Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
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"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons
Synopsis
When Bart and Lisa go with the students of Springfield Elementary on a field trip to the post office, Bart gets a piece of undeliverable mail as a souvenir, which is a Val-U-Qual coupon book, which he gives to Homer. He uses one of his coupons at a tire business on a free wheel balancing, and is told by the "customer care specialist" that his car will not take a balance. This man informs Homer that he will need four new tires because legally they cannot let customers drive off with faulty tires. Homer reluctantly accepts. He meets a man named Wally Kogen, a travel agent who only came into the business to get a roadside package. He shares with Homer how he got shafted and the two form a bond. They go to Moe's for a beer, watching a special on the Super Bowl. Wally says his travel agency has a charter bus going to the game and suggests to Homer that he can fill the bus and ride for free. They ask Moe to come to the Super Bowl, and he agrees, as do Lenny, Carl, and other prominent men of Springfield.
The posse, led by Homer, go to the Super Bowl at Miami's Pro Player Stadium on the bus and arrive for pre-game festivities with Rosey Grier (offering sermons), "Take a leak with NFL greats", Troy Aikman (drawing caricatures of everyone he sees on a dune buggy), and catch a pass from Dan Marino. Expecting to get in the game, they are stopped when a scalper offers them tickets. Homer threatens to give the man a caning. They check in, but realize that the tickets they have are counterfeit. When Bart sees the halftime show costumes they use them to knock over the guards and rush into the stadium. However, stadium security confronts them, and they are locked up in the stadium jail.
Homer's posse, in jail, is freed when Dolly Parton (whom Kogen knows) uses her extra-strength makeup remover to dissolve the lock and release them. As they are freed, they run into a skybox suite and get a view of the game (and plenty of snacks), until Rupert Murdoch arrives and confronts them, as he owns the skybox. He gets guards to seize them, but Homer's posse runs away and head to the field, until they get lost in the sea of players when they win the Super Bowl. The group ends up in the locker room, and everyone has a Super Bowl ring on one of their hands at game's end. Homer is hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Meanwhile, when Homer and Bart are on the bus, Marge and Lisa try to find their own crafting activity. They use a product, "Vincent Price's Egg Magic", for their activity time. They succeed, until they realize that the product was shoddy because the feet were not included, even although the box states, "Feet Included". They call a help-line number on the box and are greeted with the voice of Vincent Price - who, in a slightly unsettling manner, assures them that his grandson Jody will bring the missing feet to them. He appears in the end driving a bus, where John Madden states "that doesn't make a lick of sense".
Trivia
- The coach in Homer's fantasy about going to the Super Bowl bears a striking similarity to long time Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.
- The show features a deliberate obfuscation of the location of Springfield. When Marge is on the phone with the Vincent Price's Egg Magic people, she is instructed to leave her address in order to get feet that were advertised on the box as being included but had been left out. Marge says the beginning of the address but when she gets to the city and state, Maude walks into view causing Marge to say, "Springfield...Oh, Hi ya, Maude!"
- The use of Vincent Price in the phone message is a reference to a fake radio commercial for Coke that used sound bites of Vincent Prince from his films.
- The name Wally Kogen could be a reference to Simpsons writers Jay Kogen & Wally Wolodarsky.
- The people Homer brings to the Super Bowl are:
Bart
Comic Book Guy
Bumblebee Man
Ned Flanders
Lenny
Carl
Moe
Barney
Apu
the Squeakly-Voice Teen
Reverend Lovejoy
Krusty the Clown
Dr. Nick Riviera
Sideshow Mel
Jasper
Kirk Van Houten
Dr. Hibbert
Captain McCallister
Mr. Burn's lawyer
Charlie
Chief Wiggum.
- The episode claims that the extra four digits in ZIP codes are used as "citizen relocation codes".
Quotes
- Postmaster Bill: Howdy, partners! Welcome to your post office.
Bart: Wow! It's ours? (Bart knocks papers off of a shelf and starts writing on the walls.)
Princial Skinner: Bart!
Bart: Be with ya in a minute! (Bart keeps writing.)
- Pat Summerall: Well, John, what did you think of tonight's episode?
John Madden: I loved it. The last minute addition of Wally Kogen to the lineup was a bit of a gamble but it really paid off.
Pat: Marge and Lisa painting eggs--did that work for you?
John: Oh, big time! They came off the bench with a huge effort that allowed Homer and Bart to make some significant gains.
Pat: Did it strike you as odd that in a Super Bowl show with Dolly Parton we didn't see any football or singing?
John: I hadn't thought about it, Pat. But in retrospect, it was kind of a rip off.
- Lisa: (After Marge talks to Vincent Price) So...is he dead or what?
- Ticket Collector: (Explaining why the tickets are counterfeit) Well, the hologram's missing, there's no such team as the "Spungos," and finally...these appear to be printed on some sort of cracker. (bites into one)
Homer:Stop eating our tickets!
- Very Sexy Super Bowl Commercial: The Catholic Church, we've made a few...changes.
Lisa: These Super Bowl commercials are weird.
- Homer: Me and my Val-U-Qual are gonna paint the town red—with savings! I'll start with a couple of pizzas, then a complimentary tango lesson, and I'll top it off with a smooth, refreshing colonic.
Lisa: Um, Dad...
(Homer sings part of the "Pina Colada Song" (changing "Coladas" to "colonics") , and leaves the house).
- Krusty the Clown: (looking at post office poster)Legends of comedy, my tookus. What has Fatty Arbuckle done that I haven't done?
- Dr. Hibbert (referring to Homer) As a doctor, I'd say he's had enough...but, as a football fan... (winds up and kicks Homer in the ass.)
- (phone rings inside the Denver Broncos's locker room. It is President Clinton offering the traditional congratulations to the winning team. Homer answers the phone)
Homer: Hello?
President Clinton: Hello, this is President Clinton.
Homer: Hey, how're ya doin'?
Clinton: Y'know, your determination and grit under extreme pressure are an inspiration. The whole country is proud of you.
Homer: Well, it's about time.
Clinton: And on behalf of America, I'd like to ...(Reverend Lovejoy snaps Homer with a towel)Homer: Ow, oh...(laughs) Alright Lovejoy, you're gonna get it.
Clinton: Hello? Hello? I command you to answer me! Hello? (sees Al Gore measuring the drapes) Al, do ya have to do that now? (Al nods)
- Wally: I'm sorry, the guys made kind of a mess in your bathroom.
Bus Driver: What bathroom?
- (Ralph with a piece of undeliverable mail adressed to Otto the bus driver. Dogs sniff at it) Ralph: I got dog food.
Winners
The winning team in this episode is wearing red uniforms. In Super Bowl XXXIII, the Denver Broncos (who wear blue uniforms) defeated the Atlanta Falcons.
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