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| Beer is always better when its sacrilegious. |
Homer takes the family to a WNBA game for some reason. There, Homer witnesses a terrifying sight: seeing Ned Flanders win a chance for a half-court shot, making the shot to win $50,000, then winning an additional $100,000 for his generous donation of the previous $50,000. Ned even gets to drive home in a wiener-mobile! An extremely jealous Homer decides to ask Ned how he gets so lucky, and discerns that Ned's supposed secret is prayer. Homer tries it out himself a few times, and each time coincidence helps Homer believe that prayer is working.
At the same time, tree roots have found its way into the house, clogging up the sink and ruining drywall. Homer prays for a solution to his dilemma while walking to church, but takes a bad fall in a hole just outside of it. Some lawyer quickly persuades Homer to sue the church and, despite Marge's heavy protests, Homer ends up winning the suit, getting the deed to the church. Homer's prayer is answered as now the Simpsons can live in the church, and Reverend Lovejoy is left to live at the Flanders house.
Lovejoy attempts to continue his service elsewhere, but it doesn't work out, forcing Lovejoy to just leave town. Meanwhile, Homer hosts a 'housewarming' party at the church, which never seems to end. With bonfires, indecency and people starting to worship other, multiple, gods, it starts raining. The rain doesn't stop, and soon the entire town is flooded, Homer's prayers doing nothing to stop it. Everyone is forced to the church roof to avoid the flood, and they turn on Homer, but Lovejoy reappears to refocus the group and leads an actual prayer which stop the rain. Lisa surmises that the bonfire swelled up moisture, which the lack of trees allowed the town to flood more quickly. She can't explain why the rain stopped, crediting Buddha half-assedly. Up in heaven, God and Buddha decide the town has had enough.
Quick Review
This episode wasn't that funny. Making sacrilegious jokes isn't a new thing for the show, but the attempts to make those jokes funny this time just did not work out, and that WNBA bit to start the episode didn't get it going right either.
Final Score: 6.7
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