Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

"Sunday, Curddy Sunday" is the twelth episode of the tenth season. The episode features Homer taking his friends to the Supebowl.

Plot
When Springfield elementary takes a field trip to the local post office, they are offered some undelivered mail as favors. Bart ends up finding a savings book and gives it to Homer for his birthday. Homer is amazed at what the books has in store and "paints the town red" with the savings. He goes to get his tires balanced when he is conned by the mechanic that he can't leave with buying new tires. In the waiting room, he meets a travel agent, Wally Kogan, who was too suckered into getting new tires. They go to Moe's where they see a promo for the Superbowl on TV and yearn for it. Wally reveals he's got a charter bus headed there and if Homer can fill it up, he will get to go to the big game. Homer fills up his list and he, Wally, Bart and a group of Springfield males are off to the game.

Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa fight their boredom by playing with the "Vincent Price Egg Magic". They soon discover that the box is "feet-less" and call up the company for replacements.

Once at the game, and after enjoying the pre-game fun, the gang goes to the entrance of the stadium only to find that their tickets are phoney (and are printed on some type of cracker). Bart then spots the Superbowl Halftime costumes and they sezie the oppertunity...to use them to knock the guards down and run inside. They are soon caught and put it the stadium jail.

The crew starts kicking Homer in the rear end when Dolly Pardon wanders by. Having being a friend of Wally's (since he books a lot of trips to Dollywood and Euro Dollywood) she offers to help them out by combusting the lock with her own brand of makeup remover. Now free, the boys set out to find seats. After running around screaming for an hour, they wander upon a skybox and decide to eat the food rather than watch the game. Sooon then, Ruper Murdoch plys in via helicoper and forces them out his skybox. They see and entrance to the field and head for it, but and push backwards by the winning team into their locker room and get to celebrate with them. After a day of excitement, the boys get on their bus and head for home, with Homer stealling the Superbowl trophy. As soon as their bus leaves, John Madden and Pat Summerall comment on the episode, praising the character of Wall and the "B-story" and showing extreme dislike of the fact that dispite being a Superbowl episode with Dolly Parton, little or no football or singing was shown. Just then, a bus arrives..with Vincent Price as the driver!

Production
This episode was shown after the Superbowl, so the writers though that the audiance would be "footballed-out" by then, so they used that as a cheat for not showing any football. Also, the episode was animated before the actual Superbowl, so to be as acurate as they could be with the teams, they used the passing of the beer mug to acuratly gives the names of the teams without having to reanimate the scene.

The writers were also impressed with the voice impression Dan Castlanetta did of Vincent Price, so they decided to use his charcter again at the end of the episode.

Among the characters Homer takes to the Superbowl are Lenny, Carl, Bart, Barney, Wally, Rev. Lovejoy, Ned Flanders, Dr. Hibbert, Dr. Riviera, Charlie, Comic Book Guy, Moe, Hans Moleman, Squeaky Voice Teen, Blue-Haired Lawyer, Krusty, Sideshow Mel, Chief Wiggum, The Sea Captain and Kirk van Houtan.