Difference between revisions of "Fear of Flying"

[[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]], [[Carl Carlson|Carl]] and [[Barney Gumble|Barney]] pull life threatening pranks on [[Moe Syzlak|Moe]], who laughs off each one. When [[Homer]] pulls a harmless and quite lame prank on [[Moe]], he gets booed for it and is banned from the bar. Homer visits all the other bars in [[Springfield]], but finds none of them to his liking. The last bar in Springfield he comes to is "[[The Little Black Box]]", however you need to be a pilot to drink there. He pretends to be one, but is rushed onto a plane to fly it. Not knowing how to operate it, Homer incidentally damages the plane: He then gets a free plane trip to anywhere if he keeps this secret. On the plane, [[Marge]] freaks out, revealing to Homer that she has a fear of flying, and demands to be let off. After the traumatic incident, Marge begins to show bizarre behavior, which [[Lisa]] sees as suppressing her fear. Marge goes to a psychiatrist (played by [[wikipedia:Ann_Bancroft|Ann Bancroft]]) to deal with her problems. Homer apposes to this because he thinks the shrink will tell her to break up with him. Marge recalls that [[Clancy Bouvier|her father]] was a steward (or to her, a "stewardess") and not a pilot as she was told. This upsets her, until the psychiatrist explains that Mr. Bouvier helped make male flight attendants common. Marge also remembers other things, like her and her mother being attacked by a plane in a cornfield. Cured of her anxiety, she finally gets on a plane filled with confidence; this turns to annoyance as the plane overshoots the runway and lands in the sea.