Super Franchise Me

When Ned confiscates the freezer, Marge puts the meat to use by making sandwiches, which prove popular at Springfield Elementary School when Bart and Lisa take them there as currency.

It initially struggles due to its incompetent staff (Marge fires Gil Gunderson for doing two jobs at once and Shauna Chalmers for stealing the register money), but begins to make a nice profit when the family takes over.

Homer goes into the restaurant in disguise and has hot coffee spilled on his crotch and gets hit by a fire extinguisher; Marge then tells a previously unsympathetic Trudy that the family's lack of emergency medical training is a violation of her franchise contract.

The episode ends with a scene showing a caveman Homer making the first ever sandwich from ground sloth meat between two squirrels, but then he wanders to his death inside a tar pit.

Near the end of the episode, a "Simpsonized" version of the famous French painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is briefly shown.

[5] The Hollywood Reporter contrasted the nostalgic couch gag with the futuristic Don Hertzfeldt-directed one for the episode "Clown in the Dumps" which aired two weeks prior.