October 14, October 21, October 28, November 4, November 11, November 18, December 9, December 16, January 6, February 3, February 10, Malibu Stacy ". February 17, February 24, March 17, March 31, April 14, April 28, Title Original airdate Production code " " Bart of Darkness " ".
September 4, September 11, September 25, October 2, October 9, October 30, November 6, November 13, November 27, Sexual Inadequacy ". December 4, December 18, January 8, January 22, February 5, February 12, Australia ". February 19, Patty and Selma ". February 26, March 19, April 16, April 30, Part One ". Part Two " ". September 17, November 26, January 7, March 24, October 27, November 10, November 17, November 24, December 1, December 15, December 29, January 5, January 12, January 19, February 2, February 9, February 16, February 23, March 16, April 13, April 20, April 27, He retreats to his room and Lisa gives him her telescope with which to pass the time.
He observes a neighbor commit a terrible act. But layer the word regicide on top of that reference, and it remains funny for the rest of days. Mayor Quimby is impressed by the act of heroism, and he hires Homer as his personal bodyguard. Quimby does, but Fat Tony is quickly freed, and he tries to kill the man who sent him away … at a dinner-theater production of Guys and Dolls starring Mark Hamill.
Except for that. And the killer robots. Marge wants to go on a nice, peaceful vacation with the family, but Bart and Lisa have other bird-sanctuary-less ideas.
Things start off well enough, but the Simpsons gene eventually kicks in, and Bart and Homer are arrested for various indiscretions, and a gang of Itchy and Scratchy robots are ready to kill. Our list of probably gives Marge the shortest shrift, but in this episode, we encounter her neuroses head-on.
After Homer stops Bart from trying to jump over Springfield Gorge on his skateboard, he accidentally finds himself zooming down the ramp instead. Homer falls for a comically long, violent time. Finally, he is airlifted and safely placed inside an ambulance, only for the ambulance to instantly crash into a tree and for his gurney to roll out the back.
Homer tumbles down the Gorge the same way, with the same painful sounds. Producers fiddle with shows all the time. They change characters, drop others, and push some into the background. Homer struts around Springfield for the next week, taking advantage of his unearned fame, but in the next episode, Cool Homer is turned into Bumbling Sidekick Homer.
Burns brings in nine professional baseball players to act as ringers. This episode is a Trojan horse — hiding an emotional story inside a visually sumptuous package. To protect himself, Mayor Quimby passes the blame along to someone else: illegal immigrants. We do. From then on, everything goes great for Homer until he realizes something: He wants to lose. Periodically, especially in later seasons, The Simpsons takes on an issue of the day and nails it.
He then spends the rest of the episode trying to prevent Bart from becoming gay in the most hilariously inept ways. Most memorably, he takes Bart to a very gay steel mill. The reason the episode works so well is because Homer makes the perfect patsy, of sorts. He takes incorrect stances to such extremes that they reveal the absurdity of the position even in the most minor sense.
And then, because he takes it to such an extreme, when he realizes the error of his ways, it is that much more compelling. Rowling is a fake — the woman on the cover is an actress, and a team of marketing hacks put the book together.
Even in , it was tough to find a new angle on the Beatles. Instead of Homer putting down his dessert so he could be appropriately starstruck by George Harrison, he eats an endless stream of brownies. Instead of Ringo, something something Burt Ward? At its best, The Simpsons balances its heartfelt sentiments with uproarious disarray. At the time, The Simpsons was an anecdote for both. He gets a job at a fast-food restaurant, eats his way to obesity, and bemoans his fate every chance he gets.
This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode. The first few minutes show Krusty lighting a cigarette with a copy of Action Comics 1. A Flowers for Algernon homage that is arguably better than its source material.
At the least, it is funnier and more touching. Here, instead of an experimental procedure that results in a higher IQ, Homer becomes smart when a long-embedded crayon is removed from his brain. It becomes increasingly apparent to Homer how frustrating and isolating the world is for intelligent people. The episode was written by Al Jean, one of the original Harvard nerds and showrunner for the past 13 seasons.
When he got smarter, Homer and Lisa grew instantly closer, and when he decides to reverse the procedure and become dumb again, Homer first writes his daughter a note that is truly tear-jerking. Lisa and Abe are widely cast as wet blankets on The Simpsons. But this episode is a prime example as to why these two are just as entertaining as Homer or Bart. Lisa and Abe will always be grouches, but there is value in being the antithesis.
The road-trip episode is a time-honored sitcom tradition, right up there with having two dates at the same time with two different women. Went into outer space? But high up on the list is lucky. Homer has yet another job, this time, as an adult-education teacher of a class that shares its name with the episode title. Things escalate, Homer gets kicked out, he makes a new wife out of a plant, and then tries very desperately to win his non-green wife back.
Besides being the first episode that aired, it is also the first of a very popular type of Simpsons episode: one in which Homer gets a different job. In this case, he becomes a mall Santa. It was actually the eighth. Anything but. Main article: Season 8. Main article: Season 9. Main article: Season Categories Episodes. Universal Conquest Wiki. Thanksgiving ". Lisa and the 8th Commandment ". Lisa Goes to Washington ". Malibu Stacy ". Sexual Inadequacy ". Australia ". See also TV Schedule.
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