The story takes place two years earlier, with people from the church volunteering to clean a skid row on Saturday.
At the end of the cleanup, Ned wins a family trip to the Grand Canyon for being the most selfless cleaner.
Later, the tour guide and his mule fall to their deaths off the cliff with most of the supplies, leaving both families stranded in the canyon.
When Ned asks Homer if the place sells postcards at the gift shop, a museum worker states that they do not.
The couch gag was created by Eric Goldberg of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
In this flashback story of a heretofore unrevealed early shared vacation of the Simpson and Flanders families, however, there’s a combination of old gags indifferently told, new gags told coarsely and/or cruelly, and some off-model characterization (especially with regard to Ned) that comes off as deeply disposable Simpsons.
He enjoyed the interaction of the Flanders and Simpson families and highlighted the commentary on rich people bringing the comforts of home into the wild.