Review of Margaritaville

When Stan takes a cheque to the bank because his father tells him he must invest rather than spend his money he is shocked when the cashier tells him his money has disappeared moments after he has put it in his account! He suggests that Randy could transfer some money into Stan's account but moments later all his money has gone too! Soon Randy is preaching that people must respect the vengeful economy by stopping all frivolous spending and saving money by wearing sheets and travelling around by riding llamas! When Kyle starts telling people that the economy is not an entity capable of vengeance and the only way to get it going again is to spend money he is vilified by Randy's followers. Meanwhile Stan is trying to get the money back on one of Randy's frivolous purchases; a Margaritaville machine; it isn't easy though; the shop sends him to the financing company; they send him to Wall Street and eventually they send him to the US Treasury in Washington DC.

This was a decent enough topical episode; there are a good number of laughs; I particularly liked the scene where the townspeople started throwing squirrels at Mr. Garrison. The way Kyle was vilified then ended up being some sort of financial messianic saviour was pretty funny as were Randy's rantings about the vengeful economy; his suggestion about llamas was particularly funny. Stan's attempts to get a refund were a bit of a distraction for the most part although its conclusion in Washington provided a good laugh when we see financial policy being decided by the use of a decapitated chicken on a chart with a number of possible courses of action. Over all this episode was fun enough but didn't feel like a classic to me.