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| In the next episode, Chief Wiggum learns about helicopters. |
By mistake, Chief Wiggum is sent a jetpack intended for one Clancy Wiggins. Regardless, Wiggum happily claims the jetpack and hoards it to himself, becoming an airborne sentry, "Sky Police" as it were. After some time, though, Wiggins - a military chief - comes in to claim his jetpack and bust Clancy Wiggum for basically stealing it. Wiggum attempts to fly away but overuse of the jetpack, combined with military gunfire, causes the jetpack to malfunction. As Wiggum detaches itself, the jetpack goes haywire, eventually crashing into the church, causing great damages.
With the church's act-of-god system preventing them from getting any insurance benefits, the church is left with no money to fix itself. The six-person committee of Reverend Lovejoy, his wife Helen, Sideshow Mel, Agnes Skinner, Ned Flanders and Marge Simpson gets help, however, from an unlikely source: Apu - who needs the church up to teach people not to steal or kill (him). He tells the group to go to the casino to get the funds using the ages-old trick of card counting - specifically keeping track of the cards in a deck and if a deck has a high enough set of cards remaining, send in someone with a big pot of money to reap the benefits. The six do so wonderfully on the first night - in part because the group advises Marge to not tell Homer as he's prone to screw these things up.
The casino is on to the group after the first night, so Apu advises the group to don disguises for night two. Bart and Lisa catch Marge in disguise before she leaves; she tells the two what's going on and has them promise not to tell Homer. The second night goes wonderfully as well, and the church now has enough money for repairs. However, Marge is stunned later to find that Homer has been taken in by the casino, who demands their money back less Homer wind up in a more battered shape.
Marge learns that the kids, worried that Marge was still out late, told Homer out of concern, and Homer rushes blindly into the casino asking about Marge - whom the casino was suspicious of - and nabs him as a hostage. Marge tries to get Reverend Lovejoy to get the money back, but he's already used it to fix up the casino. Realizing how dirty the church has become through the group's acts, Marge decides to go back to the basics with her faith to save Homer - by praying at the casino. Stunned by the sight, casino-goers gawk at Marge's praying, causing casino profits to plummet. The casino subsequently agrees to give Homer up as long as Marge agrees that her and her group never step foot in a casino again. The incident causes Marge to think about her faith for a moment, but Homer reassures her its fine.
Quick Review
Despite the title, the sky police portion only makes up the opening gag and a credits gag. Part of me wishes the sky police gag lasted longer, but it's probably for the best that it didn't.
The majority of the episode is focused on the card-counting story. I must say, though, its a pretty decent episode. Apu seemed like his old self at long last, despite the odd change to his past, and the episode didn't go off the deep end with religion until the very end when it couldn't do much to hurt the episode.
Final Score: 7.5
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