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| Did they really need to add the players names to their sweatshirts? Assuming people don't know athletes wasn't worth addressing previously. |
The Simpsons go to a carnival intended to save a bum-infested park. Homer loses out on a video camera that Ned Flanders outbids him for. Bart mocks Homer further when he wins the grand prize in a frog-leaping game. Unwilling to let his son feel happy, Homer completely outshines Bart in the game, and the grand prize is given to him instead. To further shame the boy, Homer goes on a lengthy celebration dance, which Ned video tapes. Jeff Albertson - er - the comic book guy, buys the video from Ned and puts it on his website. As some internet videos do, it becomes a viral sensation across the world.
Although Homer mostly dislikes being the mockery of the world, he is visited by a high profile football player. This man laments that he never gets on the highlight reel because he never celebrates after touchdowns, and decides to pay Homer to help him come up with a rude touchdown celebration or five. Homer does so, and as the player had hoped he becomes bigger than ever. Soon, Homer's newfound business expands to include actual real-life athletes including Tom Brady, LeBron James and, for some reason, Warren Sapp. While he's being credited as a cancer to sports, the football commissioner is so impressed with Homer's work that he hires Homer to produce the Super Bowl halftime show. Homer is honored, but becomes worried over the responsibility and is unable to come up with anything.
Meanwhile, Ned becomes increasingly annoyed by all the sex-filth on TV, and decides to use his new video camera to film a movie with his boys, a rather gruesome retelling of the story of Cain and Abel. He shows it to a group of people, and they love the violent film, all save from Marge. Mr. Burns decides to finance Ned to film an even bigger film, but during its screening Marge has enough of its violent nature and is able to get Mr. Burns to stop financing Ned's film ventures, essentially preventing Ned from spreading his supposed message.
At the church the late night before the Super Bowl, Homer goes to seek answers to his dilemma when he finds Ned seeking answers for his. The two realize that Ned's message can be used for Homer's halftime show, and thus team up. The next day, the two display their halftime show to the nation, retelling a tale about Noah's Ark, that concludes with Ned just citing bible passages. Unsurprisingly, everyone hates it, and both men's newfound careers are essentially ruined.
Quick Review
This wasn't a good episode. The multiple sports guest stars really didn't add anything to the episode (except for Yao Ming, he was alright), and the combination of Homer turning athletes into even bigger jerks and Ned trying to force the bloody ways of the bible to people turned out to be less humorous than it probably should've been.
You'll also notice that this was the episode that revealed the comic book guy's real name: Jeff Albertson. You may have also noticed that, throughout my reviews, I have shown disdain towards use names of characters that have not revealed their actual names, like 'comic book guy', the 'sea captain', and 'bumblebee man'. From this point on, I'll likely refer to Albertson by his real name more often than not, needlessly confusing anyone who hasn't bothered learning that particular fact previously.
Final Score: 4.6
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