Oh, I didn't like this one. Not that I found it offensive or against my
values or anything - it just didn't make any sense or go anywhere. I can handle unrealistic scales to the action and a certain amount of nonsense
for a single-episode purpose or to help with a theme, although at the
moment the only sort of comparison to the feminine utopia seen here that
I can recall offhand is the fruitopia in AABF18... which at least had
the good sense to return to normal at the end. Here a dozen of
Springfield's men leave for a weekend retreat and somehow the entire
town gets revamped, and that's it? What's the point? What's it saying?
Do we believe this is going to stay (a bold move if so)? I didn't know
A. Brooks was going to be returning until the moment I heard him speak,
but wow, his voice is struggling more than Julie Kavner's, and given
that act 2 (the camp act) is over HALF of the episode's runtime, I get
the feeling this wasn't so much a plot as an excuse to trot him out
again. OK jokes and improv from him, but not an episode. (And 1/6
shaman?? What's the joke THERE?)

Previous episode stuff
3F04: This isn't specifically an episode reference, but Maggie's e^i*pi
blocks show the same unintuitive identity that one of the equations in
Homer? did, and, as I noted last week, we're coming up on 30 years since
that 3D-animated milestone (just 4 days to go!)
9F10: Monorail is back, as Mom-o-rail, with a little quote of the song

Goofs
Why go to the trouble of drawing a very realistic three-prong plug for
"Alexa" when the outlet it's plugged into is a bizarrely tall two-slot one?
I'm pretty sure you can't do a Heimlich on the back.


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On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:00:04 -0400, Matt Garvey <mxg77@po.cwru.edu>
wrote:

I can recall offhand is the fruitopia in AABF18... which at least had
the good sense to return to normal at the end.

Yeah, when the episode just suddenly ended with Springfield completely
changed, I was wondering if this was part one of a two-parter or
something.

Here a dozen of
Springfield's men leave for a weekend retreat and somehow the entire
town gets revamped, and that's it?

And all of the town's female residents were taken by surprise when the
men came back? Did they think they were going to stay at that camp
forever?

I actually liked the episode up until that nonsensical ending.

Why go to the trouble of drawing a very realistic three-prong plug for >"Alexa" when the outlet it's plugged into is a bizarrely tall two-slot one?

LOL, I also noticed that and even slowed it down frame-by-frame to see
how Marge pulled a three prong plug out of a two prong outlet.
Obsessive fan minds think alike, I guess.

-- Bob

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