Boy meets curl

In Springfield, an evening of lovers. Marge is getting ready at home, and Homer is at the plant (they will have a date). But Mr. Burns comes in and says that a radiation leak has been detected at the nuclear power plant. Homer tries to take time off from work, but nothing comes of it. When Homer returns home, he tells Marge that they will go to the movies and it will be so romantic that a walk along the beach will seem like a blow to the face. But the movie is too noisy and interferes with Marge. Homer leaves when he sees that Ben Affleck starred in the film. Riding in the car, they see the ice rink and decide to "skate" romantically. But as it turns out - there is a curling tournament. Homer and Marge decide to participate. They make a good team. Seeing how they play, Seymour Skinner and his mother invite them to the team. The next day, Skinner comes to them and says that they were invited to the qualifying mixed curling competition at the 21st Winter Olympics in Canada - Vancouver 2010!

During the game they almost win, but on the last throw Homer throws a stone so hard that he flies at a very high speed. Everyone already thinks that the US team lost, but Marge rubs the stone path for so long that she can get past all the buffets. And finally, Marge brings the stone to the middle and the team wins. Meanwhile, Lisa saw that one girl had a badge. Lisa picks it up and in “thanks” the girl gives her this badge. It seemed to Lisa that he looked lonely, and she was buying another one. So she crouches on collecting badges, and the girl turns out to be a dressed-up dwarf who encourages buyers to buy more badges. At the opening of the Olympics, music from the movie “ Ghostbusters ” sounds, teams from different countries begin to leave, and a voice from the microphone says “Who will you call? .. Albania!” Etc. in alphabetical order. By the end, the voice is already hoarse. At the end of the opening, women in fairies are releasing a Canadian dove - beaver .

In the semifinals, Homer throws a stone too weakly, and Marge has to rub very hard on the ice and the stone still falls into the middle, but Marge breaks his right hand. And Lisa at this time changes her beads to a rare badge and starts performing on the street to earn money for new badges. Bart decides to help her get rid of addiction and return Lysina's beads. At night, Bart cuts out his stubble from Homer's driver’s license and draws his eyes. Bart gives this thing out for the first mascot of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics named Zhirnov and offers them a badge seller in exchange for Lysines beads. The seller gives him the beads, and Bart returns them to Lisa. At the hotel, it turns out that Marge is left-handed and the next day the US team refuses to lose. And finally, they win. Bob Costas says it's the only U.S. gold medal at this Olympics.

The end credits are accompanied by Tchaikovsky's “Russian Dance,” which also refers to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

• When the Simpsons enter Vancouver, Homer meets an old acquaintance, the heroine of the feature film The Simpsons at Cinema , an elderly woman in a traditional Alaskan costume who taught Homer to enter the astral plane. Homer told Marge that this was his former therapist.
• In order to take Lisa’s beads from the seller, Bart cut out part of Homer's face from the photograph, drew eyes on his chin, and passed it off as the first badge of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, naming the received character Zhirnov. According to Bart, he personifies "The Spirit of Russian Sloth and Alcoholism"
• Despite the evil banter in this series over Russia, it was the Russian team that won the bronze medal in the mixed curling demonstration competitions.
• In this series, the Canadian counterparts of Milhouse and Nelson appear.

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