Trash of the Titans
"Trash of the Titans"
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Episode Information
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Trash of the Titans is the 200th episode of the series which aired during Season Nine.
Plot
The local department stores invent a new holiday to improve summer sales known as "Love Day", a holiday combining the colorful heartful themes of Valentine's Day with the commercial gift buying of Christmas. After the Simpsons celebrate Love Day, the trash starts to pile up. When Homer is forced to take out the trash the garbage truck passes the house and Homer insults the garbagemen resulting in the Simpsons trash service being cut off. All the garbage begans to pile up in the Simpsons front yard until one day Homer wakes up to find all the garbage gone. Homer thinks that he won until he learns that Marge wrote an apology letter to the sanitation commissioner forging Homer's name. Homer goes to see the sanitation commissioner, Ray Patterson (voiced by Steve Martin) to get his apology letter back. After an argument, Homer decides to run for sanitation commissioner himself.
Homer's campaign seems like a dead end. Then, Moe suggests a slogan "Can't Someone Else Do It?" Homer convinces the town that by voting for him they would get services such as round-the-clock trash pickup and emergency cleanup service. Homer wins the election and after only a month in office, his department goes bankrupt due to all the expenses of his "crazy promises". In order to pay his garbagemen Homer has other cities across the country pay him to dump their garbage under Springfield. The trash begins to pile up and unearth itself flooding garbage all over Springfield. Homer is horsewhipped and removed from his position. The town tries to get Ray Patterson back but instead leaves the town in its mess and leaves. With no other option, the mayor has no choice but to move the town five miles down the road truck-lifting all the houses and buildings.
Quotes
- Marge: "Homer, that crazy lady who lives in our trash pile attacked me again."
- Homer: "That's not how she tells it."
