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| It is 2013. Where the hell are the monkey butlers already? |
Both Bart and Lisa are part of the Model U.N., basically a junior version of the United Nations. The group also includes Nelson, Milhouse, Ralph, and a few others. They're going to go on a field trip for a state wide Model U.N. meeting, and Otto is tasked with taking care of the greatest natural resource: the school bus. During the drive, Bart and Nelson try to have fruit roll up to the front of the bus in a race. Milhouse intervenes by rolling a grapefruit, but it rolls under the brake pedal. Upon reaching a bridge over a river, Otto tries to apply the brake, but the grapefruit splits open, squirting juice into Otto's eyes. He loses control of the bus, and it falls into the river.
As the bus sinks, Otto tries to get out and swim for help, but is swallowed up by the current (he's eventually rescued by Chinese fishermen who plan to have Otto become a slave laborer). The kids all escape the bus as well, but they end up on an isolated island somehow. Though most of the kids freak out and blame one another (eventually settling on Milhouse for the grapefruit incident), Bart calms them down by envisioning a tropical paradise featuring monkey butlers and the like, and splits everyone up to get food and shelter.
While the kids are away, Homer notices that Flanders has started up a home business over the internet (I believe this is the first mention of the term since the series started). Homer, not fully aware of what the Internet is, given it is 1998, decides anyway to start up an Internet business for quick money. Somehow he gets internet ads rolling for his business, which not even he knows what is supposed to do. Eventually Bill Gates notices the business and, rather than compete with an unknown, "buys him out" by having his goons trash Homer's setup.
The kids, of course, fail to gather proper food or shelter. A short time later, Milhouse runs away from a supposed "monster", but nothing of the sort is around, and people give Milhouse crap over it. Needing food, Lisa remembers that there was a cooler full of food on the bus. Bart grabs Milhouse's inhaler and is able to retriever the cooler. Lisa stresses they conserve the food, though, and ration it as much as possible.
The next morning, though, they find that all of the food is gone, with its remains laying around Milhouse, whose breath reeks of nacho cheese. Most of the kids, led by Nelson, want to hurt Milhouse rather badly for this, but Lisa forces them to have Milhouse undergo a trial. In said trial, with Bart as the judge, because there's no proof or witness that saw Milhouse (who theorizes that the "monster" ate it) actually eat the food, he is declared not guilty. The verdict isn't enough to appease Nelson and company, and they chase after Milhouse, Lisa and Bart.
The three end up in a cave, now cornered by the others. However, they stop as it turns out that the "monster" is in the cave as well! As it turns out, the "monster" is only a boar, and with a bag of chips on its tusk the kids learn that it was the boar who ate the food (though Milhouse casually admits he still had a couple of sandwiches and a bag of Doritos). Lisa notices that the boar must be surviving somehow, and sees that it licks slime off rocks for sustenance. The kids are hesitant on living off slime, so instead they kill and eat the boar (except Lisa who just lives on slime). Eventually they get saved by Moe somehow.
Quick Review
This was a pretty good episode, the interaction between the kids during the crisis really made for great viewing. Homer's internet subplot, ignoring the fact that its really outdated nowadays, was brief and besides a couple of moments wasn't really that funny. Still, the main plot was good enough to make this a very watchable affair.
Final Score: 8.4
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