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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.
Homer is taken to "The Island", a parody of "The Village" in The Prisoner. "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" makes fun of use of the Internet, which was rapidly growing in popularity at the time. The Internet was just starting to turn into a serious waste of time around this point in history", staff writer Matt Selman said in the episode's DVD ...
To add insult to injury, the hunter's tape is shown on the news, and Homer is mocked by many. Homer hires the hunter, named Grant, to assist him in confronting the animal. Homer makes a near-useless suit of armor: despite Marge's objections, Bart, Lenny and Carl join him as they start on their quest. The four of them make camp in the woods.
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 season 12 episode "Homer vs. Dignity" was also derided for a scene in which Homer is implicitly raped by a panda in a zoo, with Johnny Dee of The Guardian suggesting that fans believe that the phrase "jumped the shark" should be replaced with "raped by a panda" to imply the shows decline in quality. [100]
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 ...
Homer gets a job at a medical testing center. During one experiment, while commenting on Homer's stupidity, the doctors find a crayon lodged in Homer's brain from a childhood incident when he stuck sixteen crayons up his nose and sneezed all but one of them out. The doctors offer to surgically remove the crayon, and Homer accepts their offer.