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| This decent gag could've been served much better in a good, funny episode. |
On a rather hot Easter Sunday, the family wastes away in church. After Homer gives up a chocolate Easter bunny to the donation plate, a rather upset Revered Lovejoy responds by going through the entire bible slowly but surely. Of course, the Simpson family can't stay awake, and they have bible-related dreams...
Marge's Dream: Adam and Eve
Adam (Homer) and Eve (Marge) awaken to another blissful day in Eden. God (Ned Flanders) informs them not to eat the apples from a certain tree. However, a snake (Snake, the criminal), easily persuades Adam into eating a bunch, and Adam convinces Eve to take a bite as well. God witnesses Eve (but not Adam) eating the apple, and banishes her from Eden as Adam stays silent on the matter.
Depressed over losing Eve, Adam comes up with a way to bring her back. He has a unicorn drill a tunnel from Eden to the outskirts where Eve is toiling, however the unicorn dies in the process. God witnesses this and banishes both Adam and Eve from Eden, and human kind pays for their sins forever and ever and ever and such.
Individual Score: +0.4
Lisa's Dream: The Tale of Moses
The Israelites (made up of the Springfield Elementary school children) are slaves under the tyrannical rule of the Pharaoh (Seymour Skinner). Lisa (who isn't being referenced as anyone in particular) pretty much forces Moses (Milhouse) to take action. The two partake in a prank to get the Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go, but the act instead gets the two entombed within a pyramid. They escape anyway and convince the other Israelites to make a run for it. They enact a plan which drains the nearby sea of water by flushing all ye olde toilets nearby, and the water flows back in just as the Pharaoh and pals go in to give chase. Now Moses and the rest go to wander in the desert for 40 years.
Individual Score: +0.5
Homer's Dream: King Solomon's Idea
Lenny and Carl dispute ownership over a pie. King Solomon (Homer) has the pie cut in half, then sentences Lenny and Carl to death while he eats the pie itself. Solomon then oversees a court case between Jesus and Checker Chariot.
This bit was too short to give a score to.
Bart's Dream: David vs Goliath 2 - Stone Cold
Enjoying a day as King, David (Bart) is stunned to find Methuselah (Grampa) fatally wounded. It seems Goliath delivered the blow, but David already killed Goliath (Nelson). Turns out, its Goliath's son, Goliath 2 (also Nelson). David goes to challenge Goliath 2 to battle, banking on his "rock 'n sling" strategy to work again. However, David finds no rock, and Goliath 2 promptly beats him and throws him out of the country, claiming himself as the new king.
Depressed over the loss, David watches a Shepard boy, Ralph, go to challenge Goliath 2, but die anyway. This refocuses David, who trains for a rematch. At the Tower of Babel, David climbs up to rechallenge Goliath 2. Though the fight goes poorly for David at first, he's able to toss a fire lamp into Goliath 2's mouth, causing an explosion. Both survive, but before Goliath 2 can do anything else, he gets stabbed in the back by Ralph's gravestone, as Ralph somehow survived. As it turns out, Goliath 2 was a well loved king who did things to progress the country. Even though it was clearly Ralph that dealt the deadly blow, its David that's arrested for 'megacide', and that's that.
Individual Score: +0.6
As Bart and the rest of the family wakes up, they find they've slept right through church. Though embarrassed, they learn that the apocalypse has begun. Lisa begins to ascend to heaven, but Homer won't let her. A stairway to hell appears, and Homer gladly goes down as he smells barbecue, but is disappointed (to say the least) over the options at said barbecue.
Quick Review
This anthology episode is pretty much the type of anthology episode I'm not looking forward to. I mean, the four stories featured here were more focused on retelling bible stories with Simpson characters shoehorned in than they were in actually making said stories funny, aside from a few jokes here and there. The apocalypse ending didn't really do it for me, either. Really, the few good things the episode had going for it was Homer's short dream (some of it, anyway), and the continued melting of the bunny Reverend Lovejoy confiscated. Otherwise, this episode had very little going for it.
Final Score: 5.9
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