Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo: Encyclopedia II - Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo - Synopsis

Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo - Synopsis

The family, on Lisa's suggestion, visits a cyber-cafe named The Java Server. However, things go bad there when Homer, looking at his bank account online, is cyber-robbed by Snake, which saddens Marge, because they were saving the money for their family vacation. After Homer has a discussion with Flanders, he says he got more for less by attending the Chuck Garabedian Mega-Savings Seminar, and Homer takes away Flanders' ticket. The family attends the seminar, which explains many money-saving strategies. Later, to save more money, they go to a 33-cent store. They get tickets to go to Tokyo, Japan when they get mega-saver tickets at the airport, which are actually the Flanders family's tickets. And then... "The Simpsons are goin' to Japan!"

The Simpsons arrive in Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun. Although Lisa wants to explore Japanese culture when they go there, Marge and Homer override Lisa's decision to eat at an American-themed restaurant named Americatown. Later on, Homer and Bart attend a sumo wrestling match. When they are there, Homer picks a fight with one of the sumo wrestlers. He and Bart knock him out, and the Emperor of Japan comes to congratulate Homer. He, too, is knocked out by Homer, and he and Bart are put in jail. They stay in jail, learning Japanese and exploring its culture until Marge pays the bail. But when Homer makes an origami crane from his last million yen, he loses it in the wind, saying a Japanese version of his famed "D'oh!" catchphrase.

After losing the money, the family goes to the U.S. Embassy, and the Ambassador suggests that the family get jobs. They eventually do get jobs in a fish-gutting factory in Osaka and are dissatisfied with their new jobs, until they watch a TV game show, The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show, which they enter. Their wish is to get plane tickets back to Springfield, but they have to go through a rough ride and suffer physical torture (particularly Homer). The Simpsons are given their tickets, but they must be retrieved from a bridge over an active volcano. Lisa is able to get the tickets, but the bridge breaks and the whole family falls into the volcano, which is actually full of a spicy orange drink. The family gets their plane tickets, and leaves Japan, but as they leave, their plane is confronted by Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, and Rodan.

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