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"Homer vs. Dignity" is the fifth episode of the twelfth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 26, 2000. In the episode, Mr. Burns hires a cash-strapped Homer as his "prank monkey", paying him to play pranks on others and humiliate himself in public.
Homer promises to buy a large Christmas tree, but instead spends most of the money on a talking astrolabe for himself, meaning that the only Christmas tree Homer can buy with the leftover money is a cheap, dry, twig-like tree that catches fire if rubbed; after hearing the astrolabe talk, the family are disappointed by his selfish behavior.
It is Rob Lazebnik's first writing credit for the series with his second being the fifth episode of the season "Homer vs. Dignity". [1] The second segment, "Scary Tales Can Come True" is the second written by John Frink and Don Payne after "Insane Clown Poppy", but that did not air later in the season. The segment was the idea of another writer ...
The Eaton fire has burned more than 14,000 acres and numerous structures in both Altadena and Pasadena, including entire neighborhoods. "Each house had been there so long that it had its own ...
On November 2, 2004, the episode was released in the United States on a DVD collection titled The Simpsons Christmas 2, along with the season twelve episodes "Homer vs. Dignity" and "Skinner's Sense of Snow" and the season fifteen episode " 'Tis the Fifteenth Season", despite Christmas only playing a minor role in the first act and not being ...
California, and many of its geographically smaller governing units, do a woefully insufficient (if directionally improving) job of clearing away deadwood and forest brush, as does the territory ...
The Park fire has burned more than 400,000 acres in two weeks. Photos from space show a region destroyed and a landscape blackened. Dramatic satellite photos show California fire's massive ...
9,907 wildfires burned at least 601,625 acres (2,434.69 km 2) of land in the state of California during 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The wildfires injured at least 125 people and killed at least 1. They also caused over $218.15 million (2013 USD) in damage. [ 2 ]