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“Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?” is the 24th episode of The Simpsons’ third season. It was originally supposed to be the opener for season four, but FOX decided to air it earlier to promote the series premiere of Martin; thus, it became the finale of season three.

Plot
Homer J. Simpson “wins” the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence, a fictional $2000 prize awarded by Montgomery Burns. The name of the “award” was hastily concocted by Burns on the spot in an attempt to convince Homer to sign a waiver freeing the nuclear plant of all liability for Homer’s recently discovered sterility. Joe Frazier is the host of the award ceremony, which features extraordinary extravagance (including a lengthy opening) but only the one $2000 prize awarded to Homer. Despite planning on using the money for the Spinemelter 2000 vibrating chair, Homer agrees to loan the money to his bitter half-brother Herb Powell who, ruined by Homer previously, is now a hobo. Herb’s idea to become rich again is by making a machine to translate a baby’s words into actual English. Using Homer’s money to develop his invention, which is an instant money-making success, Herb becomes rich once again. Along with returning the money to Homer, he buys several gifts for the Simpson family, including a washer-dryer for Marge, an honorary membership to the NRA for Bart and a subscription to the Greater Books of the Western Civilization for Lisa. Herb then tells Homer that his gift to him is that he forgives him for ruining him in the first place, and he and Homer re-establish a brotherly relationship. Finally, Homer is rewarded for his generosity and faith when Herb has a truck pull in with Homer’s vibrating chair.

Cultural references

1. The episode title is a play on the Great Depression-era tune “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”. (Mr. Burns sang this song in the second season episode “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish”). Additionally, “two dimes” is gambling slang for two thousand dollars, which is the amount Homer lends Herb.
2. One of the men that sits with Herb by the fireplace in the beginning of the episode looks very similar to Charlie Chaplin’s character The Tramp. The Tramp also eats a boot in the Chaplin movie The Gold Rush.
3. The images Homer sees when sitting in the Spinemelter chair parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey.
4. Homer reminisces about sitting on the couch while watching Dallas (specifically Kristin’s revelation that she shot J.R. Ewing), the Hands Across America charity event, and the Berlin Wall coming down, which he switches over to Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..
5. Homer’s line “excuse me while I kiss the sky” originates from the Jimi Hendrix song “Purple Haze”.

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Plot
After a close encounter (Indiana Jones style), Bart Simpson manages to retrieve Homer’s jar of change to take to school. His best friend, Milhouse, in the meantime, has chosen to take his Magic 8 ball. Bart asks the ball whether he and Milhouse will still be friends by the end of the day, and the ball predicts, no. Both are puzzled by how this could happen.

A new girl from Phoenix called Samantha Stanky starts at Springfield Elementary School and Milhouse falls in love with her. To Bart’s dismay and anger, Milhouse and Samantha now spend all of their free time kissing in Bart’s treehouse. They ignore Bart, leaving nothing for him to do but leave. In order to restore the previous status quo, Bart calls Samantha’s father and lets him know what’s happening, and Mr. Stanky rushes to Bart’s treehouse and takes her away before she can even explain. She is sent to Saint Sebastian’s School for Wicked Girls, an all-girls convent school. Bart lets Milhouse know that he told on him and Samantha and they fight over Bart’s actions. Milhouse visits Samantha at the convent school and Bart apologizes to her, but she say it’s OK – she loves Saint Sebastian’s. However, she still has feelings for Milhouse and gives him a goodbye kiss, despite her knowingly violating school rules.

Meanwhile, Lisa is watching a documentary on the health problems of obesity. She is fearful that Homer’s obesity will lead to an early death. On Lisa’s suggestion, Marge orders a subliminal weight-loss tape for Homer. Humorously enough, the company is out of the tapes and sends Homer a “Vocabulary Builder” tape. Homer ends up eating more than ever, but his vocabulary is through the roof. However when he realizes that the tape doesn’t work he gets rid of it and his vocabulary quickly returns to normal.

Cultural references

1. The first scene of the episode is a parody of the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
2. The moment where Bart reaches behind him for a weapon with which to fend off Milhouse is a spoof of the murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder.

Reception
The Canadian television series The Hour, hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, once ranked the Raiders of the Lost Ark parody from this episode as the greatest in the “Top Five Male Underwear Moments of All Time.” The list referred to scenes in film and television portraying men in underwear, and Homer wore underwear in the relevant scene.[1]

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Plot
Bart and Milhouse attend a Spinal Tap concert, but it turns into a major flop and degenerates into a riot. Nonetheless, Bart is impressed by the aging heavy metal band and wants to become a rock guitarist.

Homer and Marge decide to buy Bart his own electric guitar, but Bart struggles to learn how to play it. The next morning on the school bus, Bart asks Otto to show him how to play, and Otto—with the bus still stopped in traffic—wows his passengers with an impromptu concert. However, Otto loses track of time and is forced to drive recklessly to school. In the ensuing chaos, the bus runs Spinal Tap’s bus off the road, and turns over onto its side in the town square. Numerous people call Springfield Elementary School to report the accident, earning Otto a reprimand from Principal Skinner. However, when Officer Eddie asks for Otto’s driver’s license to complete his report, he is forced to admit he doesn’t have a license. Otto loses his job, and Skinner takes over his route. Skinner finds it hard going, not being an aggressive driver like Otto.

Things quickly go downhill for Otto. He fails his driver’s test at the Springfield DMV, he is unable to find a new job, and he is evicted from his apartment. He calls upon the Simpsons to take him in until he can find a new job, and is allowed to move into the garage, after Bart convinces the family. The key method being a tape recording of Bart asking if Otto can stay as long as he likes, with Bart then impersonating Marge with a reply of “He sure can!” which Homer falls for by asking Marge what she was thinking, with Homer then replying to Marge’s denial that it wasn’t her on the recording with “Everyone says that when they hear themselves on tape!”

Otto makes a nuisance of himself as he becomes comfortable laying around the house and playing his guitar. Homer soon loses his patience with Otto and demands that he be sent on his way. Marge and Bart, however, encourage Otto to give the driving test one last try. Otto goes to the DMV to take the test, but Patty and Selma don’t want to give him a retest. Otto explains he has something to prove to Homer, which quickly changes their demeanor out of spite for their brother-in-law. It isn’t long before Otto passes the test (with some help from the sisters) and is back to work. Otto drives off into the sunset, with Skinner remarking, “there goes the bus driver, bus driver man.”

Cultural references
* Happy Days—Homer makes a comment saying “This is not Happy Days, and he is not the Fonz!” Otto then walks in and says to Homer, “Heeeeeyy, Mr. S,” much like many of the teenagers address Howard Cunningham as “Mr. C” in the long-running situation comedy.
* This Is Spinal Tap—The rock band is reunited from the mockumentary. Harry Shearer plays bassist Derek Smalls in the movie (and in this episode) and provides many of the voices on The Simpsons, including Otto.
* “Spanish Flea”—While riot police enter the arena to calm down the rowdy crowd, Homer listens to “Spanish Flea” performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. He also sings the lyrics.
* Homer finds a can of Billy Beer in his old jacket. This is a reference to the beer endorsed by Jimmy Carter’s brother, Billy Carter.
* The song Otto plays on the school bus is “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
* Bart has trouble playing Polly Wolly Doodle. Nelson meets him at the bus stop & criticises it as “Polly Wolly Crappy”

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Plot
The Simpsons are set to have dinner with Aunt Selma and her new boyfriend, who they are forewarned is an ex-con; the man who arrives on Selma’s arm is Bart’s archenemy Sideshow Bob. During dinner, he relates the story of his time spent languishing at the Springfield prison: the cells are overcrowded, and his ChapStick is co-opted; he wins an Emmy, which is confiscated (“awards for excellence in entertainment are contraband”). He spent much time seething with desire to exact revenge on Bart, but after receiving Selma’s response to his Prison Pen Pal ad, he is inspired to become a model prisoner and earns his release. Bob’s tale of supposedly turning over a new leaf wins over the family, except Bart, who remains suspicious. Bob thanks Bart for putting him on the path which led him to Selma, and surprises the family by asking Selma to marry him. She eagerly accepts.

Sideshow Bob makes an appearance at a Krusty the Clown telethon and makes amends; Lisa encourages Bart to be as forgiving as Krusty, but he refuses to believe Bob has changed. When Selma discovers that Sideshow Bob detests her beloved MacGyver and cannot hide his hatred, it’s nearly a deal-breaker. Homer explains his solution for his and Marge’s dissonant tastes in television: when Marge watches her non-violent programs, Homer goes out for drinks and returns “in the mood for love.” Bob agrees to take a “vigorous constitutional” whenever Selma watches MacGyver.

Most of Springfield appears to be in attendance at Selma and Bob’s wedding, including derelict Police Chief Wiggum. Selma takes to videotaping her honeymoon with Bob, including his tirade over the omission of the hotel room fireplace he had requested. She retires one evening to watch MacGyver in their suite, and as Bob is downstairs having a drink, we see their hotel room explode behind him. Bob feigns a frantic phone call to the front desk about the “accident.”

Sideshow Bob makes his way back to the room to survey the damage, only to find Bart, very much alive, awaiting him. We discover that Selma too is unscathed, Bart having saved her life at the very last moment. Bob is apprehended by police, vowing to return as soon as the Democrats are back in power. Everyone thanks Bart for not losing his mistrust of Sideshow Bob.

How Bart Figured Out The Trap
* In Selma’s video, Bob was eager to have a fireplace in their room. Bart noticed the gas tap. Selma didn’t smell the gas as she had lost her senses of smell and taste due to a bottle rocket accident as a child.
* Selma promised at the wedding that she’ll give up smoking except for after meals and after MacGyver. The spark from a match was enough to make the room explode.
* The explosion that Bob later heard was Chief Wiggum tossing a lit match into the gas filled room behind him.

Cultural references
* The episode begins with a parody of the show Dinosaurs.
* Bob wins a Daytime Emmy Award.
* In Selma’s letters to Sideshow Bob, she refers to him as number 24601, the same number assigned to Jean Valjean in the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
* Bob’s line, “Snake, I’m going to miss you most of all,” refers to a line in The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy says she’ll miss The Scarecrow before leaving Oz.
* Bart’s line, “Fiddle-dee-dee. Tomorrow’s another day,” refers to a line in Gone with the Wind.
* The languages Bob claims to be speaking to Selma are French, Sanskrit, and Spanish.
* Krusty and Bob’s reunion is a reference to the way Frank Sinatra tried to reunite Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
* When Homer says “To the Simpson-Mobile” before going to the hotel, it is a reference to the old Batman Series with Adam West.
* The cartoon of Krusty hung over the stage during the telethon is a parody of Al Hirschfeld’s work.
* The sequence at the end with Bart explaining how he foiled Sideshow Bob’s plan is a reference to the classic Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cartoons, complete with the lame joke at the end (“Now let’s get out of this gas-filled hallway before we all suffocate!”)
* The prison where Sideshow Bob is picking up road side trash is a take off of the movie Cool Hand Luke

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Plot
Homer and Marge go see a movie but Homer doesn’t shut up in the theater. He ends up giving the film away and the audience boos him. Marge yells at him, leaving him embarrassed. Homer drives off to a country bar to think about what happened when he meets a waitress named Lurleen Lumpkin who sings a song that he falls in love with. Homer returns home but can’t get her song out of his head. He drives back and decides to get the song recorded. It is given to the local radio station and the song is an instant success. Homer becomes Lurleen’s manager, much to Marge’s objection. Lurleen wants more from Homer than him being her manager, but Homer cares for his wife and kids and decides he made the wrong choice.

Deleted Scenes
Before Lurleen’s performance of “Bagged Me a Homer” at the recording studio, Bart and Lisa argue over country singers. This footage was included in a promo of the episode and can be found on the DVD, but the full scene is not.

Cultural references
* Col. Tom Parker – The episode title is a play on Elvis Presley’s manager.
* Deliverance — The scene of the boy playing a banjo on a porch is much in the same vein as the “Dueling Banjos” sequence in the 1973 film. The same kid appears later waiting in line with his banjo to record a CD.
* “Hee Haw” – The country comedy show, “Ya-Hoo!” is a parody of the landmark country TV series, which ran from 1969-1992.
* Movies at the Springfield Googolplex:
* Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – parodied as “Honey, I Hit a School Bus.”
* Look Who’s Talking – parodied as “Look Who’s Oinking.”

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Plot
Springfield is “in the grip of lottery fever” with a $130 million jackpot and, as a result, an ailing Santa’s Little Helper is ignored.

Once he is discovered to be sick, the family rushes him to the hospital to undergo an emergency operation. Homer is saddened to tell Bart and Lisa that they just can’t afford the $750 for the operation, but seeing how much everyone (including himself) loves the dog, he resolves to find a way to pay for it.

To save up the money, everyone must give up their small luxuries. Among other things, Homer has to give up beer, Marge has to forgo her weekly lottery ticket, Bart has to have his hair cut for free at Springfield Barber College, Lisa has to forgo the 4th edition of Encyclopedia Generica (Copernicus to Elephantiasis), and Maggie’s clothes have to last a little longer.

Things begin to fall apart after it is found that Marge’s regular numbers would have won $40,000, and the family begin to resent the dog for forcing them to lose out on the things they enjoy, as Homer is reduced to singing at Moe’s, Lisa has to do a report on Copernicus, Maggie’s clothes rip and Bart suffers from an awful haircut.

After the family say bad things to the dog, it is the final straw. Santa’s Little Helper runs away from home and goes off in an adventure, only to be adopted by Mr. Burns, who trains him to become one of his vicious attack hounds. After a long brainwashing process, which is that the dog watches a movie totally consisting of people being abusive to dogs, and Santa’s Little Helper being trained by attacking Smithers who is in a protection suit, Santa’s Little Helper in turn becomes a bloodthirsty killer.

The family starts feeling sorry for hating the dog and Bart decides to bring him back. When Bart goes to Burns’s mansion to retrieve his dog, Santa’s Little Helper (along with other vicious dogs) tries to attack him but remembers all the good times they had and snaps out of his brainwashed state. After that, the other vicious dogs try to attack Bart, but Santa’s Little Helper growls at them to leave Bart alone. The dog then returns to the family who starts loving him again.

The episode ends with a disclaimer: “No dogs were harmed in the filming of this episode. A cat got sick and somebody shot a duck, but that’s it.”

Cultural references

1. Lisa corrects Homer, indicating Nixon’s dog was named Checkers.
2. Among the books that end up in the Simpson’s fireplace are The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (which ironically enough, is about a society where books are burned), Fatherhood by Bill Cosby and a book entitled “Canine Surgery”. Fatherhood was heavily referenced in the episode “Saturdays of Thunder” earlier this season.
3. The scene in which Monty Burns and Smithers brainwash Santa’s little helper

is a parody of Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, complete with Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.

4. Music from Peter and the Wolf, a children’s story composed by Sergei Prokofiev, is played over the wanderings of Santa’s Little Helper through Springfield’s outer domains.
5. This episode contains numerous references to facts or rumors about Michael Jackson; for example, one of the highways is called the “Michael Jackson Expressway” (referencing “Stark Raving Dad”), Kent Brockman’s butler telling Kent that his pet llama bit Ted Kennedy, and Mr. Burns is sleeping in an iron lung as part of his longevity treatment.
6. Principal Skinner’s idea for a prison where children are held in place by magnets is reminiscent of the prison in Face/Off.

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Plot
After taking career aptitude tests (which were scored by a malfunctioning computer), Lisa discovers that the occupation she’s best suited for is homemaker while Bart is pegged as a future police officer. Each takes the opportunity to explore their options as Lisa spends the day doing chores with Marge and Bart goes on a ride along with the police. Lisa hates her role and rebels by becoming a troublemaker at school. Police life fits Bart like a glove and he becomes a hall monitor, handing out demerits to his classmates for minor infractions. When Lisa secretly steals all of the teachers’ manuals, it’s up to Bart and Principal Skinner to figure out who did it. Realizing his sister is the culprit, Bart takes the rap and returns to his life as a bad student and detention regular, while Lisa goes back to playing her saxophone.

Cultural references

1. The episode title is a play on the 1986 film Separate Vacations.
2. When Principal Skinner is questioning Lisa about her newfound sense of irresponsibility, he asks “What are you rebelling against?” She responds “Whaddaya got?” like Marlon Brando in the movie The Wild One.
3. Bart imagines he is a drifter who is thrown out of a town by a sheriff, just like Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo in First Blood

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“Homer at the Bat” is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons’ third season. The episode involves Homer’s boss, Mr. Burns, trying to guarantee victory in a softball game between the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant by signing several Major League Baseball players. Things do not go as planned. The episode’s title is a play on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem “Casey at the Bat”.

Plot
The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team has gone through their season undefeated, and in the championship game, they will face the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant. Homer is the team’s leading hitter, thanks to his homemade bat (a takeoff of the plot of the film The Natural).

Mr. Burns makes a million dollar bet with Aristotle Amadopoulos, owner of the Shelbyville plant, that his team will win. To secure victory in the game, Mr. Burns wants to hire major league stars, but Smithers tells Mr. Burns that the players he picked are all dead. Thus, Mr. Burns orders Smithers to find some current superstar players and hires several Major League Baseball players to “work at the plant” and to play on the team, much to the dismay of the plant workers who got the team to the championship game in the first place.

However, the night before the game, all the players except for Darryl Strawberry have different incidents that prevent them from playing.Mr. Burns is forced to use actual employees, but keeps Homer on the bench because Strawberry plays his position. Homer does get in, though, with the score tied and bases loaded in the 9th inning, when Burns wants a right-handed hitter against a left-handed pitcher. The very first pitch hits Homer in the head, rendering him unconscious and forcing in the winning run. Homer is then paraded as a hero, still unconscious.

During the credits, Terry Cashman, who wrote the song “Talkin’ Baseball”, sings a take on his hit, “Talkin’ Softball”.

Production

José Canseco was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game, but Canseco’s then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected. Because of the change, Marcia Wallace was listed in the credits, even though Mrs. Krabappel didn’t appear at all in the episode.

In the DVD commentary, Al Jean hints that eight of the baseball players were really nice guys, except for one guy whose name rhymes with “Manseco”. He later says that Canseco had a hard time saying his lines and was really difficult every time he was told to do a retake. As well, he insisted that his original part be rewritten, so he was written as a hero.

Several of the players in this episode are purposely given distinctly different personalities than what they are known for. Darryl Strawberry, well known for being self-serving and hard to deal with is depicted as an ass kissing coach’s dream. Jose Canseco, known for his self-promotion and grandiosity is shown as a hero who rescues everything a woman owns from a fire.

Cultural references

1. The episode makes several allusions to The Natural, a movie starring Robert Redford and which is based upon Bernard Malamud’s book by the same name. Homer’s secret weapon, his self-created “Wonderbat”, is akin to Roy Hobbs’s “Wonderboy”. Both bats are eventually destroyed. The scene featuring the explosion of stadium lights as Homer circles the basepaths is taken directly from the film, as is the scene with the team and the hypnotist.
2. The end song “Talkin’ Softball” was actually re-written from an older song “Talkin’ Baseball” by Terry Cashman, singer/writer of the song. Cashman has rewritten his lyrics several times for particular teams.
3. This episode marks the second time in the series that someone mentions the phrase “It’s like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone’s invited!” Ken Griffey Jr. says it after trying Mr. Burns’s nerve tonic. The first being Moe’s exclamation upon sampling the episode’s titular beverage in the season 3 episode “Flaming Moe’s”. This line was parodied in “Parasites Lost”, a season 3 episode of Futurama, another cartoon created by Matt Groening, when Fry eats a very expired egg salad sandwich and exclaims “It’s like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone’s throwing up!” Griffey had trouble performing the line, a number of outtakes of which are presented as a hidden feature on the Season 3 DVD set.

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“Bart the Lover” is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons’ third season which is an early look at the personal life of Mrs. Krabappel.

Plot
As a yo-yo craze sweeps through the elementary school, Mrs. Krabappel feels increasingly isolated and places a personal ad in the newspaper. Bart, who has been given one month of detention for breaking the class fish tank, discovers the ad and, realizing it is Mrs. Krabappel’s, decides to pull a prank and respond by mail with a new alter ego. Bart pretends to be an adult male called Woodrow, named after former President Woodrow Wilson, with a photograph which actually belongs to ice hockey player Gordie Howe. Bart as Woodrow wrote a letter to meet him at a restaurant, and as she looked excited to meet Woodrow, Bart laughs (although it’s more like a giggle), Bart comes out of the movie theater after watching “Ernest Needs a Kidney” and is upset and guilty to see Krabappel crying. He tells the family what he had done, and Marge tells him, “You did a very cruel thing” The Simpsons then write a romantically diplomatic letter to tell how Woodrow must go which heals Krabappel’s wounds.

Meanwhile, Homer attempts to cut down on his cursing after receiving a complaint from Ned Flanders. Homer tries to criticize Flanders in return but only comes up with criticizing his moustache, which Ned promises to shave off in return for Homer curtailing uses of profanity. He promises to put money in a “swear jar” — 25 cents for each curse. In the end, he resists temptations to curse but nevertheless experiences intense feelings of rage. However, his constant swearing – when he builds a doghouse with no door, and when a beehive falls on him – puts enough money in the jar to purchase a dog house for Santa’s Little Helper. Homer also launches into a profane streak when a newly clean-shaven Ned Flanders thanks Homer for making him get rid of his facial hair, as his appearance has gotten him hired to star on a TV commercial.

Cultural references
The 1950s educational film at the beginning of the episode (presumably titled “A World Without Zinc”) is a reference to the short animation and live action film “A Case of Spring Fever”, which would later be seen in episode 1012 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It is also very similar to a sketch from Kentucky Fried Movie.

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Plot
Marge Simpson decides she needs a vacation, after all the stress at home. She leaves for a place called “Rancho Relaxo”, putting Bart and Lisa into the care of Patty and Selma. Maggie stays home with Homer Simpson who invites Barney Gumble over to help him, but realizes how much he needs Marge to take care of things. He goes to see how the kids are getting on at Marge’s sisters, and they’re desperate to get away, after they are put into slavery by the sisters. Maggie goes looking for Marge after seeing how upset everyone is, including herself, and goes missing. After a long search from Homer and Barney, Homer calls a baby search. Marge has done everything she wanted to do in her vacation and calls Homer. She tells him she is coming back and he should pick her up in one hour at the train station. Maggie is found on the edge of the top of an ice-cream shop. Chief Wiggum thinks she is trying to commit suicide, but she is actually sleeping next to the statue of an ice-cream cone that looks like Marge’s head. She is returned to Homer just in time for Marge’s arrival, and everything is back to normal.

Cultural references

1. The title is based on the film Home Alone. The episode’s writer David Stern is the brother of actor Daniel Stern, who co-starred in Home Alone and its sequel. Homer even slaps his hands on his face & screams when he finds Maggie missing.
2. In the beginning when the screen freezes on Bart and Homer, the reference is to the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons.
3. The song that plays while Homer is on hold on the missing child hotline is “Baby Come Back” by Player.