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"'''Homerazzi'''" is the sixteenth episode of [[season 18]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and ninety-fourth episode overall. It originally aired March 25, [[2007]]. The episode was written by [[J. Stewart Burns]] and directed by [[Matthew Nastuk]]. It guest stars [[J. K. Simmons]] as the [[tabloid editor]], [[Betty White]] as {{Ch|Betty White|herself}} and [[Jon Lovitz]] as [[Enrico Irritazio]].
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{{Desc|[[Homer]] starts taking pictures of celebrities so the family can earn money. Eventually, the celebrities get fed up and hire someone to take embarrassing photos of Homer.}}
  
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It is Homer's birthday, and all the family sing "[[Happy Birthday to You]]" to him. Homer pretends he doesn't need to make a wish, but wishes for infinite hamburgers, and tries to blow out his candles. He can't, however, and he thinks they are candles you can't blow out. They are actually the opposite: [[E-Z Blo]] candles. Homer continues attempting to blow the candles out, but after three hours, he gives up. He flops down on the birthday cake, and, in doing so, a candle sets fire to his party hat.
  
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The house ends up being set on fire, and the family wait outside. [[Flint Drywall]] suggests they buy a fire-proof safe to keep their irreplaceable items safe, and they do. All of the family put something special in the safe; for [[Marge]] the family album, for [[Lisa]] a [[Malibu Stacy]] car (although she originally intended to put in a decision tree), for Homer a cologne bottle he wore on his first date with Marge, called [[Scent of a Wookiee]], and for Bart a [[Krusty]] doll. All the items are locked away in the safe, but Marge pats the safe. This sets off the Krusty doll, which walks across the safe. The doll falls into the car, who's headlights turn on, and focus on the cologne bottle. The bottle starts heating up, and smoke comes out of the safe.
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The family notices the smoke, and Homer predicts that what just happened did. Then, the safe explodes, and all of the items are ruined. The family album crumbles up, and Marge is upset. Lisa tells her that they will have to move on, as they can't restage their family photos. Marge gets an idea from this, and proceeds to do just that. However, one of their restaged photos reveals a secret affair between [[Booberella]] and [[Duffman]].
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Homerazzi is the 16th episode in the Simpsons 18th season.
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In the Fox press release, Peter Wolf and Harry Hamlin were announced as guest stars for this episode. However, neither of them made an appearance in the broadcast version.{{cn}}
  
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After failing to blow out all the candles on his birthday cake, an exhausted [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] falls asleep, igniting his party hat on the flames. The burning house is saved by the Springfield fire department who inspire [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] to purchase a fire-proof safe to protect the family's valuables. Each family member puts one special item inside the safe, Marge choosing the family photo album; Homer, an old bottle of cologne called "Scent of a Wookie"; [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], an electric Malibu Stacy car (though not the one [[I Love Lisa|Ralph gave to Lisa as a gift]]); [[Bart Simpson|Bart]], his Catch-A-Rising Krusty doll, a talking Krusty doll that performs stand-up. When they lock the safe, Bart's doll is switched on, which walks into the car, turning on its headlights which heat the cologne and cause the safe to explode, destroying everything inside (which apparently, was what Homer naturally assumed had happened). Refusing to accept the loss of all their memories, Marge decides to re-stage all of the family's photographs, and when the family spot a celebrity dating scandal ([[Duffman]] dating [[Boobarella]], despite Duffman being in a committed relationship with a homosexual man) captured in the background of one of their photos, the Simpsons strike tabloid gold. Tasting success and seeing money to be made, Homer takes to the streets as one of the paparazzi.
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Robert Canning praised this episode, calling it "clever, ingenious, and one of the most memorable of the season". The episode scored a 9.0 on TV.com, an equivalent to a "superb" rating.
  
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Overnight, Homer becomes Springfield's most valued tabloid photographer, staging incriminating photographs of, amongst others, Rich Texan's daughter, Paris Texan (a parody of Paris Hilton) beating Bart with a bottle then kissing them after he insulted her ("Hey, Paaaris! I saw a disgusting part of your body on the Internet--your face"), and [[Drederick Tatum]] punching Homer's cameras away while he keeps taking out more cameras and taking more pictures until Tatum knocks him out. After Homer gatecrashes [[Rainier Wolfcastle]]'s wedding, the town's celebrities decide to give Homer a taste of his own medicine by having top paparazzi Enrico Irritazio make him look bad (which apparently isn't difficult), such as Homer hanging Maggie on the car mirror then making her drive the car as he tries to grab Enrico, and him having a shower in the middle of the street with a fire hydrant. After seeing his own behavior published in a tabloid magazine, Homer gives up the paparazzi business temporarily. However, [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]] and [[Carl Carlson|Carl]] reinspire him to continue and [[Moe Szyslak|Moe]] lends Homer a camera he had used in the ladies' bathroom to videotape them secretly, explaining that no women ever enter his bar. Homer leaves for the celebrity nightspot across the street, shortly after which two women enter the bar asking for a bathroom to trade bras and panties in, which infuriates Moe for having lent away his camera for just that moment.
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Bursting the decadent celebrity nightspot, Homer takes a slew of compromising photos, including ones of Paris Texan making out with [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]], [[Sideshow Mel]] eating an American flag, Drederick Tatum snorting the ashes of Secretariat as if they were cocaine, and [[Mayor Quimby]] and [[Kent Brockman]] scantily dressed in costumes for a bizarre sexual roleplaying game. Defeated, Rainier Wolfcastle meekly asks him what he is going to do with the photos. Homer replies "Nothing," providing that the celebrities start treating the public with more respect and not taking their fans for granted. Rainier agrees to Homer's conditions and, as a gesture of good faith, invites the Simpsons to a barbecue party on his "offshore party platform". Marge asks Rainier to look at a screenplay she wrote called "Mrs. Mom". Rainier says that he does not read unsolicited scripts, though his eyes dart back and forth suspiciously. In the next shot, however, Marge and Homer see a theatre marquee advertising the film, crediting Rainier Wolfcastle as the writer, leading Marge to sigh, "Well, at least it got made." {{Krusty the Clown Show}}
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"Homerazzi"
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Episode Information
Episode number: 394
Season number: S18 E16
Production code: JABF06
Original airdate: March 25, 2007
Chalkboard gag: Global Warming did not eat my homework.
Couch gag: Homer's Evolution couch gag
Guest star(s): J. K. Simmons as the tabloid editor
Betty White as herself
Jon Lovitz as Enrico Irritazio
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: J. Stewart Burns
Directed by: Matthew Nastuk


"Homerazzi" is the sixteenth episode of season 18 of The Simpsons and the three-hundred and ninety-fourth episode overall. It originally aired March 25, 2007. The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars J. K. Simmons as the tabloid editor, Betty White as herself and Jon Lovitz as Enrico Irritazio.

Synopsis[edit]

"Homer starts taking pictures of celebrities so the family can earn money. Eventually, the celebrities get fed up and hire someone to take embarrassing photos of Homer."


Plot[edit]

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It is Homer's birthday, and all the family sing "Happy Birthday to You" to him. Homer pretends he doesn't need to make a wish, but wishes for infinite hamburgers, and tries to blow out his candles. He can't, however, and he thinks they are candles you can't blow out. They are actually the opposite: E-Z Blo candles. Homer continues attempting to blow the candles out, but after three hours, he gives up. He flops down on the birthday cake, and, in doing so, a candle sets fire to his party hat.

The house ends up being set on fire, and the family wait outside. Flint Drywall suggests they buy a fire-proof safe to keep their irreplaceable items safe, and they do. All of the family put something special in the safe; for Marge the family album, for Lisa a Malibu Stacy car (although she originally intended to put in a decision tree), for Homer a cologne bottle he wore on his first date with Marge, called Scent of a Wookiee, and for Bart a Krusty doll. All the items are locked away in the safe, but Marge pats the safe. This sets off the Krusty doll, which walks across the safe. The doll falls into the car, who's headlights turn on, and focus on the cologne bottle. The bottle starts heating up, and smoke comes out of the safe.

The family notices the smoke, and Homer predicts that what just happened did. Then, the safe explodes, and all of the items are ruined. The family album crumbles up, and Marge is upset. Lisa tells her that they will have to move on, as they can't restage their family photos. Marge gets an idea from this, and proceeds to do just that. However, one of their restaged photos reveals a secret affair between Booberella and Duffman.

Production[edit]

In the Fox press release, Peter Wolf and Harry Hamlin were announced as guest stars for this episode. However, neither of them made an appearance in the broadcast version.[citation needed]

Reception[edit]

Robert Canning praised this episode, calling it "clever, ingenious, and one of the most memorable of the season". The episode scored a 9.0 on TV.com, an equivalent to a "superb" rating.


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