There's plenty of gay jokes about the sea-men. But it was when Homer was following Apu to find out his next Valentine's day present for Mandula. That was one of the places Apu went. That's what you were thinking of, right?
I heard it was Patti... probably is.
Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Played after the superbowl. Homer gets hired to do the choreography for various sport stars, and, intern, gets asked to put on the half-time show at the Superbowl. Ned, meanwhile, becomes a successful director of religious movies that get banned for their blatent and disrespectful religious content so Homer and Ned put the half time show on together. Pretty neat.
Prankster Rap
This is the one that featured 50 Cent in a, like, 3 second cameo. Bart sneaks off to a rap concert (in which he does a free-style on stage), but when he finds out that he's in trouble, he covers it all up by staging his own kidnapping. Hiding out at Milhouses' dad's place, Chief Wiggum, recently discovering he's a failure as a police officer and deciding to make it up, finds him. Kirk goes to jail, Bart's returned to his family, Chief Wiggum gets a promotion and Kirk gets all the prison-groupies he wants. Sweet deal for everyone involved, but Lisa thinks the truth is more important than everyone being happy *inserts sinister music*
Didn't watch the episode that's probably playing right now (the gay one, I guess). Will write about it once I download it
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
There's Something About Marrying
Not much to say about this episode that hasn't already been said. Springfield needs more people to come visit, and their big, bright idea was to legalize gay marriages. Since Homer works out he can 200 bucks a pop, he becomes an ordained minister (through the internet: that part was hilarious). Patty comes and asks Homer to marry her and her partner... Marge is taken aback by the fact that her sister is a lesbian (though the clues were there... her manliness, the poster of Miss Hathaway, her making out with women...). Anyways, you know where it goes... "Queerly beloved..."
On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Lisa gets sick of Bart's practical jokes, so takes out a restraining order on him. Homer gets a job at some discount store. Well, that's basically the whole thing.
Goo Goo Gai Pan
So Selma goes through menapause and realizes she wants a baby. So she goes to adopt a Chinese baby girl. HOWEVER, they require that the person who's adopting the baby be married, so she pretends to be married to Homer. When they go to China to pick up the baby, they lay the news on Homer and he's far from happy about it, but agrees to go along for Marge's sake. The adoption person requests that she can observe them for a few days and then they can have the baby, so Selma and Homer pretend to be man and wife... though neither are particularly happy, of course...
Mobile Homer
Marge starts becoming a Penny Pincher, and Homer decides it's time he stood up for himself and decides to spend his money the way he wants to: on a mobile home. Tension builds and the biggest fight Homer and Marge have ever been in erupts, causing Bart and Lisa to escape... in the mobile home.
The Seven-Beer Snitch
Okay, this one's confusing... but it goes like this: The Simpsons head to Shelbyville, where they realize that people see the Springfielders as uncultured hicks, so they decide to do something about that. They spend 30 million dollars on a new concert hall, only to find out later, nobody likes classical musical. Realizing they have a huge debt they need to cover, Springfield gives the debt and the concert hall to Mr Burns, who turns it into a correctional facility. Homer tries to get a job there, however is unable to secure employment due to his urine sample being switched with Ottos (needless to say Otto's urine wasn't up to scratch). Since the prison didn't have enough inmates, Wiggum chooses to enforce ridiculous laws that are almost meaningless, but laws none-the-less. He gets Homer for kicking a can down the street, while he was muttering about his missed-job-opportunity. In prison, Homer becomes the prison snitch. *inhales* Okay. That's how the story starts.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
All the episodes this season have been above the previous seasons. I'm very surprised. Homer getting his ass kicked by those Shaolin kung-fu dudes was gold.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
It seemed for a while they were running out of jokes, around the 11th season, I guess... but this season has been pretty consistant, I think. They're improving, I'd say. They've probably got new staff writers.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
They're still very topical, which is good. Getting new writers is prime, have to keep the ideas coming in.
You can tell that the writers started to rely more and more on the secondary characters over the years. Not that I'm complaining. Hell, I want more Disco Stu just as much as the next guy.
so Homer and Ned put the half time show on together. Pretty neat.
02-21-2005 04:57 AM
