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| "Lets take this person who makes good sandwiches and have her instead run a business while letting other people make sandwiches using company-prepared food." - Standard business logic. |
Flanders notices Homer sapping away at his electricity. A huge ferris wheel in Homer's backyard seems like a big culprit, but not the only one: Homer also has a freezer - Ned's freezer - full of meat for an emergency. Still, Ned takes back his freezer, leaving Homer with a lot of thawing meat. Marge promises to cook it all and turn it into sandwiches, an all-night task but she accomplishes it. However, she finds that Bart and even Lisa have been taking a lot of the meat sandwiches, which she learns the two have done so to trade around at school. Marge goes to the school to see for herself, when she's immediately met by a representative from a major sandwich chain who offers Marge a chance to open up a sandwich shop under hopes of financial stability, which Marge gladly accepts.
Marge opens up her chain but quickly needs employees to help. She hires Shauna, the squeaky-voiced teen and Gil to help, but has to fire Shauna for stealing money (and she seduces the squeaky-voiced teen to leave alongside her), and Gil for being incompetent. Instead, Marge has her family help out with the business and, eventually, all five members of the core family help the chain turn a profit. Then, of course, they see an "Express" version of the same sandwich chain being built across the street.
This chain, ran by Cletus and his extended family, attracts all of Marge's customers simply because of its "Express" attachment. Marge also sees her family worn down from the experience. After going to Moe's to drink her sorrows away, Moe gives her an idea to get out of her contract. The next day, after Marge's pleas to the company's reps yield nothing, she sets up a fake lawsuit situation - with Homer getting hot coffee and also syringes into his crotch, and is able to convince the rep to give Marge back her original investment so she can handle the supposed lawsuit herself. The rep agrees, and the status quo is restored. A quick short of caveman Homer hunting a sloth to make a sandwich is shown at the end because the main episode wasn't long enough and they didn't feel like making a three-minute couch gag this time.
Quick Review
Meh, the episode. Some decent jokes, overall boring premise and plot, the worst use of Mr. Burns I've seen in some time. Not much else to say.
Final Score: 6.8
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