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Plot
Armed with high-cholesterol snacks, Homer sits down to another Sunday of football. Lisa enters the room to show her dad a shoebox apartment she made for her Malibu Stacy dolls. Homer is not really that interested, though, especially after Denver – on whom he has bet $20 – gives up a quick touchdown.

Lisa complains to Marge, who suggests spending some “quality time” with Homer by taking up his interests. Lisa decides to join her father on the couch, and an annoyed Homer reluctantly agrees. By now, New England is crushing Denver 35-7 and has just forced another Broncos fumble. In the end, Denver loses 55-10, and Homer angrily blames the TV (and sports anchorman “Smooth” Jimmy Apollo) for losing his bet.

Homer decides to try again on the Miami-Cincinnati game and calls a 1-900 “guaranteed pick” service for advice; however, it is soon revealed, by the fact that he talks at a very slow pace, that the only thing “The Coach” wants is the caller’s money. A desperate Homer turns to Lisa to pick a winner, and she picks the Dolphins, and Homer quickly calls Moe’s Tavern to place his $50 wager. Lisa questions Homer about the call, and likens sports betting to putting a lot of toppings on ice cream. In the end, the Dolphins win, and Homer and Lisa celebrate. Meanwhile, Marge has taken Bart shopping for new (dorky) clothes, but the bullies taunt him.

Lisa becomes very adept at choosing winners of football games, and Homer cleans up. Homer declares every Sunday “Daddy-Daughter Day.” With his new money, he starts buying expensive presents for the family and treating them to fine dining. Marge eventually wants to know where Homer’s extra income is coming from and gets the truth, but Homer says it’s not really a big deal.

The next day at breakfast, Lisa says she is looking forward to spending the “Daddy-Daughter Day” after Super Bowl XXVI going hiking at Mount Springfield. However, Homer announces he had already made plans with Barney to go bowling, and that “Daddy-Daughter Day” is over until the next football season. Lisa bursts into tears, realizing all Homer wanted was to exploit her prognostic abilities to help him gamble. Marge calls Homer a “very selfish man,” and Bart taunts him with the new swearing device that Homer bought for him. Lisa then gives up all the Malibu Stacy toys that Homer bought for her.

Homer realizes he needs to make amends with Lisa, but she is too hurt to even talk with him. In fact, she makes a cryptic prediction as to the winner of the game: If she still loves Homer, Washington will win; if she doesn’t, Buffalo. Homer becomes even more anxious over his relationship with Lisa as Super Bowl Sunday approaches. When he hears Lisa mournfully play her saxophone, he leaves for Moe’s Tavern to watch the game.

Homer mopes throughout the game, especially after Buffalo gets a 14-7 halftime lead. The game is highlighted by a corny halftime commercial for Duff Beer, an equally silly halftime show and Troy McClure’s promo for his new situation comedy, which premieres right after the Super Bowl. In the end, Washington rallies in the second half and scores at the last second to win the game. Homer becomes happy and Bart proudly says to Lisa that she still loves Homer, in which she agrees.

Homer cancels his bowling date with Barney and – on the Sunday after the Super Bowl – makes good on his promise to go hiking up Mount Springfield with Lisa.

Cultural references

1. Barbie — Malibu Stacy (and all related accessories) are based on the doll franchise.
2. Bud Bowl — The Duff Bowl is an obvious parody of the Super Bowl advertisements for Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser family of beers.
3. “Justify My Love” — Homer’s comment, “Come on Denver, justify my love!” during the Denver Broncos-New England Patriots game makes use of the title of the Madonna song.
4. Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder — “Smooth” Jimmy Apollo is based on the American sports commentator, and the namesake of this show’s title.
5. Brent Musburger – Brent Gunsilman is based on the American Sports Commentator.
6. Switch — Troy McClure’s new sitcom, Handle with Care (starring a retired cop who resides with a retired convict) is a sitcom patterned after the 1970s series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner (a detective series about an ex-police officer partnered with a reformed con artist).
7. Zorba the Greek — The episode title is a reference to the novel and title of the 1964 movie.

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“Radio Bart” is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons’ third season. The episode aired on January 9, 1992. It was also nominated for an Emmy that year. The episode’s plot is directly inspired by the 1987 incident involving the then 2-year-old girl Jessica McClure becoming trapped in a well.

Production
When this episode was being made, the producers approached Bruce Springsteen to appear. He rejected doing the episode, and got Sting to appear in his place. According to DVD Commentary, the producers originally wanted Homer to sing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot as opposed to Convoy. Jon Vitti said the reason the song was not used was because Lightfoot had made it so that in order to clear the song, they would have to get okays from the families of all 29 victims who died on the ship.

Plot
All the Simpsons are busy preparing for Bart’s birthday party. Homer sees an ad on TV for a prank microphone (the Superstar Celebrity Microphone) that can be used to tap into localized radio systems and instantly decides to buy one for Bart. Subsequently, Bart experiences a crushingly disappointing birthday party when all his gifts turn out to be useless things like a cactus, a label maker and a dorky new suit. He also at first is disappointed by the prank microphone, but later finds a use for it in creating practical jokes, such as making the Flanders children think God is talking to them, or revealing to Milhouse just what Lisa and Janey are talking about, or making Homer think the Martians have invaded Earth.

Bart then uses the microphone to make the townspeople think that an orphan named Timmy O’Toole has fallen down the town well. Although they are unable to get “Timmy” out, as the well is too small for any adult to fit in, the entire town offers moral support and do everything they can to give him hope (as well as a little surreptitious profiteering, e.g. t-shirt concessions and sacks of “authentic Timmy O’Toole baby teeth”). Krusty even gets Sting to join other celebrities in recording a charity single, “We’re Sending Our Love Down the Well”. However, Bart–after realizing that his name is on the walkie-talkie thanks to his label-maker–really does fall in the well while trying to retrieve it. When the townspeople find out, Bart confesses that Timmy O’Toole did not exist. Angry at being tricked, the townspeople decide to leave Bart in the well. At the same time, “We’re Sending Our Love Down The Well” dramatically falls off the #1 spot on the Billboard to be replaced by “I Do Believe We’re Naked” by Funky See Funky Do.

Despite efforts by Homer and Marge to mobilize a rescue operation, the entire town remains adamant. Finally, however, Homer decides to just dig a tunnel and retrieve Bart himself. Groundskeeper Willie spies this, yells, “Why dinnae I think of tha’?(Why didn’t I think of that?)”, tears off his shirt to expose his bulging muscles, and joins Homer. With a little help from the townsfolk, and Sting, an excavation operation is started. A very sorry Bart is finally rescued from the bottom of the hole. Willie puts up a small warning sign near the well the next morning to prevent future incidents.

Continuity
Due to the show’s floating timeline, Bart celebrates what is assumed to be his 11th birthday; however, he is always referred to as ten years old both before and after this episode. This is also the first episode in which Sideshow Mel talks.

Reception
In the DVD commentary for the episode, the staff expresses their disbelief that this episode lost the Emmy for animated program to Claymation Easter. Mike Reiss said they thought Ren & Stimpy would win and were absolutely floored when it didn’t. David Silverman said he believes The Simpsons and Ren & Stimpy split the vote, allowing Claymation Easter to grab the Emmy.

Cultural references
The song that plays as Bart descends the well (to retrieve the incriminating radio) is based on the theme song Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop. The Itchy & Scratchy cartoon “Cat Splat Fever” makes use of the title of the 1977 Ted Nugent album/song Cat Scratch Fever. The media circus and carnival that results after news breaks about “Timmy” being trapped in the well mirrors that of the 1951 movie The Big Carnival.

The episode parodies Charity singles. The song “We’re Sending Our Love Down the Well” is a spoof of various 1980s charity songs, including “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (on which Sting was one of the vocalists) and “We Are the World”.

The Wall E. Weasel pizza restaurant (“We cram fun down your throat”) is a parody of the family pizza restaurant franchise Chuck E. Cheese’s. Seen in this episode: The restaurant’s mascot (here in his first appearance), the franchise’s pizza, video games, and poorly maintained animatronic robots.

The song in the commercial (used to demonstrate the Superstar Celebrity Microphone) — and later “performed” by Homer — is the 1975 novelty song Convoy by C.W. McCall.

The title I Do Believe We’re Naked is a play of the song I Think We’re Alone Now recorded by Tommy James & the Shondells and Tiffany (singer). The Superstar Celebrity Microphone is based on the late-1970s era toy microphone Mr. Microphone. The television ad pitching the microphone is also similar.

Upon hearing Bart cry about being trapped in the well, Homer decides to dig Bart out himself, declaring “that’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”, echoing a line Popeye frequently used before getting into a fight. Soul Train The TV dance show in the first act (on which Funky-See Funky-Do is guest performing) is a parody of the long-running syndicated program. The name of the boy “Timmy” is a reference to Lassie. As the camera pans down the well after the excavation has begun, a flying saucer containing a skeleton of the space alien race that Kang and Kodos belong to can be seen.

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“I Married Marge” is the 12th episode of the The Simpsons’ third season. The episode title is a play on the 1952 sitcom I Married Joan. The episode aired on December 26, 1991, the same day the Soviet Union collapsed.

The episode featured three songs, The Logical Song by Supertramp, You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone and Nine to Five by Dolly Parton.

Plot
Marge and Homer are worrying that Marge may be pregnant again. After a home pregnancy test Marge gives inconclusive results, Marge drives to Dr. Hibbert’s office. Homer begins to tell Bart, Lisa, and Maggie about how he and Marge got married, and Bart’s birth thereafter.

In 1980, Homer was working at a miniature golf course and dating Marge. One night, Homer and Marge make love inside of a golf course castle after seeing The Empire Strikes Back. Shortly afterwards, Marge discovers that she is pregnant. Homer decides to propose to Marge, and she eagerly accepts. The two marry in a small wedding chapel across state lines, while Marge is visibly pregnant. The two spend their “wedding night” at Marge’s parents’ house, sleeping on a couch in the living room. Needless to say, this aggravates Marge’s mother and sisters extremely.

Unfortunately for Homer and Marge, Homer’s wages are not enough to pay for his new family. Homer attempts to get a job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but fails. With Homer and Marge’s newly purchased baby supplies and Marge’s wedding ring are repossessed, Homer decides to leave and find a job, in order to provide for Marge and his unborn son, leaving a letter to a sleeping Marge explaining his actions. Marge is brought to tears by Homer’s absence. However, even in sorrow, Homer still winds up irritating Patty, who complains for Homer to “not scratch the pen so loud”.

Homer gets a job at a “Gulp ‘N Blow” taco restaurant, where Patty and Selma find him. Selma, feeling sorry for Marge and some pity for Homer, decides to tell Marge the truth in spite of Patty’s reluctance. Marge, now well into her third trimester of pregnancy, finds Homer and convinces him to come back home with her. Homer decides to try to apply for a job at the Nuclear Power Plant once more, this time marching into Mr. Burns’ office and telling him dramatically that he will be the perfect spineless employee. Mr. Burns is so impressed that he hires Homer on the spot. Homer, glad that he has this well-paying job, is able to now buy back the repossessed wedding ring and baby items.

When Homer returns to Marge’s house, he discovers she has gone into labor and is already at the hospital. He arrives at the hospital with Marge’s mother, telling Marge of his success. After the baby is born, Homer and Marge decide to name him Bart. Bart takes Homer’s cigarette lighter and lights his tie on fire. Homer quickly dips the tie into a glass of water, gets mad at Bart (“Why you little–!!”) and tells Marge that he did it on purpose, but Marge tells Homer that Bart is only ten minutes old.

After Homer finishes telling his flashback story, he tells Bart that the day he was born, Homer received the greatest gifts for the family. Marge arrives home with the news that she is not pregnant. Homer and Marge are overjoyed and high-five.

Continuity
I Married Marge is the second episode in which Dr. Hibbert hands Homer a booklet related to his family members’ body condition. After announcing Marge is pregnant, he hands Homer a booklet showing a pregnant woman and is titled “So You’ve Ruined Your Life”. In One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish, Dr. Hibbert, after telling Homer he has been poisoned, hands Homer a booklet with a picture of the gates of Heaven titled “So You’re Going to Die”.

During the episode, Mr. Burns is seen playing a game that is a parody of Ms. Pac-Man. This implies that Homer gets his job at SNPP in 1981; the flashback starts in 1980. However in Homer Defined, Smithers reminds Burns that Homer was hired under “Project Bootstrap”, to which Burns says to himself sarcastically “Thank you, President Ford”. Ford left office in 1977, and it is unknown how an economic initiative about hiring practices made in his administration could have survived into the early 1980s.

It is established in Homer’s Enemy that Homer applied for his job the day the plant opened, and in You Only Move Twice that this meant that Homer was more senior than Smithers, who joined the plant after Homer. However, this episode shows two inconsistencies: first, that there were only two positions available when Homer applied, and Smithers evaluated Homer’s application. The first inconsistency could be explained away if Homer was not the first employee hired, but simply the most senior employee remaining at the plant after a decade of attrition, but the second inconsistency cannot be explained away.

Homer’s resume additions
This episode marked several additions to Homer’s resume. Most of his jobs were accompanied by Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5.
* Sir Putt a Lott’s miniature golf course – Attendant who turned windmill rotors; quit in order to find better paying work to support himself and Marge.
* Pitiless Pup Attack Dog Training School – Padded decoy; quit after being unable to handle pressures of dogs attacking him.
* Ye Olde Springfield Colonial Village – Candlemaker; fired for unsatisfactory performance.
* Slash-Co Knives – Door-to-door salesman; presumably fired for negligence.
* Millions for Nothing Pyramid Scheme – Ground level participant; organization was dissolved after group’s founder committed suicide when he heard police sirens.
* Gulp & Blow Tacos – Service trainee; quit when he reunited with Marge and he made another application to Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Cultural references
When Marge is suspected to be pregnant, Bart wants to name the baby after rapper Kool Moe Dee, while Lisa wants to name her after Ariel, from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

In Homer’s flashback, the Gulp n’ Blow logo looks like the 1970s logo of Jack in the Box. Homer tries his hand at selling “Slashco” knives, a parody of “Cutco” knives which are sold almost exclusively by young adults. While exiting the movie theater, Homer spoils the ending of The Empire Strikes Back for dozens of moviegoers awaiting the next show. He exclaims to Marge, “What a great movie! Who would have ever guessed that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father?!” much to the consternation of the moviegoers.

Nearing the end of the episode, Homer is seen wearing a t-shirt exclaiming ” I shot J.R. “

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“Flaming Moe’s” is the 10th episode of the The Simpsons’ third season. The episode aired on November 21, 1991. This is the first and only occasion on which Bart’s prank calls to Moe backfire, due to the fact that there was a man with the same name Bart unwittingly asks for.

Plot
Moe and his tavern are in serious financial trouble. After he runs out of beer, Homer decides to tell him about a drink recipe that he accidentally invented one night, called the “Flaming Homer”.

Homer explains that after Patty and Selma made the Simpson family watch slides from their latest vacation, he was unable to find a beer. He decided to mix together drops of liquor from near-empty bottles and accidentally included a bottle of cough syrup. When Patty dropped cigarette ash in the drink and set it on fire, Homer discovered that fire greatly enhanced the flavor of the drink.

Moe steals Homer’s recipe and begins serving the “Flaming Moe” as his own concoction. Moe sees his business boom, and his tavern soon becomes one of the trendiest nightspots in Springfield and Aerosmith’s official hangout. Homer becomes angry with Moe and vows never to return to the tavern. He subsequently becomes obsessed with Moe and how he betrayed him.

After the waitress Moe has hired discovers that Moe stole the recipe from Homer, she convinces him to sell the drink and give half of the money to Homer. Restaurant chain owners become interested in purchasing the secret ingredient for the drink, offering Moe $1,000,000 for it. Moe is about to accept the deal when Homer arrives at the tavern and climbs on top of Aerosmith’s set. He reveals to everyone in the bar that the secret ingredient is ordinary cough syrup. Within days, nearly all restaurants in Springfield are serving Flaming Moes (under slightly altered names), and Moe’s business has greatly decreased. Homer stops in and finds that Moe is not angry at him. Moe even gives Homer a “Flaming Homer” on the house.

Flaming Moe’s Song Lyrics
The song “Flaming Moe’s” was sung by Kipp Lennon, who provided the singing for the character who called himself Michael Jackson in the episode Stark Raving Dad.

When the weight of the World had got you down and you want to end your life/Bills to pay, a dead end job, and problems with the wife.
Don't throw in the towel 'cause there's a place right down the block,
where you can drink your misery away.
At Flaming Moe's,
(Let's all go to Flaming Moe's)
Where liquor in a mug,
Will warm you like a hug,
and happiness is just a Flaming Moe away.
Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away.

Cultural references
This episode parodied Cheers heavily, due to the bar-centric setting. The intellectual waitress who sleeps with Moe and later leaves for Hollywood, is reminiscent of Diane Chambers, and the “opening theme” for Moe’s is a direct parody of the famous Cheers theme, as well as the Norm-like Barney entering the bar, and a Woody-like character behind the bar.

Aerosmith took considerable effort in the production of the episode. They sing their hit Walk This Way in Moe’s Tavern, inviting Moe to join him. The Aerosmith video release Big Ones You Can Look At features behind-the-scenes footage of the band recording their segments for the episode. Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler recorded a special live version of the song “Young Lust” which played during the closing credits.

When a seemingly crazy Homer reveals the secret of the Flaming Moe, the scene has many parallels to The Phantom of the Opera including Homer standing high up in the roof (similar to the way The Phantom character often haunts the flies of the Paris Opera House) and having half his face covered by his bath robe (as The Phantom character often covers his deformed face with a mask).

After having sex with Moe, the waitress says: “I was just thinking about Homer Simpson.” And Moe replies: “That’s OK, I was just thinking about Sybil Danning”. Lionel Hutz refers to a ficticious “Frank Wallbanger” case, suggesting that the well-known cocktail called a Harvey Wallbanger was stolen by a guy named Harvey from a man named Frank.

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“Saturdays of Thunder” is the ninth episode of the The Simpsons’ third season, airing on November 14, 1991. The title is a spoof of the film Days of Thunder, and features the song “Watching Scotty Grow” by Bobby Goldsboro.

Alternate versions
The first Fox broadcast of this episode was cut and compressed to accommodate the world premiere of Michael Jackson’s new video, Black or White. However, CanWest Global System stations showed a full version with Bart writing “Hamsters cannot fly” on the blackboard. Fox broadcast the full version for the first time on April 2, 1992, but their version has Bart writing “I will not fake rabies” on the blackboard. (This is the version that’s on the Season 3 DVD boxset.)

The version for syndication is similar to the first Fox broadcast, except it wasn’t compressed and the opening sequence was taken from Season 5′s Rosebud. Unlike most syndication edits, however, this one actually includes a few scenes that aren’t in the “full” version.

In the “full” version, the scene at VHS Village (formerly Beta Barn) is faded in from the Simpsons’ driveway. However, the edit cuts this fade-in and swaps the VHS Village scene with the beauty parlour scene, which originally came after VHS Village.

In the edited version, the dialogue of the “Football’s Greatest Injuries” tape that Homer watches is changed. Originally a story about how “a big cat named Wayne Scheshevski” grabbed the “Galloping Gazelle”‘s face mask and snapped his neck, you hear, “The compound fracture, truly one of football’s greatest injuries.”

In the “full” version, when Marge asks Homer what his son’s hobbies are, Homer tells Marge that Bart’s “always chewing on that phone cord”, then Marge tells Homer he hasn’t done that since he was 2, so Homer responds, “Then he has no hobby.” The edited version cuts the phone cord lines and changes Homer’s response to, “Kids don’t have hobbies.”

Plot
The local Soap Box Derby is held in Springfield, and Bart has his heart set on first prize. However, the catch is that he must build his own Soap Box Racer. In the meantime, Homer takes a fatherhood quiz and discovers he knows next to nothing about his son. He offers to help his son by building him one as a surprise.

Unfortunately, Homer can only manage a very shoddy, rickety piece of junk for a racer (named Li’l Lightnin’), especially so in comparison to Martin Prince’s personally designed and built space shuttle-like racer, Honor Roller. Unable to gather the courage to tell his father that his racer is terrible, Bart attempts to use it in the preliminary match, where he and Martin form an alliance vowing that either must somehow beat bully Nelson Muntz and his very intimidating racer, the Roadkill 2000, armed with every dirty trick in the book.

When the race is underway, Bart can barely reach any kind of noticeable speed with Homer’s racer, which eventually falls apart. Meanwhile, Martin has difficulty controlling his racer, as it is moving too fast, which eventually causes him to crash. After being injured, Martin finds that he can no longer race and opts for Bart and himself to combine forces by having Bart race Martin’s racer over the racer he and Homer built. Bart seeing no other way to win agrees, breaking Homer’s heart.

When Bart later apologizes and desires Homer’s best wishes, Homer selfishly denounces both Bart and Martin telling Bart to do whatever he wants. Dejected, Bart gets ready to race in the final match with Martin’s newly tuned racer. As he does this, Homer thinks to himself about how selfish he’s been, realizing he has learned a lot about his son, and that Bart needs his support regardless of whose racer he’s using and he rushes off to the race. At the starting line, Homer wishes Bart luck and tells him that no matter how the race ends he’ll still be proud of him. The race is tough as Nelson pulls every dirty trick in his arsenal, but eventually through his skill Bart comes out on top and the “team” enjoy their victory.

Cultural references
In the episode, Homer reads and quotes Fatherhood by Bill Cosby. While on hold, the song being played is “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin. The spikes coming out of Nelson’s racer are similar to those of the car in The Little Rascals.

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“Lisa’s Pony” is episode eight of the The Simpsons’ third season, which aired on November 7, 1991.

The episode is, modeled after the novel The Yearling, a boy receives a deer, but his family has to work harder as the deer destroys the farm. When the father can’t work anymore, the boy must give up the deer. The mother also doesn’t like the idea of a deer in the house. The book is mirrored in almost all aspects.

Plot
Lisa requires a reed for her saxophone because there is a talent show that evening. After calling Marge, Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Patty and Selma and “the nice man who caught the snake in our basement”, she finally calls Homer at work. Homer agrees but goes into Moe’s before the music shop, which is right next door. The shop closes in 5 minutes. Homer, thinking he has enough time to drink the beer, enters Moe’s. He walks out with 15 seconds to spare but is too late as the shop is closed. Dejected, he goes back to Moe’s where the shop owner is enjoying a drink. Moe helps Homer convince the man to re-open his store. Homer, who barely remembers what he is supposed to pick up for Lisa, purchases the reed and heads for the school. Unfortunately he is still late. He arrives just in time to hear Lisa humiliate herself by butchering the song she chose to play.

To make Lisa love him again, Homer takes out a shifty loan from Burns. He purchases a pony for Lisa, despite objections from Marge. In order to pay for all the care it requires, Homer takes a second job working for Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart. Homer becomes more and more exhausted after trying to work both jobs. Finally, Marge admits to the kids that their father has been working two jobs to pay for the pony. Making a heart-wrenching decision, Lisa agrees to give up the pony, allowing Homer to go back to solely working his regular job. Lisa tells Homer that there’s a “big dumb animal” she loves even more than her horse, that being Homer himself.

Continuity
There is a scene recycled from Bart’s Dog Gets an F when we see Lisa laying on the couch with the mumps as she says on the phone to Homer “I want you to know I love you, Dad!”. Also, Homer is wearing the Assassins he bought in the episode but had destroyed. This was added in deliberately to see if any fans were alert. Some realised this joke, but most did not notice.

Apu can be seen dating Princess Kashmir (the belly dancer from Homer’s Night Out). Ralph Wiggum appears in his post season 1 look but speaks with his old voice, which is highly reminiscent of Nelson Muntz. Avid viewers may find this quite humorous as this deeper, more boyish voice is a stark contrast to the high pitched tone which became the characters’ standard voice after this point.

The series’ first clip show, “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show,” plays the dream sequence from this episode, but the song “Golden Slumbers” is replaced with the same dream-like song used in syndication due to copyright laws (see below).

Cultural references
The episode starts off with a Dawn of Man sequence spoofing the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Part of the song playing when Homer falls asleep in his car is “Golden Slumbers” from The Beatles’ Abbey Road album, though much of the beginning is based on part of Bohuslav Martinu’s Sonata No. 3. In syndication, the song is replaced with a dream-like guitar piece due to copyright laws.

The scene in which Lisa first awakes with the Pony in her bed is an homage to the scene in Part 1 of The Godfather, in which a movie producer awakens to discover the head of his favourite horse removed and placed in his bed. The musical chords used in the episode are the same, but shortened. The woman at the horse stables is obviously modeled after Katharine Hepburn.

Mr. Burns asks Homer if he is acquainted with the state’s usury laws – state laws which limit the interest rate a lender can charge a borrower. From his reaction to Homer not knowing about them, or even knowing the meaning of the word “usury”, Mr. Burns is likely charging Homer an illegal amount of interest on his loan. Although Mr. Burns has an interesting way of loansharking. When Homer asks about collateral, Burns replies that “Homer’s spirit is collateral” then gives a diabolical laugh. This is likely a reference to the hellish nature of Mr. Burns and that he is trying to somehow claim Homer’s soul should he not repay. As he quits, Homer’s line “You can take this job and restaff it” resembles the hook lyric “You Can Take This Job and Shove It” from a song by David Allen Coe.

The boy before Lisa in the talent show sings the Chuck Berry song “My Ding-A-Ling” before being stopped by Principal Skinner, who angrily exclaims, “This act is over”

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“Like Father, Like Clown” is the sixth episode of The Simpsons’ third season. The episode aired on October 24, 1991. Bart and Lisa try to reunite Krusty the Clown with his long-estranged father, a rabbi who disapproved of his son’s choice of career in comedy. This episode’s title is a play on the phrase “Like father, like son”.

Plot
Krusty the Clown has agreed to have dinner with Bart and his family, but keeps putting it off, much to Bart’s disappointment. An upset Bart writes a letter to Krusty renouncing his fanhood, and Krusty’s secretary is so moved that she tells Krusty she will quit her job if he doesn’t keep his promise to Bart. With that in mind, Krusty finally comes to dinner at the Simpson house. When asked to say grace, he recites the Hebrew blessing over bread, HaMotzi. Realizing that Krusty is Jewish, Lisa reminded of his heritage, making Krusty cry. He tells the family of his upbringing on the Lower East Side of Springfield.

His father, Hyman Krustofski, was a rabbi dispensing Talmudic wisdom and car-buying tips to the neighborhood and strongly opposed to young Krusty’s wish of becoming a clown and making people laugh, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva instead. As a result, Krusty performed slapstick comedy behind his father’s back. He was performing at a rabbi’s convention when one joking rabbi squirted seltzer on him, washing off his clown makeup. When Rabbi Krustofski found out, he disowned his son, and it has been 25 years since they’ve seen or spoken to each other.

In the weeks following this admission, Krusty’s TV show begins to suffer, as he thinks more and more about his father. Bart and Lisa resolve to help reunite father and son, but the rabbi still refuses to accept Krusty’s career choice. An attempt by the kids to reunite the Krustofskis at a deli fails when the rabbi leaves early after seeing a very non-kosher sandwich bearing his son’s name on the menu. Bart calls into a religious talk-radio show that Rabbi Krustofski appears on, asking if a father should forgive his son for defying his wishes if the son is making millions of children happy, and the rabbi angrily answers in the negative.

Lisa does research to find Judaic teachings that urge forgiveness, but Rabbi Krustofski has responses for each of them. Finally, Bart is able to convince the rabbi to reconcile with a quote by Sammy Davis, Jr., which finally convinces Rabbi Krustofsky of his stubborness. A deeply depressed Krusty is glumly doing a live taping of his show, but when Rabbi Krustofski appears, they joyously hug and make up before the audience of children.

Cultural references
The episode is an homage to the film The Jazz Singer. Krusty’s father references this when he tells his son “If you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I could forgive.” His quote “I have no son” is also reminisint. The Itchy and Scratchy episode entitled “Field of Screams” is a reference to “Field of Dreams”.

The scenes in which Krusty calls his father without saying anything is reminiscent of Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. Rabbi Krustofsky dislikes the movies of Bruce Willis, when he is looking over a menu of sandwiches named after famous celebrities, he passes on the one named after Bruce Willis, claiming “I don’t even like his work!”

Krusty’s secretary, Miss Pennycandy, is a reference to the James Bond secretary Miss Moneypenny. The “award-winning Jewish novelist” mentioned in the original script was Isaac Bashevis Singer, who died on July 24, 1991. It was changed to Saul Bellow before being broadcast.

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“Homer Defined” is the fifth episode of The Simpsons’ third season, airing on October 17, 1991. The episode marks the first appearance of Milhouse’s mother and the first time his surname, Van Houten, is used. It is also the second Simpsons episode where it is suggested that Smithers might be gay, with “The Telltale Head” being the first.

The episode featured the first appearance of a professional athlete in the series, Magic Johnson. At the end of the episode, he slips and lands by the feet of several beautiful women who admire him. Shortly after this episode aired, Johnson went public with the fact he has HIV as the result of having had extramarital relationships with over 200 women.

On this episode’s original airing, Burns tells Smithers “there’s nothing left but to kiss my sorry butt goodbye”, and Bart says “Bad influence, my ass!” to Milhouse. On the repeat on February 27, 1992, Burns’ line changes to “there’s nothing left to do but kiss my sorry ass goodbye”, and Bart’s changes to “Bad influence, my butt!”.

Plot
Meanwhile, at the power plant, as Homer eats jelly donuts, one of them splatters onto a dial nearing the red zone. The plant is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown, and Homer seems to be the only person who can stop it. He has no skills and cannot remember any training, however, and in desperation chooses a button via eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Miraculously, Homer presses the button that averts the meltdown; Springfield is saved, and Homer is honored as a hero.

Mr. Burns rewards Homer for saving the plant with an “Employee of the Month” award (displacing longtime holder Smithers), a ham, a plaque, a discount coupon book, Burns’ personal “thumbs-up”, and a call from Magic Johnson. Even Lisa begins to admire Homer as a role model, but Homer’s conscience haunts him. He knows (and fears that everyone else will realize) that his “heroism” was nothing but luck. Burns introduces Homer to Aristotle “Ari” Amadopoulos, the owner of the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant. Ari wants Homer the hero to give a pep talk to his plant’s lackluster workers. Homer is hesitant to accept, but Burns forces him into it.

As Homer gives his fumbling “motivational” speech, an impending meltdown threatens the Shelbyville plant. The crowd marches Homer to the control room, asking him to perform his heroic deeds once again. In front of everyone, Homer repeats his juvenile rhyme and presses a button blindly. By sheer dumb luck, he manages to avert this meltdown as well. He is even more widely derided as a lucky imbecile than he was hailed as a hero, and “to pull a Homer” becomes a widely-used phrase meaning “to succeed despite idiocy” (even entering the dictionary illustrated with a small portrait of Homer).

Subplot
On the bus ride to school, Bart gives Milhouse one of a pair of Krusty walkie-talkies as a birthday present. Bart is crushed to discover that Milhouse had held a birthday party the previous Saturday, but he had not been invited. Milhouse seems unwilling to talk to Bart and avoids him for the rest of the day.

Milhouse finally tells Bart why he was not invited to the party: Mrs. Van Houten thinks Bart is a bad influence on her son. She has ordered Milhouse to stay away from Bart, which he has reluctantly done. Suddenly deprived of his best friend, Bart resorts to playing with Maggie.

Marge visits Milhouse’s mother to try to repair their children’s friendship. Marge admits that Bart really does influence Milhouse badly, but begs Mrs. Van Houten to let Bart and Milhouse be friends again. Upon realizing that both Bart and Milhouse are miserable without each other, his mother relents. At that rate, Milhouse invites Bart over to his house, and Bart happily pulls out a BB gun to “play” with.

Cultural references
Homer Defined features many references to nuclear incidents. The news coverage of the crisis at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant parodies the coverage of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. The children duck under their desks in a fashion taught to elementary school students during the early years Cold War in the 60s. When Homer stops the first meltdown, the timer stops on 007. This is reminiscent of Goldfinger at the end where James Bond stops a timer on a bomb and the timer ends on 007, his agent number. The timer in the plant also looks exactly like the one in the movie.

While desperate, Homer looks back to his nuclear plant training and sees himself attempting to solve the Rubik’s Cube. He then blames the puzzle for distracting him. Otto hums Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group while driving the bus to the Kwik-E-Mart.