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When Homer and Otto descend into the sewers on the bungee rope, they pass three underground societies: the Morlocks (from the 1960 film The Time Machine), the C.H.U.D.s (from the 1984 film C.H.U.D.) and the Mole People (from the 1956 film The Mole People).
The doctor informs Homer he will die if he takes another cannonball to his gut. Homer decides to perform his act one last time, but he dodges the cannonball at the last second. After a warm sendoff from the touring bands, Homer leaves the festival and loses his children's respect for no longer being cool, which he embraces. [2] [3]
At a gay club, Homer tells Grady and Julio that his relationship with Marge is in trouble. Marge and the kids visit Homer and bring "Weird Al" Yankovic, who sings a parody of John Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane", to tell Homer that Marge loves him. Marge asks Homer out on a date. As he prepares, Homer gets nervous and drinks margaritas.
Aughey would have liked to see Homer's storyline explored as an A story in its own episode rather than cut short as a C story. [13] Erich Asperschlager of TV Verdict thought the puzzle-solving storyline was "a lot of fun", both for its references to the "highly entertaining" documentary Wordplay and the jokes it inspired. He thought the one ...
When escaping from the other children, Bart, Lisa and Milhouse have to swing across a gap on a vine; Milhouse goes across first, but refuses to throw the vine back (calling out that "there's no time") in a reference to the opening scene of the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Satipo does the same to Indiana Jones (but as an act of ...
While the students are introduced to the newspaper's history and operations, Homer smells cake and follows it to a retirement party for the newspaper's food critic, which he crashes before greedily eating the food. The editor, seeing Homer's love of food, offers him a job as the new food critic. He asks Homer to prepare a 500-word sample review.
Homer awakens in a utopian Springfield where everything and everyone is made out of Lego (Maggie is a massive Duplo figure). While visiting the Lego Comic Book Guy's store to pick up a toy set for Lisa's birthday, Homer has a vision upon touching the box where he sees his normal flesh self giving the gift to Lisa and helping her build it, which disturbs Lego Homer.
Homer and Bob go to Moe's Tavern, where Lenny gives Bob advice on how to murder Bart. The assailant shoots at Homer, before escaping in a tow truck. Bob suggests that Homer stay out of sight to be safe but Homer is named the King of the Springfield Mardi Gras and must ride on a float for the whole day. Bob is sure that someone rigged the ballot ...