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−	"'''D'oh-in In the Wind'''" is the sixth episode from the [[List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 10 (1998-1999)|tenth season]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]''.	+	{{Icons||FE}}
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		+	{{EpisodePrevNext|When You Dish Upon a Star|Lisa Gets an "A"|season=10|number=209}}
		+	{{Quote|Wow, look at this place! There's a pond for skinny dipping, a tire for skinny swinging... ''[Sticks his hand into a beehive]'' I can actually feel the good vibrations.|[[Homer Simpson]]}}
		+	{{Episode
		+	|image=Doh-in In the Wind.png
		+	|number=209
		+	|season=10
		+	|snumber=6
		+	|prodcode=AABF02
		+	|airdate=November 15, [[1998]]
		+	|blackboard= "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is"
		+	|couchgag=After the family sits on the couch, a safety bar comes down in front of them, and the couch takes off like a car on a roller coaster.
		+	|guests=[[George Carlin]] as [[Munchie]]<br>[[Martin Mull]] as [[Seth]]
		+	|showrunner1= Mike Scully
		+	|writer=[[Donick Cary]]
		+	|director=[[Mark Kirkland]]<br>[[Matthew Nastuk]]
		+	|DVD features=yes
		+	}}
−	__TOC__	+	"'''D'oh-in In the Wind'''" is the sixth episode of [[season 10]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and ninth episode overall. It originally aired on November 15, [[1998]]. The episode was written by [[Donick Cary]] and directed by [[Mark Kirkland]] and [[Matthew Nastuk]]. It guest stars [[George Carlin]] as [[Munchie]] and [[Martin Mull]] as [[Seth]].
−	==Plot==	+	== Synopsis ==
−	After appearing in a short promo for Mr. Burns and the Nuclear Power Plant, Homer realizes that he does not know what his middle name is (he has always just used the initial "J." before). Grampa takes Homer to a commune where Homer's mother lived "after life with me became a living Hell," as Abe puts it. They meet Seth and Munchie, ([[George Carlin]] and [[Martin Mull]]) two [[hippies]] who knew Homer's mom back in the [[1960s|'60s]]. Homer finds out that his mother painted a [[mural]] on Seth & Munchie's barn, and dedicated it to him using his full name: Homer ''Jay'' Simpson.	+	{{Desc|[[Homer]] sets out to determine what his middle initial stands for. In the process, he meets up with two of his mother's old associates from her days as a radical in the 60s and decides to give the hippie lifestyle a try.}}
−	Being around his mother's old lifestyle makes Homer want to become a hippie so badly that he starts wearing a [[poncho]] everywhere (one that used to belong to his mom) and otherwise acts in [[stereotypical]] hippie fashion. He puts his feet on the table, calls Marge a '[[narc]]', and even lounges [[nude]] on the front lawn, much to [[Maude Flanders]]' horror. Seth and Munchie befriend Homer and are glad that he has "gone [[granola]]."	+	== Plot ==
		+	[[Mr. Burns]] plans to eat a jar of pickles for lunch, but can't get the jar open. Neither can anyone else in the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear plant]]. Mr. Burns feels he needs tougher employees, so he directs [[Lenny]], [[Carl]] and [[Homer]] in a recruitment commercial promoting the plant. Impressed with his own acting, Homer decides to become an actor and starts filling out the paperwork to join the Screen Actors Guild. [[Lisa]] points out that the S.A.G. form calls for Homer's middle name, but he's only written the initial "J". Homer admits that he doesn't know his middle name. He consults [[Grampa]], who also doesn't know, but suggests where they might find out. They drive to [[Groovy Grove Natural Farm]], a farm run by two middle-aged hippies, [[Seth]] and [[Munchie]], who were friends of [[Mona Simpson|Homer's mother]] in her radical days. They point out a mural she painted which reveals Homer's middle name: "Jay". Seth and Munchie reminisce about the old days (including going to [[Woodstock]]), and Homer sees how carefree his life would be if he were a hippie and thus decides to become one.
−	Homer is shocked to learn that Seth and Munchie are actually the owners of a massively profitable [[organic juice]] company; they claim the Sixties died the day they sold their VW van, 31 December 1969. He convinces them to duck out for a freak-out, but upon returning they find that Homer's [[frisbee]] damaged their machinery and ruined their shipment. Seth and Munchie kick Homer out.	+	[[File:Hippie Homer - D'oh-in' in the Wind.png|thumb|left|240px|[[Homer]] envisions life as a hippie]]Homer dons a poncho which had belonged to him in the 60s and carries around a Frisbee (with "Homer Jay" written on it) as part of his hippie regalia. His new lifestyle, however, disgusts [[Lisa]] and annoys [[Marge]] when he tries to get her to quit shaving her legs and start going without a bra. He also shocks and disgusts [[Maude Flanders]] when he moves the couch outside and lies on it naked, playing with his Frisbee.
−	Feeling guilty, Homer raids their garden and sends out a new shipment of juice. Unfortunately, Homer used the vegetables from Seth and Munchie's "personal" garden ([[Peyote]] cacti) and before long the whole town is under the influence. The cops come for Seth and Munchie and Homer gets shot in the head with a flower (After placing flowers in the rifles of the police officers). Everything returns to normal at the end, except for Homer, who has to wait four to six weeks for the flower to fall out. When Homer asks if he can trim the leaves so he can watch TV, [[Dr. Hibbert]] replies, "I'm a doctor, not a gardener."	+	Seeking acceptance, Homer re-visits Groovy Grove where he joins Seth and Munchie in their game of hackie-sack. The fun soon ends when Seth and Munchie have to go back to work, as they have their own [[Groovy Grove Juice Corporation|organic juice plant]] right in the barn, where they produce [[Seth & Munchie's Garden Blast]], a drink which has become very popular in [[Springfield]]. Because Seth and Munchie say they have to go back to work, Homer accuses them of not being real hippies and so convinces them to join him in a "freak-out". After the trio spend a couple of hours freaking out squares, they return to the barn, only to find that it is flooded with Garden Blast and broken bottles. Homer's Frisbee has ended up inside the "juicillator" machine, jamming it and thus ruining a whole batch of juice, which means that Seth and Munchie will miss a big shipment. Furious, they remind Homer he's not a hippie and never was one.
−	==Trivia==	+	That night, Homer resolves to make it up to Seth and Munchie: He harvests their crops, re-makes the batch of Garden Blast, and then delivers it to every store in town. In the morning, Seth and Munchie see what Homer has done, and point out there weren't enough vegetables left for the whole batch of juice. Homer says that he thought the same thing, until he looked behind the barn and found the other garden, "the one with the camouflage netting". However, that was Seth's and Munchie's personal crop—{{W|Peyote|peyote}}—which means that Homer has just delivered hallucinogenic juice all over town.
−	* One of this episode's guest stars is [[George Carlin]]. In a previous episode, [[Krusty the Clown]] is told he is being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "[[Seven dirty words|The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television]]".
−	* While Ned Flanders is driving, he has a hallucination where he sees the [[Grateful Dead]] Dancing Bears: Melody and Verse with the Skeleton from [[Social Distortion]] who says "Mornin' Ned". They are followed by the Marching Hammers from [[Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd's]] ''[[The Wall]]'' marching down the road and the [[Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones']] "Lips & Tongue" which ask him to "Pucker up Ned". Series creator [[Matt Groening]] has admitted to being a huge Dead, Floyd and Stones fan.
−	* Seth and Munchie bear striking resemblances to George Carlin and Martin Mull.
−	* In the flashback to [[Jimi Hendrix]] at Woodstock, [[Abraham Simpson|Grandpa Simpson]] yells to bring on [[Sha Na Na]]. If, as implied, Grandpa was at the festival for the full three days, he should know that Sha Na Na immediately preceded Hendrix. (Of course, seeing that it is also Grandpa, he could be booing Hendrix to bring back Sha Na Na)
−	* On the DVD comentary Mark Kirkland mentions that because he was going through a divorce Matt Nastuk took over this episode for the first act.
−	*[[Yo La Tengo]] performs a psychedelic rendition of the theme song over the end credits.
−	==Cultural references==	+	[[File:Abe and Jasper High - D'ohin' in the Wind.png|thumb|right|220px|[[Abe]] and [[Jasper]] high on the spiked juice.]]When Police Officer [[Lou]] drinks some of the juice and starts having hallucinations in the police station, [[Chief Wiggum]] realizes what has happened and soon the police surround the farm. Homer comes out front to defend Seth and Munchie and hippie honor by reminding the police of the values taught by the 1960s, placing a daisy into each of the officers' rifle barrels as he does so. However, Wiggum fires his rifle, and the daisy from it ends up lodged in Homer's forehead. At the hospital, [[Dr. Hibbert]] says he cannot remove the flower, as he is a doctor, not a gardener.
−	*The title is a play on [[Bob Dylan]]'s song "[[Blowin' in the Wind]]". <!-- Some have suggested that it is also a reference to the [[Trick Daddy]] song "Dro In the Wind" due to the marijuana reference in the episode; however, this song did not come out until four years after the episode aired. << Then it's obviously *can't be* a reference. -->
−	*The chalkboard gag, "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is", refers to a deposition made by [[Bill Clinton]] during the [[Lewinsky scandal]].
−	*At the end of the credits Homer mutters "I buried Flanders," spoofing the "[[Paul is dead]]" theory from the [[The Beatles]]' song "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]"; in fact, the psychedelic version of the Simpsons theme in the end credits is a knock-off of The Beatles's "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]", performed by [[Yo La Tengo]].
−	*The song played while Homer does his midnight harvest is "[[Time of the Season]]" by [[The Zombies]], while the song that plays while the town is tripping is "[[White Rabbit (song)|White Rabbit]]" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]. Other songs in the episode include "[[Incense and Peppermints]]" by [[Strawberry Alarm Clock]] and "[[Uptown Girl]]" by [[Billy Joel]].
−	*The scene where [[Abe Simpson|Abe]] and [[Jasper Beardley|Jasper]] are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the [[MTV]] [[animated series]] ''[[Beavis and Butt-head]]''.
−	*When Homer tells Marge to take off her bra and says "free the Springfield 2" it is a reference to Marc Emery and the BC 3 and their slogan "free the BC" 3
−	*Seth and Munchie's dog, Ginsberg, is named after the beat poet [[Allen Ginsberg]].
−	*The end title for Mr. Burns's promo for the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An [[Alan Smithee]] Film" - from 1968 until 1999, this was a pseudonym used by directors who wanted to dissociate themselves from a movie they had lost creative control over.
−	*When Dr. Hibbert states that he is a doctor, not a gardener, ''[[Star Trek]]'' is being referenced, as Dr. McCoy often says "I'm a doctor, not an engineer (or other profession)."
−	*When Barney becomes frightened by his drug-induced hallucination he drinks some beer in order to overcome it. A [[pink elephant]] marches through the door to the aid of Barney. This resembles the same pink elephant that [[Dumbo]] the elephant sees when he mistakenly becomes drunk.
−	*Some things in the freak-out and after - such as Homer becoming "The Cosmic Fool", the psychedelic paint job on the car, and the juice being spiked (though inadvertently) with drugs - are loosely based on the antics of the [[Merry Pranksters]].
−	*The song that is playing during the [[Woodstock]] flashback is "[[The Star Spangled Banner]]" by [[Jimi Hendrix]]. The song ends just about when Grampa starts chastising Homer.
−	*Homer greets the one of the hippies with the phrase "Good morning Starshine" a reference to the musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]''.
		+	== Production ==
		+	Donick Cary wrote the episode after he got the idea where the town gets high and pitched it to the writing staff. This is the second Simpsons episode (after "Flaming Moe's" in 1991) to feature two directors instead of one.
		+	== Reception ==
		+	The episode was called "dreadful" by the BBC but was noted for "being the episode in which we discover Homer's middle name."
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"Wow, look at this place! There's a pond for skinny dipping, a tire for skinny swinging... [Sticks his hand into a beehive] I can actually feel the good vibrations."

―Homer Simpson

"D'oh-in' in the Wind"

Episode Information Episode number: 209 Season number: S10 E6 Production code: AABF02 Original airdate: November 15, 1998 Chalkboard gag: "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is" Couch gag: After the family sits on the couch, a safety bar comes down in front of them, and the couch takes off like a car on a roller coaster. Guest star(s): George Carlin as Munchie Martin Mull as Seth Showrunner: Mike Scully Written by: Donick Cary Directed by: Mark Kirkland Matthew Nastuk DVD features

"D'oh-in In the Wind" is the sixth episode of season 10 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and ninth episode overall. It originally aired on November 15, 1998. The episode was written by Donick Cary and directed by Mark Kirkland and Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars George Carlin as Munchie and Martin Mull as Seth.

Synopsis[edit]

"Homer sets out to determine what his middle initial stands for. In the process, he meets up with two of his mother's old associates from her days as a radical in the 60s and decides to give the hippie lifestyle a try."

Plot[edit]

Mr. Burns plans to eat a jar of pickles for lunch, but can't get the jar open. Neither can anyone else in the nuclear plant. Mr. Burns feels he needs tougher employees, so he directs Lenny, Carl and Homer in a recruitment commercial promoting the plant. Impressed with his own acting, Homer decides to become an actor and starts filling out the paperwork to join the Screen Actors Guild. Lisa points out that the S.A.G. form calls for Homer's middle name, but he's only written the initial "J". Homer admits that he doesn't know his middle name. He consults Grampa, who also doesn't know, but suggests where they might find out. They drive to Groovy Grove Natural Farm, a farm run by two middle-aged hippies, Seth and Munchie, who were friends of Homer's mother in her radical days. They point out a mural she painted which reveals Homer's middle name: "Jay". Seth and Munchie reminisce about the old days (including going to Woodstock), and Homer sees how carefree his life would be if he were a hippie and thus decides to become one.

Homer dons a poncho which had belonged to him in the 60s and carries around a Frisbee (with "Homer Jay" written on it) as part of his hippie regalia. His new lifestyle, however, disgusts Lisa and annoys Marge when he tries to get her to quit shaving her legs and start going without a bra. He also shocks and disgusts Maude Flanders when he moves the couch outside and lies on it naked, playing with his Frisbee.

Seeking acceptance, Homer re-visits Groovy Grove where he joins Seth and Munchie in their game of hackie-sack. The fun soon ends when Seth and Munchie have to go back to work, as they have their own organic juice plant right in the barn, where they produce Seth & Munchie's Garden Blast, a drink which has become very popular in Springfield. Because Seth and Munchie say they have to go back to work, Homer accuses them of not being real hippies and so convinces them to join him in a "freak-out". After the trio spend a couple of hours freaking out squares, they return to the barn, only to find that it is flooded with Garden Blast and broken bottles. Homer's Frisbee has ended up inside the "juicillator" machine, jamming it and thus ruining a whole batch of juice, which means that Seth and Munchie will miss a big shipment. Furious, they remind Homer he's not a hippie and never was one.

That night, Homer resolves to make it up to Seth and Munchie: He harvests their crops, re-makes the batch of Garden Blast, and then delivers it to every store in town. In the morning, Seth and Munchie see what Homer has done, and point out there weren't enough vegetables left for the whole batch of juice. Homer says that he thought the same thing, until he looked behind the barn and found the other garden, "the one with the camouflage netting". However, that was Seth's and Munchie's personal crop—peyote—which means that Homer has just delivered hallucinogenic juice all over town.

When Police Officer Lou drinks some of the juice and starts having hallucinations in the police station, Chief Wiggum realizes what has happened and soon the police surround the farm. Homer comes out front to defend Seth and Munchie and hippie honor by reminding the police of the values taught by the 1960s, placing a daisy into each of the officers' rifle barrels as he does so. However, Wiggum fires his rifle, and the daisy from it ends up lodged in Homer's forehead. At the hospital, Dr. Hibbert says he cannot remove the flower, as he is a doctor, not a gardener.

Production[edit]

Donick Cary wrote the episode after he got the idea where the town gets high and pitched it to the writing staff. This is the second Simpsons episode (after "Flaming Moe's" in 1991) to feature two directors instead of one.

Reception[edit]

The episode was called "dreadful" by the BBC but was noted for "being the episode in which we discover Homer's middle name."

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