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"'''Helter Shelter'''" is the fifth episode from [[Season 14]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' that aired December 1, 2002.
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"'''Helter Shelter'''" is the fifth episode of [[season 14]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and ninety-sixth episode overall. It originally aired December 1, [[2002]]. The episode was written by [[Brian Pollack]] and [[Mert Rich]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]]. It guest stars [[David Lander]] as [[Squiggy]] and [[Larry Holmes]] as {{Ch|Larry Holmes|himself}}.
  
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{{Desc|The Simpsons attend a hockey game and Lisa brings home a souvenir hockey stick, but the stick has Russian termites, which quickly infest the whole house. When they learn that the house needs to be fumigated and will be uninhabitable for six months, the family look for another place to live and join a reality TV show where they must live like a family from 1895.}}
  
 
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After [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] suffers a brain injury at work, [[Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] offers his family tickets in a luxury sky box at a [[wikipedia:ice hockey|hockey]] game as compensation. [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] receives a player's hockey stick for shouting advice to him during the game. However, [[wikipedia:termites|termites]], which were living in the stick, end up eating away at the entire Simpson house. An exterminator says their house should be tented and fumigated, and they cannot return for six months. However, the family has no place to go. They tried to stay with Lenny and then Comic Book Guy but their apartments were too weird. At Moe's, their last resort, [[Barney Gumble|Barney]] and [[Carl Carlson|Carl]] inform the Simpsons about a reality show, where a family is put in a [[wikipedia:Victorian architecture|Victorian]] house, where they must live like it was the year 1895. Homer is reluctant at first, but then they go to the reality show.
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When Homer is injured at work, his compensation is the use of a luxury sky box at a Hockey Rink. The family enjoys the luxuries, but [[Lisa]] is bored and joins the masses rink side. She gives one of the players some score tying advice and is rewarded with a goal for the [[Ice-O-Topes]] and one of their players, Kozlov's, hockey "tree". The stick is mounted in Lisa's room where later that night termites break out of the stick and do much damage to the family home. Until the Russian no-wood-nick termites can be thoroughly exterminated, which will take six months, the Simpson family is left homeless.
  
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At the studio, the executives screen many families and finally they settle on the Simpsons, after viewing Homer's overreactions over nothing. They are taken to the Victorian house and shown around by the Network Executive, who says that they will be filmed round the clock. The only thing of the 20th century there is a "[[wikipedia:Confessional|Confessional]] Room", which is a small room with a video camera where they say what they feel about the lifestyle. The family struggles with all of the drastic changes in their daily life and are pretty miserable, much to the delight of the show's audience. Homer tries to lighten up the family, saying they should be glad on TV, and begin to conform to their new lives cheerily. This is not deemed as entertaining, however, and viewership begins to drop. In attempts to save the show, the executives decide to introduce Squiggy from ''[[wikipedia:Laverne and Shirley|Laverne and Shirley]]'' into the household. But even his presence (and that of a taser which he uses on Homer) does not boost the ratings. Finally, one of the executives comes up with an idea. The house is airlifted at night and put into a river.
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The family tries a number of options like staying with [[Lenny]] and [[Comic Book Guy]], but due to these men's strange lifestyles, they end up trying out for a home on a TV show where they are required to live as though they it was the year 1895. They pass the audition and face various hardships. However, they soon cooperate with each other and start living an ideal 19th century life. When the "1895 Challenge" sinks in the ratings, the producers try to stir things up by adding the character of Squiggy from ''Laverne and Shirley''. When that also fails, they relocate the house to a river and watch it float downstream, without warning the Simpsons beforehand. (Squiggy is presumed lost.)
  
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The Simpsons are shocked to find what had happened the next morning, and the house finally washes up on shore and falls apart, with Squiggy in it. The network crew is filming it and loving the drama that unfolds. They then break for lunch, but deny the Simpsons any of it. Later on, the family is confronted by a bunch of savage-looking people, who turn out to be contestants in other reality shows, whom the network ditched after they failed in their tasks. They decide to overpower the crew and return to civilization. Together with the Simpsons they attack the crew, overpowering them with sticks & small stones, destroying their banquet and filming equipment and pushing one of the executives over a cliff to his death. Homer then tried to crush the helicopter with a giant boulder but he was pushed into the ground. Finally at home, Homer decides to watch scripted TV shows, as he has had it with reality shows, but the family finds more pleasure in watching him continually spraying himself in the eye with the hose.
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Eventually the house comes to shore and falls apart. The family finds themselves without food and shelter as the TV crew eats away. They encounter a tribe of lost people from another reality program and together they fight the TV crew and producers and return to civilization, where they believe they can find quality scripted television, which soon fails.
  
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Season 14 Episode
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"Helter Shelter"
"The Great Louse Detective" 297 →
For the location, see Helter Shelter (building).
"Helter Shelter"
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Episode Information
Episode number: 296
Season number: S14 E5
Production code: DABF21
Original airdate: December 1, 2002
Chalkboard gag: "Milhouse did not test cootie positive"
Couch gag: A computer mouse drags Homer, changes the color of the walls and replaces the Marge's boat painting with the Mona Lisa.
Guest star(s): David Lander as Squiggy
Larry Holmes as himself
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: Brian Pollack
Mert Rich
Directed by: Mark Kirkland
DVD features


"Helter Shelter" is the fifth episode of season 14 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and ninety-sixth episode overall. It originally aired December 1, 2002. The episode was written by Brian Pollack and Mert Rich and directed by Mark Kirkland. It guest stars David Lander as Squiggy and Larry Holmes as himself.

Synopsis[edit]

"The Simpsons attend a hockey game and Lisa brings home a souvenir hockey stick, but the stick has Russian termites, which quickly infest the whole house. When they learn that the house needs to be fumigated and will be uninhabitable for six months, the family look for another place to live and join a reality TV show where they must live like a family from 1895."


Plot[edit]

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When Homer is injured at work, his compensation is the use of a luxury sky box at a Hockey Rink. The family enjoys the luxuries, but Lisa is bored and joins the masses rink side. She gives one of the players some score tying advice and is rewarded with a goal for the Ice-O-Topes and one of their players, Kozlov's, hockey "tree". The stick is mounted in Lisa's room where later that night termites break out of the stick and do much damage to the family home. Until the Russian no-wood-nick termites can be thoroughly exterminated, which will take six months, the Simpson family is left homeless.

The family tries a number of options like staying with Lenny and Comic Book Guy, but due to these men's strange lifestyles, they end up trying out for a home on a TV show where they are required to live as though they it was the year 1895. They pass the audition and face various hardships. However, they soon cooperate with each other and start living an ideal 19th century life. When the "1895 Challenge" sinks in the ratings, the producers try to stir things up by adding the character of Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley. When that also fails, they relocate the house to a river and watch it float downstream, without warning the Simpsons beforehand. (Squiggy is presumed lost.)

Eventually the house comes to shore and falls apart. The family finds themselves without food and shelter as the TV crew eats away. They encounter a tribe of lost people from another reality program and together they fight the TV crew and producers and return to civilization, where they believe they can find quality scripted television, which soon fails.

Production[edit]

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Treehouse of Horror XIII • How I Spent My Strummer Vacation • Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade • Large Marge • Helter Shelter • The Great Louse Detective • Special Edna • The Dad Who Knew Too Little • The Strong Arms of the Ma • Pray Anything • Barting Over • I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can • A Star Is Born Again • Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington • C.E. D'oh • 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky • Three Gays of the Condo • Dude, Where's My Ranch? • Old Yeller-Belly • Brake My Wife, Please • The Bart of War • Moe Baby Blues
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