Sequestered while the rest of the show is filmed, Marge is angered that Homer caused them to lose and returns to the competition with another partner when the opportunity arises.
Selman was inspired to write the episode because he felt sorry for the person eliminated first on the television series Top Chef, and the parody of the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
At the first challenge, while still at The Amazing Place's tarmac starting line, the contestants play "Suitcase Stowaway" to find an item in their own luggage that does not belong.
While Marge is miserable and homesick, Homer cheers her up with all the freebies they are given including room service, food, booze, and movies.
At the hotel, the two find the post production room and a furious Marge discovers that Homer caused their loss by eating the "stowaway" item, a bar of chocolate.
In a black and white vignette, five weeks into the competition, a bickering Marge and Homer invite another eliminated married couple, Nick and Honey, over to their room.
In her haste to win, Marge fails to salt the mangorita rims in time, causing her and Nick to lose to same-sex couple Barry and Shawn's properly-prepared cocktails.
Executive producer and co-writer Matt Selman stated that the inspiration for the episode was feeling bad for so many years for the first person kicked off of the reality television series Top Chef, which he deemed to be "worse than not being on the show at all.
Especially Marge, whose decades-long addiction to the reality competition travel show The Amazing Place is seen to be rooted in the long Homer-less hours as a football-and-Moe's widow.
Marge explains that, while Homer has his pursuits, she has hers in the form of an encyclopedic knowledge of every hashtagged event, stunt, and twist her favorite show can throw at its grasping contestants.