The Odyssey is Nothing Compared to One Woman's Journey to Access Her In Building Laundry
The Odyssey is a tale featuring a man, boo, Odysseus, and his commute home after committing a world altering war crime. He breaks and enters into a young man's home, participates in animal cruelty to escape, gets a bunch of his own men turned into pigs (hopecore), barely manages to navigate two moody women, and then shacks up with a blonde for seven years while forgetting about his brunette wife at home. Odysseus was subject to the cruelty of the gods, but not because he didn't deserve it, clearly.
Penelope Minneapolis is a perfectly fine woman who has to endure far worse just to get her laundry done, she just has Greek heritage and is subject to the whims of the gods. Penny's journey begins with a sacrifice to the gods, something humble to show them she is not above the tasks ahead of her. Once, she spilled mustard on a blouse before giving the most important presentation of her career. Another time, she ripped her pants in improv class to reveal she was wearing Paw Patrol boxers, she had to explain they were her ex's, no one believed her and she wasn't allowed to leave. Her most recent sacrifice was dressing extremely accurately as Tina Belcher while claiming to have no clue who that was. With this, she gains access to the hallway which houses the laundry room.
After proving her humility, she had to prove her loyalty to the gods. Once, she was forced to lie to her friends about their buttcracks being visible in their low rise jeans. Anytime she got close to warning one, she remembered that time the gods forced her between a rock and hard place. Literally, a rock fell Looney Toons style on her and smushed her into the cold, hard ground. If she resists the call to being a girl's girl or generally proves she's a loyal gods' girl, all she has to do is fight a small, blind raccoon to get through the hallway.
If her show of loyalty is deemed enough, a set of three doors appear in front of her, each locked, each labeled with a feat of impossible strength. "Clog your boyfriend's toilet and blame it on his non-existent roommate, never admit he doesn't have one", "free bleed on day 2 of your period while wearing all white pants", "do the Tina Belcher thing again but this time do the voice". One time the gods insisted she do all three feats before granting her access to what lies beyond this door.
Finally, a laundry machine appears. $4.00 to wash, $3 to dry and her load never fully dries. After all that, she is greeted by the Sisyphian task of folding and putting away her laundry, something that seems to never quite end, as her empty basket is then refilled by that day's outfit. Like Odysseus, Penelope Minneapolis is cursed by the Greek gods, forced to undergo humiliation rituals, tests of strength, and take extreme measures to keep the gods at bay. Unlike Odysseus, she is a real girl who is having the hardest time doing so.