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The episode's subplot was the result of the Simpsons writers trying to find activities for Marge and Lisa to participate in while Bart and Homer were at the Super Bowl. [1] According to Martin, the writers were trying to come up with "the most boring thing" Marge and Lisa could do to pass time. [2]
Homer sings a parody of the sea shanty Drunken Sailor to Marge. Prior to the episode, Marge and Lisa have fallen out because Marge has thrown out Lisa's copies of the Utne Reader . Itchy and Scratchy Land is a parody of Disneyland , and its ride "Itchy and Scratchy's Injury 500" is a reference to the Indy 500 .
At Homer's bedside, the Simpson family reminisce, mainly about moments relevant to Homer's life. The episode was written by Jon Vitti, and directed by Carlos Baeza. This is The Simpsons ' first clip show, and it features clips from the first three seasons of the series. It was created to relieve the long hours put in by all of the show's ...
In August 2014, writing for The Verge, Chris Plante listed "Homer's Enemy" as one of his favorite episodes of The Simpsons, and Homer falling asleep and talking in his dream at Grimes's funeral as one of the funniest moments in the show, but he cited the latter as the moment the series jumped the shark, because of the impact it "has on the show ...
The episode opens at a retirement party for the current Sector 7G supervisor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.Just as Homer, Lenny, and Carl are celebrating their freedom from supervision, plant owner Mr. Burns arrives and chooses Carl as the new supervisor, after quickly deducing that he is the only semi-competent employee of the three.
The episode is funny and revelatory, though not always tummy rumbling funny. '101 Mitigations' contains a good mix of the clever and the silly, with a moral compass set on cruise control." [ 1 ] Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C+, stating "For Homer to finally understand the pain his wacky weekly nonsense causes to another ...
The Simpsons have subtly retired the long-running gag of Homer strangling Bart, because “times have changed”. For decades, the cartoon father was regularly seen squeezing his son's throat so ...
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, called it "a tremendous episode" saying it has "some really good moments, most of them involving Bart, Lisa, and Marge's loathing for Cypress Creek. The remedial kids are fab (especially Warren), and Lisa's second ...