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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]
The Old Mill was released on Laserdisc as part of Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons in 1985. It was released on December 4, 2001, on the Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies DVD set [ 1 ] [ 9 ] and on March 1, 2005, on the Bambi Platinum Edition DVD as a special feature. [ 10 ]
The episode's title is a reference to the television show The Wonder Years. Homer's flashbacks to his childhood were based on the plot of the film Stand By Me, which in turn is based on Stephen King's novella The Body. [2] However, the scenes in the quarry were based on the coming of age film Breaking Away, directed by Peter Yates. [4]
Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode an 8.1 out of 10, signifying a "great" rating. Canning felt that the episode was impressive, expressing that it was "a fun and funny episode focused on Homer and his always dysfunctional relationship with his family [...] just what we've come to love and expect after 20 years." [11]
Homer and Jethro were the stage names of American country music duo Henry D. "Homer" Haynes (1920–1971) and Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns (1920–1989), popular from the 1940s through the 1960s on radio and television for their satirical versions of popular songs. [1]
The two formed a duo and WNOX program director Lowell Blanchard gave them the stage names Homer and Jethro after forgetting their names on the air. Burns was drafted into the US Army and served in Europe during World War II and reunited with Haynes, who had served in the Pacific, in Knoxville in 1945.
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet" is the first episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30, 1993.
Other episodes included in the collection set were "Colonel Homer", "Homer Alone", and "Simpson and Delilah". [7] The episode was again included in the 2005 DVD release of the Last Temptation of Homer set. [8] It was also released in May 1998 on the seventh volume of the Best of The Simpsons video collection, together with "Bart Gets Hit by a ...