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"Homer Loves Flanders" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 17, 1994. [ 2 ] In the episode, Ned Flanders invites Homer to a football game and the two become good friends .
The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
Homer bought Lisa a pony to show her that he loves her, but he has to work two jobs to keep her. When Lisa discovers this she gives up Princess. Stampy – Stampy was an African elephant briefly owned by the Simpson family in the episode " Bart Gets an Elephant ".
Homer uses Mr. Cleanser, a parody of the detergent brand Mr. Clean, to clean the basement. [8] As Bart cleans, he accidentally scrubs the paint off an American Gothic painting hanging on the wall. Under the paint is a message signed by the painter, Grant Wood , reading: "If you can read this, you scrubbed too hard," [ 3 ] implying the Simpsons ...
Later, they are rescued and Homer and Ned talk about their friendship. When Homer finishes the story, it is revealed that Ned is also listening through the window. Ned reminds him that they still owe them a trip. In the final scene, the Simpsons take the Flanders on a trip to a postcard museum. When Ned asks Homer if the place sells postcards ...
Flanders calms them by reciting a Bible verse, while Homer shows a Christmas star, which actually is a distress flare fired by Hans Moleman, before he and Ned give everyone back their presents and everybody sings "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". The episode ends with Snake stealing Homer's astrolabe and running away.
Eight Bells was the outgrowth of a series of oil paintings that Homer made using three wooden panels he found in the cabin of his brother's sloop at Prouts Neck, Maine.On two of the panels Homer painted scenes of mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired Eight Bells, which depicted a ship's officer ...
Today, Breezing Up is considered an iconic American painting, and among Homer's finest. [6] The National Gallery of Art purchased the work in 1943, described by the institution's web site as "one of the best-known and most beloved artistic images of life in nineteenth-century America." [7]