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Homer eats while he drives to the power plant. At the entrance, the car hits a speed-bump and crashes into Mr. Burns' office. Angered, Burns fires Homer. Later, Homer sees a news item for a startup company, CarGo, where Mayor Quimby touts jobs that will benefit the city.
[5] In August 2022, it was reported that the episode had predicted the correct percentage of the rising energy costs in the United Kingdom when the Office for National Statistics estimated that gas prices would increase 17.1 percent. In this episode, Mr. Burns' hounds attack a man with a 17% sign on his back to select the amount that ...
After the season 5 episode "Bart's Inner Child", Meyer got "a little burned out on writing scripts", so he wrote "Brother's Little Helper" in order to "try [his] hand again". [2] While writing the episode, Meyer was going through "some psychological problems" and found the episode very difficult to write. [2]
[1] [2] Homer follows behind the house that was the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe, which was placed in the episode by David Silverman. During this scene Homer starts to hear a heartbeat, a reference to Poe's "The Telltale Heart". [5] The scene where Homer sings "O Holy Night" in a church as a boy is based on the film Empire of the Sun. [4]
"Take My Wife, Sleaze" is the eighth episode of the eleventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 28, 1999.
[1] Adam Finley of TV Squad said the episode was "one of the funniest episodes I had seen in a long time" and rated it a 6 out of 7. However, he thought the humor distracted from the emotional arc of the episode. [2] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said the episode had a "thin premise", but the jokes made it a "positive program." [5]
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"Co-Dependents' Day" is the fifteenth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 21, 2004.