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While in France for the Cannes Film Festival, Duke shocks Jay at a special conference when he unveils his latest creation: Phillipsvision. Duke's plan is to take older pieces, and change them around to make them 'better' and more 'commercially acceptable.' The example he shows at Cannes is of a revamped ending to the film 'Casablanca,' in which Ilsa Lund's character returns to Rick.Jay chastises Duke for what he is planning to do, but suddenly, Duke collapses. Duke is rushed to a hospital where it is told that his condition is fatal, and gives him only 4 years left to live.Returning to New York, Duke tries to make the most of the time he has left, but soon falls into despair. Noting Duke's emotions recently, Jay realizes that his boss (for being such a jerk most of the time) is a decent person deep down, and vows to find a cure.After much experimentation, Jay finds the cure, and dubs it 'Jay's Oil.' Once cured, Duke throws a party, and is willing to give Jay anything he wants as a way of saying thanks. Jay immediately demands that Duke destroy his plans for Phillipsvision, to which Duke is at first incensed, but concedes to Jay's wish.The show ends with a commercial-style montage, showing all the people that Jay's oil has benefited: KKK members, drunken oil tanker captains, seal-clubbers, foreign dictators, German skinheads, and prison inmates.
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Jay's parents head off on a vacation, though due to an airline strike, are forced to take a different airline. Their luck takes a nosedive when Franklin finds a penguin at the wheel of their plane, whose been drinking. But it is the revelation that penguins can't fly that causes the bird to crash their plane into the ocean.A search party is sent out to find the two, but there appears to be no trace of the Shermans. A video will (hosted by Orson Welles) leaves an antique music box to Margo, and the promise that when she turns 18, half of the family's fortune will go to her, with Jay supervising the fortune until that time.Jay then goes around to supervise the companies that comprise his family's empire, and is rather shocked and degraded at the numerous products made at the expense of the consumer. Jay soon feels he should do something good with the family money, and upon seeing New York City in a constant state of ruin and disrepair, decides to use the family money to beautify New York.The city comes out sparkling, and a ticker-tape parade is thrown in Jay's honor...soon destroying the millions of dollars in beautification.Soon after, Margo has a vision of her mother, and she and Jay find their parents on a tropical island, where the apes appear ready to eat them all for dinner.
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