There’s a brief moment in this episode, where Homer is asked by Marge if he drinks to escape reality, and Homer imagines himself really buff and making his pecs dance. I really like those little moments where we see the really weird world that is the inside of Homer’s mind.
Oh yeah, and in this episode, he temporarily gives up drinking.
Simpsons fans just know this episode.
Do they know that the plow Homer buys is from Kumatsu Motors, the same Japanese car company that bought Homer’s brother Herb’s bankrupt company? They do now.
You know, if anybody really read these.
What? Another Homer episode? Well, if that’s the way it is…
What legacy will we leave behind? How will people remember us? Can we control how the world will see us in future generations?
That’s some heady stuff for Homer Simpson.
Why does Homer Simpson hate Ned Flanders so much? The world may never know.
Why Homer would sometimes actually try to help Ned the world knows even less about.
Up until this point, Marge’s sisters Patty and Selma seem to have been fairly interchangeable.
That will change now.
Here’s a question: how much comedy can you mine from an episode of a show where the premise is one of the main characters may be dying?
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Ah, baseball. America’s pastime, where a ticket gives the holder the right to make a complete ass of himself in a public venue.
Well, maybe not so much unless your name is Homer Simpson.
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