Wow, a topical *Simpsons *episode that actually aired at the exact same time as what they were parodying! (In this case, the Vancouver Olympics.) I’m impressed!
Some good lines in this one, and I like that they actually got Bob Costas to play himself. “I admit it. We’re vampires that suck on shattered dreams.”
Was the bit at the end with Fatov & Homer a takeoff of something? It looked familiar.
“Hoo hoo!”
It was OK, it was an obvious attempt to compete with the Winter Olympics, which is fine for now, but I doubt the show will hold up in reruns.
The only good line in the story was Homer saying Vancouver was Canada’s warmest city. Thus mocking the irony of holding the Olympics there.
The personable Bob Costas is always good, but the 57 year old Bob Costas looked like he was 25. Yeah I don’t know how to age someone in a cartoon but they could’ve tried 
A pretty good episode overall.
I think the bit at the end was the Russian dance from the Nutcracker.
Kinda eh, but I did like Millhoos and Nelsoon.
LaBatty cracked me up.
The curling jokes I could take or leave - everyone who has heard of curling knows it’s kind of ridiculous - but other than that I thought this was a very good and very funny episode. They used Bob Costas very well and the pace of the jokes was great. I loved the symmetry with Marge and Homer preparing for their date, the movie night gone awry, the Curly tryouts… just about everything, really.
Some trivia:
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[li]Now we know Marge is left-handed.[/li][li]This episode shows Agnes being pregnant with Seymour even though she’s not his biological mother, and if she gave birth just after the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, he’s around 57. His age was previously given as around 40, but if he’s 57ish, he’s still old enough to be a Vietnam vet.[/li][li]Agnes appeared not to know Marge at the start of the episode even though they have met several times, including when Marge helped talk Seymour into coming back home (“The Principal and the Pauper”) and when they were Investorettes together (“The Twisted World of Marge Simpson”).[/li][li]Bob Costas asks if Skinner will sign using his middle name, but from “Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Pt.1)” we know his middle name is Seymour. His first initial is W.[/li][li]Moe and the barflies are watching “Harry Potter and the Necklace of Amulets.”[/li][/ul]
Yes but she was pregnant with the real Seymour not the boy currently playing at being his son. So that Seymour Skinner is in real life younger.
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…[li]Agnes appeared not to know Marge at the start of the episode even though they have met several times, including when Marge helped talk Seymour into coming back home (“The Principal and the Pauper”) and when they were Investorettes together ("The Twisted World of Marge Simpson…[/li][/QUOTE]
She could just be going senile.
If I were in Comic Book Guy mode I would point out that the fade from the fetus to Skinner (seated in the same position) is supposed to imply they’re the same person. Mrs. Skinner was pretty brutal in this one, by the way, especially “That’s real love, Seymour. I’m glad you got to see it once before you die.”
And yet I actually believed her turnaround at the end. That was well done.
Or pretending not to know Marge could have been her way of getting revenge. She was plenty ticked when Marge couldn’t remember her name, after all. (“You know my name. It’s Agnes. It means lamb. LAMB OF GOD!”)
Homer’s brain!
Oh yes. I enjoyed the out-of-nowhere St. Crispin’s Day-style speech. If that’s what Homer is like when he’s sober, he must be even more drunk than we realized the rest of the time.
But, then again, given his interpretation of “Winter Olympics,” I think it’s more that he has rare lapses of genius. Kind of how like Barney has different personas while drunk such as “Professor Barney” and “Drunk Barney.”
Fun episode. It probably will be dated quickly, but a lot of the gags that the show has done that are no longer relevant are often still funny later on (such as the Halloween short revolving around the 1996 election where Kang and Kodos abduct Mumbley Joe and Clin-Ton). I loved the gag about Ivan Reitman’s opening ceremony, and am actually hoping Sochi adopts Fatov as their Olympic mascot.
Additional trivia/nitpicking:
•In actuality during the opening ceremony, Greece would be the one you’re gonna call first and Canada (the host country) last.
•During the scene in the cafeteria, one of the flags on the wall changes between shots from The Bahamas to Taiwan (who do not actually use their national flag at the Olympics for political reasons- at the Olympics they use a modfied version of the Olympic flag and compete under the name Chinese Taipei).
I didn’t see the Simpsons episode, but this sounds like it could have been an homage to the famous sex scene in “Don’t Look Now” where the love-making scenes are alternated with scenes of the couple getting dressed for a night on the town.
Can anyone confirm this?
I love that Moe then comes out and slaps them all!
Good episode. Had an old school Simpsons feel to it.
I liked that the Olympic flame cauldron was toppled by beavers and the real cauldron was hobbled by faulty mechanics.
Nah. I’ve never seen “Don’t Look Now” (I do have the DVD) but this sounds nothing like that. Here, Marge prepares for the date this way: “Lisa, spray just a touch of perfume on my neck. Bart, tell me this dress doesn’t make me look fat.” They do, and we then cut to the power plant, where Lenny sprays cologne on Homer and Karl tells him his suit doesn’t make him look fat.
Good episode with some good jokes. A nice call back to giant boob lady as well.
For some reason, I thought Homer was good at curling until they came out and said he was bad.
And I think they said it was September or something, and not February.
The date that turned into curling was in November.
O.K., thanks.
P.S. You should watch that DVD… 
Remember when Homer was (accidently) baptized by Flanders. He then starts invoking divine heavenly gab but then snaps back to his former crude self.
Did you also notice through the series, Marge has turned into “Drunk Barney” more frequently? And Homer can’t tell the difference?