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Now I should tell you, Matt Groening is well known for being a free mason, and many of the jokes and references in the episode relate to his love of freemasonry. My initial reaction from watching the tape was a mixture of shock, confusion and fear.
The episode starts the way most episodes do, except the pitch for the intro is way off. Groening preferred what he called a "free jazz" intro for this episode, but the result was several notes being far higher and more ghastly than usual. The chalkboard sequence is a lot different as this time there is nobody in the room. We immediately cut to the family in the living room. The plot is simple. The family is going on vacation and Bart refuses to come out of his room. There is some mumbling in the background about an insurance policy and Homer's voice sounds a lot deeper. It sounds much more like how Homer sounded during the show's pilot episode. "COME OUTSIDE BART!" Homer starts banging on the door. Lisa is shown drawing a lamb and smiling. That's when you see a picture of a devil, with pitchfork and tail, in the hallway to Bart's room. I think that this ended up being a reference to the treehouse of horror episode where ned flanders plays the devil,
Homer continues to bang on the door and Bart refuses to come out. Marge makes a very strange comment. She says "these don't look like pencils, they look like bones" but it's off-screen so the viewer is not very sure what she's talking about. What was most concerning was that the animation was double layered, as though both Homer and Marge had been erased and drawn in a separate place on screen. There is a silhouette of homer to the side, as in, a color blur representing his shape is there, but he was moved approximately three feet to the left for reasons unknown.
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The family finally decides to pack up and go on vacation, but Homer decides to stop at Moe's bar on the way. Inside he sees several gentleman in business suit attire that are more realistically drawn than what the show usually portrayed. What looks like a man in a Woody Woodpecker suit is just sitting there. I didn't understand any of this. The bar table has a mosaic pavement on it, and two tiny statues of lambs sit on the bar desk.
Homer begins to drink with the strange businessmen as they take out a briefcase and open it to reveal money. And then one of them begins to speak, but it's not the voice of any actor that I remember working on the show. Dan Castellanata, who voices homer, does not speak at all for this entire sequence. But what the business man says is
"They've been accusing us for years now. Free masons, the government. We are basically the sound of all control, all control, all flights, all planes, everything is moving at once. Do you think there's going to be an exit- an exit strategy? A way out? I SEE YOU. We should be put in jail, but there's no criminals for people like us. We're just normal- everybody- EVERYBODY! EVERYBODY!" His voice gets a lot more distorted and he just starts speaking gibberish as the animation goes haywire and spins out of control.
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