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Marge buys genetically modified vegetables for the family, but when Lisa's potato eats her carrot, Marge decides to grow her own vegetables. She makes her garden, but it is attacked by crows, and they won't move, so she decides to build a scarecrow, made from Jockey Pants, a sweater, a Jack-O-lantern and a hat. The scarecrow does not work, but as soon as Marge puts on the hat, the crows fly away scared.  
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"'''Weekend at Burnsie's'''" is the sixteenth episode of [[season 13]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and eighty-fifth episode overall. It originally aired on April 7, [[2002]]. The episode was written by [[Jon Vitti]] and directed by [[Michael Marcantel]]. It guest stars [[Phish]] as {{Chs|Phish|themselves}}.
  
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Homer comes back from work that night and thinks the scarecrow is a monster, so he destroys it with a plank of wood and the crows become his friends. Homer goes to the bar, explaining how they became his friends. Moe says he's a bit worried- he hasn't seen Barney since the crows enveloped him. Homer shows Moe Barney's button, covered in blood. Moe orders Homer to get them out, saying, "This ain't no crow bar. ''This'' is a crow bar!" He picks up a picture with crows sitting on barstools and a crow bartender. Moe says, "See? There's the little stools... and everything?"
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== Synopsis ==
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{{Desc|After being attacked in the garden by an unruly group of crows, [[Homer]] goes to see [[Dr. Hibbert]] about the ongoing pain in his eyes. Dr. Hibbert suggests that Homer begin smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes.}}
  
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Homer is in bed with Marge. Marge says she's worried about having a gang of crows in the bedroom. Homer explains how a group of crows is called a Murder. Marge wqalks out, saying she is sleeping on the couch. The next day, the crow is cramming a donut into Homer's mouth when Maggie starts flapping her arms like a bird. Homer does not like that annd Maggie uses her diaper as a parachute, floating safely down to the ground. Homer gets mad at the crows, slashing at them with the rake, but then they jump on and attack him.
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== Plot ==
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[[Marge]] serves the family dinner with genetically modified vegetables because the vegetables were bigger. However, after seeing a potato eat a carrot, Marge decided to grow her own vegetables in the back yard. After making a vegetable patch and planting the seeds, [[The crows|crows]] started attacking the vegetable patch so Marge made a scarecrow. When [[Homer]] came home one day, he saw the silhouette of the scarecrow and got scared. He then came back and attacked it, destroying it. After doing this, the crows treated Homer like an alpha-crow because he killed their enemy. After the crows take [[Maggie]] for a flight and drop her, Homer tells them that they went too far and he wanted them to go. The crows then attack Homer, injuring his eyes.
  
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At [[Springfield General Hospital|hospital]], [[Dr. Hibbert]] tells Homer that medical marijuana could help him with the pain in his eyes. Homer remembers a bad incident he had when he was a teenager, with [[Sergeant Scraps|a police dog]] attacking him as he had marijuana, and initially refuses. However, Dr. Hibbert convinces Homer to give it a try. Homer starts to smoke the marijuana, much to the annoyance of Marge. He continues to go to work and act as normal throughout his medication usage and gets closer to his family and [[Ned Flanders]]. Ned convinces Homer to sign a petition to criminalize medical marijuana when Homer doesn't realize what he's signing.
  
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Homer is at the doctors, where Dr. Hibbert tells Homer, "They never wanted to blind you, they just wanted to drink your sweet, sweet eye juices." Dr. Hibbert prescribes Medical Marijuana, but Homer mentions his bad experience with drugs: Homer was hanging around with his friends, and he put Marijuana in his pocket. The police came along, and the dog grabbed him by the crotch and throws him around. For Homer, the 60s ended that day in 1978. Dr. Hibbert explains how Medical Marijuana is legal, as long as it's for healing his eyes, not for enjoyment.
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At the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], [[Mr. Burns]] is reading jokes to [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]] for a potential investors meeting. Homer then comes into Burns' office, thinking it was the toilets, and laughs at Mr. Burns' jokes. Burns then promotes Homer to executive vice president because he'll laugh at all of Burns' jokes. Homer then goes home where he reveals to Marge that he got promoted. Later that evening, Homer and [[Otto]] are hanging out in the attic of the house, watching TV together. At that moment, a news report comes on talking about the election to re-criminalize medical marijuana. Homer and Otto decide they have to do something about this and set up a {{Chs|Phish}} concert at a rally to support medical marijuana. During the rally, however, they realize that they missed the vote, which was the day before, and medical marijuana was re-criminalized. Homer then stopped taking it as a result.
  
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So Homer takes the drugs home and becomes addicted to them. Marge notices smoke billowing down the stairs, which Lisa mentions, "It smells like the art teacher's office." Marge storms up the stairs and starts banging against the door, between segments of Homer's 'Smoke on the Water' (Totally off-key). Bart gets through with a credit card and Marge notices Homer's smoking drugs. Homer explains how it's making his eyes better, and Marge agrees. Homer calls Marge several times at work, and she gets annoyed at him.  
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Back at home, Homer gets back to his old way of life, kicking Otto out and making up with his friends, who were considering an intervention. Homer then goes to [[Burns' manor]] to get ready for the investors meeting. After both he and Smithers fail to find Burns' jokes funny, Burns goes to take a bath. Homer and Smithers then get high so they can find the jokes funny and forget about Burns. After realizing Burns had been in the bath for an hour, they ran into the bathroom to find him dead. They decided to carry on with the meeting and turned Burns into a puppet, with Smithers pulling the strings and Homer talking on Burns' behalf. During a dance routine, Mr. Burns' heart started again. Burns then made Smithers slap Homer, Smithers and himself several times.
  
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Ned Flanders comes to the door, with a clipboard. "Hi-diddly-hey, Homer." Homer mentions, "This dude does the best Flanders, with the moustache and the diddly! Okay, now do Wiggum!" Ned Flanders says that is was really him. Homer says, "Oh, the god dude. Hey, I've got a question." He pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket, reading "Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it. Ned says that's a noodle-scratcher, and holds up the bible, 'that has all your answers.' Homer asks if Ned can read it to him. Ned agreees. A LONG time later, Homer says, "Wow. Wow. God does so much for me and he never asks for anything in return." Ned says that God would like him to sign this petition outlawing Medical Marijuana. Homer signs immediately and says, "Okay, now do Wiggum." Ned Flanders does a perfect Wiggum, saying, "All right Simpson, you're under arrest, see?" and Homer says, "I said ''Wiggum''!"
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== Production ==
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The idea of the episode was pitched by [[George Meyer]]. [[Al Jean]] found the idea funny and assigned [[Jon Vitti]] to write the first draft.<ref name="Al Jean">{{Com|Jean, Al|Weekend at Burnsie's|Thirteenth|(2010).}}</ref> Jon Vitti wrote the script at his home and didn't participate in any of the rewrite sessions.<ref>{{Com|Vitti, Jon|Weekend at Burnsie's|Thirteenth|(2010).}}</ref> After being attacked by the crows, Homer was originally supposed to look more bloody. The staff decided to change this.<ref name="Al Jean"/> The staff debated what to do with Homer's eyes when he was high. Since a common side effect is dilated pupils, they dilated them slightly. One of the suggestions was to also widen his pupils.<ref>{{Com|Silverman, David|Weekend at Burnsie's|Thirteenth|(2010).}}</ref> George Meyer pitched the idea of [[Phish]] guest starring in the episode.<ref name="Al Jean"/>
  
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Mr. Burns, getting ready for a speech at a share meeting, likes Homer's sense of humour when Homer laughs at his lame jokes. Homer gets promoted to Executive Vice President, until Smithers reminds Mr. Burns that particular position was promised to him. Mr. Burns ignores him, and promotes Homer. Homer goes home, and Marge asks how he got the suit. Homer says, "One question at a time, please! Yes, you?" Marge says, " I'm kind of worried. There are half-eaten cupcakes everywhere, we're all out of paperclips, and the curtains small like doo!" Homer explains how he just got promoted thanks to Marijuana, but Marge doesn't seem convinced.
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Al Jean said that the writers wanted to explore both sides of the debate on marijuana usage rather than making a statement. He also said that the episode is a critique of legalisations that are immediately criminalized again after.<ref name="Al Jean"/> The scene at the beginning of the episode with the genetically modified vegetables was conceived during a rewrite and was originally three times longer. Even though genetic modifying is portrayed in a negative light in the episode, none of the writers were against it.<ref>{{Com|Reiss, Mike|Weekend at Burnsie's|Thirteenth|(2010).}}</ref>
  
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The next scene, Marge is in bed alone, hearing laughing and TV upstairs. She goes up there to investigate. Homer and Otto are in the attic, surrounded by crazy things, obviously drugged. Marge goes up and notices them. She gets mad, until there is a newsflash. Kent Brockman talks about Medical Marijuana, and how Ned Flander's petition has the right amount of people to outlaw it. There is a picture of the note with many people from Springfield signed on it. The people include Apu, Grandpa, Mrs. Krabappel, Krusty the Klown, and written is giant hippie-style letters on the bottom, HOMER J. SIMPSON. Homer yells, "We have to stop them!" and runs away.
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The scene cuts to a concert where a band is playing. The band stops, saying they smell Marijuana smoke. Hans Moleman comes forward in a hippie suit and holds up aprescription form. The band member reading is says Hans is seriously ill, but Hans says his doctor never told him that; he had to hear it from fish. After the band finishes, the band introduces Homer to make a speech, calling 'A real Pothead'.
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== Reception ==
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In an opinion column in ''{{W|The Seattle Times}}'', Robert S. Stephens and Roger A. Roffman wrote about the episode, saying that we rarely see the benefits of drug usage in television as we usually only see the negatives. They praise the episode for showing both the positive and negative effects of usage.<ref>[http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020517&slug=homerop17 The Seattle Times - "Did Homer go to pot?"]</ref>
  
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Homer explains how he thanks all the people for coming here, taking time off from your jobs... The people look at each other. Homer yells, "Because we've got to keep Medical Marijuana legal!" Everyone cheers. Homer starts, "So when you go into that voting booth on Tuesday the 7th..." One of the band members interrupts saying it was yesterday. Homer drops a coin into a newspaper box, and notices they lost, holding up the newspaper: MEDICAL MARIJUANA OUTLAWED! Everyone is outraged, and leaves. Homer can't believe that they 'spaced on the date'. Someone asks what they're going to do. Homer says, "Well, we can't stand around here staring at our hands, although..." Otto looks at his hands and sees a wedding ring. "Oh that's right, I married that chick." he says. Late at night, they are still staring at their hands. Otto explains how they're called fingers, but I never see them fing... Oh wait, there they go.
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As of September [[2018]], the episode has a 7.7 rating on {{W|IMDb}}<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701291/ IMDb - "Weekend at Burnsie's"]</ref> and a 8.9 rating on {{W|TV.com}}.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/weekend-at-burnsies-110000/ TV.com - "Weekend at Burnsie's"]</ref>
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"Weekend at Burnsie's"
Weekend at burnsies promo.jpg
Episode Information
Episode number: 285
Season number: S13 E16
Production code: DABF11
Original airdate: April 7, 2002
Couch gag: A gardner is cutting a hedge. He carves it to look like the Simpson family, sitting on their couch. He sighs and, with a wipe of his forhead, collapses, tired, to the floor.
Guest star(s): Phish as themselves
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: Jon Vitti
Directed by: Michael Marcantel
DVD features


"Weekend at Burnsie's" is the sixteenth episode of season 13 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and eighty-fifth episode overall. It originally aired on April 7, 2002. The episode was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Michael Marcantel. It guest stars Phish as themselves.

Synopsis[edit]

"After being attacked in the garden by an unruly group of crows, Homer goes to see Dr. Hibbert about the ongoing pain in his eyes. Dr. Hibbert suggests that Homer begin smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes."


Plot[edit]

Alternate promo image

Marge serves the family dinner with genetically modified vegetables because the vegetables were bigger. However, after seeing a potato eat a carrot, Marge decided to grow her own vegetables in the back yard. After making a vegetable patch and planting the seeds, crows started attacking the vegetable patch so Marge made a scarecrow. When Homer came home one day, he saw the silhouette of the scarecrow and got scared. He then came back and attacked it, destroying it. After doing this, the crows treated Homer like an alpha-crow because he killed their enemy. After the crows take Maggie for a flight and drop her, Homer tells them that they went too far and he wanted them to go. The crows then attack Homer, injuring his eyes.

At hospital, Dr. Hibbert tells Homer that medical marijuana could help him with the pain in his eyes. Homer remembers a bad incident he had when he was a teenager, with a police dog attacking him as he had marijuana, and initially refuses. However, Dr. Hibbert convinces Homer to give it a try. Homer starts to smoke the marijuana, much to the annoyance of Marge. He continues to go to work and act as normal throughout his medication usage and gets closer to his family and Ned Flanders. Ned convinces Homer to sign a petition to criminalize medical marijuana when Homer doesn't realize what he's signing.

At the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Mr. Burns is reading jokes to Waylon Smithers, Jr. for a potential investors meeting. Homer then comes into Burns' office, thinking it was the toilets, and laughs at Mr. Burns' jokes. Burns then promotes Homer to executive vice president because he'll laugh at all of Burns' jokes. Homer then goes home where he reveals to Marge that he got promoted. Later that evening, Homer and Otto are hanging out in the attic of the house, watching TV together. At that moment, a news report comes on talking about the election to re-criminalize medical marijuana. Homer and Otto decide they have to do something about this and set up a Phish concert at a rally to support medical marijuana. During the rally, however, they realize that they missed the vote, which was the day before, and medical marijuana was re-criminalized. Homer then stopped taking it as a result.

Back at home, Homer gets back to his old way of life, kicking Otto out and making up with his friends, who were considering an intervention. Homer then goes to Burns' manor to get ready for the investors meeting. After both he and Smithers fail to find Burns' jokes funny, Burns goes to take a bath. Homer and Smithers then get high so they can find the jokes funny and forget about Burns. After realizing Burns had been in the bath for an hour, they ran into the bathroom to find him dead. They decided to carry on with the meeting and turned Burns into a puppet, with Smithers pulling the strings and Homer talking on Burns' behalf. During a dance routine, Mr. Burns' heart started again. Burns then made Smithers slap Homer, Smithers and himself several times.

Production[edit]

The idea of the episode was pitched by George Meyer. Al Jean found the idea funny and assigned Jon Vitti to write the first draft.[1] Jon Vitti wrote the script at his home and didn't participate in any of the rewrite sessions.[2] After being attacked by the crows, Homer was originally supposed to look more bloody. The staff decided to change this.[1] The staff debated what to do with Homer's eyes when he was high. Since a common side effect is dilated pupils, they dilated them slightly. One of the suggestions was to also widen his pupils.[3] George Meyer pitched the idea of Phish guest starring in the episode.[1]

Al Jean said that the writers wanted to explore both sides of the debate on marijuana usage rather than making a statement. He also said that the episode is a critique of legalisations that are immediately criminalized again after.[1] The scene at the beginning of the episode with the genetically modified vegetables was conceived during a rewrite and was originally three times longer. Even though genetic modifying is portrayed in a negative light in the episode, none of the writers were against it.[4]

  • DABF11 Script.jpg

Reception[edit]

In an opinion column in The Seattle Times, Robert S. Stephens and Roger A. Roffman wrote about the episode, saying that we rarely see the benefits of drug usage in television as we usually only see the negatives. They praise the episode for showing both the positive and negative effects of usage.[5]

As of September 2018, the episode has a 7.7 rating on IMDb[6] and a 8.9 rating on TV.com.[7]

International airdates[edit]

Country Airdate Channel
Italy Februrary 2, 2004[8] Italia Uno
United Kingdom October 6, 2002 Channel 4

In other languages[edit]

Language Name Translation
Italy Flag.png Italiano "L'erba di Homer" Homer's weed

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jean, Al (2010). Commentary for "Weekend at Burnsie's", in The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season.
  2. ↑ Vitti, Jon (2010). Commentary for "Weekend at Burnsie's", in The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season.
  3. ↑ Silverman, David (2010). Commentary for "Weekend at Burnsie's", in The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season.
  4. ↑ Reiss, Mike (2010). Commentary for "Weekend at Burnsie's", in The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season.
  5. ↑ The Seattle Times - "Did Homer go to pot?"
  6. ↑ IMDb - "Weekend at Burnsie's"
  7. ↑ TV.com - "Weekend at Burnsie's"
  8. ↑ Wikipedia (Italy) - Episodi de I Simpson (tredicesima stagione)


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