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"I'm Goin' to Praiseland" is the nineteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 6, 2001.

Synopsis

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Ned Flanders is reunited with his old flame, Rachel Jordan, from the episode, "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily". She stays at the Flanders house with him, and leaves briefly after Flanders molds her into his deceased wife Maude's image. Ned realizes that he needs to break his obsession with Maude. And sure he does, by having the Simpson family remove every reminder of Maude he has in his house, although Homer has a thing for putting Maude's things in the wood chipper, except for one: a sketchbook of designs for a Christian amusement park, Praiseland. With the help of the family and several Springfield citizens, Flanders builds Praiseland as a tribute to Maude, on the site of the abandoned Storytown Village (from "Lisa the Vegetarian").

However, after Praiseland is established, it becomes very unsuccessful. But when a mask of Maude rises up in front of a Maude statue, the visitors who leave think it is a miracle. Eventually, anyone who stands in front of the statue (which Ned calls the "Miracle Maude", which he says will raise money for an orphanage) has a vision. However, Ned finds out that the cause of everyone's "visions" is actually a gas leak. Ned reluctantly shuts down Praiseland, but it allows him to go on another date with Rachel Jordan.

Cultural references

• The whole concept of Praiseland is based on the christian theme park, Heritage USA, that was built in the 1980s by donotations made to televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
• The title of the episode is a spoof of the famous slogan "I'm Going to Disneyland!" or perhaps a reference to the Paul Simon song "Graceland", whose refrain repeats the line "I'm going to Graceland"
• The old popular Whack-A-Mole game is titled Whack a Satan in Praiseland.
• Comic Book Guy says shazbot, the expletive used by Mork in the TV show Mork and Mindy.
• The scene where Ned cuts Rachel's hair to model Maude's hair refers to the movie Rebecca.
• The end sequence song (and the song that plays when Disco Stu hallucinates that he's being let into a disco version of Heaven) is Get Dancing by Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes.

Goofs

• In this episode, Ned tries to preserve Maude's indentation on the right side of the bed. However, in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", we see that Ned sleeps on the right side.

Quotes

• Ned: Oh, Maude, I've turned your dream of a Christian amusement park into a be-musement park.
  Homer: (gasps) Don't say that, Ned!
  Ned: It is! It's a be-musement park!
• Disco Stu is having a vision of heaven as a disco club, when Frank Sinatra approaches him.
  Disco Stu: Frank Sinatra!?
  Sinatra: For me, this is hell. Ya dig, pally?
• Ned: So uh, where's your band?
  Rachel: They switched from Christian music to regular pop. All you do is change 'Jesus' to 'baby'.
  Ned: Oh, how horrible.
  Rachel: Ah, they'll all go to hell.
• Capt. McCallister: Yarr...she blows!
• Rich Texan: May God have mercy on your gas sniffin', orphan beating souls!
  Homer: Christ be with you!
• Prof. Frink (standing next to a cow): I have created the first intra-bovine ice cream maker. It makes use of all four stomachs; the first being filled with rock salt, then sugar, cream, and of course, Freon so cold it burns me!
  Cletus: I'll have the darkidy kind.
  Frink: Uh, one chocolate, Moo-tilda.
  (Frink squeezes an udder labeled "chocolate" and gives the ice cream to Cletus)
  Marge: Could I have a swirl of chocolate and vanilla?
  (when Moo-tilda hears this, she makes a denying grunt)
  Frink: Oh, nonsense. You can do it. (Moo-tilda kicks Frink in the chest) Ivan Reitman!
• Homer: Hotel? Why don't you just stay at Ned's place?
  Ned: My place? What will the neighbors think?
  Lisa: We're the neighbors and we don't think.
• (Nelson is about to play "Whack-a-Satan", a parody of "Whack-a-Mole")*Nelson:There's no mallet!
  Ned:Stop Satan with your faith!
  Nelson:My face? You callin' me ugly?!
  Ned:No, I think you're a beautiful young man!
  Nelson:You are so dead!

External links

• "I'm Goin' to Praiseland episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
• "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" at IMDb

• The Simpsons episodes, season 12