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"'''Homerpalooza'''" was the 24rd episode of the Simpsons' Seventh season.
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== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
When the school bus is destroyed, Homer drives some kids to school. During the journey, he listens to a Grand Funk Railroad track and is shocked when the kids say that they've never heard of it. Eventually he goes to a music store and is shocked when his music is classified under the "oldies" section. To prove that he's cool he takes his kids to the Hullabalooza Festival. After being humiliated, he is kicked out by the crowd and then out of anger, kicks a cannon which fires a inflatable pig which hits him in the stomach. The festival head is impressed at Homer's ability to take blows to the stomach and hires him for his freak show.
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When the school bus is destroyed in an accident, [[Homer]] drives some kids to school. During the journey, he listens to a [[wikipedia:Grand_Funk_Railroad|Grand Funk Railroad]] track and is shocked when the kids say that they've never heard of it. Eventually he goes to a music store and is shocked when his music is classified under the "oldies" section. To prove that he's cool he takes his kids to the [[Hullabalooza Festival]]. After being humiliated, he is kicked out by the crowd and then out of anger, kicks a cannon which fires a inflatable pig which hits him in the stomach. The festival head is impressed at Homer's ability to take blows to the stomach and hires him for his freak show.
  
Homer travels around with the Hullabalooza crew for a while before going back for another tour date in Springfield. He is persuaded to go to a doctor who tells him that if he takes another cannonball to the stomach, he may die. As his place in the show approaches he decides to dodge the cannonball which makes him unpopular again but earns him the respect of his family back.
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Homer travels around with the Hullabalooza crew for a while before going back for another tour date in Springfield. He is persuaded to go to a doctor who tells him that if he takes another cannonball to the stomach, he will die. As his place in the show approaches he decides to dodge the cannonball, which makes him unpopular again, but earns him the respect of his family back.
  
Special guest appearances are made by Peter Frampton, Cyprus Hill, Smashing Pumpkins, and Sonic Youth (who performed the theme song heard at the end of the episode).
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Special guest appearances are made by [[wikipedia:Peter_Frampton|Peter Frampton]], [[wikipedia:Cypress_Hill|Cypress Hill]], [[wikipedia:The_Smashing_Pumpkins|The Smashing Pumpkins]] and [[wikipedia:Sonic_Youth|Sonic Youth]] (who performed the theme song heard at the end of the episode), all as themselves.
  
== Cultural references ==
 
*One of Homer's sentences is a reference to the song ''"Rock and Roll all Nite"''
 
 
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*Homer's first cannonball stunt on the Hullapalooza tour is a near frame-by-frame replica of footage of Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a vaudevillian of the 1930s, performing the same stunt.
 
 
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"Homerpalooza" was the 24rd episode of the Simpsons' Seventh season.

Plot

When the school bus is destroyed in an accident, Homer drives some kids to school. During the journey, he listens to a Grand Funk Railroad track and is shocked when the kids say that they've never heard of it. Eventually he goes to a music store and is shocked when his music is classified under the "oldies" section. To prove that he's cool he takes his kids to the Hullabalooza Festival. After being humiliated, he is kicked out by the crowd and then out of anger, kicks a cannon which fires a inflatable pig which hits him in the stomach. The festival head is impressed at Homer's ability to take blows to the stomach and hires him for his freak show.

Homer travels around with the Hullabalooza crew for a while before going back for another tour date in Springfield. He is persuaded to go to a doctor who tells him that if he takes another cannonball to the stomach, he will die. As his place in the show approaches he decides to dodge the cannonball, which makes him unpopular again, but earns him the respect of his family back.

Special guest appearances are made by Peter Frampton, Cypress Hill, The Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth (who performed the theme song heard at the end of the episode), all as themselves.

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