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Throughout the series, Homer and Lisa's relationship is problematic, as Homer often struggles to understand Lisa, who in many ways is a little girl but who is also smarter than him. Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay analyzed "Make Room for Lisa" in their book The Simpsons in the classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom ...
When the Simpson family visits an animation festival, Homer discovers Animotion, a motion capture technology that enables a real person to control a cartoon character with their own movements. Homer volunteers to demonstrate this technology and likes it so much that he invests his life savings in the Animotion stock.
At a gym, Homer meets Rainier Wolfcastle, who becomes his fitness coach. In two months, Homer is healthier and more muscular, and reveals his new exercise habits to his family. At the gym, two Power Sauce representatives, Brad and Neil, ask Wolfcastle to climb to the top of Springfield's tallest mountain, "The Murderhorn", as a publicity stunt ...
When Homer turns on the truck radio, the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls can be heard. [6] Originally, a "trucker song" about "a horrible wreck out on old 95" would be heard. The song was a reference to the " Wreck of the Old 97 ", a famous locomotive that crashed in 1903 and inspired the country ballad of the same name.
Homer Jay Simpson [1] is the bumbling husband of Marge and the father of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson. [2] [3] He is the son of Mona and Abraham "Grampa" Simpson.[4] [5] Over the first 400 episodes of The Simpsons, Homer held over 188 different jobs. [6]
Half of the town keeps the original 636 area code, the other has 939. Homer becomes infuriated when he loses out on winning tickets to see the Who live in concert to Mr. Burns in a radio show's give-away. At a town meeting, after being shown a patronising, deflective film produced by the telephone company, Homer rallies an angry mob to protest ...
Wolfcastle asks Homer what he plans to do with the pictures. Homer says that he will not make them public if the celebrities start treating their fans with more respect and stop taking them for granted. Wolfcastle agrees and, in a show of good faith, invites the Simpsons to a barbecue at an offshore "party platform" he owns.
The Simpsons arrive home to find everyone in Springfield gathered on their lawn and Marge thinks the town has forgiven them. However, while that is technically true, the price was the ransacking of everything the Simpsons had in their house, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II. The family find a glimmer of light when they playfully ...