I'm Goin' to Praiseland
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"I'm Goin' to Praiseland" is the nineteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 6, 2001.
Synopsis
Ned Flanders is reunited with his old flame, Rachel Jordan, from the episode, "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily". She stays at the Flanders house with him, and leaves briefly after Flanders molds her into his deceased wife Maude's image. Ned realizes that he needs to break his obsession with Maude. And sure he does, by having the Simpson family remove every reminder of Maude he has in his house, although Homer has a thing for putting Maude's things in the wood chipper, except for one: a sketchbook of designs for a Christian amusement park, Praiseland. With the help of the family and several Springfield citizens, Flanders builds Praiseland as a tribute to Maude, on the site of the abandoned Storytown Village (from "Lisa the Vegetarian").
However, after Praiseland is established, it becomes very unsuccessful. But when a mask of Maude rises up in front of a Maude statue, the visitors who leave think it is a miracle. Eventually, anyone who stands in front of the statue (which Ned calls the "Miracle Maude", which he says will raise money for an orphanage) has a vision. Ironically, Ned finds out something unusual, by learning that the cause of everyone's "visions" is actually a gas leak. Ned reluctantly shuts down Praiseland, but it allows him to go on another date with Rachel Jordan.
References
- The title of the episode is a spoof of the famous slogan "I'm Going to Disney World!!" or perhaps a reference to the Paul Simon song Graceland, whose refrain repeats the line "I'm going to Graceland"
- Comic Book Guy says shazbot, the expletive used by Mork in the TV show Mork and Mindy.
- The scene where Ned cuts Rachel's hair to model Maude's hair refers to the movie Rebecca
Quotes
- Ned: Oh, Maude, I've turned your dream of a Christian amusement park into a be-musement park.
Homer: (gasps) Don't say that, Ned!
Ned: It is! It's a be-musement park! - Disco Stu is having a vision of heaven, which in his mind is a disco club, due to gas intake when Frank Sinatra approaches him
Disco Stu: Frank Sinatra!?
Sinatra: For me, this is hell. Ya dig, pally? - Ned: So uuh, where's your band?
Rachel: They switched from Christian music to regular pop. All you do is change 'Jesus' to 'baby'.
Ned: Oh, how horrible.
Rachel: Oh, they'll all go to hell. - Capt. McCallister: Yarr...she blows!
- Rich Texan: May God have mercy on your gas sniffin', orphan beating souls!
Homer: Christ be with you! - Prof. Frink (standing next to a cow): I have created the first intra-bovine ice cream maker. It makes use of all four stomachs; the first being filled with rock salt, then sugar, cream, and of course, FREON so cold it burns me!
Cletus: I'll have the darkidy (sic) kind.
Frink: Uh, one chocolate, Moo-tilda.
(Frink squeezes an udder labeled "chocolate" and gives the ice cream to Cletus)
Marge: Could I have a swirl of chocolate and vanilla?
(when Moo-tilda hears this, she makes a denying grunt)
Frink: Oh, nonsense. You can do it. (Moo-tilda kicks Frink in the chest) Ivan Reitman!
- Homer: Hotel? Why don't you just stay at Ned's house?
Ned: Homer, I can't do that! What will the neighbors think?
Lisa: We're the neighbors and we don't think.
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