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| Even understanding the reference wouldn't help this bit be funny. |
Marge is getting ready to have everyone go to Dayton, Ohio, to visit their depressed Uncle Tyrone. Neither Bart nor Lisa want to go, though, so Marge agrees they don't if they spend some family time that night. After the kids ruin that, Homer and Marge listlessly go to the airport. While boarding the plane to Dayton, they notice the line to Miami is much more fun, full of newlyweds who haven't felt the burden of kids yet. The two decide to ditch Dayton, and Tyrone, and go to Miami to finally have a good time with one another.
Meanwhile, the kids and Grampa are watching the news, which gets a breaking report that a tornado is tearing through Dayton, annihilating the hotel Homer and Marge were supposed to be staying in. Just then, Lisa gets a call from Marge, whose pretending that she's in "boring ol' Dayton". Lisa catches the ruse, and she along with Bart quickly determine that call came from a Miami hotel. They convince Grampa to take them to Miami (because there's a lot of hot, older chicks for Grampa to score with), and off they go.
As Grampa tries to pick up a lady (and ultimately settling for an odd man who enjoys not listening to old man rambles), Bart and Lisa set up shop outside their parent's hotel room, falling asleep during the wait. Homer and Marge see the two, and Homer quickly leads Marge out of the hotel, determined for the two to have extensive alone time (and having Ned Flanders' credit card to really go all out). Bart and Lisa wake up in time to see them escape, and quickly give chase (Bart owning Rod Flanders' credit card to keep pace).
The kids follow their parents everywhere they go, and ultimately the parents give up. The kids feel remorse that night, and decide to go to the amusement park to let their parents have a day by themselves. Unknown to them, their parents sneaked off earlier to that same amusement park. The two groups eye one another, and Homer and Marge run off. They hide in a busted inflated castle, but they cause it to fall into the Niagara river, and eventually over the Niagara falls. The thrill super turns on Marge, and she and Homer finally have their moment to themselves during that wild ride. Thus, everything is going to be okay, though both Ned and Rod have massive credit card bills to deal with, now.
Quick Review
This was a weird episode, it was. Grampa goes to Miami to pick up ladies, but ends up with that weird man. Homer and Marge constantly try to avoid their kids, but their kids constantly keep up in a weird montage based on a movie several years old at the time, and Maggie is nowhere to be seen. There's a few jokes that sneak into the episode, but otherwise the episode's plot is just too, well, stupid, for the episode to be any good.
Final Score: 5.8
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