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'''Nick Riviera, M.D.''' (voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]) is a character in the long-running animated TV series ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Nick is a quack physician (although he claims to be "just as good as [[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]]"), and a satirical character representing doctors who studied at dubious medical schools.
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'''Dr. Nicholas "Nick" Riviera''' is a {{W2|quack|medicine}} medical physician (although he advertises himself as "just as good as [[Dr. Hibbert]]"), who studied at highly dubious medical schools.
  
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==Profile==
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== Biography ==
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Riviera is of [[Latino]] descent (in the European [[Spanish language|Spanish]] dub he's given an [[Argentina|Argentinian]] accent) and has a [[medical degree]] from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College (where he apparently spent much of his time using his ability to acquire prescription drugs to impress a succession of attractive women back in the [[1970s]]), and a great deal of luck. Thus far, none of the patients he has swindled, maimed, or given useless or dangerous medical advice seems to have [[lawsuit|sued]] him (although a few have come after him in person. For example in "[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]" a large angry man grabs him, and Nick says "Well if it isn't my old friend Mr. McGregg — with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg"; the man literally has an arm where a leg should be and a leg where an arm should be).  Dr. Nick is a [[stereotype]] of shady, immoral [[physician|doctors]] who perform medical procedures for money with little or no regard for [[medical ethics]], or their patients' well-being.  In "[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]" he is seen digging up corpses in the graveyard for body parts, presumably to use in operations on patients. In the episode "[[Much Apu About Nothing]]", he is seen taking a citizenship test, implying he is not a citizen of the United States.  Some of his exclamations hint that he may be [[Argentina|Argentinian]], though the show has offered no direct evidence of this.
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[[File:Dr. Nick Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
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Riviera has a medical degree from [[Hollywood Upstairs Medical College]] (where he apparently spent much of his time using his ability to acquire prescription drugs to impress a succession of attractive women back in the 1970s), and a great deal of luck. Thus far, none of the patients he has swindled, maimed, or given useless or dangerous medical advice seems to have sued him (although a few have come after him in person. For example, a large angry man once grabbed him, and Nick says "Well if it isn't my old friend Mr. McGregg — with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg"; the man literally has an arm where a leg should be and a leg where an arm should be <ref>"[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"</ref>).  
  
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In the episode "[[Bart Gets Hit by a Car]]", his degrees read "Mayo Clinic Correspondence School", "Club Med School", "Female Body Inspector" and "I went to medical school for four years and all I got was this lousy diploma".  He frequently appears on [[infomercial]]s, pitching all sorts of bizarre medical offers, and has often turned his operations into TV spectacles. He is also shown as an inventor/huckster (in the style of [[Ron Popeil]]) on the television show ''I Can't Believe They Invented It!''  His "Walk-In Clinic" is based at 44 Bow Street. Its phone number is [[555 telephone number|555]]-NICK. He can also be called at 1-600-DOCTORB ("The B is for 'Bargain'")
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Dr. Nick is a stereotypical shady, immoral doctor who perform medical procedures for money with little or no regard for medical ethics, or their patients' well-being. He was once is seen digging up corpses in the graveyard for body parts, presumably to use in operations on patients.<ref>"[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]"</ref>
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He is seen taking a citizenship test, implying he is not a citizen of the United States.<ref>"[[Much Apu About Nothing]]"</ref> Some of his exclamations hint that he may be Argentinian, though there is no direct evidence of this. He watches a video on how to perform open-heart surgery and is disgusted by all the blood, implying that he may be hemophobic.
  
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He has operated on the Simpson family a couple of times (when they cannot afford Doctor Hibbert) notably when [[Homer's Triple Bypass|Homer needed a heart bypass]].  [[Lisa Simpson]] attended the live audience for the operation and saved the day by guiding the obviously clueless Dr. Riviera through the operation. He also worked with Doctor Hibbert as an [[anesthesiologist]] during Bart's [[appendectomy]] but was of little help as he first failed to anesthetize Bart and subsequently passed out from the leaking gas.  
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His degrees read "[[Mayo Clinic Correspondence School]]", "[[Club Med School]]", "Female Body Inspector" and "I went to medical school for four years and all I got was this lousy diploma".<ref>"[[Bart Gets Hit by a Car]]"</ref> He frequently appears on infomercials, pitching all sorts of bizarre medical offers, and has often turned his operations into TV spectacles. He is also shown as an inventor/huckster (in the style of Ron Popeil) on the television show ''I Can't Believe They Invented It!'' He has practice at the [[Springfield Mall]]<ref>"[[Bart Gets Hit by a Car]]"</ref> and a walk-in clinic" located at 44 Bow Street.<ref>"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref> Its phone number is 555-NICK. He can also be called at 1-600-DOCTORB ("The B is for 'Bargain'")
  
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=== Death ===
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He has operated on the Simpson family a couple of times (when they cannot afford Doctor Hibbert) notably when Homer needed a heart bypass. [[Lisa Simpson]] attended the live audience for the operation and saved the day by guiding the obviously clueless Dr. Riviera through the operation. He also worked with Doctor Hibbert as anesthesiologist during Bart's appendectomy but was of little help as he first failed to anesthetize Bart and subsequently passed out from the leaking gas.<ref>"[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"</ref>
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In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Dr. Riviera is impaled by a large shard of glass and says, in his normal voice, "Bye everybody!" and then passes out. [[James L. Brooks]] and [[Al Jean]] have confirmed that Dr. Riviera is dead, but will be brought back to life "à la [[Dr. Marvin Monroe]]." <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1565538/20070725/story.jhtml|title='Simpsons' Trivia, From Swearing Lisa To 'Burns-Sexual' Smithers|accessdate=2007-07-29|date=[[2007-07-26]]|author=Larry Carroll|publisher=[[MTV]]}}</ref>
 
  
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== Creation ==
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He was seen dancing with [[Princess Kashmir]] at the [[Springfield Chili Cook-Off]], they were later seen leaving together.<ref>"[[El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer]]"</ref>
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The character design is based somewhat on [[Gábor Csupó]], of Klasky Csupo studios, who was originally from [[Hungary]] – the animators mistakenly believed [[Hank Azaria]] was impersonating Gabor, when in fact the voice was actually a bad imitation of [[Ricky Ricardo]] from ''[[I Love Lucy]]''.<ref>The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for [[Homer's Triple Bypass]]</ref>
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He once was about to operate on [[Captain McCallister]] when his clinic caught fire, after Bart experimented with placing fireworks onto a bicycle wheel, which then span around so fast it detached from the bicycle, flew through the clinic's window, and landed on a canister of ether labelled "inflammable". Dr. Nick assured his patient it was safe, as "inflammable" meant it couldn't catch fire, but then did, leaving him quipping "Inflammable means flammable? What a country?!"<ref>"[[Trilogy of Error]]"</ref>
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During [[Trappuccino]], Nick was impaled by a large shard of glass and says, in his normal voice, "Bye everybody!" and then passes out, making him one of the few casualties of the [[Trappuccino]] incident,<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref> however, he has been seen alive even after the incident <ref>"[[Lost Verizon]]"</ref> playing golf with Dr. Hibbert. This could mean he actually survived the impaling somehow.
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He later appeared on an operation game show, which [[Moe Szyslak]] was a judge on.<ref>"[[Judge Me Tender]]"</ref>
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== Non-canon ==
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{{Noncanon}}
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=== The Simpsons: Road Rage ===
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Dr. Nick quotes "Send me to the hospital, I pretend I work there".
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=== The Simpsons: Hit & Run ===
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The penultimate mission of {{ap|Level 2|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}, "[[Level 2 (The Simpsons: Hit & Run)#Monkey See, Monkey D'oh!|Monkey See, Monkey D'oh!]]" involves Bart having to find Dr. Nick's monkeys after Dr. Nick tortures them horribly and they run away.
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He also appears in the bonus mission for level three, "[[Level 3 (The Simpsons: Hit & Run)#Princi-Pal|Princi-Pal]]", where Lisa comes to get Principal Skinner's 'personal items', Dr. Nick says, "Hello, little girl. Here is the principal's anti-fungal cream"!
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In addition to this, his quotes if he is run over by the player are:
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*"Hey! You drive as well as I practice medicine!"
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*"Don't come crying to me if you need a sex change!"
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=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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==== Dr. Nick ====
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Oddballs|Nick}}
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==== Golfer Dr. Nick ====
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Fore!|GolfNick}}
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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Dr. Nick's name came from Dr. {{W|George C. Nichopoulos}} AKA Dr. Nick, a [[Greece|Greek]]-American doctor in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]] best known for being singer [[Elvis Presley]]'s fulltime personal physician at [[Graceland]] for his last 7 years. Many Elvis fan blame his death on August 16, 1977 on overprescribing of drugs by Dr. Nick. After many years of legal battles the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners would permanently revoked Dr. Nick's medical license.
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The character design of Dr. Nick is based somewhat on [[Gábor Csupó]], of Klasky Csupo studios, who was originally from [[Hungary]] – the animators mistakenly believed [[Hank Azaria]] was impersonating Gabor, when in fact the voice was actually a bad imitation of Ricky Ricardo from ''I Love Lucy''.<ref>The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for "[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/MikeReissWriter/status/973842976538492928 Mike Reiss on Twitter]</ref>
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He has appeared in at least three [[billboard gag]]s.<ref>Incomplete [[list of billboard gags]]</ref>
  
 
=== Catchphrase ===
 
=== Catchphrase ===
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Dr. Nick is notable for his exclamation upon entering a room of “Hi, everybody!”, which is immediately followed by a response of “Hi, Dr. Nick!” from the other characters present with varying degrees of enthusiasm. There was an [[Austria]]n version of Dr. Riviera in the episode "[[Margical History Tour]]", where he portrays the doctor of the ailing [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], played by [[Bart Simpson|Bart]], and his exclamation is "Guten Tag, everybody!" Another variation is an episode where [[Mel Gibson]] says, "Hi, everybody!" and Dr. Nick responds with "Hi, Mr. Gibson." Another episode featured a [[Jew]]ish version of Dr. Nick during [[Homer Simpson|Homer]]'s flashback to the first [[Christmas]]. Dr. Nick says: "Shalom, everybody!" In [[Lisa the Simpson]] Dr. Nick greets a refrigerated Jasper Beardly with "Hi frozen body!" when entering the [[Kwik-E-Mart]].
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Dr. Nick is notable for his exclamation upon entering a room of "Hi, everybody!", which is immediately followed by a response of "Hi, Dr. Nick!" from the other characters present with varying degrees of enthusiasm.  
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Many episodes have featured variants of this. An Austrian Dr. Nick exclaimed "Guten Tag, everybody!",<ref>"[[Margical History Tour]]"</ref> "Shalom, everybody" {{fact}}, "Hi, frozen body!" to [[Jasper Beardley]] when he self-froze himself and became a [[Kwik-E-Mart]] promotion, "Frostillicus".<ref>"[[Lisa the Simpson]]"</ref> [[Mel Gibson]] has also said "Hi, everybody!", to which Dr. Nick responded with "Hi, Mr. Gibson", effectively switching roles {{fact}}.
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=== Cultural influence ===
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In a tongue-in-cheek analysis, the ''Canadian Medical Association Journal'' compared the services of [[Dr. Hibbert]] and Dr. Nick.<ref>Patterson R, Weijer C. D'oh! An analysis of the medical care provided to the family of Homer J. Simpson. CMAJ. 1998 Dec 15;159(12):1480-1. PMID 9988570 [http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/159/12/1480.pdf Free Full Text]</ref> It concludes that Dr. Nick is a better role model for physicians; Dr. Hibbert is a paternalistic and wasteful physician, unlike Dr. Nick, who strives to cut costs and does his best to avoid the coroner, proving Marge's claim wrong that he isn't a doctor at all.
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In a tongue-in-cheek analysis the ''[[Canadian Medical Association Journal]]'' compared the services of [[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]] and Dr. Nick.<ref>Patterson R, Weijer C. D'oh!  An analysis of the medical care provided to the family of Homer J. Simpson. CMAJ.  1998 Dec 15;159(12):1480-1. PMID 9988570 [http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/159/12/1480.pdf Free Full Text]</ref>  It concludes that Dr. Nick is a better role model for physicians; Dr. Hibbert is a paternalistic and wasteful physician, unlike Dr. Nick, who strives to cut costs and does his best to avoid the [[coroner]], proving Marge's claim wrong that he isn't a doctor at all.
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"Hi, everybody!"
―Dr. Nick Riviera's catchphrase
Nicholas Riviera
Nick Riviera.png
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Hair: Black
Occupation: Quack doctor
First appearance: "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
Voiced by: Hank Azaria
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Dr. Nicholas "Nick" Riviera is a quack medical physician (although he advertises himself as "just as good as Dr. Hibbert"), who studied at highly dubious medical schools.

Biography[edit]

Dr. Nick Every Simpsons Ever.png

Riviera has a medical degree from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College (where he apparently spent much of his time using his ability to acquire prescription drugs to impress a succession of attractive women back in the 1970s), and a great deal of luck. Thus far, none of the patients he has swindled, maimed, or given useless or dangerous medical advice seems to have sued him (although a few have come after him in person. For example, a large angry man once grabbed him, and Nick says "Well if it isn't my old friend Mr. McGregg — with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg"; the man literally has an arm where a leg should be and a leg where an arm should be [1]).

Dr. Nick is a stereotypical shady, immoral doctor who perform medical procedures for money with little or no regard for medical ethics, or their patients' well-being. He was once is seen digging up corpses in the graveyard for body parts, presumably to use in operations on patients.[2] He is seen taking a citizenship test, implying he is not a citizen of the United States.[3] Some of his exclamations hint that he may be Argentinian, though there is no direct evidence of this. He watches a video on how to perform open-heart surgery and is disgusted by all the blood, implying that he may be hemophobic.

His degrees read "Mayo Clinic Correspondence School", "Club Med School", "Female Body Inspector" and "I went to medical school for four years and all I got was this lousy diploma".[4] He frequently appears on infomercials, pitching all sorts of bizarre medical offers, and has often turned his operations into TV spectacles. He is also shown as an inventor/huckster (in the style of Ron Popeil) on the television show I Can't Believe They Invented It! He has practice at the Springfield Mall[5] and a walk-in clinic" located at 44 Bow Street.[6] Its phone number is 555-NICK. He can also be called at 1-600-DOCTORB ("The B is for 'Bargain'")

He has operated on the Simpson family a couple of times (when they cannot afford Doctor Hibbert) notably when Homer needed a heart bypass. Lisa Simpson attended the live audience for the operation and saved the day by guiding the obviously clueless Dr. Riviera through the operation. He also worked with Doctor Hibbert as anesthesiologist during Bart's appendectomy but was of little help as he first failed to anesthetize Bart and subsequently passed out from the leaking gas.[7]

He was seen dancing with Princess Kashmir at the Springfield Chili Cook-Off, they were later seen leaving together.[8]

He once was about to operate on Captain McCallister when his clinic caught fire, after Bart experimented with placing fireworks onto a bicycle wheel, which then span around so fast it detached from the bicycle, flew through the clinic's window, and landed on a canister of ether labelled "inflammable". Dr. Nick assured his patient it was safe, as "inflammable" meant it couldn't catch fire, but then did, leaving him quipping "Inflammable means flammable? What a country?!"[9]

During Trappuccino, Nick was impaled by a large shard of glass and says, in his normal voice, "Bye everybody!" and then passes out, making him one of the few casualties of the Trappuccino incident,[10] however, he has been seen alive even after the incident [11] playing golf with Dr. Hibbert. This could mean he actually survived the impaling somehow.

He later appeared on an operation game show, which Moe Szyslak was a judge on.[12]

Non-canon[edit]

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The Simpsons: Road Rage[edit]

Dr. Nick quotes "Send me to the hospital, I pretend I work there".

The Simpsons: Hit & Run[edit]

The penultimate mission of Level 2, "Monkey See, Monkey D'oh!" involves Bart having to find Dr. Nick's monkeys after Dr. Nick tortures them horribly and they run away.

He also appears in the bonus mission for level three, "Princi-Pal", where Lisa comes to get Principal Skinner's 'personal items', Dr. Nick says, "Hello, little girl. Here is the principal's anti-fungal cream"!

In addition to this, his quotes if he is run over by the player are:

  • "Hey! You drive as well as I practice medicine!"
  • "Don't come crying to me if you need a sex change!"

The Simpsons: Tapped Out[edit]

Dr. Nick[edit]

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Behind the Laughter[edit]

Dr. Nick's name came from Dr. George C. Nichopoulos AKA Dr. Nick, a Greek-American doctor in Memphis, Tennessee best known for being singer Elvis Presley's fulltime personal physician at Graceland for his last 7 years. Many Elvis fan blame his death on August 16, 1977 on overprescribing of drugs by Dr. Nick. After many years of legal battles the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners would permanently revoked Dr. Nick's medical license.

The character design of Dr. Nick is based somewhat on Gábor Csupó, of Klasky Csupo studios, who was originally from Hungary – the animators mistakenly believed Hank Azaria was impersonating Gabor, when in fact the voice was actually a bad imitation of Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy.[13][14]

He has appeared in at least three billboard gags.[15]

Catchphrase[edit]

Dr. Nick is notable for his exclamation upon entering a room of "Hi, everybody!", which is immediately followed by a response of "Hi, Dr. Nick!" from the other characters present with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

Many episodes have featured variants of this. An Austrian Dr. Nick exclaimed "Guten Tag, everybody!",[16] "Shalom, everybody" [citation needed], "Hi, frozen body!" to Jasper Beardley when he self-froze himself and became a Kwik-E-Mart promotion, "Frostillicus".[17] Mel Gibson has also said "Hi, everybody!", to which Dr. Nick responded with "Hi, Mr. Gibson", effectively switching roles [citation needed].

Cultural influence[edit]

In a tongue-in-cheek analysis, the Canadian Medical Association Journal compared the services of Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick.[18] It concludes that Dr. Nick is a better role model for physicians; Dr. Hibbert is a paternalistic and wasteful physician, unlike Dr. Nick, who strives to cut costs and does his best to avoid the coroner, proving Marge's claim wrong that he isn't a doctor at all.

Appearances[edit]

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References[edit]

The Saga of Carl - title screen.png Wikisimpsons has a collection of images related to Nick Riviera.
  1. ↑ "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  2. ↑ "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
  3. ↑ "Much Apu About Nothing"
  4. ↑ "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
  5. ↑ "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
  6. ↑ "My Sister, My Sitter"
  7. ↑ "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  8. ↑ "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"
  9. ↑ "Trilogy of Error"
  10. ↑ The Simpsons Movie
  11. ↑ "Lost Verizon"
  12. ↑ "Judge Me Tender"
  13. ↑ The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  14. ↑ Mike Reiss on Twitter
  15. ↑ Incomplete list of billboard gags
  16. ↑ "Margical History Tour"
  17. ↑ "Lisa the Simpson"
  18. ↑ Patterson R, Weijer C. D'oh! An analysis of the medical care provided to the family of Homer J. Simpson. CMAJ. 1998 Dec 15;159(12):1480-1. PMID 9988570 Free Full Text


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