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"'''I Am Furious (Yellow)'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[season 13]].  
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"'''I Am Furious (Yellow)'''" is the eighteenth episode of [[season 13]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and eighty-seventh episode overall. It originally aired on April 28, [[2002]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Chuck Sheetz]]. It guest stars [[Stan Lee]] as {{Ch|Stan Lee|himself}}.
  
 
== Synopsis ==
 
== Synopsis ==
[[Bart]] is inspired by one of the school's motivational speakers to become a cartoonist, in which he creates a popular comic and later internet series titled "''[[Angry Dad]]''", which is based on [[Homer Simpson|Homer's anger]] problems. Homer becomes the town's laughing stock, and decides to give up anger completely.
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{{Desc|[[Bart]] is inspired by one of the school's motivational speakers to become a cartoonist, in which he creates a popular comic and later internet series titled "[[Angry Dad]]", which is based on [[Homer]]'s anger problems. Homer becomes the town's laughing stock, and decides to give up anger completely.}}
  
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
At [[Springfield Elementary School]], [[Kirk Van Houten]] holds a unsuccessful short speech about his occupation of being a assistant fllyer distributor. [[Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]] becomes disappointed about not being to find any good speakers for their assemblies about the importance of studying, while [[Lisa]] suggests that they invite cartoonist [[Geoff Jenkins]], the creator of a cartoon named "''Danger Dog''". However, instead of the 'buckle down and study' speech Skinner had been hoping for, Geoff tells the kids how easy and rewarding his job is and that he didn't even need to work hard in school to get it, and all he does is "eat candy and watch R-rated movies". Jenkins' speech prompt all the students to start stop paying attention in class and try to become catoonists.
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A career day is being held at [[Springfield Elementary School]] where [[Kirk Van Houten]] gives a talk about his job. The talk doesn't go down well and [[Principal Skinner]] and [[Mrs. Krabappel]] discuss how to improve career day in Skinner's office, with [[Lisa]] giving her input. Lisa and Skinner then go to the [[Springfield Speakers Bureau]] to find someone successful to come and speak at the school. They get cartoonist [[Geoff Jenkins]] in to give a talk about how he made his cartoon, [[Danger Dog]]. During the assembly, Jenkins shows a clip from the ''Danger Dog Easter Special'' then tells the students about how he doesn't consider what he does as real work and only doodled in class rather than doing any work. Upon hearing this, Skinner pulls the fire alarm to end the assembly early.
  
However, their creativity is sadly lacking and they all create blatant rip offs of "Danger Dog", especially [[Bart Simpson|Bart]], who makes the worst rip off called "Danger Dude", which turns out to be a dog. Expecting to make millions, he shows his work to [[Comic Book Guy]], who, with no mercy, criticizes his comic as the worst comic he has every seen. [[Stan Lee]] enters the store and judges Bart's comic. Lee agrees with Comic Book Guy, but encourages Bart to keep trying. Bart then sits at home, struggling to think of a new idea for his comic, notices an angry [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] outside trying to unfold a lawnchair. Bart then spawns the idea of making a comic about Homer's anger problem, thus creating the comic "''[[Angry Dad]]''". Bart publishes the first issue of ''Angry Dad'', making an instant hit at the kids at school. Lisa hates the comic book and confronts him for his plagirism on Homer's daily actions. She finds it insulting to make jokes about their father with his frequent rage. Bart decides that he will add a new character to the series called Know-It-All Sister (based on Lisa) as Angry Dad's new sidekick. She reconsiders as long as she gets a pony and the last line of each scene.
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In class, the kids all draw their own cartoon characters, all of which are parodies of Danger Dog. Bart is impressed with the comic he makes and goes to [[The Android's Dungeon]] to get [[Comic Book Guy]]'s opinion. Comic Book Guy calls Bart's comic "lame and derivative" but then {{Ch|Stan Lee}} comes in and offers to look at Bart's comic too. Stan Lee also doesn't like Bart's comic but tells him to keep trying to come up with ideas. Back at home, Bart tries to come up with an idea for his comic. After only coming up with existing ideas, he notices Homer outside struggling with a lawn chair. Bart then draws that and calls his new character "{{Ch|Angry Dad}}". Bart follows Homer around his day-to-day life until he gets enough ideas to make a comic.
  
Later, Bart shows Comic Book Guy his new and original comic, and Comic Book Guy likes the comic and dubs it as "shelf worthy". Bart notices Stan Lee across the room, trying to persuade [[Database]] that a "[[Thing]]" action figure from the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic Four Fantastic Four]" fits perfectly in his toy [[Batmobile]], but ends up breaking it. Bart ask why Stan Lee came back, when Comic Book Guy remarks "Stan Lee never left. I'm starting to think his mind is no longer in mint condition". Bart later hosts an autograph signing session in the schoolyard, when a spokesperson from an Internet company titled BetterThanTV.com wants to make Bart's comic into an online animated cartoon series. Bart agrees as long as he gets his share of stock.
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At school, everybody loves ''Angry Dad'', although [[Lisa]] complains about the character just being their dad. Bart then takes the comic to The Android's Dungeon where Comic Book Guy deems it "rack-worthy". Bart then notices that Stan Lee is still at the store, and Comic Book Guy tells Bart that he never left. Stan Lee then upsets [[Database]] by cramming a [[The Thing]] figure into his [[Batmobile]] toy. Later, during a signing session at school, [[Todd Linux]] from [[BetterThanTV.com]] approaches Bart and tells him that he wants to make ''Angry Dad'' into an Internet cartoon. Bart takes Lisa to go and meet Todd Linux at the BetterThanTV.com office. Linux shows them around the office and takes them through the creative process before he releases the first episode of ''Angry Dad'' onto the Internet.
  
''"Angry Dad" ''then becomes the single most non-pornographic website of all time, making it 10 trillionth overall. Homer, still unaware of the website, finds [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]], [[Carl Carlson|Carl]], and [[Charles Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] watching a webisode in which Anrgy Dad's head explodes after reading a headline in the newspaper that reads "YOU SUCK, ANGRY DAD!". Infuriated at becoming a world-wide laughingstock, Homer rushes home to strangle Bart when the family stops him. Lisa and Marge points out that Homer does tend to have anger problems. Homer then tries his best to overcome his anger and try to stay calm as much as he can. Homer then starts to take a walk outside when he realizes that a lot more things anger him then he thought, such as the paper boy, the milk man, and the piano lady throwing their respective objects at him, discovering that Marge invited [[Ned Flanders]] over to have a sing-along, and the town of [[Springfield]] trying to egg Homer on to do something angry. Homer stills keeps his promise and holds back his rage. This however, cause lumps to break out on Homer's neck everytime he suppresses his anger.
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''Angry Dad'' quickly becomes a hit and everyone in town loves it. Homer finds it funny himself until he realizes that Angry Dad is based on him. Upon realizing that Bart made it, he goes home to confront Bart about it. On the way home, Homer is spotted by fans of ''Angry Dad'' who stop his car and force him out of it, before [[Moe]] crashes the car. Homer gets home and immediately starts strangling Bart. Lisa then points out that Homer has anger issues, which he accepts having and decides to do something about. Homer tries to keep himself calm throughout the day, which means that Bart can't get any more content for ''Angry Dad''. However, whenever Homer starts to get angry, he gets a boil on his neck, which he then pushes back in. Bart then sets up a trap to make Homer angry then he and [[Milhouse]] go to BetterThanTV.com to tell them that he'll have new content soon. However, when they get there, they find that he company went out of business and ''Angry Dad'' was cancelled as a result. Upon hearing this news, Bart rushes home to try and stop Homer from falling into the trap.
  
Bart starts to run out of ideas for "''Angry Dad" ''sketches after Homer's promise to stay calm, so Bart and Milhouse come up with a trap for Homer in order to infuriate him. Bart becomes too late when the internet company goes bankrupt. He soons realizes that he no longer needs the trap he set up, and rushes home to dismantle it. Homer reaches home when he notices a "Free Doughnuts" sign on the front door leading to Bart's treehouse. Homer climbs up in order to get his doughnuts, when he falls through a carpet-covered hole in the floor and gets hung upside-down by the foot dangling from a laundry line, which starts to move. He passes through a placed set of cacti and dirty diapers, and reaches the end of the line where he finds scissors to cut him down, and falls into a kiddie pool filled with green paint. Homer is now covered with green and resembles [[The Incredible Hulk]], and releases his pent up rage through a rampage across town. The police then easily restrain him as he is not a strong as he appears to be. Stan Lee is seen at the sidelines, ranting how he is actually The Incredible Hulk. Lee then miserably fails at trying to transform in The Hulk, as Comic Book Guy remarks that he "couldn't even tranform into [[Bill Bixby]]" and how he wishes that he could have the power to leave his store.
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Homer arrives home first and notices a note taped to the door saying that there's free donuts in [[Bart's treehouse]]. Homer goes up to the treehouse but falls into Bart's trap. He is put through pain and ends up falling into a pool of green paint. Homer starts rampaging through town and people think that he is [[The Incredible Hulk]]. When Stan Lee sees this, he claims that he is the Hulk and tries to transform. Eventually, Homer is tackled to the ground by the police and sent to [[Springfield General Hospital]]. At the hospital, [[Dr. Hibbert]] tells the family that Bart's prank probably saved Homer's life because his anger would have overwhelmed his systems if he kept trying to bottle it. When Homer gets discharged from hospital, he and Bart go fishing where Bart keeps trying to rile Homer up.
  
[[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]] then sends Homer to the hospital and relaxes him. Dr Hibbert then reveals to the family that the violent outburst was just what Homer needed to release all the anger he had been holding back before it overwhelmed him. Homer decides to stop getting angry and Bart decides to stop making Angry Dad cartoons. The two then go fishing where Bart still angers Homer, which he is thankful for.
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== Production ==
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The episode idea came from [[Matt Selman]], who was inspired by [[Matt Groening]] who would tell the story about how he was considered the class clown and would always be cartooning and never paying attention in school. Selman thought that if Groening went to school to tell the story that it would be the last message that the teachers and principal would want to hear.<ref name="Selman">{{Com|Selman, Matt|I Am Furious (Yellow)|Thirteenth|(2010).|link=Matt Selman}}</ref> The episode was partially inspired by web cartoons that the producers themselves had done, including ''{{W|Queer Duck}}'' and ''{{W|Hard Drinkin' Lincoln}}'', both created by [[Mike Reiss]].<ref name="Jean">{{Com|Jean, Al|I Am Furious (Yellow)|Thirteenth|(2010).|link=Al Jean}}</ref>
  
== Production ==
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The ''Angry Dad'' and other BetterThanTV.com cartoons were originally going to be done as {{W|Adobe Flash|Flash}} animations. However, the [[Film Roman]] Flash animation department wouldn't have been able to get it done in time for the episode. Director [[Chuck Sheetz]] then drew everything himself in a style that mimicked Flash animation.<ref name="Sheetz">{{Com|Sheetz, Chuck|I Am Furious (Yellow)|Thirteenth|(2010).|link=Chuck Sheetz}}</ref> Producer Matt Selman wanted Homer to fall into blue paint, which would mix with his yellow skin color to become green, rather than just green paint. However, nothing came of this idea.<ref name="Selman"/>
The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Chuck Sheetz]]. [[Stan Lee]] guest stars as himself.
 
  
 
== Reception ==
 
== Reception ==
The episode received positive reviews from critics, and is one of the best reviewed episodes of season 13.
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When the episode was released, the promotional art for it featuring Homer dressed as the Hulk led fans to believe that the show had {{W|Jumping the shark|jumped the shark}} by having Homer turn into the Hulk.<ref name="Jean"/>
  
Nathan Ditum (from ''Total Film'') ranked Stan Lee's appearance as the 12th best guest appearance in the show's history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-20-best-simpsons-movie-star-guest-spots|title=The 20 Best Simpsons Movie-Star Guest Spots|last=Ditum|first=Nathan|date=March 29, 2009|work=Total Film|accessdate=2009-08-02}}</ref> Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide called the episode one of the better installments from season 13, referring to it as "very good" and saying that "the series has milked Homer's rage as one of its chief sources of humor for years, but it does so in creative and satisfying ways here".
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In [[2009]], Nathan Ditum of {{W|GamesRadar}} called Stan Lee the 12th best guest star in the show's history.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160109144846/http://www.gamesradar.com/the-20-best-simpsons-movie-star-guest-spots/ GamesRadar - "The 20 Best Simpsons Movie-Star Guest Spots"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref> R.L. Shaffer of {{W|IGN}} called "I Am Furious (Yellow)" a "fan-favorite" episode.<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/08/30/the-simpsons-the-thirteenth-season-blu-ray-review IGN - "The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season Blu-ray Review"]</ref>
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As of June [[2023]], the episode has a 7.7 rating on {{W|IMDb}}.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701132/ IMDb - "I Am Furious (Yellow)"]</ref>
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== In other languages ==
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Episode Information
Episode number: 287
Season number: S13 E18
Production code: DABF13
Original airdate: April 28, 2002
Couch gag: The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. A crane game clamp comes down and picks up Homer. Homer screams, "Ow! My brain!" as he's being lifted.
Guest star(s): Stan Lee as himself
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: John Swartzwelder
Directed by: Chuck Sheetz
DVD features


"I Am Furious (Yellow)" is the eighteenth episode of season 13 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and eighty-seventh episode overall. It originally aired on April 28, 2002. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Chuck Sheetz. It guest stars Stan Lee as himself.

Synopsis[edit]

"Bart is inspired by one of the school's motivational speakers to become a cartoonist, in which he creates a popular comic and later internet series titled "Angry Dad", which is based on Homer's anger problems. Homer becomes the town's laughing stock, and decides to give up anger completely."


Plot[edit]

A career day is being held at Springfield Elementary School where Kirk Van Houten gives a talk about his job. The talk doesn't go down well and Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel discuss how to improve career day in Skinner's office, with Lisa giving her input. Lisa and Skinner then go to the Springfield Speakers Bureau to find someone successful to come and speak at the school. They get cartoonist Geoff Jenkins in to give a talk about how he made his cartoon, Danger Dog. During the assembly, Jenkins shows a clip from the Danger Dog Easter Special then tells the students about how he doesn't consider what he does as real work and only doodled in class rather than doing any work. Upon hearing this, Skinner pulls the fire alarm to end the assembly early.

In class, the kids all draw their own cartoon characters, all of which are parodies of Danger Dog. Bart is impressed with the comic he makes and goes to The Android's Dungeon to get Comic Book Guy's opinion. Comic Book Guy calls Bart's comic "lame and derivative" but then Stan Lee comes in and offers to look at Bart's comic too. Stan Lee also doesn't like Bart's comic but tells him to keep trying to come up with ideas. Back at home, Bart tries to come up with an idea for his comic. After only coming up with existing ideas, he notices Homer outside struggling with a lawn chair. Bart then draws that and calls his new character "Angry Dad". Bart follows Homer around his day-to-day life until he gets enough ideas to make a comic.

At school, everybody loves Angry Dad, although Lisa complains about the character just being their dad. Bart then takes the comic to The Android's Dungeon where Comic Book Guy deems it "rack-worthy". Bart then notices that Stan Lee is still at the store, and Comic Book Guy tells Bart that he never left. Stan Lee then upsets Database by cramming a The Thing figure into his Batmobile toy. Later, during a signing session at school, Todd Linux from BetterThanTV.com approaches Bart and tells him that he wants to make Angry Dad into an Internet cartoon. Bart takes Lisa to go and meet Todd Linux at the BetterThanTV.com office. Linux shows them around the office and takes them through the creative process before he releases the first episode of Angry Dad onto the Internet.

Angry Dad quickly becomes a hit and everyone in town loves it. Homer finds it funny himself until he realizes that Angry Dad is based on him. Upon realizing that Bart made it, he goes home to confront Bart about it. On the way home, Homer is spotted by fans of Angry Dad who stop his car and force him out of it, before Moe crashes the car. Homer gets home and immediately starts strangling Bart. Lisa then points out that Homer has anger issues, which he accepts having and decides to do something about. Homer tries to keep himself calm throughout the day, which means that Bart can't get any more content for Angry Dad. However, whenever Homer starts to get angry, he gets a boil on his neck, which he then pushes back in. Bart then sets up a trap to make Homer angry then he and Milhouse go to BetterThanTV.com to tell them that he'll have new content soon. However, when they get there, they find that he company went out of business and Angry Dad was cancelled as a result. Upon hearing this news, Bart rushes home to try and stop Homer from falling into the trap.

Homer arrives home first and notices a note taped to the door saying that there's free donuts in Bart's treehouse. Homer goes up to the treehouse but falls into Bart's trap. He is put through pain and ends up falling into a pool of green paint. Homer starts rampaging through town and people think that he is The Incredible Hulk. When Stan Lee sees this, he claims that he is the Hulk and tries to transform. Eventually, Homer is tackled to the ground by the police and sent to Springfield General Hospital. At the hospital, Dr. Hibbert tells the family that Bart's prank probably saved Homer's life because his anger would have overwhelmed his systems if he kept trying to bottle it. When Homer gets discharged from hospital, he and Bart go fishing where Bart keeps trying to rile Homer up.

Production[edit]

The episode idea came from Matt Selman, who was inspired by Matt Groening who would tell the story about how he was considered the class clown and would always be cartooning and never paying attention in school. Selman thought that if Groening went to school to tell the story that it would be the last message that the teachers and principal would want to hear.[1] The episode was partially inspired by web cartoons that the producers themselves had done, including Queer Duck and Hard Drinkin' Lincoln, both created by Mike Reiss.[2]

The Angry Dad and other BetterThanTV.com cartoons were originally going to be done as Flash animations. However, the Film Roman Flash animation department wouldn't have been able to get it done in time for the episode. Director Chuck Sheetz then drew everything himself in a style that mimicked Flash animation.[3] Producer Matt Selman wanted Homer to fall into blue paint, which would mix with his yellow skin color to become green, rather than just green paint. However, nothing came of this idea.[1]

Reception[edit]

When the episode was released, the promotional art for it featuring Homer dressed as the Hulk led fans to believe that the show had jumped the shark by having Homer turn into the Hulk.[2]

In 2009, Nathan Ditum of GamesRadar called Stan Lee the 12th best guest star in the show's history.[4] R.L. Shaffer of IGN called "I Am Furious (Yellow)" a "fan-favorite" episode.[5]

As of June 2023, the episode has a 7.7 rating on IMDb.[6]

In other languages[edit]

Language Name Translation
Germany.png Deutsch "Der rasende Wüterich" The raging tyrant
Spain flag.png Español "Estoy verde de rabia" I'm green with rage
Hispanic America.gif Español "Estoy furioso" I'm furious
France.png Français "Papa furax" Angry Dad
Flag of Quebec.svg.png Français "Su-Père Choqué" Shocked Father
Italy Flag.png Italiano "Papà incacchiato" Angry Dad
Flag of Japan.png 日本語 "怒れる父の逆襲" Angry Father's Revenge

References[edit]


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