LOVEJOY: “Well send you someplace safe til the heat dies down.” HOMER: “Great, but why am I on a plane?” LOVEJOY: “Homer, how would you like to be a missionary in the South Pacific?” HOMER: “South Pacific? I didn’t agree to…” [Lovejoy shuts the door on Homer, and taxis down the runway. Homer gets out of his seat and runs to the cockpit.] HOMER: “Wait, I’m no missionary! I don’t even believe in Jebus! Let me out!” PILOT: “Sorry, no can do.” [Homer runs to the door and pounds on it. Cut to a shot outside one of the door window.] HOMER: “Oh, save me Jebus!” [The plane flies off into the sunset.] THIS IS TODAYS 00s TV THROWBACK OF THE DAY, 6/10/2014: PROGRAM TITLE: The Simpsons EPISODE TITLE: Missionary Impossible SEASON AND EPISODE NUMBER: 11x15 AIR DATE: February 20, 2000 SUMMARY: Homer becomes a South Sea missionary to escape an angry PBS mob that includes Betty White, who wants to collect his $10,000 pledge. CAST: Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson), Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson), Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson), Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson, Lisa Jr.), Hank Azaria (Craig, Ak), Harry Shearer (Reverend Lovejoy, Q’Toktok), Betty White (Herself), Tress Macneille (Amy) HOW ERICSSON COMMENTS IT: “’Missionary Impossible’ is a wonderful religious satire at its finest on ‘The Simpsons’ during its 25-year-run of poking fun at many things with religion as one of these. This is the best example of its main protagonist to spread the word of ‘Jebus’ (excuse me, Jesus) through the book of ‘Puh-salms’ (wait...I mean, Psalms). The way Homer does it all it surely makes his next-door neighbor Ned Flanders go green with envy. Alongside with Homer’s Pacific misadventure there are some other things that make this episode so great and worth watching at the same time. The voice acting is one of these things. Yeardley Smith’s performance as ‘Lisa Jr.’ shows that she could voice anybody other than her signature character and even her character has the same personality as the other Lisa. Betty White’s appearance is a fine addition to the cast, and so do the various PBS character cameos both real (Teletubbies with lasers? A wild Big Bird?) and fictional (the cast of ‘Do Shut Up’). And speaking of ‘Do Shut Up’ this is one cool inclusion of a sitcom within a sitcom; it’s a British sitcom that we wished it existed but is actually a fine parody of already existing British sitcoms that feature low-brow humor plus endless drinking and bashing other people. Overall this episode is completely flawless except for one small problem: How could one of the characters said he cannot read the Bible yet he reads the casino sign ‘The Lucky Savage’? Maybe to uncivilized Pacific Island natives big words are easy to read but not really small ones. Meanwhile, as I was watching their short appearances of missionaries Craig and Amy I really had to come up with the portmanteau of ‘Craimy’ as a result of combining both names together. To recall Homer’s quote: ‘Craig and Amy, Craig and Amy, why don’t you just marry Craig and Amy?’ And so I ask you why don’t you just marry the Craimy? I’m so digging the Craimy already.” wtsof.tv/watch/S11E15-missionary-impossible
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:14:53 +0000
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