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In 2008, Empire placed The Simpsons at the top of their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time", and noted "King-Size Homer" as the show's best episode, calling it "An unimprovable mix of sharp dialogue, hilarious sight gags and heart." [10] Kimberly Potts of AOL Television named the episode the seventh best episode of the series. [11]
A brief parody of the Love, American Style theme plays at the end of "Clown Without Pity" and again at the end of "King Homer". The "King Homer" segment is a parody of the 1933 film King Kong. [1] The tribal leader is heard saying "Mosi Tatupu, Mosi Tatupu", which the subtitles inform us means "We will sacrifice the blue-haired lady." [4] The ...
The segment "Homer 3" is a parody of The Twilight Zone episode "Little Girl Lost", in which a girl travels through a portal to the 4th dimension. At one point, Homer compares the situation to "that twilighty show about that zone". [15] Homer passes by the library from Myst, a reference to the famed computer game of the era. Series creator Rand ...
Over time, Homer gradually mutates into a giant blob monster, rampaging through Springfield and eating all the townspeople he can find. Eventually, Dr. Phil McGraw shows up with the Simpson family and tells Homer to stop for their sakes. In fear of losing Marge, Homer ends his rampage after he consumes McGraw and vows to use his insatiable ...
The clips where Homer remembers when he got hurt are flashbacks from 33 episodes: "Homer at the Bat" "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" "Homer's Triple Bypass" "Marge in Chains" "Deep Space Homer" "Bart Gets an Elephant" "Homer Badman" "King-Size Homer" "Two Bad Neighbors" "Homerpalooza" "A Milhouse Divided" "The Homer They Fall" "Homer to the Max ...
The episode was considered polarizing. In one of its jokes, Bart asks Homer for a large sum of money and Homer immediately pulls out his wallet. Oakley described the scene as "very controversial" among the show's producers; Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, in particular did not like it. [4]
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He was hired during The Simpsons ' seventh season after writing the first draft of the episode "King-Size Homer", [1] but left after season eleven. He returned to the Simpsons staff during the thirteenth season, and remains involved with the series (as a consulting producer and occasional writer) into the present day.