SIMPSONS, THE: HOMR (TV)
Summary
One in this animated comedy series about the Simpsons—Homer and Marge and their children, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. In this episode, the family attends an animation festival, and Bart is impressed by a display of Japanese cartoons, although Lisa is less so. Flanders and his sons watch a disturbing religious claymation program, and as the children attend an unsatisfactory panel with a derivative voice actor, Marge and Homer watch an old “Itchy and Scratchy” cartoon complete with highly un-P.C. cigarette ad. Later, they attend a panel on motion capture, and Homer volunteers, entertaining the crowd with his antics as an animated dog. At work, he tells Lenny and Carl about the experience, saying it is the next big thing, and hurries off to take out his entire life savings from the bank and then buys five hundred shares of the Animotion company. It soon declares “super-duper bankruptcy,” however, and Homer is forced to admit to the family that he has lost all of their money. At Moe’s, Barney suggests that Homer make money as a medical guinea pig, and he agrees and subjects himself to a number of painful tests. The scientists are taken aback at his low intelligence and soon discover a crayon lodged in his brain, relic of his childhood antics, and they offer to remove it.
Homer returns home with greatly increased intelligence, much to Lisa’s delight, and she makes him her library buddy. Homer soon pursues other intellectual hobbies, including motivational speaking, telling schoolchildren that “it’s cool to be smart.” He then writes to Mr. Burns about some defects in the power plant, and this leads to everyone being laid off as the plant is brought up to code. Everyone grows angry with Homer for ruining their lives and they burn him in effigy at Moe’s, and Homer sadly wonders why Lisa did not warn him of the social perils of intelligence. He tries to forget his troubles at the movies, but the audience grows angry when he points out the stupidity of the plot, and in desperation he returns to the scientists for help. They recommend an “unlicensed surgeon,” who turns out to be Moe, and Moe reinserts the crayon into Homer’s brain and restores him to his normal idiocy. Lisa is saddened at the loss of her new smart dad, but she discovers that he wrote her a note before the procedure saying that his time as a brainiac showed him just how special she is, and she is touched. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Fox
- DATE: January 7, 2001 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:30
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:74792
- GENRE: Animation
- SUBJECT HEADING: Animation; Comedy
- SERIES RUN: Fox - TV series, 1989-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- George Meyer … Executive Producer
- Mike Scully … Executive Producer
- Matt Groening … Executive Producer, Created by, Developed by
- Sam Simon … Executive Producer, Developed by
- James L. Brooks … Executive Producer, Developed by
- Al Jean … Executive Producer, Writer
- Ian Maxtone-Graham … Co-Executive Producer
- Ron Hauge … Co-Executive Producer
- Dan Greaney … Co-Executive Producer
- Frank Mula … Co-Executive Producer
- Rob Lazebnick … Co-Executive Producer
- Julie Thacker … Supervising Producer
- Larina Jean Adamson … Supervising Producer
- Larry Doyle … Producer
- Tom Martin … Producer
- Carolyn Omine … Producer
- John Frink … Producer
- Don Payne … Producer
- Matt Selman … Producer
- Mike Reiss … Producer
- Tim Long … Producer
- Tom Gammill … Producer
- Max Pross … Producer
- David Mirkin … Producer
- Richard Raynis … Producer
- Bonita Pietila … Producer
- Denise Sirkot … Producer
- Richard Sakai … Producer
- John Hyde … Animation Executive Producer
- Jon Vein … Animation Executive Producer
- John Bush … Animation Executive Producer
- Laurie Biernacki … Animation Producer
- Mike Wolf … Animation Producer
- Felicia Nalivansky … Associate Producer
- Dominique Broad … Associate Producer
- Mike B. Anderson … Director
- Danny Elfman … Theme Music by
- Alf Clausen … Music by
- Dan Castellaneta … Cast, Voice, Homer / Jobriath / Itchy / Barney / Ozmodiar / Inspector / Priest / Groom #1
- Julie Kavner … Cast, Voice, Marge Simpson / Patty Bouvier
- Nancy Cartwright … Cast, Voice, Bart / Nelson / Gravey / Polly
- Yeardley Smith … Cast, Voice, Lisa Simpson
- Hank Azaria … Cast, Voice, Meganaut / Comic Book Guy / Professor Frink / Carl / Moe / Scientist #1 / Groom #2 / Wedding Usher / Movie Usher / Captain McAllister
- Harry Shearer … Cast, Voice, Burns / Ned / Director / Announcer / Scratchy / Louie / Lenny / Teller / Kent Brockman / Hibbert / Skinner
- Pamela Hayden … Cast, Voice, Rod Flanders / Boy
- Tress MacNeille … Cast, Voice, Princess Tempura / Woman / Quoter / Scientist #2