The Simpsons"Funeral for a Friend"
Original Airdate 11/25/07
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Homer is trying to avoid all the sales-people and just buy some cheap batteries at Circuit Circus. He blows Moe, who’s trying to load a plasma tv on top of his car. Moe is unsuccessful however, and must resort to his old way of watching DVDs by chasing family vans down the road and watching through the back window. Once inside, Homer bypasses the car stereo sales people, the camcorder guys and a woman just offering sex.
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Original Airdate 11/25/07
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Homer is trying to avoid all the sales-people and just buy some cheap batteries at Circuit Circus. He blows Moe, who’s trying to load a plasma tv on top of his car. Moe is unsuccessful however, and must resort to his old way of watching DVDs by chasing family vans down the road and watching through the back window. Once inside, Homer bypasses the car stereo sales people, the camcorder guys and a woman just offering sex.
Home finds the cheap batteries he’s looking for and makes it to the checkout where the clerk tells him he can get free batteries if he buys a $200 TiVo. Homer, of course, wants the batteries for free so he pays the $200 and grabs the batteries and tries to run out, but the clerk chases him down and makes him take home the TiVo.
Lisa crawls under the family television to install the new TiVo and Homer freaks out since the tv has been off for over five minutes. It’s finally installed and it’s Itchy and Scratchy time. When the show stops for a commercial at a dramatic moment, when Scratchy is about to explode like the Hindenburg, the Simpsons can fast forward through the commercials and they fall in love with their new TiVo.
Marge really loves the new TiVo and eventually has a dream featuring Keith Olbermann, who really berates her for stealing television by not watching the commercials that pay for the shows she’s enjoying. Marge wakes up feeling guilty and vows to watch all the commercials. A commercial comes on for Wed Doobner’s World Famous Family Style Rib Huts. It’s the little rib joint with ‘something for everyone.” They had Homer at “ribs” but they also feature pasta with butter (which get’s Marge onboard), Texas Tofu which Lisa loves and the easiest placemat puzzles in the state which really Bart thinks would be great. The family piles into the car to attend the grand opening.
The place is empty when they get there and Wes Doobner’s is actually Sideshow Bob’s World Famous Family Style Return. Sideshow Bob (Kelsey Grammer, Back to You) is posing as Wes Doobner only to lure the Simpsons to the abandoned restaurant and their deaths. Of course, it is 10-time-attempted-murderer Sideshow Bob, so his plan fails miserably and he is arrested, once again.
At the trial Bob pleads insanity and his father (John Mahoney, Frasier) testifies that Bob led a sheltered life due to his congenital heart defect and that once he started being tormented by Bart Simpson he went into full-blown dementia.
Bob does a decent job turning the courtroom against Bart, against whom it seems everyone has a bone to pick. Bart isn’t fooled and once again accuses Bob of being an attempted murderer. That’s the last straw, Bob can’t stand being accused at his own trial and pulls out a bottle of nitroglycerine. Bart thinks it’s a bomb and hurls it out the window. It’s not a bomb, it’s Bob’s heart medicine and Sideshow Bob promptly dies.
Dr. Hibbert has to declare him dead in front of the entire courtroom and his whole family who’ve been brought in for the trial, even Cecil (David Hyde Pierce, Frasier) who’s been brought from prison to testify on his brother’s behalf.
The town makes a huge event of Sideshow Bob’s funeral, but Bart won’t attend. He sits home feeling angry that the town turned against him and is putting on such a lavish event in honor of Sideshow Bob. Cecil shows up with his police escort and tells Bart he’ll never have any peace until he forgives Bob and pays his respects. Bart takes off for the crematorium where Bob is about to be cremated.
Bob is, of course, not really dead. The entire thing was an elaborate plan that Bob’s entire family was in on. Bob puts Bart into the coffin and it’s slowly heading into the fire. Across town, Lisa realizes that Bob isn’t really dead because at his funeral his coffin had extra room built in for his extremely large feet. Why would he need such a coffin if he was being cremated. She and the family take off to rescue Bart and they get there just in time.
Bob is again arrested, but this time it’s not just Cecil who’s going down with him. His entire family is sentenced to 87 years in prison where it looks like Snake won’t be making their lives any easier.