Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
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"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
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Episode Information
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"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" is the third episode of season 18. It originally aired on September 24, 2006.
Synopsis
- "Marge gets a job as carpenter, but every man thinks she is going to ruin everything she fixes because she is a woman, so Homer pretends to be the carpenter while Marge does all the work, until he starts receiving too much credit for doing nothing."
Plot
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On a trip to a extremely poor mall, Homer happens across the Time Life Carpenter’s Library, and Marge encourages him to buy them. Also seen is 'I, Scoundrel' by Esme Delacroix, a book featured in a previous episode. Homer's interest in carpentry fades, and Marge decides to use them herself to fix up the house, starting with her broken nightstand. She begins to learn more and more about carpentry and Lisa suggests to Marge that she try to earn some money as a handyman, thus opening up 'Simpsons Carpentry'. However, potential clients (Superintendent Chalmers, Krusty the Clown) turn her down, dismissing the idea of a woman carpenter. Commenting on how people expect carpenters to be big fat guys "with their butt cheeks showing", Marge develops a plan. She uses Homer as a front to the customers, while Marge, hiding in an accompanied red tool chest, does the all of the work as Homer rests in the tool box.
Meanwhile, a note is sent out from the school, informing parents that someone at the school has a peanut allergy so peanuts will no longer be allowed on school premises. An indignant Bart claims it would unfair to disclose the identity of the "kid" but soon discovers the "kid" is actually Principal Skinner, which he then fully exploits to harass Skinner relentlessly.
Business is going great but Marge becomes a bit discouraged by comments from Helen Lovejoy and Lindsay Naegle when she is out buying supplies. Marge tells Homer that he is taking too much credit (his shirt now has 'I do all the work' printed on it) and wishes she would get some recognition. After an incident in which Homer mocks Marge's carpentry skills with Lenny and Carl, she quits, leaving her husband to tackle their biggest commission yet -- repairing Springfield’s old wooden roller coaster, "The Zoominator", at which, of course, he fails miserably.
Meanwhile, Skinner eventually learns that Bart is allergic to shrimp. In the style of the final battle in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (to the music "Duel of the Fates"), Bart and Skinner clash with their respective “sticks” (peanuts versus shrimp). They duel across town and atop a bus into a Thai food factory in the "Little Bangkok" section of Springfield. They battle over a rickety catwalk, until it gives way, plunging them both into a vat of peanut shrimp, setting off both of their sensitive allergies.
The big reopening day arrives and Marge is able to repair each broken piece just before Homer's cart runs over it. While riding, Homer announces to the crowd that Marge did all the handywork. The crowd applauds as the coaster comes to a stop at the beginning, and just as Marge is about to tell Homer that she loves him, the entire roller coaster structure comes crashing down on top of him. At the hospital, Marge visits Homer, immobilized in a full body cast. Bart and Skinner rest in their respective hospital beds in the same room as Homer, and the two proceed to throw shrimp and peanuts at each other. Marge leaves and walks toward the Maternity Ward as the screen fades to black.
