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| Beer commercials will probably never be this wild again. :( |
Bart's treehouse is destroyed, but Homer promises to build him a new one. However, Homer isn't exactly doing a fast, good, or a job of it, so Marge brings in the Amish to build the treehouse. They build a rather spectacular treehouse, enough to fit in a party's worth of people. They also add electricity, which, well, isn't their specialty, and sure enough a faulty outlet causes the treehouse to set on fire. Homer has an ice sculpture of himself fall on him, trapping him. He sees Santa's Little Helper nearby, but the dog is scared of the fire and runs off (not before grabbing some turkey), and Homer passes out. After a short period of time, the cat, Snowball II, goes in to wake Homer and with the sculpture now melted, Homer and the cat quickly escape.
Snowball is hailed a hero by both the town and especially by Homer, who denounces his cowardly dog in the process. When interviewed, Homer even claims he has no dog, that's how mad he is at Santa's Little Helper. Bart and Lisa try to toughen the dog up, but that's not working out so well. One day, Santa's Little Helper is left outside after eating Homer's hamburger, and gets a hold of a nearby can of beer, balancing it on his nose. A photographer gets a picture of it, and it makes the news. The owner of Duff sees this and decides to make the dog the beer's new spokesman, with Duffman all washed up. The family gets royalties and such, and so the dog becomes Suds McDuff, who appears in commercial as one cool dog. However, the dog's previous owner, that guy at the race track who dumped him way back when, comes back to claim legal ownership of the dog, using Homer's dog-denouncing interview as proof that, at least, the dog doesn't belong to the Simpsons.
As the guy has the dog appear all over the place for Duff, the Simpsons decide to get their dog back. They find the guy who was Duffman, Barry Duffman, and convince him to help them remove the dog as Duff's mascot. At a beach function, they concoct a plan where Homer will pretend he's drowning, and the dog will prove too cowardly to save him, and then Duffman can come in and save both Homer and his old job. With Homer floating on a beer keg, the plan starts off fine as the dog indeed proves his cowardice. However, a shark sees Homer flailing about, and decides to circle him, forcing Duffman to cower away in fear as well. Homer gets out of the way just as the shark makes its move, and the shark devours the beer keg instead. It gets really wasted in front of the large crowd, causing Duff to make it its new mascot: Duff McShark. The race track guy realizes the dog is finished, and gives it back to the Simpsons.
Quick Review
This was a fairly good episode. I felt the best jokes came during the part where the cat was being hailed as a hero, and the middle portion was overall pretty great. Duffman is a pretty good character for laughs, and he doesn't fail to provide them here either. The episode's slow start bogs it down somewhat, but its still one of the best episodes of the season.
Final Score: 8.0
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