So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show

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"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode no.	77
Prod. code	9F17
Orig. Airdate	April 1, 1993
Show Runner(s)	Al Jean & Mike Reiss
Writer(s)	Jon Vitti
Director	Carlos Baeza
Chalkboard	"No one is interested in my underpants"
Couch gag	The family members' heads are on the wrong bodies
SNPP capsule
Season 4 September 24, 1992 – May 13, 1993
Kamp Krusty A Streetcar Named Marge Homer the Heretic Lisa the Beauty Queen Treehouse of Horror III Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Marge Gets a Job New Kid on the Block Mr. Plow Lisa's First Word Homer's Triple Bypass Marge vs. the Monorail Selma's Choice Brother from the Same Planet I Love Lisa Duffless Last Exit to Springfield So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show The Front Whacking Day Marge in Chains Krusty Gets Kancelled
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"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" was the 18th episode of The Simpsons' fourth season.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural References
4 Goofs
5 Quotes
6 Episodes Used
7 Other clip shows
8 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The story begins on April Fool's Day. Homer is playing pranks on Bart throughout the day. Bart, angered by the numerous tricks he has fallen for, attempts to get revenge by shaking up a beer in a paint shaker. When Homer opens the beer, it results in a massive explosion that severely injures him. Homer goes into a coma and is rushed to the hospital. As the family visits Homer, they reminisce about the events they have experienced in the past (clips from previous shows). During this time, he shows signs of life. Eventually, Bart confesses that he made the beer explode. An outraged Homer wakes up and strangles his son while the rest of his family stand next to the bed, relieved he is finally awake (Marge tells Homer at the conclusion of the story that the current date is May 16, and that Homer was in a coma for weeks).

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

This was The Simpsons' first clip show, created to relieve the long hours put in by all of the overworked show's staff. Despite the nature of the clip show, the episode still contained an act and a half of new animation.
New animation was made for the events in "Bart the Daredevil" to depict Homer's second trip down Springfield Gorge. After the ambulance hits a tree, there is now detailed animation of what happens during his fall. In the original episode, kids looked over the cliff and heard Homer's cries of pain.
The idea for the 32 "D'oh!"s in a row footage was from David Silverman's montage that he had created for his traveling college show.
One of the clips is from the first Treehouse of Horror, showing the family being kidnapped by aliens (and Homer being so heavy that he nearly causes the ship to crash). This is the only time a Treehouse segment has been treated as anything like canon (though whether a clip-show counts as canon is debatable). However, it could be that when Marge brings that up, it is under the pretense of praising Homer's coping skills, and that he coped with hearing the alien story, rather than actually being involved in it.

[edit] Cultural References

The scene where Barney attempts to smother Homer with a pillow and breaks a hospital window with a water fountain is a reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
Dr. Frink makes a reference to Fantastic Voyage when he suggests that a team of men and one beautiful woman are sent into Homer by a ship that will be shrunk to microscopic size. A similar plot later became the plot for the last segment in Treehouse of Horror XV.

[edit] Goofs

When the family are dancing and chanting around the tied-up Flanders family, you can hear Lisa's voice when she is sitting on the side with her mouth shut.
A small amount of the D'ohs' in the montage were repeated, some more than once.

[edit] Quotes

Eddie: That sounded like an explosion at the old Simpson place!
Wiggum: Forget it, that's two blocks away.
Eddie: Uh, it looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney.
Wiggum: I'm proceeding on foot, call in a Code 8!
Eddie: We need pretzels, repeat, pretzels!
Marge: Please Grandpa, he's in a coma.
Grandpa: Coma?! Pfft, I go in and out of comas all the.... [Passes out and wakes up] French toast please.
Homer: Ah, beer, my only weakness, my achilles heel, if you will.
Bart: Aaaaapriiil Fo... [Gets blown away by the explosion of beer]
Moe: (Barney has tried to smother Homer with a pillow and throws a water drinking fountain through the window, escaping through it.) He really needs a girlfriend.