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| − | '''When Flanders Failed''' is the third episode of [[Season 3]]. It first aired on October 3, 1991. The episode was written by [[Jon Vitti]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. | + | '''When Flanders Failed''' is the third episode of [[Season 3]]. It first aired on October 3, 1991. The episode was written by [[Jon Vitti]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. The episode features cultural references to playwright William Shakespeare and the film ''It's a Wonderful Life''. The title of the episode is a reference to the title of the poem "''In Flanders Fields''". Unusually, this episode had a large amount of animation glitches because the animation studio was training a new group of animators. |
| − | [[Ned Flanders]] | + | When [[Ned Flanders]] announces at a barbecue that he's starting his own general store catering to the left-handed, [[Homer]] wishes that his goody-goody neighbor will suffer financial ruin. Meanwhile, [[Bart]] takes karate class, but ends up cutting it when he realizes that it's not as exciting as it's cracked up to be. |
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[[Ned Flanders]] invites the Simpsons over for a barbecue. Initially the entire family attends, but Homer declines because he doesn't like Ned. However, once he smells the food cooking, he quickly reconsiders. While they eat, Ned announces that he is quitting his job and opening a specialty store for left-handed people, called [[The Leftorium]]. Almost immediately, Homer begins to hope that Ned fails in his new venture, even wishing on a wishbone for him to bottom out. | [[Ned Flanders]] invites the Simpsons over for a barbecue. Initially the entire family attends, but Homer declines because he doesn't like Ned. However, once he smells the food cooking, he quickly reconsiders. While they eat, Ned announces that he is quitting his job and opening a specialty store for left-handed people, called [[The Leftorium]]. Almost immediately, Homer begins to hope that Ned fails in his new venture, even wishing on a wishbone for him to bottom out. | ||
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Episode Information
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- ""Homer, affordable tract housing made us neighbors, but you made us friends.""
- ―Ned Flanders
When Flanders Failed is the third episode of Season 3. It first aired on October 3, 1991. The episode was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Jim Reardon. The episode features cultural references to playwright William Shakespeare and the film It's a Wonderful Life. The title of the episode is a reference to the title of the poem "In Flanders Fields". Unusually, this episode had a large amount of animation glitches because the animation studio was training a new group of animators.
When Ned Flanders announces at a barbecue that he's starting his own general store catering to the left-handed, Homer wishes that his goody-goody neighbor will suffer financial ruin. Meanwhile, Bart takes karate class, but ends up cutting it when he realizes that it's not as exciting as it's cracked up to be.
Plot
Ned Flanders invites the Simpsons over for a barbecue. Initially the entire family attends, but Homer declines because he doesn't like Ned. However, once he smells the food cooking, he quickly reconsiders. While they eat, Ned announces that he is quitting his job and opening a specialty store for left-handed people, called The Leftorium. Almost immediately, Homer begins to hope that Ned fails in his new venture, even wishing on a wishbone for him to bottom out.
In a side plot, after a lecture from Marge about exercise, Bart asks to take karate lessons. While taking him on his first day, Homer gets his first look at Ned's new store. Business doesn't seem to be going very well, which pleases Homer. Bart quickly becomes bored of the karate lessons, and takes to the arcade to play karate video games during his following lessons, merely pretending he is actually learning karate.
Things progress in this vein, and even when Homer begins to witness left-handed people who would benefit from patronizing Ned's store, he does nothing to send them in that direction. Soon after, Flanders begins to experience financial hardship as a result of his failing business venture. Rather than helping him, he buys most of Ned's belongings at a garage sale. Eventually, Ned loses his store and is forced to close.
On the school playground, bullies antagonize Lisa, and she calls upon Bart to defend her with his martial arts skills. Predictably he gets pummeled. That night, Homer finds the Flanders family living in their car after losing their house, and Homer has a heart to heart with him. Stricken with guilt, Homer decides to take it upon himself to make several phone calls and get everyone to start buying there.
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