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"'''Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?'''" is the third episode of the [[List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 11|eleventh season]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It aired on [[October 24]], [[1999]]. | "'''Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?'''" is the third episode of the [[List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 11|eleventh season]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It aired on [[October 24]], [[1999]]. | ||
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[[Springfield Elementary School]] takes a trip to [[The Springfield Shopper]] headquarters and there [[Homer]] goes off the tour where he was supposed to with [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] when he smells food. Homer then finds out the newspaper food critic [[Mimi]] is leaving and Homer eats the food at the party and sings a song about food and the editor is so impressed he hires Homer to be a food critic. Homer starts by writing an example review on the typewriter but it is dumb and Lisa decides to type up reviews on her computer and Homer would send them in (just like what Bart and Lisa did with [[Grandpa]] in [[The Front]].). However, Homer gives all the restaurants good reviews and then talks to his fellow critics who say they sometimes have to give bad reviews. Homer then takes this too seriously and gives every restaurant bad reviews and Lisa quits ghost writing for Homer and starts being nasty and every restaurant owner in [[Springfield]] wants to kill Homer. Their plan is that a french chef will bake a poison eclair for Homer, and Homer will eat it and die as Homer will be at the eat-off reviewing all the restaurant stands. There, Homer sees the eclair but it is a good thing Lisa is there with him and tells him the eclair is going to kill him but Homer ignores and Lisa says it is low fat and Homer drops it and it falls in Moleman's gruel and then Homer destroys the eat-off and everyone chases him. | [[Springfield Elementary School]] takes a trip to [[The Springfield Shopper]] headquarters and there [[Homer]] goes off the tour where he was supposed to with [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] when he smells food. Homer then finds out the newspaper food critic [[Mimi]] is leaving and Homer eats the food at the party and sings a song about food and the editor is so impressed he hires Homer to be a food critic. Homer starts by writing an example review on the typewriter but it is dumb and Lisa decides to type up reviews on her computer and Homer would send them in (just like what Bart and Lisa did with [[Grandpa]] in [[The Front]].). However, Homer gives all the restaurants good reviews and then talks to his fellow critics who say they sometimes have to give bad reviews. Homer then takes this too seriously and gives every restaurant bad reviews and Lisa quits ghost writing for Homer and starts being nasty and every restaurant owner in [[Springfield]] wants to kill Homer. Their plan is that a french chef will bake a poison eclair for Homer, and Homer will eat it and die as Homer will be at the eat-off reviewing all the restaurant stands. There, Homer sees the eclair but it is a good thing Lisa is there with him and tells him the eclair is going to kill him but Homer ignores and Lisa says it is low fat and Homer drops it and it falls in Moleman's gruel and then Homer destroys the eat-off and everyone chases him. | ||
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*The title references the 1967 film, ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''. | *The title references the 1967 film, ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''. | ||
*Homer's song about food resembles, in part, the tune "I Feel Pretty", from ''[[West Side Story (film)|West Side Story]]''. | *Homer's song about food resembles, in part, the tune "I Feel Pretty", from ''[[West Side Story (film)|West Side Story]]''. | ||
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Episode Information
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"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" is the third episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on October 24, 1999.
Plot
Springfield Elementary School takes a trip to The Springfield Shopper headquarters and there Homer goes off the tour where he was supposed to with Bart and Lisa when he smells food. Homer then finds out the newspaper food critic Mimi is leaving and Homer eats the food at the party and sings a song about food and the editor is so impressed he hires Homer to be a food critic. Homer starts by writing an example review on the typewriter but it is dumb and Lisa decides to type up reviews on her computer and Homer would send them in (just like what Bart and Lisa did with Grandpa in The Front.). However, Homer gives all the restaurants good reviews and then talks to his fellow critics who say they sometimes have to give bad reviews. Homer then takes this too seriously and gives every restaurant bad reviews and Lisa quits ghost writing for Homer and starts being nasty and every restaurant owner in Springfield wants to kill Homer. Their plan is that a french chef will bake a poison eclair for Homer, and Homer will eat it and die as Homer will be at the eat-off reviewing all the restaurant stands. There, Homer sees the eclair but it is a good thing Lisa is there with him and tells him the eclair is going to kill him but Homer ignores and Lisa says it is low fat and Homer drops it and it falls in Moleman's gruel and then Homer destroys the eat-off and everyone chases him.
Cultural references
- The title references the 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
- Homer's song about food resembles, in part, the tune "I Feel Pretty", from West Side Story.
- The typewriter without an "e" refers to the film Misery
- Props seen at Planet Springfield: Herbie from The Love Bug, the coffee mug from Heartbeeps, the cane from Citizen Kane, a script from The Cable Guy, an alien resembling one from Mars Attacks! (but pink), a model of the Titanic, models of an X-Wing and TIE fighters, and a statue of C-3PO.
- When Lisa and Homer discuss the language to use in his first review Homer attempts to augment nouns with "groin-grabbingly". Lisa offers the word "transcendent" to which Homer replies "What about groin-grabbingly transcendent?". "Groin Grabbingly Transcendent" is the name of a song by Jason Becker on his album The Blackberry Jams.
- The episode was also the second episode of The Simpsons to feature a reference to the movie The French Connection (The first was "The Springfield Connection").
- Luigi references the "horse head" scene from The Godfather.
- Homer typing the same thing over and over spoofs the 1980 film The Shining.
- Citizen Kane is referenced multiple times throughout the episode, such as the "cane from Citizen Kane" and the scene where Homer tells Lisa "people will think what I tell them to think", and that she "can't do this to me, I'm Homer Simpson!" as she leaves the room.
