Probably the most bland television episodes ever made. Definitely worse than lisa goes gaga. It's starts off promising but it is just a bore. This shows why the mike skulls Era was the worst (except for season 9, which was only carried because Matt groening was still there) Syattung here. The three founders left. The only episode worse than this is a shocking 9/10 homer vrs the city of New your, where it just tortures homer and barney. This episode is also somewhat torturous on the topic of it. This episode is so bland that I still need at least 50 characters to be able to publish this, so Hrhdhdfjfjdjfnfnfjtjtjtjjfjrjrjdjd.
5 Reviews
Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
MrFilmAndTelevisionShow30 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I would describe it as a particularly amazing episode, it's fine, I liked Dolly Parton but while the ending where two people I don't know talk about how the episode was kind of random (Marge and Lisa's egg story went nowhere) the episode itself was kind of useless, interesting new character introduced and there were funny parts but it was a bit meh.
"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"... is best described as a really cruddy episode...
Zabon8 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Plot: Homer meets a travel agent who gives him and offer to take all his friends to the Super Bowl for free... but only if he can sign them up for a special travel package. Homer convinces the likes of Barney, Lenny, Carl, Moe, Kirk, and a hooplah of others to join his traveling group. All the guys get on a bus... and go to the Super Bowl. However, when they arrive at their destination... they find that the tickets are counterfeit. They are all thrown in a jail precinct (obviously for the counterfeit tickets)... and are randomly but fortunately for them, freed by Dolly Parton... After the group illegally tries to get into the game... they run up to the announcement area (where the game's status is being updated). And so... they eat food there randomly... until this fellow named Rupert Murdoch flies in via helicopter and forces them out of his room. They try to enter the field, but are quickly pushed into the winning team's locker room... where they get to celebrate with them. Homer manages to steal the Super Bowl trophy before the group gets on the bus to leave. That's pretty much the plot... if any.
Story: Well... Homer and his friends go to the Super Bowl and create mischief... and well... they go back... yes... it's that simple.
Supporting characters: If for some reason you're not a huge fan of Dolly Parton (don't care about her music), Rupert Murdoch, Dan Marino, John Madden, etc... then you probably won't like this episode. I'm obviously not a fan of football or any other team sport... so this was just plain boring to me... and Dolly Parton being tossed in an episode for no reason doesn't make it a good episode. The supporting cast fails to do something... well Dolly bails the guys out... but well... that's about it...
The Sport: You don't get to see much... which is good... because it would have sucked anyway.
Overall: Don't expect to be amazed by awesome things happening... there's hardly anything that happens. The episode just shows a bunch of guys going to a game (which we don't see anyway... which would have sucked even if we did see it since it's just another boring football game)... and having fake tickets... oh wow... that's about it... I don't know how else to praise this episode and anything I say will just show some form of sarcasm... so let me just conclude that this episode really sucked... so unless you're a fan of "going to a football game with the guys" and that's about it... then you won't like this episode much. It was horrible. The plot was horrible... the story sucked... the atmosphere sucked... it just plain sucked.
Story: Well... Homer and his friends go to the Super Bowl and create mischief... and well... they go back... yes... it's that simple.
Supporting characters: If for some reason you're not a huge fan of Dolly Parton (don't care about her music), Rupert Murdoch, Dan Marino, John Madden, etc... then you probably won't like this episode. I'm obviously not a fan of football or any other team sport... so this was just plain boring to me... and Dolly Parton being tossed in an episode for no reason doesn't make it a good episode. The supporting cast fails to do something... well Dolly bails the guys out... but well... that's about it...
The Sport: You don't get to see much... which is good... because it would have sucked anyway.
Overall: Don't expect to be amazed by awesome things happening... there's hardly anything that happens. The episode just shows a bunch of guys going to a game (which we don't see anyway... which would have sucked even if we did see it since it's just another boring football game)... and having fake tickets... oh wow... that's about it... I don't know how else to praise this episode and anything I say will just show some form of sarcasm... so let me just conclude that this episode really sucked... so unless you're a fan of "going to a football game with the guys" and that's about it... then you won't like this episode much. It was horrible. The plot was horrible... the story sucked... the atmosphere sucked... it just plain sucked.
For a basic show this episode is exceptional, but for a Simpsons' episode it's pretty bad
eatarver18 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Just like most Simpsons' episodes this episode has a plot a and a plot b.
Plot a is about Homer meeting this travel agency dude (who's name I forget because this dude is pretty forgettable) who enlist people to go somewhere, so Homer enlisted most of the male characters to go to the Super Bow. It turns out that travel agency dude is a dud, just like Homer, because he only managed to get fake Super Bowl that was written on a graham cracker, so the other guys tried to sneak into the Super Bowl game but they were quickly caught and put in Super Bowl jail. They escaped by a Dolly Parton cameo (yeah they just shoehorned her in out of nowhere, just for her to not appear again in this episode). The guys proceeded to run around for awhile, until they stumbled upon Rupert Murdoch's private, and they proceeded to gorge on the food instead of watching the game (expect for Bart), Rupert appears, he sends his goons to chase after the guys, and another chase scene is initiated. They run around again, until they run into the field area just to be hauled off to the locker another area because the game is over, and they receive the goodies that only the football players receive (including the trophy), and they go home.
Plot a's problem is that it is going through the motions, which it is fine for cartoons like Yogi Bear, Wally Gator, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, or any other older cartoon, because they build those shows that relies on that formula. The Simpsons, on the other hand, is a show that built their show based on nonsensical wackiness, and good story telling, engagement and emotions. For The Simpsons making this episode, is completely beneath them. Another problem from this plot segment is the shoehorn Dolly Parton cameo. Instead of utilizing her for better use (for instance Michael Jackson's appearance, Glenn Close voicing Homer's mom, hell even Paul and Linda McCartney schooling Lisa how to be a decent vegetarian), they use her to flaunt the fact they got her to appear on the show, which is lazy.
Despite plot a's lack of quality, it is still way better than plot b: Lisa and Marge's struggling and forced relationship. While the guys are gone, it's just Marge, Lisa, and Maggie. Since Maggie can't do much since she is a baby, the spotlight goes to Lisa and Marge, which again it's struggling and forced. Lisa was gripping about every games Marge suggest, Marge reactions towards her is annoyed, until Lisa chooses this paint a potato or an egg kit (that part is also forgettable no matter how many times I watched this episode). They do their egg or potato painting, until they discovered that there was no feet that was suppose to be included. Marge calls them about this, and Maude Flanders randomly appear with some baked goods, saving both Lisa and Marge from interacting with one another (sigh of relief). The writers dropped the oh-so-interesting missing feet parts segment, because in the next scene it shows Lisa and Marge doing what the guys should of done and watched the game at home. And that's it.
Problem with this segment is the same problem with Lisa and Marge relationship episode, which that it relies on (for the most part) weak conflict, and only conflict between the two. Lisa tends to look down on Marge due to Marge status as a homemaker, and Marge usually reacts in annoyed manner, which is normal for someone like Marge since she took way worse insults and disrespect from her husband and not make a big deal of it, so who is Lisa to impact her negatively? This isn't good because while negative conflict isn't something to praise about it does builds a definitive relationship that can be use to make the positive moments stronger. For instance, the perceived negative conflict between Homer's stupidity and Lisa's genius actually has many positives because Homer does make an attempts to understand Lisa and ends up bonding with her. In return, the genius child has went out her way to help her father (the time where Lisa studied open heart surgery to make sure Dr. Nick won't botch her father's operation) and even defending him on several occasions. Lisa and Marge does not have that, and this episode is the prime example of their awkward relationship.
Plot a is about Homer meeting this travel agency dude (who's name I forget because this dude is pretty forgettable) who enlist people to go somewhere, so Homer enlisted most of the male characters to go to the Super Bow. It turns out that travel agency dude is a dud, just like Homer, because he only managed to get fake Super Bowl that was written on a graham cracker, so the other guys tried to sneak into the Super Bowl game but they were quickly caught and put in Super Bowl jail. They escaped by a Dolly Parton cameo (yeah they just shoehorned her in out of nowhere, just for her to not appear again in this episode). The guys proceeded to run around for awhile, until they stumbled upon Rupert Murdoch's private, and they proceeded to gorge on the food instead of watching the game (expect for Bart), Rupert appears, he sends his goons to chase after the guys, and another chase scene is initiated. They run around again, until they run into the field area just to be hauled off to the locker another area because the game is over, and they receive the goodies that only the football players receive (including the trophy), and they go home.
Plot a's problem is that it is going through the motions, which it is fine for cartoons like Yogi Bear, Wally Gator, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, or any other older cartoon, because they build those shows that relies on that formula. The Simpsons, on the other hand, is a show that built their show based on nonsensical wackiness, and good story telling, engagement and emotions. For The Simpsons making this episode, is completely beneath them. Another problem from this plot segment is the shoehorn Dolly Parton cameo. Instead of utilizing her for better use (for instance Michael Jackson's appearance, Glenn Close voicing Homer's mom, hell even Paul and Linda McCartney schooling Lisa how to be a decent vegetarian), they use her to flaunt the fact they got her to appear on the show, which is lazy.
Despite plot a's lack of quality, it is still way better than plot b: Lisa and Marge's struggling and forced relationship. While the guys are gone, it's just Marge, Lisa, and Maggie. Since Maggie can't do much since she is a baby, the spotlight goes to Lisa and Marge, which again it's struggling and forced. Lisa was gripping about every games Marge suggest, Marge reactions towards her is annoyed, until Lisa chooses this paint a potato or an egg kit (that part is also forgettable no matter how many times I watched this episode). They do their egg or potato painting, until they discovered that there was no feet that was suppose to be included. Marge calls them about this, and Maude Flanders randomly appear with some baked goods, saving both Lisa and Marge from interacting with one another (sigh of relief). The writers dropped the oh-so-interesting missing feet parts segment, because in the next scene it shows Lisa and Marge doing what the guys should of done and watched the game at home. And that's it.
Problem with this segment is the same problem with Lisa and Marge relationship episode, which that it relies on (for the most part) weak conflict, and only conflict between the two. Lisa tends to look down on Marge due to Marge status as a homemaker, and Marge usually reacts in annoyed manner, which is normal for someone like Marge since she took way worse insults and disrespect from her husband and not make a big deal of it, so who is Lisa to impact her negatively? This isn't good because while negative conflict isn't something to praise about it does builds a definitive relationship that can be use to make the positive moments stronger. For instance, the perceived negative conflict between Homer's stupidity and Lisa's genius actually has many positives because Homer does make an attempts to understand Lisa and ends up bonding with her. In return, the genius child has went out her way to help her father (the time where Lisa studied open heart surgery to make sure Dr. Nick won't botch her father's operation) and even defending him on several occasions. Lisa and Marge does not have that, and this episode is the prime example of their awkward relationship.
Going Nowhere
Hitchcoc3 September 2022
I'm afraid this one scraped the bottom. Homer, who can't pass up a bargain, is given the opportunity to get a free ticket to the Super Bowl. He just has to round up enough men to fill a bus. There is nothing funny about his efforts or about what happens next. When they all get to the game, they can't get in because their tickets are counterfeit and printed on cracker (that is pretty funny). But then it gets tiresome. Too many celebrity appearance. I think this was a throwaway. Home is just plain mean and drunk most of the time. As a matter of fact, I know it's a significant part of the show, but the glorification of drinking goes on and on and on.
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