They board a bus driven by Price, who has trouble shifting gears properly. As Homer's group leaves Miami, Pat Summerall and John Madden analyze the events of the episode, their initially favorable opinion quickly souring. When the kit proves to have no feet for the egg, Marge calls the company's help line and finds herself listening to Price on a voice mail greeting. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa find a 1960s-era egg decorating kit endorsed by Vincent Price and decide to use it. They share in the celebration, with Homer taking a congratulatory phone call from President Bill Clinton, and several of the men wind up with Super Bowl rings as they board the bus to return to Springfield. Confronted by the box's owner, Rupert Murdoch, the group flees toward the field but is promptly swept into the locker room by the victorious Denver Broncos.
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After Dolly Parton - a friend of Wally's and one of the halftime entertainers - breaks them out, they make their way into a skybox suite and spend more time gorging themselves on free food and drinks than they do watching the game. They try to sneak in, but are caught and detained in a cell, where they vent their frustration on Homer.
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Homer, Bart, and the men arrive at Miami's Pro Player Stadium for pre-game festivities, only to discover that Wally has bought counterfeit tickets. To get free seats for himself and Bart, Homer helps Wally fill the bus by persuading many prominent male citizens of Springfield to sign up. The two watch a special on the Super Bowl while drinking at Moe's, and Wally explains that his agency is sending a charter bus to the game. While waiting for the installation, Homer meets Wally Kogen, a travel agent. Homer uses one of his coupons for a free wheel balancing at a tire shop, but is conned into buying four new tires for his car. When Bart, Lisa and the students of Springfield Elementary go on a field trip to the post office, Bart gets a coupon book as a souvenir, which he gives to Homer as a birthday present. The censored version of the episode is still in syndication. The network's decision was criticized by journalists and staff members.
In September the same year, when the episode was supposed to repeat, the Catholic League asked Fox if they could censor the scene, which the network agreed to. The scene garnered scrutiny from the American Catholic anti-defamation and civil rights organization The Catholic League, whose members sent hundreds of angry letters to the Fox network, demanding any mention of Catholicism in the episode be excised. Following its broadcast, the episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.Īfter its original broadcast, however, a scene in the episode involving a fictitious, sexually suggestive Super Bowl commercial for the Catholic Church became a subject of controversy. The episode was released on home video for the first time in 2004, and in 2007, the episode was again released as part of the DVD set The Simpsons – The Complete Tenth Season. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 11.5 million viewers, making it the tenth most watched program of the week as well as the second most watched scripted program on the network the night it aired. The episode pokes fun at folk singer Burl Ives, former United States president Bill Clinton as well as the series' fans, among other things. All guest-stars played themselves, except for Willard who portrayed Kogen. The episode features several guest-stars, including comedian Fred Willard, country singer Dolly Parton, Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch, sports commentators Pat Summerall and John Madden, and former American football players Troy Aikman, Rosey Grier and Dan Marino.
For the subplot, the writers tried to come up with the "most boring thing" Lisa and Marge could do to pass time. Mike Scully jokingly said that the episode was "thrown together without thought or structure" by the writers. "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" was directed by Steven Dean Moore and written by George Meyer, Brian Scully, Mike Scully and Tom Martin, the first credit Martin received for the series. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa set out to find the missing parts of " Vincent Price's Egg Magic", a celebrity-endorsed craft kit. Several people, including Bart, tag along on what soon becomes a problematic trip. After becoming friends, Kogen offers Homer a free bus ride to the Super Bowl, as long as he can find enough people to fill Kogen's bus. In the episode, while buying new tires for his car, Homer meets a travel agent called Wally Kogen. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31, 1999, just after Super Bowl XXXIII and the premiere of Family Guy.
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" Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" is the twelfth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
The couch is sunk by an iceberg and only Maggie survives. 12th episode of the 10th season of The Simpsons " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
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