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"Dude, Where's My Ranch?"

Episode Information Showrunner: [[{{{showrunner}}}]]

Plot

When the family does Christmas carols, they sing songs, until they reach the Blue-Haired Lawyer's house. He tells the family that they can't sing Christmas carols, unless they pay a royalty. In response, Homer makes the lyrics for his own Christmas carol. Later, Ned Flanders comes in and tries to help Homer, until Homer kicks him out. Homer finds new inspiration in an anti-Flanders song, Everybody Hates Ned Flanders. He plays the song at Moe's Tavern, and when David Byrne comes in, he likes the song so much, that he wants to produce and record the song. "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" becomes so popular that even William Shatner does a cover of it. This leads to mass publicity, which annoys the Simpsons, who want to avoid it. They find a brochure for a dude ranch, the Lazy I Ranch, and go there.

The family arrives at the Lazy I Ranch, owned by the Rich Texan, who tells Lisa that the ranch was built on cruelty to animals and oppression of indigenous people, which annoys her. It makes her want to leave, until she meets a cowhand, named Luke Stetson, who shares her views on the ranch. The Family meet a man called Cookie who shows them round and sets out some dinner. Homer and Bart also have their own adventure when they meet a tribe of Native Americans who want a dam removed so they can reclaim their land. They are confronted by beavers, but manage to battle them back, destroy the dam, and give the land back to the Native Americans. Meanwhile, Lisa thinks that Luke is off-limits, because she overhears him on the phone, promising a first dance to a girl, named Clara. When Lisa encounters her, she tricks her into going the wrong way. At the dance, Lisa finds out that Clara is Luke's sister. It's up to Lisa, Bart, and some surprising heroes to save Clara. It was a success, although Lisa was disappointed on Bart for destroying the beaver dam. However, when Lisa comes clean, Luke is offended and they separate. Meanwhile Homer asks Marge what has happed since they went into the car.Marge points to a grave to give an example that Cookie had died the previous Night. As the Simpsons return to Springfield, they hear a self-deprecating cover version of the Andrea True Connection song "More, More, More", (entitled "Moe, Moe, Moe"), on the radio, sung by Moe and produced by David Byrne (who Moe kidnaps earlier in the episode), and turn around to spend another week at the ranch.

Quotes

• Simpsons (singing): Walking in a Winter Wonderland

    Mr. Burns: Exquisite, just exquisite. Makes me wish I hadn't released the hounds

    (Hounds chase away the Simpsons

    Smithers: Should I call them off sir?

    Mr. Burns: No, no. It's their Christmas too

• • • Everybody Hates Ned Flanders Lyrics**

Lenny and Carl: F-L-A!

Homer: His name is Ned!

Lenny and Carl: E-R-S!

Homer: It's a stupid name! It's worse than Frankenstein or Dr. No-o-o-o-o!

David Byrne: You can't upset him even slightly. He just smiles and nods politely then goes home and worships nightly. His Leftorium is an emporium of WOE!

Lenny and Carl: F-L-A!

Homer: Don't yell at Ned!

Lenny and Carl: D-E-R!

Homer: His wife is dead! Everyone just hates that stupid jerk!

David Byrne: Springfield rocks with Homer's joyous loathing! Filling clubs with angry valentinos! You don't have to move your feet! Just hate Flanders to the disco beat

David and Homer: He's a perky, peppy, nightmare neighbourino!

Homer: If you despise polite left-handers

Ned: Then I'd doubt you'd like that Flanders or his creepy little offspring Rod and Todd

Todd: That's us!

Rod: Hooray!

Crowd:F-L-A!

Apu: His name is Ned

Crowd: D-R-S!

Apu: He's so white bread!

Church Chorus: The smiling moustached geek who walks with God!

• Radio: Hey hey hey! We're halfway through our same song 6 pack! Now let's here William Shatner's version of Everybody Hates Ned Flanders!

Marge: Another cover? My god! Let it die!

• Marge: I'm so sick of that song!

Homer: I know! I'm beginning to hate my own creation! Now I know how God feels

• Homer: This dude ranch is going to be great! A whole week without hearing that stupid song!

David Byrne: You won't think it's stupid once you hear the extended salsa mix!

• Lisa: On this battleground in 1886, 300 Native Americans lost their lives, and 4 brave Americans lost their hats

Homer: (crying) Those poor hats

• Bart: I'll show you how we get on a horse where we come from! (stands up) Daddy, I need upsies!

Homer: Coming sweetie! (Lifts him, places him on the saddle, and kisses him on the forehead)

Bart: (blows a raspberry)

Cowboy 1: Well, he sure shut us up!

Errors

• Flanders is never spelt correctly during the song.
• This episode was featured on The Simpsons Christmas Vol. 2 DVD but it has nothing to do with Christmas except for the scene in the beginning where The Simpsons are singing carols.
• The sound of the footsteps when Clara is running across the log does not match her actual footsteps.

Trivia

• Rabbi Hyman Krustofski makes an appearance in this episode voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Cultural References

• "Dude, Where's My Car" The title of the episode parodies the famous movie.
• "Misery" When Moe picks up David Byrne after he is badly injured Byrne asks Moe to take him to the hospital and then Moe skips it and Byrne asks why Moe missed it and Moe replies "have you ever seen the movie Misery?". The movie Misery is about a writer who is hurt in a blizzard and is taken in by a crazed fan of his work.
• "More, More, More" The song the Moe Syzslak Connection at the end is at the tune of this connection song.
• When Bart ropes Homer around the neck to save him from the beavers, it's a spoof of the scene in Back to the Future Part III when Marty is roped by the hands.

• When Cleany comes in he says "My precious" is a reference to the Lord of the Rings 'character Gollum and even has the same voice as Gollum.