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"'''Mommie Beerest'''" is the seventh episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> sixteenth season.
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"'''Mommie Beerest'''" is the seventh episode of [[season 16]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and forty-second episode overall. It originally aired on January 30, [[2005]]. It was written by [[Michael Price]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]].
  
 
== Synopsis ==
 
== Synopsis ==
[[Homer]] finally pays the mortgage and The Simpsons celebrate by going to a fancy restaurant for brunch. However [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] get into a fight and Homer goes to [[Moe's Tavern]] to escape his family. At Moe's the health inspector comes who ends up being a good friend of [[Moe]] and passes him in everything. However the health inspector eats a pickled egg from Moe's pickled egg jar and dies. A week later a more competent inspector comes and shuts down Moe's Tavern. A funeral for the tavern is then held and Homer decides to help Moe bring the tavern up to code. To get the money to do this, Homer takes out a second mortgage on his house. [[Marge]] is mad about this and becomes Moe's business partner and believes Moe's costumers should be higher class. Marge then suggests that Moe's should become a British bar known as the [[Nag & Weasel]] and soon Moe starts renovating.
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{{Desc|[[Moe's Tavern]] is closed by a health inspector, so [[Homer]] takes out a mortgage on his house to open the bar again. As a result, [[Marge]] becomes [[Moe]]'s business partner and turns the bar into a British bar that makes them spend too much time together, which worries Homer.}}
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== Plot ==
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After finally paying off the house's mortgage, the Simpsons go to a fancy restaurant for brunch. After [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] have a fight, causing embarrassment to [[Homer]] and [[Marge]], Homer goes to [[Moe's Tavern]] to complain about his kids. Before he has a drink, a health inspector, {{ap|Frankie|Mommie Beerest}}, comes in and says he should close the bar down. He then reveals that he's close friends with [[Moe]] so he wouldn't close the bar down. After eating a pickled egg though, he drops dead. [[Chief Wiggum]] then comes in, sees everyone surrounding the dead body, and runs away.
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A week later, a new [[health inspector]] comes in and deems the bar a health violation, partially due to Frankie's corpse still being on the floor. Moe's Tavern is then closed down and many of the patrons come along to its "funeral", with [[Barney]] singing "{{W|Danny Boy}}" during the ceremony. Homer then tells Moe that he'll help him reopen his bar and goes to the [[First Bank of Springfield]] to get a loan out. In order to do so though, he had to put his house up as collateral, giving it another mortgage.
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When Marge finds out Homer put money towards Moe's, she decides to become a partner in the tavern in order to get her money back. When Homer gets to the tavern after work, Marge tells him to go home and look after the kids rather than drink, which annoys Homer. Marge then convinces Moe to remodel his tavern [[Welcome to Moe's|through song]]. Moe knocks down the bar in order to turn it into a British-style pub, [[The Nag and Weasel]].
  
Moe's Tavern then goes from dive to fancy bar and then Marge helps Moe with his new business. Homer in the meantime is going to bed and wants to make out with Marge however it is 4 in the morning when Marge comes home and Homer believes Moe is trying to get Marge to have an affair with her.
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The new pub is a big success and becomes popular among celebrities in the town. Homer becomes annoyed at how close Marge and Moe seemed to be getting. That night, Marge comes home at 4am only to have Moe ring her up with more ideas for the pub, upsetting Homer in the process. Homer and Marge then go to see a movie in the [[Springfield Googolplex Theatres|theater]]. When they do, Moe shows up and Marge invites him to sit with them. At work, [[Lenny]] and [[Carl]] tell Homer that they have something to tell him and take him to {{ap|Itchy & Scratchy Land|theme park}} to do so.
  
Homer and Marge then go to a movie and are joined by Moe. This then frustrates Homer and then on a trip to [[The Itchy & Scratchy Land]] with [[Lenny]] and [[Carl]]. They say that Marge will have an emotional affair with Moe and there will be nothing Homer can do about it. Marge and Moe are then invited to a bartender convention in Aruba via a plane and Homer tries to win Marge back. Homer then rushes to the airport with [[Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]] and then Homer gets to the plane when it is airborne and then comes out of the toilet. Moe in the mean time finally found his true crush and decides to marry Marge. However, Homer catches up with Marge in the mean time however more chaos strikes when Homer opens up the door of the plane while it is airborne and almost everything on the plane is sucked out including [[Mr. Teeny]] however Homer closes the door in time. The threesome then land in Aruba and Moe attempts to drown himself after Marge got back with Homer. In the mean time Bart has entered himself, Lisa, and Maggie in a hot air balloon race in La Vie En Rose.
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On the log flume at Itchy & Scratchy Land, Lenny and Carl tell Homer that Marge is having an emotional affair with Moe and whilst there's no physical connection, there's an emotional connection which threatens their marriage. They tell Homer he has to become a good friend to Marge. However, that night Marge comes home too tired to talk and just wants to go to bed so she can catch her flight to [[Aruba]] for the Tavern and Restaurant Owners Convention. When Marge leaves with Moe, Homer decides that he has to win Marge back and travels to the airport (with the help of [[Chief Wiggum]]) to get Marge back. Homer boards the plane as it's taking off and realizes that Moe knows Marge better than he does so he gives up and lets Moe win.
  
== Trivia ==
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Seeing what was happening, Marge tells Moe that she doesn't love him and she loves Homer. Marge then goes and tells Homer that she loves him and they share a moment. In Aruba, Moe is lying on the beach when he is attacked by a stingray. Homer and Marge then come along and Marge told Moe that he could make a woman really happy some day. Moe then tells them that there was a mistake at the front desk of the hotel which changed the sleeping arrangements. Homer and Moe then share a bed whilst Marge sleeps on the sofa. Marge suddenly realizes that nobody's watching the kids, who at this point are in [[Paris]] in a European balloon race.
=== General ===
 
*This episode was dedicated to the memory of Johnny Carson, who died a week before this episode aired.
 
*On the map in the aircraft, [[Springfield]] is shown in the middle of the ocean.
 
*This episode actually has some of the most noises made by the rarely-speaking barflies Sam and Larry. They both unenthusiastically moan "Ugggh".
 
*Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer", a possible nod to what Simpsons fans called him during the [[Mike Scully]] Era in seasons 9-12.
 
*Among the mourners seen alongside the regular barflies at the wake: [[Duffman]], [[Dr. Nick]], [[Kirk Van Houten]], Surly Duff and a Leprechaun.
 
  
=== Previous Episode References ===
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== Production ==
*This also marks the return of [[the Itchy & Scratchy Land]] theme park.
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The episode was dedicated to [[Johnny Carson]], who died a week before this episode aired.
*You can also hear [[Barney Gumble|Barney]]'s beautiful singing voice from "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" in this episode.
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*Computer animation is used for the first time since the episode "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]".
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*This is the third episode written by [[Michael Price]]. He has also written popular episodes [[My Mother the Carjacker]] and [['Tis the Fifteenth Season]] which has led some Simpsons fans to call him one of the shows best current writers.
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=== Errors ===
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== Reception ==
*When Marge tells Homer she and Moe are going to Aruba. The alarm clock changes from digital to analog.
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"Mommie Beerest" won the [[2006]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation.<ref>[http://awards.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners The Writers Guild of America - "Previous Nominees & Winners"]</ref> As of March 2018, the episode has a 7.0 rating on {{W|IMDb}}<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763036/ IMDb - "Mommie Beerest"]</ref> and a 8.0 rating on {{W|TV.com}}.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/mommie-beerest-364146/ TV.com - "Mommie Beerest"]</ref>
*Itchy & Scratchy Land is shown to be within a few hours driving distance of Springfield. However, in [[Itchy & Scratchy Land]], it is shown to be several thousand miles away.
 
  
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== References ==
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== Cultural References ==
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*The title is a play on the 1981 movie ''Mommie Dearest''.
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*Over the end credits, Homer and Marge sing Captain & Tennille's song "Love Will Keep Us Together"; this was actually a deleted scene from ''[[Co-Dependent's Day]]''.
 
* In the scene where Homer chases Moe and Marge's plane on the tarmac is a spoof on the Jim Carrey movie ''Liar, Liar''.
 
*The scene where there's a new computer-animated movie from Dreamworks, ''[[Cards]]'', parodies many other computer-animated movies, specifically Disney/Pixar's Cars, in the way that Dreamworks seems to always use similar themes for their CGI films.
 
*When Homer makes a puck of his lips to kiss Marge, she goes away and Homer instead uses the puck of his lips to play the trombone where he plays Greensleeves.
 
*Due to the closure of his bar, Moe tells his patrons to get their beer from a gay bar across the street, "[[The League of Extra-Horny Gentlemen]]" (a play on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) from which "Can't Get You out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue is playing. This is a reference to Minogue's status as a gay icon.
 
  
== Awards ==
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*This episode would win writer Michael Price the 2006 WGA Award for writing in animation. It marked the third year in a row a Simpsons episode won the award. No matter what, The Simpsons would have won because all six nominees were Simpsons episodes (also nominated were [[There's Something About Marrying]], [[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]], [[See Homer Run]], [[Thank God It's Doomsday]], [[The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star]]. (See [[List of awards won by The Simpsons#WGA Awards|List of awards won by The Simpsons]] for more info)
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Episode Information
Episode number: 342
Season number: S16 E7
Production code: GABF01
Original airdate: January 30, 2005
Couch gag: The living room is made of sand. The family, looking haggard and dehydrated, crawls in, but end up lying under the desert sun when the living room collapses.
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: Michael Price
Directed by: Mark Kirkland


"Mommie Beerest" is the seventh episode of season 16 of The Simpsons and the three-hundred and forty-second episode overall. It originally aired on January 30, 2005. It was written by Michael Price and directed by Mark Kirkland.

Synopsis[edit]

"Moe's Tavern is closed by a health inspector, so Homer takes out a mortgage on his house to open the bar again. As a result, Marge becomes Moe's business partner and turns the bar into a British bar that makes them spend too much time together, which worries Homer."


Plot[edit]

After finally paying off the house's mortgage, the Simpsons go to a fancy restaurant for brunch. After Bart and Lisa have a fight, causing embarrassment to Homer and Marge, Homer goes to Moe's Tavern to complain about his kids. Before he has a drink, a health inspector, Frankie, comes in and says he should close the bar down. He then reveals that he's close friends with Moe so he wouldn't close the bar down. After eating a pickled egg though, he drops dead. Chief Wiggum then comes in, sees everyone surrounding the dead body, and runs away.

A week later, a new health inspector comes in and deems the bar a health violation, partially due to Frankie's corpse still being on the floor. Moe's Tavern is then closed down and many of the patrons come along to its "funeral", with Barney singing "Danny Boy" during the ceremony. Homer then tells Moe that he'll help him reopen his bar and goes to the First Bank of Springfield to get a loan out. In order to do so though, he had to put his house up as collateral, giving it another mortgage.

When Marge finds out Homer put money towards Moe's, she decides to become a partner in the tavern in order to get her money back. When Homer gets to the tavern after work, Marge tells him to go home and look after the kids rather than drink, which annoys Homer. Marge then convinces Moe to remodel his tavern through song. Moe knocks down the bar in order to turn it into a British-style pub, The Nag and Weasel.

The new pub is a big success and becomes popular among celebrities in the town. Homer becomes annoyed at how close Marge and Moe seemed to be getting. That night, Marge comes home at 4am only to have Moe ring her up with more ideas for the pub, upsetting Homer in the process. Homer and Marge then go to see a movie in the theater. When they do, Moe shows up and Marge invites him to sit with them. At work, Lenny and Carl tell Homer that they have something to tell him and take him to Itchy & Scratchy Land to do so.

On the log flume at Itchy & Scratchy Land, Lenny and Carl tell Homer that Marge is having an emotional affair with Moe and whilst there's no physical connection, there's an emotional connection which threatens their marriage. They tell Homer he has to become a good friend to Marge. However, that night Marge comes home too tired to talk and just wants to go to bed so she can catch her flight to Aruba for the Tavern and Restaurant Owners Convention. When Marge leaves with Moe, Homer decides that he has to win Marge back and travels to the airport (with the help of Chief Wiggum) to get Marge back. Homer boards the plane as it's taking off and realizes that Moe knows Marge better than he does so he gives up and lets Moe win.

Seeing what was happening, Marge tells Moe that she doesn't love him and she loves Homer. Marge then goes and tells Homer that she loves him and they share a moment. In Aruba, Moe is lying on the beach when he is attacked by a stingray. Homer and Marge then come along and Marge told Moe that he could make a woman really happy some day. Moe then tells them that there was a mistake at the front desk of the hotel which changed the sleeping arrangements. Homer and Moe then share a bed whilst Marge sleeps on the sofa. Marge suddenly realizes that nobody's watching the kids, who at this point are in Paris in a European balloon race.

Production[edit]

The episode was dedicated to Johnny Carson, who died a week before this episode aired.

Reception[edit]

"Mommie Beerest" won the 2006 Writers Guild of America award in Animation.[1] As of March 2018, the episode has a 7.0 rating on IMDb[2] and a 8.0 rating on TV.com.[3]

References[edit]


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