User:JigglypuffGuy04/sandbox/Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo (The Simpsons)

Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo is the twenty-third and final episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the FOX network in the United States on May 16, 1999.

Plot
When Snake Jailbird steals money from the Simpson family's bank account through the Internet, the family goes on a budget and save plenty to buy a trip to Japan. The Simpsons thoroughly enjoy the country, but when an accident takes away their last million yen, they agree to participate in a dangerous Japanese TV game show in exchange for the air fare back home.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The episode is where the Simpsons family travel to a different country, and it manages to be really funny and clever.
 * 2) There are tons of hilarious scenes here:
 * 3) *Homer walking through the Japanese doors is hilarious.
 * 4) *The scene where the family watches "Battling Seizure Robots", with them all catching a seizure is pretty funny.
 * 5) *The scene where the flight attendant tells Bart to turn off his GameBoy during the flight, which causes the entire plane to shut off when Bart turns off his GameBoy, followed by the flight attendant telling him to turn it back on is funny.
 * 6) *Homer taking a crap in the toilet while the security camera inside the toilet captures it on the TV while the family watches it in terror.
 * 7) The final act where the family host in the Japanese game show is pretty entertaining to watch.
 * 8) It ended Season 10 and the "Golden Age" on a high note.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some of the jokes were in poor taste:
 * 2) *The Hello Kitty factory joke was a bit tasteless, as it was implied that the various Hello Kitty products in the factory were created by burning various cats alive.
 * 3) **In fact, there was a rumour that Sanrio and Hello Kitty creator Yuko Shimizu were outraged by the inclusion of the Hello Kitty factory featured briefly in the episode.

Reception and Censorship

 * Whilst the episode gained positive reception from fans and critics of The Simpsons, it was one of two episodes that never aired in Japan (the other being season 11 episode "Little Big Mom"), mainly due to the scene regarding the Hello Kitty factory, the "Battling Seizure Robots" parody, Homer tossing the Emperor of Japan into a sumo thong Dumpster and declaring himself "Emperor Clobbersaurus" before getting arrested, and the Japanese game show sequence. The episode is also not included in the Japanese version of the season 10 DVD. It was also initially banned in South Korea due to its rocky history with Japan in the first half of the 20th century, although it eventually aired there in 2007. The Japanese controversy has a page on the sister wiki.

Trivia

 * The "Battling Seizure Robots" parody is of based on the Pokémon episode "Dennō Senshi Porigon" that caused about 700 people to go to hospital in Japan.