The Simpsons 10×13: Homer to the Max
A mid-season replacement series features a suave and debonair character named Detective Homer Simpson. Homer is delighted and begins to capitalize on his new namesake, until the second episode airs and his namesake is rewritten to be a stupid bumbling fool. Homer goes to appeal to the producers. Then he tries to sue, but instead winds up getting his named legally changed to Max Power. His new name gives him a new attitude, which moves him into a whole different social class. But is society ready for him?
The Simpsons 10×12: Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
After Bart and Lisa’s school visit the post office for a field trip, they are allowed one piece of undeliverable mail. Bart gets a coupon book, which he gives to Homer on his birthday. Homer has a coupon for a free tire balance, and the dealer takes advantage of his gullibility. In the waiting room, he meets a travel agent. He cuts Homer a deal where Homer can go to the Super Bowl free of charge if he fills the bus with his friends and acquaintances. Homer fills his part of the deal, so he and Bart take off for Miami. Marge and Lisa are bored, so they try to play a Vincent Price Easter game. When the feet are missing, they call Vincent for the part. Meanwhile Homer and his bus make it to Miami, but they realize their tickets are fakes. They then break into the stadium, only to be arrested, but with help from Dolly Parton, they break out of their cell at halftime and run amuck during the game. They end up in a confrontation with billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch in his skybox. They run away, leading to the winning team’s locker room celebration. To cap it off, Homer gets to talk to President Clinton. As they leave, Madden and Summerall give their thoughts on the episode.
The Simpsons 10×11: Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken
Homer hates the Isotopes until they start winning. When they win the big game, he, Barney, Lenny, and Carl go on a drunken binge and wind up vandalizing the elementary school. With no suspects, Chief Wiggum assumes it was the children, so he imposes a curfew. The kids break the curfew by going to see a horror movie at the drive-in. Chief Wiggum catches them and makes them do community service. They decide to get even with the adults by broadcasting their secrets on the radio. The adults figure out where they broadcast from and bust them again. Each generation voices its concerns in a musical number and the seniors have the last laugh though, because they vote for a curfew for anyone under 70.
The Simpsons 10×10: Viva Ned Flanders
Springfield implodes its casino. When Homer goes to the car wash, he sees that Flanders is getting a senior citizens’ discount. He calls Flander’s out in church and Flander’s confesses that he is 60-years-old, his youthful appearance is due to three C’s, Clean living, Chewing thoroughly, a daily dose of vitamin Church and resisting all major urges. Homer accuses him of never living a day in his life. This makes him wish for more interesting experiences and since Homer is the king of such experiences, Homer offers to help Flanders. Flanders gives Homer his power of attorney and Homer takes him to Las Vegas. They go on a drunken binge at a casino, only to wake up with new wives. They run from their new wives and all the famous Vegas personalities chase them down and kick them out of town. What story will they tell their real wives about where they have been? Easy, they were abducted by aliens at Wal-Mart and gang-probed.
The Simpsons 10×9: Mayored to the Mob
The Simpsons are watching a cheesy TV movie, when it is interrupted by a commercial for a sci-fi convention, Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con. Mark Hamill, ALF, and the gay robots from “Star Wars” are scheduled to be there. The family goes to the convention, but Homer feels uncomfortable amidst the nerds. Mark Hamill comes out to talk about Sprint, and Homer is the only one interested. There is a riot when Hamill asks for a volunteer and when Hamill and Mayor Quimby are attacked; Homer does a little nerd-bashing. Disappointed with his own security, Quimby trains and hires Homer to become his bodyguard. Homer accompanies Mayor Quimby everywhere around town and doesn’t care when Quimby is taking bribes. He suddenly does care when he finds out that Quimby is paying Fat Tony to milk rats for cheap school milk. He threatens to quit if Quimby does not stop this arrangement. Quimby does, and he puts Fat Tony in jail. Fat Tony swears revenge, but Homer is confident that he can protect Quimby. He takes Quimby to a musical, starring Mark Hamill and Fat Tony just happens to be there with his hit men. Homer does everything he can to save Quimby’s life, but Fat Tony crudely gets his revenge on the mayor with a baseball bat.
The Simpsons 10×8: Homer Simpson in: “Kidney Trouble”
The Simpsons, including Abe, visit a ghost town where Abe drinks a lot of sarsaparilla. On the way home, Abe really needs to go to the bathroom, but Homer is more interested in making good time. Abe visits the doctor soon afterward, finding out that his kidneys exploded. There is only one way to save him… Homer must donate one of his. Homer agrees, and everybody treats him like a king but his friends at the bar wise him up to the risk involved. So when it comes time for the operation, he chickens out and flees. He goes aboard a ship of lost souls and tells them his story. They are so disgusted that he would leave his father to die that they throw him overboard. So Homer decides to go back and save him, but he chickens out again, only to have a terrible mishap. He wakes up in a hospital bed, sans one kidney. Abe is alive and well, and Homer can ask Bart for a kidney anytime he wants.
The Simpsons 10×7: Lisa Gets an “A”
After church, the Simpsons go to the grocery store for free samples. Homer picks out a small lobster with plans to raise him until he is big. Homer stuffs Lisa into the freezer to find a better flavor of ice cream and it results in her getting sick. She stays home and she becomes addicted to one of Bart’s old video games. When she gets her homework from Ralph, she doesn’t do it. She’s so addicted to playing the game that she even fakes being sick, when she has gotten better. Marge sees through her ruse and she has to return to school. She finds out that she has to take a test, so she buys an old test off of Nelson and aces it. Her A+++ gets attention from Principal Skinner and he tells her that it raised the school’s GPA enough to where they qualify for a grant. When Lisa admits that she cheated on the test, Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers do not want anyone to know. Lisa confesses to everyone at a presentation, but Skinner manages to get the grant anyway by tricking her. Meanwhile, Homer has been treating Pinchy the lobster as his pet; however, one day he gives it a nice, hot bath and accidentally boils him. So he eats him.
The Simpsons 10×5: When You Dish Upon a Star
Homer dreams about being Yogi Bear, but instead of going to a national park in search of picnic baskets, the Simpson family goes to the beach. While there, Homer tries parasailing and given his size the rope breaks and he flies off into a forest. He crash lands through a mansion’s roof, winding up in bed with Kim Basinger. He finds that she and Alec Baldwin are Springfield’s newest and most secretive residents. Homer befriends them and becomes their gofer. He soon also works for their friend, Ron Howard and Homer tries to pitch a ridiculous screenplay to them. Even though he was sworn to secrecy, one night Homer tells the gang at Moe’s about his new celebrity friends. People swarm their mansion, ruining any sense of privacy. Homer is fired, of course, but he becomes bitter, and sets up “the museum of Hollywood jerks.” They are steamed, so they run him down and get back their stuff. They sue Homer, so that he cannot legally bother them anymore. They all leave for Hollywood to pitch movies. Ron pitches Homer’s ridiculous screenplay and gets a picture deal.
The Simpsons 10×6: D’oh-in’ in the Wind
Homer’s search to discover his middle name leads him to an old hippie commune that his mother used to frequent. He finds a mural that his mother painted of him from the 60’s, and is inspired to become a hippie.
The Simpsons 10×4: Treehouse of Horror IX
Hell ToupĂ©e It’s his third strike, Snake is sent to the electric chair. He vows revenge on all on those who were there when he was caught, Apu, Moe & Bart. Snake is electrocuted and his organs are saved for transplant. The beneficiary of his hair is one Homer J. Simpson. The hair begins exacting the revenge promised by its former owner. The Terror of Tiny ToonMarge takes the batteries from the TV remote control. Bart substitutes plutonium with strange results as he and Lisa become cartoon characters in an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, where the violence is real. Starship PoopersWhen Maggie gets her first tooth, a fang, and loses her legs, which are replaced by tentacles. Marge confesses that Homer is not the father, but rather Kang is. To settle the dispute on what would be better for Maggie’s future, Bart suggests they go on The Jerry Springer Show and of course a fight or two breaks out.
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