![]() Marge also finds her dress (“Thirty three cents? I paid almost double that!”) and is put off by an odd blue variant. ![]() – The Simpsons go to shop at the 33-cent store, with a lot of great background products (Onions?, Cool Ranch Soda, “That 70’s Show” mugs.) There’s also Skittlebrau, the beer that Homer seemingly made up a season or so again. …uh-oh! I’m late for the Short Line Railroad!”) – Burns seems to be popping up a lot of places where he doesn’t belong why would he be at the Mega Savings Seminar? But we do get a great bit from Uncle Pennybags (“These yokels are pure Baltic Avenue. Though I do like how Homer just starts making himself a sandwich as Flanders is talking to him. It’s sort of like taking his constant “borrowing” of his things to the next degree, where it’s no longer slightly amusing and realistic, and now it’s just flagrantly illegal and dumb. – Don’t really care for Homer burglarizing Flanders. – It’s really really stupid, but I do like how Snake seemingly robs Homer via floppy disk, as well as his exit (“Yoink-dot-adios-backslash-losers!”) – Why would Wired magazine print about an Internet cafe opening in some small town? Minor gripe, I guess. So in the end, I wouldn’t say I have the same unconditional love for this episode as when I was younger, but hands down it’s one of the best ones of this season. Or rather, Takei manages to save it (“He seems okay, but he is being burned internally.”) Did I mention I love George Takei? But anyway, we end with yet another fucking action suspense sequence like every damn episode this season, but at least this time there’s a payoff, where it was all manufactured by the show and it was all a big goof. Even when things get a bit too silly, like Homer getting electrocuted repeatedly, they manage to save it. And actually, this one actually might be even more tame than the genuine article. But this section of show is pretty genius if you’ve seen any one bit of Japanese game shows, this is exactly what they’re like. Part of me can’t tell whether I should be praising the writing, or Takei’s beyond excellent delivery for each of his lines I guess I might as well praise both. But salvation comes in the form of Japanese game show “Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show,” hosted by Wink, voiced by George Takei. So the family ends up losing their last bill of yen and are out of luck on how they’re going to get home. But why do you think Homer got the five-star treatment? Think about it. Sparkle references in this episode, since it would make no sense if people didn’t get the callback. But I have a different theory… although I would have loved it if they did, I get why they didn’t make any Mr. I guess the joke is that they’re more polite and that’s why he and Bart are treated so well in jail. Although there is the Jerkass bit where Homer throws the Emperor into a bin of used sumo thongs, and then is not reprimanded in the least. But being a bit aimless is a minor problem in the grand scheme of issues we’ve seen this season, especially since the show manages to stay funny throughout. Sumo wrestling, square watermelons, hyper-advanced toilets… They’re all entertaining as isolated bits, but it’s not as engaging as it would be if there were some kind of through-line plot here. The second act is basically cramming as many Japanese-y segments together as possible. Through living the Garabedian lifestyle, the family gets cheap plane tickets, but only if they don’t care what the destination is. I love how proud he is of wearing a dead man’s suit on his urine-soaked yacht with transgender women, he’s truly living the American dream. He’s a pretty great one-off character, exhibiting this manic, affirmative persona that is only slightly questionable. On the advice of Flanders, the family attends a seminar by mega savings expert Chuck Garabedian, who teaches the value of squeezing every penny. We start at the newly opened Internet cafe, where Homer is cyber-robbed by Snake, depleting their vacation funds. Australia” still firmly holds the ‘best travel show’ mantle, but this is still a really entertaining show, excelling in its first and third acts particularly. And while some parts of it are kinda dumb and slapdash, I have most of the same sentiments now. I don’t know why, but I just loved the Japan show. I remember loving this one when I was younger, thinking it was the best travel episode, and even ranking amongst the best in the series. This is one of the only latter-day episodes that I have particular fond memories for.
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