Chalkboard:Have a great summer, everyone.
Couch gag:Every couch in Springfield comes alive and attacks everyone.
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Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

Open to the family watching a cop drama. As the credits roll, Kent Brockman announces that the Springfield Isotopes are in first place thanks to their new acquisition of Buck “Homerun King” Mitchell. “To the bandwagon!” shouts Homer, as they all head to Springfield Stadium. Tabitha Vixx, Buck Mitchell’s wife, sings the first few bars of the National Anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs. After a minute of lascivious dancing, she concludes “…and the home of the brave.” Buck, humiliated, delivers a terrible performance at that night’s game. He later sees Homer and Marge kissing on the Jumbotron; the next day Buck shows up at the Simpsons’ front door and asks for help with his marriage in exchange for season tickets.

Marge doubts their ability to counsel another couple. Her doubts lead to her and Homer flirting, which Buck sees and claims is an example of what he wants with his own wife. At the first session—taking place in the Simpsons’ living room—Buck confesses he assumed Tabitha would give up her recording career to focus on his minor league baseball career, to which she responds she won’t stay in a mismatched marriage. The session concludes with Homer asking Buck to sign baseballs.

The next session takes place at Buck and Tabitha’s mansion, which goes much more smoothly. As a result of his now-steady personal life, his game returns to superior form. Tabitha continues her singing tour, and Homer comes to meet her in the locker room to check up on things. There he gives her a neck rub; her loud moans through the door are overheard by Buck, who barges in enraged and slugs Homer.

Now with his marriage again on the rocks, Buck goes into another slump. Homer wants to get them back together, but Marge refuses to help. He leaves, and a few minutes later Tabitha knocks on the door; she tells a shocked Marge that she plans to leave Buck for good. Marge objects, insisting they stay together.

Flash to Buck Mitchell at the plate in the bottom of the ninth. Homer has hijacked the Duff blimp and spells out a message to Buck, supposedly from Tabitha proclaiming her love. Buck, reinvigorated, hits the ball into the blimp itself, causing it to crash into the field; as Homer alone runs from the wreckage, Buck realizes Tabitha had no part in the message. He charges Homer, bat in hand, but Marge delivers a monologue over the loudspeaker, dissuading him. It also prompts Tabitha to tell Buck she wants to stay together.

The episode closes with another Isotope player, Tito, saying he doesn’t care about the healed marriage because bandits just kidnapped his mother.

Cultural references>

• One of the misplays that Buck made during the first game in this episode is a parody of Bill Buckner’s infamous error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
• One of Tabitha’s songs sounds very similar to Britney Spears’ Toxic.
• The show they are watching is called Hunch and seems to be a poke at the television show Monk. In fact, the first name of the “actor” on Hunch is Tony which is the real life first name of Monk’s main actor Tony Shalhoub.
• Hunch also seems to be a bit controversial, in the same vein as NYPD Blue if Bart’s comment about Hunch’s butt in the shower is accurate.
• At the end credits for Hunch, the city of New York is credited as being played by the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, a small city between Calgary and the USA/Canadian border of approximately 80,000 inhabitants. A strange choice to film a prime time crime drama, although Canada has become a popular filming location for many American movies and some television. This was shown in “The Bart Wants What It Wants.”
• Among the people credited in the cast of Hunch are The Late George C. Scott as Furious Bowler, Anthony Hopkins as Bystander #2, Gwyneth Paltrow as Gloria Huncharella and Heidi Klum as Guy Who Turned Out To Be That Other Guy. J.D. Salinger is credited as the writer.
• The file photo of Marge and Homer references Michelangelo’s famous Pietà.
• The writer for the show Homer and the family are watching at the beginning of the episode is J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye.
• Tabitha’s frequent pole-dancing could be a reference to Anna Benson.
• Homer asks “Why couldn’t you marry one of your crummy back-up dancers?”, a reference to notable singers marrying back-up dancers, such as Britney Spears marrying Kevin Federline, and Jennifer Lopez marrying Cris Judd.
• When the zeppelin is above the stadium and showing the text “I love you Buck,” the announcer is saying “Wow, that’s a zeppelin with whole lotta love!” as a reference to Led Zeppelin song “Whole Lotta Love.”
• After accidentally destroying Homer’s dirigible with a home run swing, Buck remarks, “This is the second worst blimp crash ever,” to which Grampa Simpson replies, “Too soon!” This is a reference to the Hindenburg Disaster. This event was also referenced by Kent Brockman in Lisa the Beauty Queen, who after witnessing Barney crash the Duff Blimp exclaimed, “Oh, the humanity!” a la Herbert Morrison.

High-Quality sexy Simpsons titty wallpaper (no idea how to call this)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_and_Homer_Turn_a_Couple_Play

Synopsis

Lisa brings the family to go to the museum to see a weaving exhibit, but to her shock (and Homer and Bart’s joy), it has been canceled and replaced by a “History of Weapons” exhibit. Faced with a long line, Homer notices Ned Flanders and his kids at the front of the line and cuts in front of them. Others start taking advantage of Ned’s kindness, until they are stuck at the end. At the end of the day, the Flanders are still waiting, and are denied entry, as it’s closing time for the Weapons exhibit. So they decide to check out the evolution exhibit. Ned is horrified to hear that humans evolved from apes and that the creation account in Genesis is characterized as a “myth.” Covering his kids’ eyes, he drags them out.

He meets up with the church council to suggest promotion of Creationism. This sounds good to Reverend Lovejoy as it might help him regain his patrons, most of who have left his church for a nearby church (with vibrating pews). The next day, Ned and Lovejoy blackmail Principal Skinner into introducing Creationism in the school. Lisa is perturbed by this, and at a town meeting asks everyone to make a choice between Creationism and Darwinism, as there is only one truth. The townspeople vote for Creationism, much to her chagrin, and the act of teaching or learning Darwinism and Evolution are now made illegal. So Lisa decides to start holding secret classes for people interested in Evolution. However, just as the first lesson is about to begin, she is arrested by Chief Wiggum “for the teaching of non-Biblical science.”

She is brought to trial, which is dubbed “Lisa Simpson v. God.” Representing her is Clarice Drummond, a despised ACLU lawyer from New York City, while on God’s (i.e., Ned’s) side is Wallace Brady, a beloved overweight southern lawyer. The trial does not go smoothly for Lisa, as Professor Frink (called by Clarice) gives ambiguous answers regarding God’s existence, while a creationist scientist (with a degree in “Truthology” from “Christian Tech”) says that Evolution cannot be real, as there is no proof of a “Missing Link” (depicted in a picture as a savage hominid, holding a rock over his head). At home, Lisa is dejected and Marge decides to help her out. So she starts reading Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and gets pretty much engrossed in it. When the trial resumes, Marge tells Lisa that she can help her. While Ned is being cross-examined by Clarice, Marge gives Homer a cold beer. Homer, ecstatic at getting a beer, tries to open it unsuccessfully. The more he tries, the more primitive he gets. Finally, Ned loses his cool and calls him “a big monkey-faced gorilla.” Clarice then asks Ned to compare the picture of the “Missing Link” and Homer shaking the beer over his head. Ned concedes defeat and the case is dismissed. Ned walks off sadly, but Lisa explains that she is all right with his beliefs, but considers that science and church should never mix together, a point which Ned agrees upon.

To-do lists feature

This episode feature different charecters mentioning or showing their to-do list of things they want to accomplish.

• The to-do lists in this episode:

Bart’s completed to-do list:

• Win baseball game
• Appear in summer stock play
• See summer blockbuster
• Have a summer romance

Grampa’s to-do list (2 out of 9):

• Sleep with Esther Williams
• Be first white man in Negro League

The girl that Bart had a summer romance with’s completed to-do list:

• Kiss 100 boys

Homer’s completed to-do list:

• Check out that new store
• Find, destroy Atlantis
• Fake interest in son

• Homer’s “Find, Destroy Atlantis” may be a reference to “Homer the Great,” where the song “We Do” had the line “Who keeps Atlantis off the maps, Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do, we do!”

Cultural References

• This is an obvious spoof of the Scopes trial. In addition, the lawyers Clarice Drummond and Wallace Brady are parodies of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Their names were changed to Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind, the play which dramatized the trial.
• The scene where Bart wins a baseball game parodies The Natural and The Bad News Bears.
• Bart appears in a stage adaptation of Grease 2, in which he confusedly quotes Fonzie.
• The unmaskings and the puzzle-piece fade-outs are a reference to The Saint TV series.
• The summer blockbuster Bart watches is a parody of Men in Black.
• The song played in the “Myth of Creation” diorama is “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers.
• The blackboard at Lisa’s evolution seminar features the phrase “Viva la Evolución,” a pun on the revolutionary call “Viva la Revolución.”
• The character appearing on the TV show at the beginning of the episode, first seen in “I’m Spelling as Fast as I Can,” is a parody of television personalities Vampira and/or Elvira.

High-Quality Wallpaper of Homer (evolution)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Suit

Synopsis

Looking for a way to get easy money, Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson go around town spray-painting people’s addresses on their curbs and making them pay them ten dollars for the unsolicited service. It turns out to be a success after all, but after they already add the “7” and the “4” to the Simpsons’ curb, Homer tells them that he won’t pay, so they leave without finishing. The next day, the letter carrier delivers them someone else’s mail, thinking that their address is 74 Evergreen Terrace. Homer continues to accept the mail. He gets steaks from Omaha, and even accepts a wedding invitation to Scott Weingarten’s cousin’s wedding. One day, Marge gets a letter claiming that she has won a contest from a magazine she doesn’t even subscribe to. Her prize is that a maid will clean the house for a day while she relaxes. Not wanting to look bad, Marge cleans the house until it’s entirely spotless. That is, except for a small stain on the kitchen floor. She combines all of her different cleaners together, but the fumes make her woozy. She falls and hits her head on a stool. When she wakes up in the hospital, it is revealed that she has amnesia and can’t even remember her own family.

After the insurance coverage runs out, the family returns home, with Marge still having amnesia. The home environment quickly jogs her memory of her children, and she also recognizes Ned Flanders when he appears at the window, but Homer is still a stranger to her.

Homer tries to get her to remember him, but to no avail. He then decides to try to make her fall in love with him again, but he only makes her disgusted in him, saying that the greatest thing that’s ever happened to her was forgetting about him. She kicks him out of the house. Patty and Selma excitedly take Marge to a speed dating event, and she meets a man who shares her interests. But when Marge tells him that she has amnesia and three kids, he leaves her. Homer catches up with him and scolds her for leaving him, saying that she is the most beautiful and kind woman he’ll ever meet. Still, he leaves. Marge then tells Homer that even though she may not remember him, he knows the most wonderful things about her. As they drive back home, Homer brings up beer, and she suddenly remembers him. The episode ends with Homer driving (drunk, apparently) into the sunset. During the credits, Homer is asking Marge if she knows any of the people listed.

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the movie Regarding Henry, in which Harrison Ford plays a man with amnesia.
• The scene where Marge and Homer go to a wedding uninvited is similar to various scenes from Wedding Crashers.
• Homer writes on the sidewalk that the ’74 Oakland A’s are the best team ever. Soon after, several members of the team drive by and thank Homer for remembering them. Sal Bando and Gene Tenace, two members of the actual team, make cameo appearances.
• Marge’s quote, “Et tu, Zud?” is a reference to “Et tu Brute?” from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.
• Marge’s fall against the stool is a reference to Million Dollar Baby.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regarding_Margie

Chalkboard: None
Couch gag: The people of Springfield yell out “Surprise!” when the family enters, and Homer has a heart attack and falls to the floor.
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Synopsis

The Simpsons and many other prominent Springfieldians go to see a performance of Itchy & Scratchy: The Musical. The show features the cat and felicitate mouse doing what they do best, but all in song. The audience is enthralled by the performance and give it a standing ovation. Julianna, the director comes out on stage, accompanied by Principal Skinner, to acknowledge the cheers. Skinner reveals that she used to be a student of Springfield Elementary and, while acknowledging all her accomplishments, says that she wasn’t very good in math, because she is a girl. Everyone is shocked and Skinner’s attempts to defend himself just worsen the situation.

The next day, the teachers of Springfield Elementary and other ladies stage a protest outside the school against Skinner’s remark, much to the displeasure of Superintendent Chalmers. Skinner assures him that he will take care of it and holds a conference in the school’s auditorium, inviting all the protesting ladies to attend. There, he tries to pacify them by wearing a skirt and saying that men and women are equal but not identical. Nothing he says has a good effect on the ladies, so finally he starts hyperventilating and collapses on stage. Chalmers comes out and introduces them to their new principal—lady principal, that is. As her first act as principal, she separates the boys and girls into separate schools. The move is met with mixed reactions.

The next day, Otto drops off the girls at their school, and then drives a few feet ahead and releases the boys from their cage in the bus, so they can attend their school. Lisa seems to feel right at home in the girl-friendly school, with the fountains, paintings, pink paint and all. She attends math class, which will be taught by the new principal herself. However, instead of usual number-crunching or the like, she starts speaking about the philosophy and magic in math. While the other girls seem to go for it, Lisa asks whether they will get down to doing problems, to which the principal replies that problems are how boys look at math. Disillusioned by this “pro-female” (and no-logic) bias toward one of her favorite subjects, Lisa walks off and goes into the boys’ school compound, which looks like it’s been hit by a couple of hurricanes. She peeps into one of the classrooms and sees a math class in session, where actual, accurate math is being taught—exactly how she likes it. She is caught by Skinner, now an assistant to Groundskeeper Willie and told to leave.

After a chat with Marge, she decides to disguise herself as a boy, named “Jake Boyman” (though the boys nickname her “Toilet”) and attend the boys’ school. During the math class, she gets a problem wrong, but she feels happy to have learned something. Unfortunately, being with the boys means having to act like one. She inadvertently gets into a fight with Nelson and, as much as she tries to use her intelligence to escape her situation, she gets beaten up.

When Bart returns home that day, happy to have seen a fight, he is shocked to see Lisa, still dressed as Jake, sitting on her bed, crying quietly. He feels sorry for her and he tells her that he will teach her to act like a boy.

Thanks to Bart’s help, she starts acting more like a boy, including Bart forcing her to beat up poor Ralph Wiggum. However, she does well in math class. Finally, at an award ceremony, she is given an award for her outstanding performance in math. She then reveals herself to the whole school, and she explains why she had to disguise herself. Bart gets up and tells everyone that she did well only because she was acting like a boy. Angry at hearing this, she throws her award at Bart, but ends up hitting Ralph. Shocked at how “boy-like” she has become, she apologises to Ralph. In the end, it is assumed that Skinner is reinstated as principal.

Cultural references

• The title is a play on the title of the song “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” by Cyndi Lauper.
• The Broadway Version of The Lion King is completely parodied by the Itchy and Scratchy Musical, Stab-a-Lot, even to the point that the musical uses puppets (and puppeteers) that are exactly like the Timon puppet used in said musical. Its title is a parody of Spamalot, which Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria was a cast member of. The song “It’s Symbiotic” is a parody of the song “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar. And the song The Circle of Knife is obviously a parody on The Circle of Life in The Lion King. The name of the director, Julianna, is an obvious reference to Julie Taymor, the director of the actual Broadway musical, known for her stunning visuals and use of puppetry.
• The song that Otto plays after he lets the girls off is “Breaking the Law” by Judas Priest.
• The song that Martin, “The Best Flautist”, plays and continues playing at the end credits is “Thick as a Brick” by Jethro Tull.
• The Waitresses’ I Know What Boys Like is used in this episode.
• The episode’s basic storyline is similar to William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
• The music that plays in scenes featuring the boys’ playground are very reminiscent of the score from Stanley Kubrick’s film version of A Clockwork Orange. Both A Clockwork Orange and the episode feature somewhat apocalyptic, violent settings.
• In the girls’ section of the elementary school, paintings by Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe hang on the walls, joined in humorous juxtaposition by a Cathy cartoon, implying an equivalent position in the female-artist pantheon for Cathy Guisewite.
• In the Springfield Theater District there is a musical entitled $$$ starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. This is probably a parody of The Producers
• One Guy Named Moe: Parody of a Broadway comedy from the late 80s called Five Guys Named Moe.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Just_Want_to_Have_Sums

Couch gag: Homer puts together a puzzle that shows the Simpsons sitting on the couch. He places Maggie’s head on Homer’s body and vice versa, then says “D’oh!” and fixes it. He then chuckles.
Chalk board: none

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Synopsis

A dinner at the Frying Dutchman gone wrong turns into an excuse for another anthology show, this time with a nautical theme—Lisa tells about the Mayflower voyage, Bart tells about mutiny in Tahiti, and Homer tells about capsizing cruise ships.

Lisa’s story (Journey on the Mayflower)

Marge, Bart, and Lisa board the Mayflower to head for the new world, but just as they do, Homer runs ahead of them and hides in a barrel. They see the police looking for him (because he made the mistake of asking why this time is called the “Jacobean era” when the king is called “James” and not “Jacob”), and they take pity on him as they hear him praying (he is actually praying that the police kill them instead of him). Even so, they take him with them and dress him up like them. Marge immediately grows on Homer, but Moe likes her as well (having gone as far as to kill her husband) and is instantly jealous of their friendship. To get Homer out of the way, Moe takes him down to the storage room where all the beer is held and tells him to drink whenever a wave hits the boat. He gets drunk, and Captain “Flandish” (Flanders) and Reverend Lovejoy find him and other passengers partying. Moe blames Homer, and they place him in a stock. Then, a storm approaches, and Flanders gets knocked out. Homer claims that he steers better when he is drunk, and while drinking a bottle of wine, he leads them safely out of the storm. He and Marge get together, and they all make it to the New World. While having the first Thanksgiving with the Native Americans, Flandish says that he’s almost sorry for what the Pilgrims will do to them later (take their land and wipe them out).

Bart’s story (Mutiny on the Bounty)

The HMAV Bounty sets sail from England, commanded by Captain Bligh (Skinner). Bligh severely mistreats his crew, tossing off their mail. They arrive in Tahiti, where the crew has a wonderful time (Bligh later orders them to forget the vacation). Willie warns him of a mutiny, but Bligh ignores him. Eventually, First Mate Bart Christian leads a mutiny and sends Bligh and Willie off in a lifeboat. Bligh mistreats Willie and is sent away on a sea turtle (which he mistreats, even after it submerges). Captain Bart orders the crews to set sail for Tahiti…then he throws away the ship’s wheel and they crash into Antarctica.

Homer’s story (The Neptune Adventure)

Homer’s story takes place on the luxury liner Neptune on New Year’s Eve. At midnight, Captain Burns fails to notice a massive freak wave and the ship capsizes. Led by Selma, survivors Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge, Lenny, Carl, Comic Book Guy, Old Jewish Man (and his wife), and Sideshow Mel ignore Purser Wiggum’s advice to stay put in the ball room and decide to climb up the decks to the engine room. While climbing up through the smokestack, Lenny panics and falls to his death. They encounter rooms in flame, tigers, and Homer doing his business in an upside-down bathroom. Comic Book Guy swims through a flooded deck to help the others get to the engine room, but he has a heart attack and dies. The group makes it to the engine room, but Sideshow Mel’s hair is set on fire because of a blowtorch from the rescue team and he dies. The rest of the original group makes it off the ship, at which point they encounter the walking skeletons of the Bounty crew, who are still trying to get back to Tahiti.

Cultural references

• This episode also references Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In the first story, after the storm breaks off, Homer notices an albatross which he eats. Unlike the poem, this action does not lead to unfortunate incidents. The final act with the appearance of the Bounty could possibly be a reference to the appearance of the ghost ship.
• Homer’s story is a parody of The Poseidon Adventure, an action film. There are several similarities between Homer’s story and The Poseidon Adventure. Two characters die in ways similar to the movie: Lenny falls off a ladder into surging water, like Acres; and Comic Book Guy dies while trying to tie a rope underwater, like Mrs. Rosen. This episode also aired just weeks before the remake of the movie, titled Poseidon, premiered.
• The song played at the beginning of Homer’s story is “Rock the Boat” by the Hues Corporation.
• One-eyed “Admiral Nelson” is a reference to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, British hero of the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Comic Book Guy’s “inspirational music” is “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan.
• “Island in the Sun” by Weezer plays during the montage of the Bounty crew in Tahiti and Easter Island.
• When the Bounty crew is in Tahiti, the theme instrumental music that is played is similar to that written in the musical movie South Pacific.
• At the end of Homer’s story, the crew of the Bounty reappears as living skeletons, parodying Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Lisa sings a parody of The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure, which (exaggeratedly) foreshadows the upcoming destruction of the S.S. Neptune.
• Burns makes references to Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, The China Syndrome, and The Apple Dumpling Gang, which were popular disaster films of the 1970s (except for The Apple Dumpling Gang).
• The ship in Homer’s story is called the Neptune. “Neptune” was the Roman god of the sea; the Greek name for the same deity was “Poseidon.”
• Scenes of Bart standing on the mast of the Bounty, and the use of music by Luigi Boccherini, are references to the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
• This episode’s title spoofs the title of the film The Greatest Story Ever Told.
• In the final segment, as the survivors leave the ship (just before the Bounty appears) a trumpet plays the melody of ‘Panic in Detroit‘ by David Bowie.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wettest_Stories_Ever_Told

“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is the seventeenth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons, that originally aired on April 9, 2006. It saw Richard Dean Anderson guest star. It is written by Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta, meaning this is only the fourth time Dan has written an episode. Dan Castellaneta is the voice of Homer Simpson.

Couch gag:A pair of animated hands deals five cards onto the couch; the jack (Bart), queen (Marge), king (Homer), an ace of diamonds (Lisa), and a joker (Maggie)
Chalk board: none
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Synopsis

Homer learns that the nuclear power plant is being shut down and outsourced to India. After Homer is sent to train the new employees, he becomes power hungry in his new position of authority. Meanwhile, Selma and Patty meet their Hollywood heartthrob, Richard Dean Anderson, who plays MacGyver, only to find that he is totally uninterested in MacGyver.

Meanwhile, Homer realizes to his horror that he has come to India (which he previously mistook for Indiana and Illinois, simultaneously). After a brief standoff with a sacred cow, Homer looks for a relative of Apu named Kavi, who should be around here somewhere. After randomly asking people (for three seconds), he (“Finally!“) gets the right man on the second try.

Back in Springfield, Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson from his Stargate SG-1 convention and tie him to a chair. From there, he manages to escape… only to discover that he loves escaping, and starts having Patty and Selma put him through increasingly complex MacGyver-esque kidnapping trials.

In India, Homer is coming to love the concept of outsourcing. With “help” from a book Marge gave him to read on the plane trip, The Cereal is the Prize, Homer is able to spur the natives into a working frenzy. Or so it appears; actually they assume that if they cheer, they will be allowed to go back to work. Homer, Smithers and Mr. Burns get a positive (if inaccurate) impression from this, and Homer is put in total charge of the power plant while Mr. Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges. Homer, left in charge of a slightly-overgrown nuclear power plant on a river in the middle of nowhere, appraises the Hindu deities and decides he might be a god.

Soon, Mr. Burns and the rest of the Simpson family travel upriver on a PBR boat in an Apocalypse Now manner, and find that Homer is ruling the plant like a god. Horrified, Marge and the kids tell the plant workers that Homer is not a god. They cheerfully explain that they know about that, and are worshiping him instead for the American workplace routines he has installed, like coffee breaks. It is revealed the Homer is treating the workers as good human beings, much to Marge’s relief. Mr. Burns calls this ‘madness’, fires everyone and decides to move the plant back to Springfield. This makes the workers happy due to the various firing clauses Homer has written into their contracts. The episode ends with the Simpsons, Lenny, Carl, Patty, Selma, Richard Dean Anderson and Mr. Smithers joining native dancers in a Hindi musical party in the plant, for which the audio continues into the credits.

Cultural references

• The title is a nod to the film Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. When this episode was named, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang hadn’t been released to theaters yet. “Mr. Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang” was also the name given to James Bond in Japan, as well as being a nickname dubbed by an Italian journalist in 1962. The title was later recorded as a song by Dionne Warwick, intended to be included in the Bond film, Thunderball (1965), but was omitted from the final cut in favor of Tom Jones’ “Thunderball”.
• Homer pretends a cardboard cutout of Mac Tonight is a thermostat repairman and also leaves it to look after the kids.
• Burns mentions being served dinner in a “scooped-out monkey’s head”, a reference to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
• Homer also dresses like the character Mola Ram from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when the Simpsons and Mr. Burns find him in India.
• Homer refers to Brahma, a Hindu god as “Papa Smurf“, Ganesh as “The Elephant Man” and Shiva as “Johnny Sixarms“.
• The boat ride at this episode’s climax parodies Apocalypse Now, itself based on Heart of Darkness.
• The song that plays as the Simpsons sail through India is “The End” by The Doors, which was also used in the film Apocalypse Now. It was previously used in Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder when Homer contemplates suicide.
• The song that plays at the end of the episode is ‘Pal Bhar Ke Liye’ written by Kalyanji-Anandji and performed by Kishore Kumar and Usha Khanna, two famous Indian playback singers. The track is from the 1970 Bollywood movie Johny Mera Naam starring Dev Anand and Hema Malini. Simpsons creator Matt Groening is said to be a fan of Bollywood movies.^{[citation needed]}
• The conversation about choosing a door which may contain a tiger references the short story “The Lady or the Tiger“, in which a young man must choose a door, knowing it will either house a beautiful lady who is not the woman he fell in love with, or a man-eating tiger.
• When Richard Dean Anderson stated “it was just a paycheck,” it is reminiscent of the Saturday Night Live skit where William Shatner told fans at a Star Trek convention to “get a life” and “it was just a TV show.” There also might be some authenticity to Richard’s claim in the show; according to John de Lancie, Richard had wanted to take a break from playing leading men and instead play a character when he starred in Legend.
• “MacGyver lives! And not just at 2 am on the USA Channel!”: In the late 80s – before they started making original TV movies and shows, USA was known for buying reruns of shows such as MacGyver, Murder She Wrote, and Miami Vice and filling their schedule by running them practically 24 hours a day.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Kiss%2C_Bang_Bangalore

Chalkboard: I will not flip the classroom upside down. (The classroom is upside down)
Couch gag: A TiVo menu screen pops up and the “delete this recording now” option is selected
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Synopsis

When it is announced that the commissioner of pro football (Bud Armstrong) wants to expand the league, Homer leads the charge to get the new franchise in Springfield. At first his family doesn’t think he could do it, but Homer manages to put forth a surprisingly strong package for the Springfield Meltdowns and the new Duff Beer Krusty Burger Buzz Cola Costington’s Department Store Kwik-E-Mart Stupid Flanders Park.

The commissioner narrows down the choice of the two cities to either Springfield or Los Angeles. L.A. puts forth an anti-Springfield video hosted by Rob Reiner and features a song sung by celebrity impersonators that ends with them singing “Springfield Blows”. All the owners decide that Springfield is the lesser of two evils, and the Commissioner awards the new team to Springfield. The town gets “Meltmania” and “Downs syndrome” and quickly builds Homer’s new park and paints the town in the team colours (orange and purple) and changes all of the street names to football-related names.

On the day when Springfield is officially announced as the new team, the Commissioner gets confused by all of the new street names and gets lost. He stops for directions at the Simpsons’ house and is greeted by Grampa Simpson, who welcomes him in. However, Grampa starts to fear that the commissioner is a burglar and attacks him and ties him up. The rest of the family arrives home disappointed that the commissioner didn’t show and is shocked to find him tied up in their living room. The commissioner is so angry that he declares that the Meltdowns will never be and leaves, never to return.

The entire town starts to hate Grampa, and the expensive stadium has to be used for farmers’ markets. Grampa is so depressed that he decides to seek out a doctor who will help him commit suicide. The doctor tells Grampa to reconsider, and Grampa decides that if anyone calls him in the next 24 hours, he won’t go through with his plan. When Abe is waiting for someone to call him, the simulated time lapse effect and music parody the movie Koyaanisqatsi, a movie parodied less than seven years earlier in the episode “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder”. The call never comes and Grampa goes back to the clinic the next day. Grampa comes very close to being killed but the police show up just in time to stop it.

Grampa thinks he’s dead and runs through the town, seeing “Hamburger Heaven” and a Charlie Chaplin impersonator. He soon learns that he isn’t dead, gets a new lease on life and decides to live it up. Meanwhile, the city decides to turn the unused football stadium into an arena for bull fighting. Despite Lisa’s protests, Grampa decides to become a matador. Grampa wins his first fight with a bull, but at home, Lisa tells Grampa that she is disappointed. Grampa tells her that people are cheering him for his success, but Lisa tell him that she always cheers for him until now. Grampa isn’t sure about that, but in the next fight he sees the bull that he’s about to kill and decides to spare its life. He releases all the bulls, which immediately start running through the streets of Springfield, causing a great deal of destruction. Lisa is proud of Grampa and the two reconcile, but they both became in danger by two bulls flying with balloons.

Cultural references

• The title of this episode is a play on the 2004 movie Million Dollar Baby.
• The celebrities who appear in the “Springfield Blows” video, a parody of the song ” We Are the World “, include Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Courtney Love, Jim Jam Bonks (The Simpsons’ parody of Jar Jar Binks), The Who, Keith Richards, Biff Tannen, Sting, Barbra Streisand, Sylvester Stallone, Freddy Krueger and El Kabong.
• The euthanasia center is a spoof of the one in Soylent Green.
• One of the options on the diePod’s menu is “Megadeath”, an allusion to the thrash metal band Megadeth.
• Dr. Egoyan, the doctor that helps Grampa try to kill himself an obvious reference to Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
• The name of the Glenn Miller Orchestra song that Grampa requested is Pennsylvania 65000.
• The song that plays when Abe goes down is “Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down and Out)” by John Lennon from the 1974 album, Walls and Bridges.
• The song that plays when Abe ‘lives it up’ is ‘Superman’ by R.E.M. from their 1986 album, Lifes Rich Pageant.
• The euthanasia clinic is right next to a Howard Johnson just like in Kurt Vonnegut‘s Welcome To The Monkey House.
• The song Lisa sings as she tries to convince Springfield citizens not to participate in the bull fighting is a parody of the song Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan.
• Wiggum says to the doctor that is trying to kill Abe Simpson that he’s a natural born killer: this is a reference to the 1994 film Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Abie

Chalkboard: I will not eat things for money. (Live-action).
I will not laminate dog doo. (May 21st and November 5th re-airings)
Couch gag: The family just sits down on the couch. (Live-action). The re-airings on May 21st and November 5th had the family being barbecued on a stick.
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Synopsis

Lenny invites practically everyone in town to a party at his apartment, where he tells them that he is dying to tell them that he has adopted a new faith in the form of a brand new plasma screen TV, and Homer immediately falls in love with its high-definition picture. He begins to spend all his time at Lenny’s house, watching TV. Marge sends over the kids to bring him back, but they too get enthralled by the TV. Eventually, Lenny kicks him out. When he gets back home, he just doesn’t enjoy watching his usual TV anymore. Marge tells him that she entered them into a contest where the prize is a plasma screen TV. Later, they get a call, and they learn that they won third place as opposed to first (“No. No one wins that.”), and the prize is a trip to the Fox Studio Network (no expenses paid). While there, Homer learns of a reality show called “Mother Flippers” (similar to Wife Swap and Trading Spouses), and the grand prize just happens to be enough money to buy a new plasma screen TV. Marge agrees, although with reluctance, and they enter.

When they get back to Springfield, the show begins. Marge is traded to a nice, easy going man named Charles Heathbar and his perfect son, while Homer gets Charles’ very strict wife, Verity. Charles seems to be the classic hen-pecked husband, and is surprised to see that Marge is extremely understanding and nice. Marge enjoys her time with Charles, while he begins to develop a crush on her. Meanwhile, Homer, Bart, and Lisa are having troubles with Verity, who continues to discipline them and object to everything they do. She makes homework out of “Itchy and Scratchy” for Bart and asks Homer for his “synopsis” of CSI: Miami.

Back at Charles’ house, he writes a love song for Marge (with guitar accompaniment), who seems completely oblivious to him until he comes out and tells her that he’s in love with her. She explains to him that she loves Homer, and she tells him that he should tell his wife how he feels. He agrees, and decides to take her back to Homer and then get rid of Verity. When they get back to Springfield, Homer and the kids are ecstatic to see Marge. However, Verity has decided to leave him first, and she has already found a new partner: Patty. Apparently, they both hate Homer equally. Homer threatens to vote No on Proposition 38 (for adoption by same-sex couples), but a little arm-twisting by Patty brings him in line and makes him admit that he doesn’t vote because the booth is up a slope.

In the end, Homer plays on the guitar, serenading his true love, his new plasma TV (and Marge, too).

Cultural references

• The title is most likely a reference to the television series This Is Your Life. Also derived from this older series, the song The Diary of Horace Wimp by Electric Light Orchestra has a repeated phrase, “Horace Wimp, this is your life”. In the last verse of the song, it is changed to “Horace Wimp, this is your wife“.
• The character Charles appears to be based on Gervais’ character David Brent from the British version of The Office. He is constantly fidgeting with his tie, says that he is the manager of an office, and like Brent, appears to be a very inept one. Charles also tells an offensive joke to Marge and plays guitar. He is, however, somewhat more likeable than Brent.
• Homer collects all 40 years of the comic strip The Family Circus, and then throws it in the fire.
• The shot of Charles standing in front of the fire while singing about Princess Diana echoes the famous and controversial photo of her by John Minihan where she is standing in a school garden with the sun behind her, revealing the outline of her legs through her skirt.
• After he has told to Marge a story, Charles is said to be a natural born storyteller. He thanks Marge for having been called in that way and for having not been called a natural born killer. This is a reference to the 1994 film Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone.

High-quality wallpaper of Homer
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org

Chalkboard: None
Couch gag: A laser grid protects the couch. After sneaking past, Homer’s head falls off.
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Synopsis

Ned Flanders wins a duck racing contest and wins a computer. Then Ned gave the computer to Marge because Ned doesn’t have any use for it. In return, Marge babysits Rod and Tod. With Marge spending so much time at The Flanders’, Homer must look after Bart and Lisa, though he is actually sleeping while Bart and Lisa joust with brooms and break the TV and lamp. Homer takes the kids to an animal retirement home, but the trip goes awry when Toot-Toot the monkey pulls Bart into her cage and holds him hostage when Bart offers her a bit of his ice cream. Marge listens to Rod and Todd’s prayers which include them having a wonderful day along with Miss Simpson not eavesdropping on them but forgiving her. Ned comes back home and sees one of the Flander kids wearing a band-aid and tells them to crawl to their bed. Marge tells him that he should support adventurism and shows him a flier about an activity center with everything covered in foam, Ned agrees after some thought.

She comes back home for dinner and when she asks where Bart is Homer makes a clever ruse involving Marge always worried about Bart and even though he is gone for 2 hours she gets worried which fools Marge. Marge takes Rod and Todd to a children’s activity center to encourage adventurism in them, as she secretly feels Ned is overly worried about his sons when he shows up. Rod attempts to climb a wall and discovers a new activity he enjoys, but he falls and suffers a minor injury after Ned screams up to him that he can get hurt. Although not seriously hurt, Ned is shocked at what happened and tells Marge to stay away. Marge learns of the kidnapping when it is a breaking news report and she must figure out a way to get her son back. The monkey grabs Bart and takes him atop the church, à la King Kong. Since there was nothing to do about it, Reverend Lovejoy hands her a sign which signals he believes that Bart will die while Marge cries after seeing it. Rod, putting his newly acquired climbing skills to use, climbs the scaffolding in an attempt to rescue Bart using Toot Toot’s son as an exchange.

Marge convinces Ned to learn that he must believe in his son and not worry about harm in order for Rod to make it to the top and successfully rescue Bart from the monkey. At that rate, Ned praises Rod to be brave and go up the scaffolding to get the job done. Eventually Rod gets it done, rescuing Bart. While the boys climb down, Bart tells Rod to not hold hands because that would look gay. When Rod asks him what gay means, Bart unwittingly makes up a lie about how it means someone was afraid but that person isn’t afraid any longer. Rod then screams down “I’m gay, Daddy! I’m gay! Mrs. Simpson made me gay!” which makes Ned glare at a embarrassed Marge. The episode ends with Maude Flanders in heaven looking down with pride , and Bob Hope walking off with God.

Cultural references

• Marge calls herself a “Star Wars” after making a Darth Vader mask out of a paper plate.
• The title is a reference to the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies.
• Homer thinks the title creatures from Gremlins will be at the animal retirement home.
• Antonio Fargas makes an appearance as Huggy Bear (from Starsky and Hutch), who has mistakenly been caged in the animal retirement home. This is not Huggy Bear’s first appearance on The Simpsons, but it’s his first speaking role. In “Homie the Clown“, Homer presented a Cable Ace Award to “the son of the guy who played Huggy Bear” for the “Most Promising New Series on Cable”.
• Homer yells “Springfield High football rules!”, paraphrasing a famous line from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
• The scenes where Rod is struck by fear of heights parody Alfred Hitchcock‘s Vertigo.
• Toot-Toot carrying Bart up the church steeple parodies King Kong.
• Ode to Joy was the music played when Rod and Todd got accustomed to the unconstrained see-saw.
• When Ned is covering his backyard with foam for safety of Rod and Todd, he sings a parody of the song “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses about making the yard safer.
• As Homer is crunched and mutilated as he goes through a series of gears “Powerhouse” by Raymond Scott plays on the soundtrack. This was a signature tune used by Carl Stalling in many of his Warner Brothers cartoons, and later by Richard Stone. The sequence, visually, is also a tribute to Charlie Chaplin‘s Modern Times.
• When Toot-Toot retrieves her son Louis, the song played is “Reunited” from Peaches & Herb.
• In the animal retirement home Seymour (Fry’s Dog) from Futurama can be seen in one of the cages.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Has_Two_Mommies

Couch gag: The couch and family are delivered on a conveyor belt. Homer is added with a metal claw.
Chalkboard: none
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While Homer is trapped in a cave, Lisa tells him a story from her past, vaguely similar to the episode “22 Short Films About Springfield.”

Synopsis

While visiting a cave (called “Carl’s Dad Caverns, a parody of Carlsbad Caverns), Homer meddles with a very fragile stalactite, with the result that the whole family ends up in a hidden cavern below the main tour—with Homer stuck in a narrow hole, half in and half out of the cavern. Noting that this cave is not on the tour’s map, Marge and Bart go off to find an exit. Homer is afraid to be left alone in his position, so Lisa stays with him. To pass the time, she begins to tell a story.

Lisa tells how, the week before, she had been out for a walk when a big-horned goat inexplicably attacked her; she ran to the nearest shelter, Charles Montgomery Burns’ house. The animal bursts in, and she and Mr. Burns wind up in the attic and block the entrance with boxes. There, Lisa finds a photo of Mr. Burns as an employee at Moe’s, and he tells her the origins of it.

Mr. Burns explains that once, he and the Rich Texan were involved in a scavenger hunt, the winner of which would get all the possessions of the loser. The items consisted of ridiculous things like Frank Grimes’ tombstone. Mr. Burns was unable to find the last item on the list—a picture of himself with a smiling child. (Every child was terrified of him. Milhouse exclaimed “It’s the boogeyman’s grandfather!”) The Texan won, and Mr. Burns had to go and work at Moe’s. While there, he found a note hidden under a pickled egg jar to be opened when Moe Szyslak died, which led to Moe’s story of a hidden treasure.

The summer before Edna Krabappel began teaching, she and Moe meet when he is hit by a bus. They fall in love, without Edna knowing he owns a bar (at the time, she hated bar owners since her ex-husband was an alcoholic). Scared that Edna will find out the truth about him, Moe wants to leave Springfield with her but has no money. He then discovers that Snake Jailbird — who used to be an idealistic archaeologist — had discovered a large batch of Mayan coins he was going to donate to the museum. Moe steals them, turning Snake to a life of crime. Moe is then about to leave town with Edna, but when she goes to school to explain that she is quitting, she sees Bart. (This leads to her story.) Bart explains he had all-summer detention, and feels he is a lost cause because no one believes in him. Edna declares that come the next year, when she teaches fourth grade, she will help him to succeed. (It turns out, however, that Bart was actually just distracting Edna while he and Nelson steal microscopes and computers.) After explaining her decision to Moe, he flies into a rage and screams at her while dumping out her luggage before driving away to his tavern.

Utterly depressed, Moe puts priceless coins in his jukebox, playing their love theme over and over again. Mr. Burns (here ends Moe’s story) opened up the jukebox and gave the coins to the Texan to buy back his things, but the Texan demanded that Mr. Burns produce a picture of himself with a smiling child before he could get the plant back. (The Texan, he explained, has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, thus feeling the need to complete the scavenger hunt.) Mr. Burns ends his story and he explains to Lisa that he cannot get the plant back.

Just then, the goat bursts into the attic. Mr. Burns hurts himself defending Lisa by placing himself in front of Lisa. It turns out that the goat doesn’t want to kill them—in its story (which lasts but a few seconds) it explains that it found Lisa’s pearl necklace on a branch and was merely trying to return it. Lisa, in gratitude to Mr. Burns for his attempted rescue, takes a photo of the two together with her smiling. This exits to the cave scene.

Homer breaks free of his trap, and reveals that he had an ulterior motive for bringing the family to the caves. He tells a story, explaining that while in the woods (hiding from babysitting duty), he saw the Texan hide the gold coins in the cave while singing a song, and brought the family so they could search for the gold to pay an operation for Bart, (about which no one knows, including Bart). Just then, the Texan shows up, and the gold is found behind a rock by Mr. Burns, Moe, and Snake (in that order), and they enter a Mexican standoff. Everyone has guns except for Moe, who makes gun noises with his mouth. Snake had also brought his son as it is their weekend together. Marge grabs the bag and threatens to drop it down a deep pit if they don’t end their standoff. When she discovers the depth of their greed, she drops it—and instantly, everyone realizes how greedy they had been, and go out to volunteer as a way of atoning for their sins, with the exception of Mr. Burns, who attempts to climb down to get the gold.

Suddenly, it is revealed that the whole episode has all been a story by Bart, being told to Seymour Skinner as an explanation for why he didn’t have time to study for a geography test. The principal finds this ridiculous — until he sees Moe and Edna kissing outside, meaning they’ve finally got back together.

The Stories

Lisa‘s Story 1

• Lisa was walking home from school when a goat came up to her. She ran to Mr. Burns’s house and he let her in. The goat got through the window and chased them through Mr. Burns’s house. They run up the stairs and go up the attic. Lisa finds out that Mr. Burns worked at Moe’s.

Mr. Burns‘ Story 1

• Mr. Burns was a member of a club. A new member, The Texan, came in and he challenged him to a duel. They both get a list of 10 items. The first person to get all the items is the winner and gets all the other person’s stuff. The last item was a photo with a child smiling. Mr. Burns went in the school bus to get the picture. He couldn’t get it. The Texan wins all Burns’ stuff. Mr. Burns started working at Moe’s as a bar boy. He wasn’t getting enough money. One day he was cleaning Moe’s bar when he found a letter beneath the jar with those eggs.

Moe‘s Story 1

• Moe was walking downtown and was hit by a bus. Edna came out and helped him. To impress her, Moe steals a bag full of rare, antique coins from Snake Jailbird, who was not yet a criminal, but an archaeologist. Moe closes the tavern. He and Edna decide to leave town. Edna goes to the school to tell them that she wouldn’t be teaching there in the fall.

Edna‘s Story

• Edna went into the school and found Bart with detention all summer. She decides to stay at Springfield Elementary School as a fourth grade teacher.

Moe‘s Story 2

• Edna tells Moe that she is staying in Springfield to teach the children. Moe gets angry at Edna and drives off. Depressed, he uses the coins he stole to listen to the jukebox in his bar rather than spend them.

Mr. Burns‘ Story 2

• Mr. Burns finishes the letter and steals the money out of the jukebox. He then goes to the Texan and gives him the money but the Texan won’t give everything back until he gets a photo of Mr. Burns with a smiling child.

Lisa‘s Story 2

• The goat gets up to the attic and attacks Mr. Burns. The goat gives Lisa her pearl necklace.

The Goat‘s Story

• The goat was walking one day and found Lisa’s pearl necklace on a tree.

Lisa‘s Story 3

• Lisa gets the camera and takes a picture of her with Mr. Burns and Mr. Burns gets his plant back.

Homer‘s Story

• Homer discovers that the Texan has hid the gold in the caves and brings the family with him so they can help him search for the gold to pay for an operation for Bart.

Bart‘s Story

• Bart explains the reason he was sitting in the desk when Edna Krabappel found him there, it was because he was helping Nelson.

Cultural references

• The episode’s title, “The Seemingly Never-Ending Story”, is a parody of the book The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
• Commander McBragg (Maurice LaMarche), a character from the 1960s cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, calls the scavenger hunt duel. He had pink skin in the original version, but of course in the Simpsons’ world, was recoloured yellow.
• When we see the club Mr. Burns was a part of for the first time, you can see Rich Uncle Pennybags, mascot of the game Monopoly. He was previously seen in “Thirty Minutes over Tokyo” and “A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love.”
• Moe and Edna’s love theme song (which Moe played in the jukebox) is “Fly Me to the Moon” by Bart Howard, as sung by Frank Sinatra.
• Numerous scenes feature music from Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (when Lisa has to deal with the big horn sheep) and Aaron Copland’s “Hoe Down.”

Reception

This episode won an Emmy in 2006 for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour), beating out South Park‘s “Trapped in the Closet” and Family Guy‘s “PTV.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seemingly_Never-Ending_Story