Sunday, April 12, 2009
“In the name of Grandfather” 22 March 2009
This episode starts with that the Simpson’s visit a home and garden show. Marge is very excited but the rest of the family is not very happy, but promise to behave. At the show they purchase a hot tub. This turn out to be a success and they bath for a long time. While they are bathing Abraham Simpson is waiting for the family to visit his elderly home for an event. Abraham gets very upset because they missed the event and destroys the hot tub. Homer promise to make it up by visit a pub called O’Flanagan’s where Abraham had the greatest time of his life. To Homer’s big surprise the pub is in Ireland, but a promise is a promise so he takes the whole family and his dad to Ireland. Homer and Abraham go to O’Flanagan’s, but the bar is empty and Abraham feels like everything in Ireland have changed. Nothing is like the old good days.While Homer and Abraham visit the bar, Marge, Lisa and Bart visit Ireland’s historical attractions. When they get back Homer and Abraham have bought a bar, got arrested because they changed the rules of smoking at the bar and get deported back to America.I think this episode is based on the history that many people from Ireland immigrated to America. It also shows that very much have change in Ireland since people left. At one point of the episode Lisa says that Ireland have become a high technological country.
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I find it amusing how the entire family was so in love with the hot tub that none of them would leave for anything. The Simpsons simply sit in the hot tub while Grampa destroys it, resulting in them flopping around like fish out of water once it is torn down. I also found it funny, and risky, when Homer and Gramps purchase the bar in Ireland and decide to allow people to smoke inside in order to get customers, despite the fact that it is illegal. I like this episode because it is one of few that portrays Grampa as a person and an important member of the Simpsons family, as opposed to the usual where he is depicted as an annoying, helpless, inconvenient senior citizen and a burden.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this episode was made to show how developed Ireland has become, how different it is now compared to how it was when people emigrated to America. What surprised me was that the pub lost every customer because of the smoking prohibition, it would be fair if Flanagan lost some customers but not all, and maybe it had something to do with what he served? Maybe because he lost the Irish roots?
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