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After Homer wins the blimp ride ticket, he sings, "Hey there, Blimpy Boy / Flying through the sky so fancy free," a parody of the 1966 pop/folk song "Georgy Girl". Bart recreates the iconic pin-up photo of Betty Grable. When Barney crashes the Duff Blimp the pose it takes makes reference to the Hindenburg disaster.
Homer uses a key to get into the Duff brewery with Barney and goes joyriding in the Duff blimp. To get more information, Lisa and Bart ask Nelson who explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that drove over an ice bridge but never returned. Homer flies them in the blimp to the river where the ice bridge would be.
Lisa deduces that the unusually high-pitched voice of Bob in his broadcast was due to inhaling helium, and locates him in the envelope of the Duff blimp. Bob, having lost his patience thanks to Krusty, tries to detonate the bomb, which turns out to be a dud , because it had passed the expiration date of November 1959.
"The Great Louse Detective" is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 15, 2002.
Later, Tabitha tells Marge that she plans to leave Buck. Marge tells her not to admit defeat. During Buck's next game, Homer hijacks the Duff blimp and spells out a message to Buck, supposedly from Tabitha, proclaiming her love. Buck, reinvigorated, hits the baseball into the blimp, causing it to deflate and crash onto the field.
While Homer's thoughtless antics often upset his family, he on many occasions has also revealed himself to be a caring and loving father and husband: in "Lisa the Beauty Queen", (season four, 1992) he sold his cherished ride on the Duff blimp and used the money to enter Lisa in a beauty pageant so she could feel better about herself; [112] in ...
Lisa participates in an Alternative Energy Derby with a car powered by solar energy, but the Duff Blimp passes over and causes her car to stop inches from the finish line.
Lisa's self-esteem breaks off after she sees a crude drawing of herself at Springfield Elementary's fair. When Homer wins the Duff Beer raffle and a ticket to ride on the Duff Blimp, he sacrifices the ticket for the money in order to get Lisa entered into a beauty pageant. Although originally reluctant to enter, she competes and finishes second.