In this mouth-full of a title-d episode, when Bart sees a commercial for the ultimate cruise, he begs his parents for a family vacation. Low on cash, the only way they can go is if each family member sells one valuable. Once they’re away, Bart is determined to make the vacation last forever. So he comes up with a plan to make sure they never have to return home.
It airs this Sunday on Fox.
David Foster Wallace wrote an essay about going on a cruise called “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”. I’m guessing that’s what the title is referencing.
When I saw the preview of this episode on fox I new I would love it, and I was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought this was a great episode and it had an emotional ending witch ultimately sealed the deal for me and really made me love this episode…..
I enjoyed this episode at the beginning, but the existential angst and the future vision- what a downer. Ended up extremely depressed .I also hate it when Bart was drawn with a different style of animation. I presume it was a reference to some other cartoon I wasn’t familiar with, I just loathe that. For future reference, the life moral preachy /schmalzty message and different animation – Hate that.
I enjoyed this one, like most episodes with just an “A” story that gets enough time to build it was pulled off nicely. The touching ending was also a good reminder that The Simpsons still have something to say.