****SPOILERS**** Instead of not looking a gift horse in the mouth these two mindless fools Harland & Margery Bender, Joe Carafello & Catherine Battistone, blew a ten million lottery win by discounting what their good friend Tinker,Mark Blankfield, had to offer them. Finding out that they hit it big time Tinker showed up at the Bender's doorstep with this bottle of smart pills that he developed in his laboratory that by taking them would give them all the smarts or knowledge they need to invest their winnings. It was in fact the Bender's son Jonathan, Jason Horst,whom they treat like the village idiot who ends up swallowing the pills, after they threw Tinker and his pills out of the house, and thus made monkeys out of his not so bright parents.
Using the brain power that the pills gave him Johathan pulls the rug from under his parents feet and left them at his mercy with him investing the ten million dollars and double or even tripling it, within a week, and having them put literally under house arrest with only the barest nauseates at their disposal. Being the greedy and mindless jerks that they were the Bender's had Jonathan dance rings around them and legally end up leaving them penniless. And totally dependent on him and him alone.
This TFTDS episode shows just how out of touch with the hard cold realities of life most people like the Bender's are when they come into a big windfall and end up blowing it before they can spend a dime of it.It was young Jonathan who by gulping down the smart pills that ended up on easy street for the rest of his life and they both ended up straight down in the dumps! A fate which they and only they made all for themselves!
Using the brain power that the pills gave him Johathan pulls the rug from under his parents feet and left them at his mercy with him investing the ten million dollars and double or even tripling it, within a week, and having them put literally under house arrest with only the barest nauseates at their disposal. Being the greedy and mindless jerks that they were the Bender's had Jonathan dance rings around them and legally end up leaving them penniless. And totally dependent on him and him alone.
This TFTDS episode shows just how out of touch with the hard cold realities of life most people like the Bender's are when they come into a big windfall and end up blowing it before they can spend a dime of it.It was young Jonathan who by gulping down the smart pills that ended up on easy street for the rest of his life and they both ended up straight down in the dumps! A fate which they and only they made all for themselves!