sarah's original voice actor Palma Hayden voiced her for this episode, it wouldn't work because true Sarah isn't this "Awkward quiet weirdo who can't piece two words together, to this all the sudden cool chick that was a former robber with 3 other random girls".