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Lisa the Vegetarian

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|image=Lisa the Vegetarian promo.png
|Episode Number=133
|productionCode=3F03
|originalAirdate=October 15, [[1995]]
|blackboardText="The Boys Bathroom is not a water park"
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|Written By=[[David S. Cohen]]
|Directed By=[[Mark Kirkland]]
|DVD features=yes
}}

"'''Lisa the Vegetarian'''" is the fifth episode of [[season 7]]. It originally aired on October 15, [[1995]]. The episode was written by [[David S. Cohen]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]]. [[Phil Hartman]], [[Paul McCartney|Paul]] and [[Linda McCartney]] guest star.

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|After a trip to a petting zoo, [[Lisa]] finds herself unable to eat lamb exposing her to ridicule and resentment from her father and friends. But with help from [[Apu]] and Paul and Linda McCartney, she makes an effort to stick to her new vegetarian view.}}

== Plot ==
[[Grampa]] and the Simpsons visit [[Storytown Village]], which is a boring amusement park for 1-7½ year olds. ([[Marge]] had previously said that the trip would be fun for everyone, including [[Lisa]], who is eight). They also visit the park's petting zoo and are immediately enraptured as they see one little lamb after another, each one more absurdly adorable than the one before it.

Upon returning home, [[Homer]] finds that [[Ned Flanders]] is throwing a family reunion, and feels upset that Ned didn't invite him ("after I painted those cool stripes all over your car"). In a moment of split-second thought, Homer then decides to throw a barbeque and only invite who he wants. When Ned asks if he can come, Homer agrees ... before suddenly realizing why he was throwing the barbeque in the first place.

That night, Marge serves lamb chops for dinner, and Lisa cannot eat them. She keeps hearing the bleating voice of the lambs at the petting zoo: "Li-i-i-sa, I thought you lo-o-o-ved me-e-eee!" Lisa pushes her plate away, crying, "I can't eat this. I can't eat a poor little lamb!" Naturally Homer notes the distinction between lamb, and a lamb. Her mother, trying to help, offers up rump roast, chicken breast, and hot dogs instead, but Lisa suddenly makes the connection between these dishes and their living counterparts. "No I can't! I can't eat any of them!"

At school, her newfound vegetarianism becomes a problem when she is almost forced to dissect a live worm who she imagines pleading, "Li-i-isa, what did I ever do to you-u-u-u?" She's a little confused ("Why does it talk like a lamb?") but no less committed to her cause, and so she refuses to dissect it. Lisa's refusal prompts [[Miss Hoover]] to press a button that triggers a silent "independent thought alarm".

Lisa's woes continue at lunch. The only vegetarian option is a hot dog bun, which [[Lunchlady Dora]] proclaims "rich in bunly goodness". (In the Spanish dubbed version, Doris claims it's "rich in wheat and mustard".) Her caustic questioning of the exact point when Doris lost her enthusiasm for her job results in the second secret "independent thought alarm" she's triggered that day, prompting [[Principal Skinner]] to have all colored chalk removed from the classrooms. He then speaks to Lisa's class, telling them that there's an independent thinker (who he will not reaveal, but unknowingly does so) in the room. He then shows them a propagandistic pro-meat film titled ''[[Meat and You: Partners in Freedom]]''. Lisa immediately sees through the propaganda angle and tries to clue in her fellow students about it, but her efforts draw only ridicule as the other kids sarcastically parrot quotes from the film at her.

Meanwhile, [[Homer]] is thoroughly engrossed in preparing for his big barbecue, and shows off his pig-shaped invitations, which advertise his "BBBQ," with the extra "B" for standing "BYOBB". When Bart asks what the extra "B" is for there, Homer snaps back, "That's a typo". In this atmosphere, Lisa's newfound vegetarian stance is not tolerated or understood very well at home, either, with Homer and [[Bart]] both mocking her for rejecting meat. Homer and Bart even start a dance line, singing "You don't win friends with salad", and even Marge joins in (but only because she thought the rhythm was catchy), when Lisa requests that something other than the traditional meat be served at Homer's upcoming barbecue.

Meanwhile, Homer hosts his barbecue complete with roast pig. Lisa—who is becoming increasingly self-righteous regarding her vegetarianism—brings gazpacho but is laughed out of the yard. She retreats to her room, where she sulks on her bed and resents the partygoers for rubbing their carnivorous habits "in [her] face". Just then, a hamburger haphazardly flipped by Homer for Bart flies through her window and lands on her face.

Enraged, Lisa climbs aboard a riding mower, and drives away with the roast pig in tow with Marge shouting at her to stop (although she erroneously refers to her as Bart initially until Bart asks what he did wrong, causing her to remember and apologize for the mistake, mentioning that it was a force of habit before correctly telling Lisa to stop). Homer and Bart chase after her, but she pushes the pig down a steep slope and they're too late. The pig rolls through bushes, into the river, and is shot into the air by a hydroelectric dam's suction.

Meanwhile, [[Mr. Burns]] shocks Smithers by saying that he will give a million dollars to a local charity ... when pigs fly. Just then, Homer's roast pig flies into view. Burns is utterly shocked, but still refuses to donate the money.

Back at home, Homer scolds Lisa for ruining his barbecue and sends her to her room, but she rebukes him and says he wrong for serving and eating meat. Lisa and Homer are too angry to speak to one another. They fight and she leaves the house. While walking, she is mocked by classmates and hit with a barrage of bad meat-related advertisements ([[Sherri]] and [[Terri]] taunt, "Look at Mrs. Potato Head! She has a head made out of lettuce!", giggling). The pressures to conform to an omnivorous society finally become too great, prompting Lisa to grab a hot dog off of the grill at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]], take a bite, and shout, "There! Is everybody happy now?"

However, [[Apu]]—himself a vegan—reveals that she has, in fact, eaten a tofu dog (he "made the switch and nobody noticed"), and takes her through a secret passageway to the garden on the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] roof to meet Paul and Linda McCartney. One brief heart-to-heart later, Lisa is committed once more to vegetarianism. She also learns an important lesson from Apu: "I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always."

Thus inspired, she returns home to make up with her father, and finds him in the street shouting her name, exposing his fear of being viewed as a bad father. Lisa apologizes to Homer, admitting she had no right to ruin his party; he forgives her and offers her "a piggyback—I mean, a veggieback ride".

== Reception ==
MSNBC listed the episode as their second favorite in the show. They called the “You don’t win friends with salad” song "one of those archetypal “Simpsons” moments, one in which the writers hit a joke so long that it goes from funny to unfunny and back to funny again."

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King-Size Homer

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"'''King-Size Homer'''" is the seventh episode of [[season 7]]. It originally aired on November 5, [[1995]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. [[Joan Kenley]] guest stars.

== Synopsis ==
[[Homer]] tries everything to get out of the plant's new exercise program and discovers that being on disability would do just that. With [[Bart]]'s help, Homer starts eating everything he can, even playdough.

== Plot ==
[[Charles Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] organizes an exercise program at the power plant. While this program finds some support among the workers, [[Homer]] is not among them. After learning that those on disability get to work at home (and not take part in the exercises), he tries to injure himself. When he discovers that hyper-obesity counts as a disability, he decides to put on weight until he is 300 pounds. In this way, he can be legally disabled and force Burns to let him telecommute. Despite [[Marge Simpson|Marge's]] protests that this could endanger his health and jeopardize her attraction to him, Homer engages in nearly unprecedented gluttony. After a mass eating spree, [[Bart]] tells Homer they're out of food. Faced with the prospect of another day at work, Homer eats a Play-Doh donut that [[Maggie]] made. This manages to push him over the 300 pound goal, but it is then that Bart notes that Homer's gut is caught on a towel rack. Once Homer lets his gut hang down, the scale readjusts to 315 pounds.

A computer work station is set up in the Simpsons home for Homer's position. Homer enjoys working from home: he realizes that all he has to do is hit "y" (for "yes") on the computer repeatedly. However, he soon tires of the repetitiveness of the situation, and begins to get distracted. One day, Homer leaves a drinking bird hitting the "y" button while he goes out to see a movie. After being refused to be seated due to his size, and heckled by some people outside the theater, Homer returns home, vowing to show that overweight people can be important. Upon his return, he finds the bird has been knocked aside, and a nuclear meltdown at the power plant is imminent. Homer rushes to the plant and bravely tries to take charge. He ultimately saves the day — his enormous gut gets stuck in the release tube and blocks the toxic gas from escaping. As a reward and upon Homer's request, Mr. Burns guarantees that he will make Homer thin once more. After Homer fails with his exercise program, Mr. Burns decides to just pay for the liposuction.

== Production ==
"King-Size Homer" was the first episode [[Dan Greaney]] wrote for ''The Simpsons''. Greaney pitched some ideas to the writing staff, but none of them were any good, so then-show runner [[Bill Oakley]] gave him the idea for this episode. he writers wanted the title of the episode to make Homer sound proud about his weight, so they decided to name it "King-Size Homer". [[David Silverman]] designed the fat Homer for the episode. The writers were also discussing about how they were going to treat Homer's fatness. They did not want Homer to come off as a "hog", so they decided that the viewer should barely see him eating after he reaches his 300 pounds goal.

== Reception ==
In its original broadcast, "King-Size Homer" finished 45th in the ratings for the week of October 30 to November 3, 1995, with a {{W|Nielsen rating}} of 10.0. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from fans and television critics. In 2008, ''{{W|Empire (magazine)|Empire}}'' placed ''The Simpsons'' at the top of their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time", and noted "King-Size Homer" as the show's best episode, calling it "An unimprovable mix of sharp dialogue, hilarious sight gags and heart."<ref>[http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/default.asp?tv=1 Empire Online - "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time"]</ref> [[NoHomers.net]] ranked the episode number thirty-three in their 2012 "NHC Top 100 Episodes" voting, with a total of 554 votes<ref>[http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?97269-The-NHC-Top-100-Episodes NoHomers - "The NHC Top 100 Episodes" (2012)]</ref> and number twenty-one in their 2014 "NHC Top 100 Episodes" voting, with a total of 670 points.<ref>[http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?106954-The-NHC-Top-100-Episodes-(results!) NoHomers - "The NHC Top 100 Episodes" (2014)]</ref>

[[Nick Offerman]] has stated that this is his favorite episode of the series.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bqFzim4URU YouTube - Simpsons Faves: Nick Offerman]</ref>

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File:King-Size Homer promo.jpg|Promotional image
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Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)

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'''Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)''' is the seventh episode of the [[season 18|eighteenth season]]. It originally aired on November 26, [[2006]].

== Synopsis ==
[[Homer]] is given an ice-cream van in memory of a ice-cream man, and becomes a tyrant to the community. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] finds a useful use for leftover ice-cream sticks - building sculptures of people in [[Springfield]]. The relationship between them hits a bump in the road when Homer crashes into Marge's sculptures, and Marge won't forgive him, whatever he tries.

== Plot ==
Homer is fired from the nuclear power plant for ignoring Mr. Burns and chasing after an ice cream truck. When Homer catches up, he chats with the driver {{ap|Max|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}, who reveals that Homer is his best customer. Homer buys an ice cream and asks for change from a hundred dollar bill. As the ice cream man dispenses the change, quarters at a time, he has a heart attack and then dies, to Homer's horror.
[[File:Marge starts stick-building.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Marge starts her career of stick-building.]]
At the funeral, the ice cream man's widow tells Homer to have the ice cream van, having no need for it herself. Homer hires Otto to pimp out the van whilst he gets dressed in uniform in a style that parodies 'Da Ali G show.' Homer then goes out to sell ice cream, and doing so, he forces a lactose-intolerant child to eat an ice cream.

Meanwhile, Marge is watching '[[The Opal Show|Opal]]', a talk show. A woman on the show convinces Marge to leave her 'Lega-she.' Realising she hasn't done much in her life, Marge is depressed. After Homer leaves a pile of sticky popsicle sticks on the table, Marge fashions them into a sculpture of Maggie. With something to do, Marge begins making sculptures of everyone in Springfield with leftover sticks given to her by Homer.
[[File:Marge looks through the photos.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Marge looks through the photos of Homer's sad face, and finds a photo of the cat falling down the stairs.]]
The next day, the rich Texan expresses interest in Marge's artwork and wishes to finance a show. Marge agrees. as Homer goes out to sell some more Ice cream, Marge stops him and asks that he be at the show for support. Homer agrees and heads off. On his rounds, Homer comes across 'Divorced Dad's Visitation Jamboree' picnic. Homer is kept busy most of the day until somebody mentions that it is 3 O'clock, the time of Marge's show. Homer races back home, driving down the side of a hill to escape traffic. The van loses control and tears through most of Marge's sculptures, finally smashing into a tree. Marge is furious and says that Homer couldn't stand that she was a success, Homer says it was an accident but she refuses to believe him. Homer spends most of the night stood by the bedroom door trying to convince her that he is sorry.

He eventually falls asleep and wakes the next day to find out that Marge is gone and left Grandpa to look after the kids, who has been staring at a photograph of the 3 the whole time. Homer eventually finds Marge a the top city hall and thinks she is about to commit suicide. Marge then explains she is not there to jump and goes on to reveal a huge statue of Homer with pants. Marge has realised that her 'Lega-she' is actually a 'Lega-we.' Homer then asks where she put all the ice-cream that was on the sticks she used. Marge says, "In that dumpster over there." Homer dives in and starts eating, until Marge calls out, "Not that one."

200 years later, the statue still stands, an example of the last known art before the fall of Western civilisation. We then find out that giant iPods have enslaved humanity, whipping humans with headphones for a hobby.

== Reception ==
This episode gathered 10.90 million viewers.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2006/11/ratings-ice-cream-of-margie-with-the-light-blue-hair/ Simpsons Channel - Ratings: Ice Cream Of Margie (With The Light Blue Hair)]</ref>

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Hungry, Hungry Homer

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"'''Hungry, Hungry Homer'''" is the fifteenth episode of [[season 12]]. It originally aired on March 4, [[2001]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Nancy Kruse]]. [[Stacy Keach]] guest stars as [[Howard K. Duff VIII]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|After [[Homer]] discovers that the [[Springfield]] Isotopes are being moved to [[Albuquerque]], he stages a hunger strike outside the stadium.}}

== Plot ==
The Simpsons visit [[Blockoland]]. [[Lisa]] buys an Eiffel Tower kit, only to find out later that it has a deliberately missing base piece. [[Homer]] decides to "sticks up for the little guy", getting Lisa the piece from a box labeled 'Missing tower pieces'. He then goes on to help [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] get a date for the upcoming school dance (by telling [[Sherri]] she couldn't do better), and helps Marge's hair stylist sort his finances, getting her two free hair streaks in return.

One day while at the ball game, the [[Springfield Isotopes]] are losing. Homer goes to get [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]'s ticket refunded, and meets the Isotopes' owner, [[Howard K. Duff VIII]]. The man refuses to supply a refund, but in his haste to leave, Homer discovers evidence that the Isotopes are being moved to Albuquerque. Duff insists that they are not moving, and quickly has [[Duffman]] drug Homer to cover up the truth.

Homer attempts to alert the local media of the scheme, but they call him a liar after he fails to provide evidence - Duff had removed all traces of it before it could be retrieved. Homer goes on hunger strike in response, chaining himself to a pole near [[Duff Stadium]], hoping to force the owners of the team to admit their secret plan. He draws quite a crowd, so the Isotopes management decide to relocate him to inside the ballpark, next to the field. They then exploit his popularity, calling him "Hungry, Hungry Homer".

Meanwhile, back at home Bart, Lisa, and [[Maggie]] have all gotten fat, as lately they have had to eat Homer's dinner along with their own. Lisa asks her mom why she doesn't just cook less, to which Marge states "I don't do things that way Lisa".

Eventually Homer becomes so thin and ill that the team decides to get rid of him; they plan on putting a man who drinks a bucket of paint in his place, but the man falls down twitching while doing his trick. In a public ceremony, the team's owner unchains Homer, offering him a free hot dog. Homer realizes that the hot dog is topped with Southwestern ingredients. He reveals this new evidence to the witnessing crowd, who also notice that the hot dogs are wrapped with "Albuquerque Isotopes" paper. The crowd gets angry: Howard K. Duff VIII tries to bluff his way out of it, but even Duffman turns against him. The fans hail Homer as a hero for exposing the lies, and they shower him with food (which he gladly eats as they throw it).

Over in Albuquerque, his plan to 'steal' the Isotopes ruined, the Mayor of Albuquerque decides to purchase the Dallas Cowboys]. When he's told that they're a football] team, he retorts that they'll play what he tells them to, as he menacingly declares, "for I am the '''Mayor of Albuquerque'''!"

== Cuts ==
The last scene with the mayor of Albuquerque hatching a new plan was cut in syndication, so the episode ends with Homer celebrating in the stadium. The original ending is still shown in [[Sweden]], Denmark, [[Britain]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[France]] and [[Hungary]].

== Legacy ==
*A real-life minor-league baseball team, based in Albuquerque, decided to name their team the [[Albuquerque Isotopes]] after this episode.
*This episode also popularized the internet slang word "[[wikipedia:Meh|meh]]".

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The Heartbroke Kid

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'''The Heartbroke Kid''' is the seventeenth episode of [[season 16]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|Vending machines appear at [[Springfield Elementary School]], and [[Bart]] quickly gets hooked on the junk food they dispense. He gains a large amount of weight and has a heart attack. When Bart can't stay on a healthy diet, he is sent to a maximum-security fat camp to kick his junk food habit. Back at home, the family is faced with large bills for Bart's treatment, and needs extra income in order to pay for it. They convert the house into a youth hostel which brings in the money they need, but also attracts an unfriendly and demanding crowd of German tourists.}}

== Plot ==
[[Springfield Elementary School]] is seeking proposals for a vending machine contract. [[Principal Skinner]] and [[Superintendent Chalmers]] consider and reject ideas from [[Horatio McCallister]] and [[Gil Gunderson]]. [[Lindsay Naegle]] presents the next proposal, representing a vending machine chain called [[Scammer and Z-Dog]]. When Naegle mentions the fund-raising potential of the machines ("Half the profits go to your school or camp"), Skinner and Chalmers enthusiastically accept her proposal and the school has its vending machines.

The machines talk in hip-hop slang and feature strangely named snacks, some of which contain harmful ingredients such as depleted uranium. Except for [[Lisa]], none of the kids care about the harmful snacks, and they eagerly line up to feed their money into the machines and chow down on the snacks they dispense. The vending machines' biggest customer is [[Bart]], who becomes hooked on the junk food to the point where he won't eat any food that doesn't come from the machines, even rejecting [[Marge]]'s lovingly prepared tuna steak. In just three weeks, he gains an enormous amount of weight and suffers a heart attack.

Bart sees [[Dr. Hibbert]], who says that junk food—specifically, malted milk balls—has clogged his arteries. Bart, however, doesn't change his eating habits, almost continuously eating the snacks until Marge puts him on a diet. When Bart can't stick to the diet, the family and some friends and neighbors stage an intervention and send Bart to [[Serenity Ranch]], a maximum security fat camp. Also at the camp are [[Apu]], [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] (who was last seen fattening up for a movie role) and [[Kent Brockman]]. The camp's counselor is Marine veteran [[Tab Spangler]], who is dealing with many anger issues. Spangler puts the attendees through a wide range of treatment exercises with both physical and psychological components. Bart, however, does not do well, either cheating at the exercises or missing their point.

Back in Springfield, the Simpson family are faced with large bills for Bart's treatment. To pay for the camp, the family convert their house into a youth hostel which attracts [[Germany|German]] tourists. Spangler confronts Bart about his cheating, and takes him home to show him what the family are going through in order to afford his treatment. Bart is horrified to see his parents and [[Lisa]] abused and humiliated by their German boarders. Spangler suggests that Bart fight his addiction, and Bart takes the suggestion literally, breaking into the school and destroying the vending machines with an axe. He then steals the money from the vending machines, goes home and announces that he's cured, as he's finally seen the true cost of his addiction. When the family see the money Bart took from the machines, Marge (at Homer's pleading) decides they can use the money to pay for the fat camp, even though the money is ill-gotten, and give the Germans "Das Boot". Homer gleefully chases the boarders out of the house ("Time to take out the Euro-trash!").

Tab Spangler says that they still have three weeks of non-refundable treatment left, and [[Homer]] goes with Spangler back to the camp (whether by choice or otherwise is unknown). The episode ends with Homer and Spangler driving in [[Tab Spangler's Volvo|Spangler's car]]. Spangler suggests that they stop for the night and split a hotel room (even though he had previously told Bart that the drive between Serenity Ranch and Springfield only took an hour); just after that, they get into an argument over the cheeseburger that Homer is eating.

== Production ==
This episode was originally set to be the 350th episode (despite being the 352nd to air), but was inexplicably switched with "[[Don't Fear the Roofer]]."

== Reception ==
IGN listed Albert Brooks as the top guest star on The Simpsons for voicing Tab Spangler.

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Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?

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|couchGag = The Simpsons sit down as normal. Marge notices the name “[[Matt Groening]]” written on the carpet, gets up, and wipes the name off. A caricature of Matt Groening (wearing a tacky orange and yellow Hawaiian shirt) comes in and rewrites his name on the floor.
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"'''Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?'''" is the third episode of [[season 11]]. It originally aired on October 24, [[1999]]. The episode was written by [[Al Jean]] and was directed by [[Nancy Kruse]]. [[Ed Asner]] guest stars as the [[Lifeways Editor]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|[[Homer]] gets the perfect side job when he becomes the chief restaurant critic for [[The Springfield Shopper]] newspaper. He loves the perks, but can barely write a complete sentence. When [[Lisa]] helps out by ghosting his columns, Homer becomes the most powerful—and feared—critic in town. Soon Homer earns the wrath of every restaurant owner in [[Springfield]] and they join together in a plot to kill him with a poisonous éclair. Can Homer survive this death by chocolate (and butter, and custard)?}}

== Plot ==
The kids of [[Springfield Elementary School]] take a trip to [[The Springfield Shopper]] headquarters. Homer is accompanying [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] on the tour, but wanders off on his own when he smells food, and ends up crashing the newspaper food critic's retirement party. Homer eats the food at the party and sings a song about it; the editor is so impressed he hires Homer to be a food critic. Homer starts by writing an example review on the typewriter, but it's terrible. Lisa decides to help - She takes the nonsense Homer dictates to her and translates it into eloquent reviews, typing them up on her computer then giving them to Homer to send in (just like Bart and Lisa did with [[Grandpa]] in "[[The Front]]").

Homer gives all the restaurants good reviews, resulting in a massive surge in obesity of town residents including Ned and Maude Flanders, [[Lenny]], [[Otto]], [[Sideshow Mel]] and [[Mr. Burns]] (whose shins break under his new weight). He later talks to his fellow critics who say they sometimes have to give bad reviews. Homer being how he is takes this too seriously and gives every restaurant (and Marge) bad reviews. An angry Lisa quits ghost writing for Homer, while his unjust reviews anger every restaurant owner in [[Springfield]], making them want to kill him. Their plan is that a French chef/assassin will bake a poison éclair for Homer, who will eat it once he reaches the man's stand at an upcoming eat-off event. When the day comes, during the competition, Bart overhears the chefs talking about their plot and informs Marge and Lisa. Homer sees the éclair, but Lisa tells him it is going to kill him. Homer declares he would rather die than not eat the pastry, but then Lisa says it is low fat. Homer screams in horror and drops it into [[Hans Moleman]]'s gruel, then destroys the eat-off, and everyone chases him.

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All's Fair in Oven War

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'''All's Fair in Oven War''' is the second episode of [[Season 16]]. It first aired on November 14, [[2004]] and was written by [[Matt Selman]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]]. [[James Caan]] and [[Thomas Pynchon]] guest star.

== Synopsis ==
Homer buys Marge a new kitchen, and Marge likes cooking in the new kitchen so much she attends the [[Ovenfresh Bakeoff]].

== Plot ==
[[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] attend an open house when the house next door is put up for sale. Marge falls in love with the large extensive kitchen. Back at home Marge asks Homer for a new kitchen. Homer agrees and attempts the renovation himself.

While demolishing the kitchen, Homer unearths his old collection of ''[[Playdude]]'' magazines. He innocently tells Marge he kept them only for the articles, and she responds by cutting out all the nudes from the magazines. Now that they are useless, Homer throws them away; but they are discovered by [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]. They read the articles and are greatly inspired. Using these 70s-era magazines as a model, Bart decides to renovate the Treehouse.

After Homer's remodeling makes the kitchen useless, Marge hires a contractor to complete the job. The dishes that come out of Marge's new kitchen get rave reviews and, on Ned's suggestion, she decides to enter the Ovenfresh Bakeoff with her Dessert Dogs, cakes shaped like hot dogs.

At the bakeoff, Marge encounters stiff and ruthless competition. Some of the chefs mock her, and sabotage her cooking. Her Dessert Dogs almost ruined by the end of the time limit, she barely manages to make them presentable and get them to the room where the entries have to be stored. Still fuming about the behavior of the other chefs, she stoops to their level and resorts to cheating to get even, by spiking the other entries with [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]]'s ear medicine, much to [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]'s dismay.

Meanwhile, [[Chief Wiggum]] and other concerned parents talk with Homer about Bart's spreading the ''Playdude'' philosophy to the other children. Homer has a talk with Bart about the ''true'' facts of life, which a horrified Bart quickly spreads to the other children, who are just as horrified. Homer solemnly says it was better to tell them now than wait until Bart was old enough to cope.

Marge's cheating gets her to the finals, and Lisa confronts her. Marge retorts saying that the other chefs deserved it for the way they treated her; Lisa urges her to do the right thing. In the finals for the bakeoff against [[Brandine]] who has made something which Marge could easily beat without cheating, Marge admits to her foul play and Lisa's faith in her mother is restored. Brandine wins by default and collects the prize from {{Ch|James Caan}}.

Later, the Simpsons meet [[Cletus Spuckler|Cletus]], who is angry that Brandine has left him for Caan; but he swears he'll get her back. As James and Brandine drive towards a tollbooth, a bunch of hillbillies ambush the car and gun Caan down.

== Reception ==
In its original American broadcast, "All's Fair in Oven War" garnered roughly 11.4 million viewers.

The episode received positive reviews from critics. Eric Messinger of Springfield Weekly the episode a B-, stating the Marge segment "needed a bit more fine-tuning." However, he praised the Bart segment, stating that it saved the episode, and that Bart not seeing nudity in the Playdude magazines worked well in every joke, and the segment was almost reminiscent to the season three episode "Bart the Murderer." He praised James Caan's guest appearance too, stating it "worked quite well, especially with the Godfather ending pay-off."

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Bart vs. Thanksgiving

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|blackboardText = "I will not do that thing with my tongue."
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'''Bart vs. Thanksgiving''' is the seventh episode of [[Season 2]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It originally aired on November 22, [[1990]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|It's Thanksgiving at the Simpsons place-with [[Homer]] betting on football and [[Marge]]'s mother criticizing everything. [[Bart]] gets the entire family mad at him and he runs away from home. When he sees what life is like on the seedy side of town (and ends up on the evening news), he realizes how good things are for him and returns home.}}

== Plot ==
It is Thanksgiving, and [[Lisa]] is making a centerpiece for Thanksgiving which honors women such as Georgia O'Keefe, Susan B. Anthony and Marjory Stoneman Douglas (who worked her whole life to preserve the Florida Everglades). Meanwhile, Bart gets in Marge's way in the kitchen as she is trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner, while Homer watches Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and football on TV.

When the guests – [[Grampa]], [[Patty]], [[Selma]], and [[Jacqueline Bouvier]] – assemble at the table, Lisa brings in her carefully-crafted centerpiece and proudly shows it off. Bart brings in the turkey, and he complains that the centerpiece is blocking space for the turkey. Bart and Lisa get into a fight, and in the ensuing chaos, the centerpiece lands in the fireplace and quickly burns up. Lisa runs to her room in tears, and Bart's parents send him to his room as punishment.

After Marge consoles Lisa, she tells Bart he can come downstairs to dinner on the condition he apologize. Bart scoffs at the directive and is told to stay in his room. Bart decides he doesn't have to take his mother's punishment and decides to run away. Homer throws out [[Santa's Little Helper]] when he tries to eat some of Bart's turkey, and Bart takes him with him.

First, Bart sneaks into [[Burns Manor|Burns' mansion]], where he attempts to grab a freshly baked pie. However, Bart is caught. Bart and Santa's Little Helper then wander to the seedy part of town, and Bart donates his blood-plasma at a blood bank for $12.

Bart then goes to a soup kitchen, which is serving Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people. There, [[Kent Brockman]] is doing a report on the dinner, where he delivers a self-serving commentary on how the patrons – vagrants, the homeless and alcoholics – are forgotten on Thanksgiving. Later, Brockman interviews Bart, where – on live TV – he mocks his family and refuses to apologize. The family sees the report on TV, and Homer immediately calls the police (well, after he calls the operator asking, "Get me the number for 9-1-1!").

As Bart walks out of the shelter, one of the bums asks Bart if he's got a home. Bart reveals he stays with "this family" (referring to his own home), and seeing how the bums need the money more than he does, offers the money he got from his blood donation to the bums. A remorseful Bart, realizing how he has more than the bums he shared Thanksgiving with, decides to return home.

But once he arrives home, Bart considers what his folks might say to him. He imagines himself being greeted warmly and offering an apology, but then they scornfully mock him and laugh in his face as he grovels an apology. Bart decides to wait outside a little bit longer to sort out his feelings.

Meanwhile, as Homer and Marge are interviewed by the police, Lisa is upstairs, writing in her diary and conceding defeat. She begins to cry, after which Bart – who is on the roof – calls her outside. There, the two discuss what happened, and Bart still refuses to apologize at the belief that he has done nothing wrong. Lisa tells him to look deeper. Bart comes to realize that he hurt her feelings by destroying something that she considered dear. Bart apologizes and Lisa happily accepts and kisses him. Homer was watching them from the bathroom window pleased.

Finally, Homer leads the family in prayer, as they thank God for "one more crack at togetherness," as they enjoy an 11 p.m. Thanksgiving of leftovers and displaying the thankful spirit that was absent from the earlier debacle.

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The Food Wife

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"'''The Food Wife'''" is the fifth episode of the [[season 23]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|[[Marge]] takes [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] on a weekend excursion, but when an unexpected restaurant detour awakens their taste buds, fellow foodies Amuse Bruce and Fois Garth inspire them to start their own food blog, "[[The Three Mouthketeers]]." They score an exclusive reservation at Springfield's premiere modern restaurant, but Marge has an unsettling dream during which Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay, and Mario Batali lead her to reconsider extending the invite to [[Homer]]. Later, Marge directs Homer to a different type of cooking lab where he gets into a bind with law enforcement authorities.}}

== Plot ==
Bart and Lisa fill up their marble jars which means they get to have Saturday with "Fun Dad". Homer takes the kids to E4, a video game convention, where they have a lot of fun. They come back home and Marge sees how much fun they had, feeling left out. She then takes the kids to the [[File:Cross.png|link=Cross-GAMES|15px]][[Cross-GAMES|-GAMES]], thinking it's the {{W|X Games}}, leaving the kids to dislike her even more.

On the way back home, the car breaks down and they stop off in [[Little Ethiopia]] where Marge discovers her love for foreign food. After talking to other foodies, Marge, Bart and Lisa decide to become foodies themselves and make a food blog, ''The Three Mouthketeers''. They then go around [[Springfield]], trying out several restaurants and writing reviews of them on their blog.

Eventually, Marge, Bart and Lisa get an invite to [[El Chemistri]], a posh restaurant in Springfield. Marge originally invites Homer along after seeing him upset about being left out. However, Marge has a dream about it, with famous chefs {{Ch|Anthony Bourdain}}, {{Ch|Mario Batali}} and {{Ch|Gordon Ramsay}} giving their input on the matter to Marge. She then decides that it would be best to leave Homer behind and sends him to [[1501 East Oak Street]] instead.

At El Chemsitri, Marge starts to feel guilty about what she's done and leaves to go and find Homer, who had gotten into a crystal meth lab. The police raid the place, causing a gunfight to start. Marge comes to the rescue, throwing an apple pie ball into the mouth of [[Meth lab owner|the owner]] and he is knocked out by [[Chief Wiggum]]. Marge and Homer then reconcile.

== Production ==
One of the scenes in this episode was mentioned in the table read for the script of this episode. "Exterior Simpsons Family House, Day. Marge stands at the doorway as the family car pulls into the driveway. Homer, Bart, and Lisa bound out." The dubbing for this episode wrapped up on September 27, 2011.<ref>[http://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/starting-treehouse-of-horror-xxii-and-finishing-the-falcon-and-the-dohman/#more-964 Simpsons Music 500]</ref> [[Tim Heidecker]] and [[Eric Wareheim]] guest star as [[Amuse Bruce]] and [[Fois Garth]], and [[Anthony Bourdain]], [[Gordon Ramsay]] and [[Mario Batali]], as themselves, respectively.

The episode's [[spotting session]] took place on September 9, 2011, with [[Chris Ledesma]], [[Alf Clausen]], [[Larina Jean Anderson]], [[Dominique Braud]], [[Jesse D. Miller]] and [[Matt Selman]].<ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/mxedtr/status/112263218356953089 Chris Ledesma on Twitter]</ref>

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E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

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|originalAirdate=November 7, [[1999]]
|blackboardText="I did not win the [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] Fart Prize"
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'''E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)''', also known as '''E-I-E-I-D'oh''', is the fifth episode of [[Season 11]]. It aired on November 7, [[1999]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|[[Homer]] begins challenging everyone around him to duels after he sees a Zorro film at the [[Springfield Googolplex Theatres|Googolplex theatre]]. Most people back down, until Homer meets an old-fashioned Colonel who takes him up on his dare. Unable to get out of the contest with the Colonel, Homer and his family flee to the country, where they become farmers. Farm life is difficult until Homer creates a new crop called tomacco—tomatoes crossed with tobacco.}}

== Plot ==
The Simpsons go to a movie theater to see ''[[The Poke of Zorro]]''. Afterwards Homer, imitating [[Zorro]], frightens [[Snake Jailbird]] away by challenging him to a duel, slapping him with a glove. He starts to use his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people: First up is [[Moe]], for calling him "heavyset", but after a slap, he gives Homer a free beer. Thus begins a montage to the tune of "[[Glove Slap]]" a parody of [[The B-52s]] song "{{W|Love Shack}}". When a gun-toting, [[Southern colonel]] actually ''accepts'' Homer's challenge, Homer finds himself bound to a duel at dawn the following day. The colonel and his wife set up camp outside the house in his RV, awaiting the duel.

With Homer fearing for his life, the family sneak out and search for a temporary home. Along the way they spy [[Jimmy Carter]]'s Habitat for Humanity: Homer calls Carter a lazy bum, who responds by pulling off his glove to slap him, as Homer has been doing. They find [[Grampa]]'s old farmhouse on Rural Route 9 outside of [[Springfield]], where they decide to live and, despite the {{w|Arable land|land}}'s poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer.

Homer calls [[Lenny]] and requests that he send plutonium to make the crops grow "real big, real fast". They do eventually grow, but since Homer scattered seeds indiscriminately, his main crop is [[Tomacco]], a mix of tomato and tobacco, which tastes bitter but is very addictive. It is such a success that executives from [[Laramie Cigarettes]] offer to buy the rights to [[Tomacco]] for $150 million.

Homer rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 ''billion'' for tomacco, which they refuse to pay. Dumped back at the farmhouse, the family see tomacco-addicted animals from other farms eating their crops. Homer saves the last plant, but when the rest of the animals attack the house, he tosses it into the air and it lands right into the hands of a Laramie executive.

The Laramie executives' helicopter leaves, but a tomacco-addicted sheep has snuck on-board. It creates mayhem, causing the helicopter to fly out of control and crash, destroying the final tomacco plant and killing the executives (though the sheep is shown to survive). With all the tomacco crops gone, the Simpsons return to Springfield, forgetting that the Colonel is still there. The Colonel shoots Homer in the arm, but Homer says he'll only go to the hospital after he tries some of Marge's mincemeat pie.

== Production ==
The episode was written by [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]] and directed by [[Bob Anderson]]. [[The B-52s]] guest star as themselves.

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Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

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'''"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"''' (German: '''Burns to Sell (sic) the Power Plant''') is the eleventh episode of [[Season 3]]. It aired on December 5, [[1991]]. The episode was written by [[Jon Vitti]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|[[Mr. Burns]] sells the Nuclear Power Plant to a pair of German businessmen for $100 million. As a result of the takeover, [[Homer]] loses his job, and falls into a state of depression. Homer sees Burns and [[Smithers]] in Moe's, and speaks his mind to him. He realises he no longer has his position of power, and buys the power plant back for $50 million - and immediately rehires Homer.}}

== Plot ==
Homer learns he owns stock in the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], and sells his 100 shares for 25 cents apiece to a shady stock broker, netting $25, which he spends on beer. Soon after the sale, he learns that the value of the stock had kept rising over the course of the day to end at $52 per share. While Homer misses out on the windfall – he could have made $5,200 – other employees make small fortunes.

The reason for the stock's inflated value is because a depressed Mr. Burns wants to sell the plant to pursue other interests. The sale is completed at a value of $100 million to two German businessmen, {{ap|Hans|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}} and [[Fritz]], who have been hanging out in Moe's looking for just such an opportunity (provided the purchase leaves them with enough change to buy the [[Cleveland Browns]]). They immediately begin a thorough evaluation of the plant and its employees. When they interview Homer, he is unable to intelligently answer their questions and begins slipping into a now-infamous fantasy about cavorting through "{{ap|The Land of Chocolate|location}}." It isn't long before Homer gets laid off.

A depressed Homer mopes around the house, insisting he is a competent safety-minded worker. Meanwhile, Burns is not having a good time in retirement and decides to go to [[Moe's Tavern]] to have a drink. There, Homer and the other bar patrons laugh scornfully at Burns. Burns realizes that only his ownership of a nuclear plant gave him power over ordinary men and is resolved to buy back the plant.

The German investors are more than willing to sell the plant back to Burns because as they say, it will cost another $100 million dollars to bring the plant up to code. Burns, noting their desperation to sell and saying so offers them $50 million for the plant saying that, "you will find it {his offer} most unfair." Homer is re-hired, and Burns plots his revenge on him at some unspecified point in the future.

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