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"Homer the Whopper" is the season premiere of season 21 and aired on September 27, 2009.[1][2]This episode was rated TV PG DLSV.

Plot

Bart and Milhouse convince Comic Book Guy to publish a comic book he wrote titled Everyman, in which the title character can absorb superpowers from the characters of comic books he touches. The comic becomes an instant hit, and many Hollywood studios become interested in making it into a movie. Comic Book Guy agrees to let Everyman become a movie, but only if he can pick the star. When Comic Book Guy sees Homer, he considers Homer perfect for the role, as he wants Everyman to be played by a middle-aged fat man. But the studio executives realizes that audiences want a physically fit actor for the role, so they hire celebrity fitness trainer Lyle McCarthy to make Homer fit. After a month, Homer becomes fit and the movie begins production.

Soon afterward, however, McCarthy leaves Homer for another client. Without McCarthy to keep him fit, Homer starts eating again and gains all the weight back. Homer can no longer fit into his costume or even his trailer, and the movie begins to go over budget. The studio executives and Comic Book Guy worry that the film will not be successful. The final version of the movie features scenes with the fat Homer and the physically fit Homer merged together, upsetting the audience. After the premier of the film, McCarthy returns and offers to make Homer physically fit again, which Homer accepts. The studio executives offer to let Comic Book Guy direct the sequel, on the condition that Comic Book Guy lie to the fans and say he liked the film. Comic Book Guy rejects the offer and openly criticizes the movie online.  

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Characters

• Comic Book Guy
• Bart Simpson
• Milhouse Van Houten
• Everyman
• Richard
• Sherri and Terri
• Ralph Wiggum
• Martin Prince
• Principal Skinner
• Nelson Muntz
• Lisa Simpson
• Matt Groening
• Krusty the Clown
• Homer Simpson
• Maggie Simpson
• Marge Simpson
• Lyle McCarthy
• Mr. Teeny
• Lenny Leonard
• Carl Carlson
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
• Moe Szyslak
• Barney Gumble
• Dr. Nick (Opening Sequence)

Trivia

• At the movie studio, one of the posters is for a movie call Welcome Back, Potter. This is a parody of the movie/book series Harry Potter and the 1970's sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.

• The Villan in the Every Man film looks exactly like the Lizard, one of the villans of the comicbook hero Spider-Man.
• Some of the posters in the movie theater were references to real life movies. Namely, Alvin and the Chipmunks get Rabies was a reference to the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise [especially their newly made live action movies], and Eddie Murphy's The Fat Suit was a reference to his role as the Klump family in the "Nutty Professor" franchise.

• In the Comic Book Store hangs a poster of Swatchmen, a parody on Watchmen.
• I_Killed_Kenny6475 is a reference to the TV show South Park.

Production

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, writers of the film Superbad, asked the producers of The Simpsons if they could write an episode. They were invited to the writers room where they pitched several episode ideas. One was accepted, and they wrote an outline with the help of some feedback from the regular writers.^[6] The table read took place in August 2008, and production on the episode began soon after that.^[7] Rogen later said "we sat down for a read-through and three hours later I'm in a studio improv-ing with Homer Simpson, it was the single greatest day of my life."^[8]

References

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