Mobile Homer
"Mobile Homer" is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season; it first aired in the US on March 20, 2005.
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Synopsis
When Marge takes the kids on a Sunday drive, Homer suffers from cleaning the garage at home. He gets spiders in his throat, and he is almost killed by the garage door. After the incident, Marge insists that the family buy life insurance, but Homer is deemed uninsurable because of his bad medical history. In order to save money, Marge decides to take serious cost-cutting measures like buying imitation brands of cereal and coffee. Homer rejects Marge's new measures and uses the nest egg she made to finance the down payment for a new motor home, although Homer already owned one in the episode "The Call of the Simpsons" (albeit a dilapidated one.) After he buys his motor home, Marge tells him to enjoy it because she never wants to speak to him again.
Homer moves his RV to the family backyard, where he lives in it. He and Marge attempt to make Bart and Lisa stay with them. After this, Homer makes the backyard into an RV park for a brief time, because when Marge ends this thing, she and Homer get into a large fight, until Bart suggests that the RV go back to the dealer Homer got it at—Bob's RV Round-Up—but the RV, when it is on the road, actually winds up on a freeway on its way to a Turkish container ship leaving port. Marge saves the children—and part of the RV—with mushroom soup. Homer ironically puts the RV on the dock, causing it to be at sea, once the Simpsons go on the ship.
Trivia
- Cowboy Bob and his Bob's RV Round-Up, from "The Call of the Simpsons", return; however, Cowboy Bob was not voiced by Albert Brooks this time. Also returning is the Merry Widow Insurance Company from "Homer's Triple Bypass".
- The first of two episodes this season to make a home-Homer pun.
- In the Spanish (from Spain) dubbed version, when Lisa reads Homer's Flinstones map, she says, "Dino, abreviatura de dinosaurio; consultarlo en la Wikipedia" (Dino, abbreviation of Dinosaur; search for it in Wikipedia). In the original English, she said "Dino, short for Dinosaur? Remember to Ask Jeeves"
- Among the vacation disasters: Homer impaled by a baquette in France, Homer being punched by Mickey Mouse and Goofy, and Homer stuck up Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore.
- This is the third time that Welcome to the jungle was on The Simpsons. First in Marge on the Lam, second in Eight Misbehavin'. Making it the most played song in pop culture on The Simpsons.
Cultural References
- Songs in this episode: "Vacation" by The Go-Gos, "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses, "I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash, and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants.
- The spider poison is called "Charlotte's Dead", an obvious parody of the childrens book Charlotte's Web.
Quotes
- Nelson: (pointing to T-shirts Bart and Lisa are forced to wear) Haw haw! People died in those shirts! audio clip
- Marge: (discussing the "Budget-O's" cereal) It's much less expensive than the leading clown-based cereal. You just have to assemble it yourself.
- Marge: Oh no! The road's blocked by SUVs!
Homer: Don't worry, there's a gentle curve ahead.
(SUVs skid on corner and roll off road) - Marge: (during a long argument with Homer) And stop telling that story of the time you found an onion ring in your French fries! It was twenty years ago!!
Homer: That was my Woodstock! - Announcer:(at the end of the Lifetime movie, over a freeze frame)The real Brenda went to Harvard Medical School...AS A CADAVER
- Homer: Don't worry, Marge. If I croak, you'll marry Lenny. Or Moe. The winner will be determined by a card game I invented.
- Homer: My back yard makes my front yard look like an idiot.
- Homer: While you lounge around here doing laundry and putting up drywall, I'm at working busting my hump!
Marge: Oh, please! From what I hear, you waltz in there at 10:30, take a nap on the toilet, then sit around Googling your own name until lunch!
Homer: (screams in fear) Who told you that?!?
Marge: You shouted it while we were making love!
