Concerned that they are inviting too many people over to Thanksgiving dinner as they drink too much, Marge asks Homer to uninvite Moe.
Moe is smitten with Anastasia, but has had his heart broken too many times and refuses to become romantically involved, so she decides to move out and take a job at the Russian Tea House in Odgenville.
However, Homer sees Bart receiving a dark web package from Herman under the name "Ima Buttface", a pregnant Sumatran breeding rat, and becomes suspicious.
While Marge gives Bart a series of punishments, Homer rushes off to tell Moe the truth and encourages him to fight for Anastasia.
However, he, Milhouse and Nelson have learned Russian off the dark web and realize the marriage contract is actually a legal document giving Anastasia all the rights to Moe's property; and promptly expose this at the altar.
Featuring the two secondary characters lets the series breathe a little less shallowly as The Simpsons 30th season finds them looking back at narrative and internal development.
Club gave the episode a C+, stating "There's just too little investment in the script (credited to Michael Ferris) in either the emotional side of Moe's dilemma or the potential dark comedy inherent in the whole mail-order plot.
Weirdly, I was put in mind of the early-run Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode (called 'Mail Order Bride') on the same subject, where at least that intermittently brilliant show's grimy chaos felt at home to the latter theme...Here, 'From Russia Without Love' tries to go light and dark at once, and can't manage either.