Dumbbell Indemnity
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Dumbbell Indemnity" | |
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| Episode no. | 194 |
| Prod. code | 5F12 |
| Orig. Airdate | March 1, 1998 |
| Writer(s) | Ron Hauge |
| Director | Dominic Polcino |
| Chalkboard | "Silly String is not a nasal spray" |
| Couch gag | The family is crushed into a cube. |
| Guest star(s) | Helen Hunt as Renee |
| SNPP capsule | |
| Season 9 September 21, 1997 – May 17, 1998 |
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"Dumbbell Indemnity" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season.
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[edit] Synopsis
Upon noticing Moe's depressed state, Homer takes him out for the night to meet women. He has no luck, but meets the perfect woman on his walk home. He is not exactly smooth with Renee, but she takes a shine to him. He begins to treat her like royalty, but as a result, maxes out his Player's Club card and has to find a way to make money.
He devises a plan where Homer will steal Moe's car and destroy it on the train tracks. Homer steals the car but stops to see a drive-in movie and misses the train, so Homer switches to another plan and sinks the car to the bottom of the lake. The cops are watching him the entire time, and he goes to jail.
Homer makes a jail break and Moe eventually tells Renee about his debt, and pitches a plan to her where he will fake his death. She leaves him, and he accidentally sets the bar alight. Homer arrives to kill him, but after a brief struggle, both pass out.
Barney, who was in the bathroom, saves them both as well as two kegs and two cases of beer. Their friendship is restored. To help him, Homer lets Moe turn his house into the new hangout.
[edit] Trivia
- Moe falls in love with a woman voiced by Helen Hunt. Hank Azaria, the voice of Moe, married Hunt a year later and divorced her a year after that.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title of the episode is in reference to the classic film Double Indemnity.
- The prison book cart leading to an escape is reminiscent of the novel/film The Shawshank Redemption.
- Homer's ghost resembled Jacob Marley from the Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.
- In the drive-in scene there is a direct visual quote of a 1956 O. Winston Link photograph, Hotshot Eastbound.
[edit] Quotes
- Moe: Hey hey, Sabu, I need another magnum of your best champagne here, huh. And bring us the finest food you've got stuffed with the second finest.
Sabu: Excellent sir. Lobster, stuffed with Tacos. [Cut to shot of an eaten lobster wearing a minature sombrero] - Hans Moleman: Would you care for some reading material?
(Homer picks up "How To Tunnel Out Of Prison".)
Homer: Hmm, this could be useful!
(he knocks Hans unconscious with the hardback book, and flees the cell with the cart) - Homer (on a book cart): (angry) Must kill Moe! (happy) Wheeeeeee! (angry) Must kill Moe! (happy) Wheeeeeee!
- Homer's voice: Going somewheeere?
Moe: Whaaa!?
(A ghostly Homer appears at the bar, holding a beer.)
Moe: Homer!
Ghost Homer: Moooeee... MOOOOEEE! You killed mmeeeee!
Moe: (Frightened) Hey, no, you ain't d-dead, you're just in jail!
Ghost Homer: Oh, right. (disappears, then reappears) Wait a second! I'm in jail because of you! You were my friend and you betrayed meeeeeeeeee!
Moe: Oh my god, you're right. I'm a monster. (begins crying)
Ghost Homer: That's right! That's riggght! (begins drinking off the fountain)
Moe: Get off that thing!
- Moe: Homer, ya gotta help me!
Homer: Oh, I'll help you, (grabs a piece of wood) HELP YOU DIE!!! - (Moe's pick-up lines)
"Uhh, you look pretty clean..."
"So hi there. Don't scream!" - Moe: I'm just gonna die lonely and ugly and...dead.
- Homer: Stealing, stealing, stealing a car for Moe! Da da da dah da da da dah, insurance fraud today!
- Chief Wiggum: Heh, that car thief can't hold his breath forever.
Lou: And if he can, Chief?
Chief Wiggum: Then God help us all. - Homer: (Rattling his cell bars) Let me out, I'm innocent! I changed my mind! I don't want to be in here anymore!!
Chief Wiggum: Forget it, Simpson! You're going to the chair.
Homer: (Gasp!)
Chief Wiggum: ...the interrogation chair.
Homer: (Sigh of relief)
Chief Wiggum: Plug it in, boys!
Homer: (Gasp!) - Barney: Moe! Homer! (screams) The booze!!
- Moe: I gotta tell ya something...
Renee: Oh no. You're gay, aren't you? (to herself) Oh, Renee you sure can pick 'em.
Moe: No,
Renee: Oh, so, you're married?
Moe: No no, it's just...wait, why'd you say "gay" first? (Renee shrugs) - Moe: (singing a Hawaiian song) Hawaii!
Homer: (in jail) Moe? Hawaii? Who's going to Hawaii? Am I going to Hawaii?
Wiggum: (Bangs the cell door) Stop saying Hawaii in there! - (when The Simpsons' house is turned into Moe's Tavern)
Bart: Hey, Mom, I found a balloon machine in the bathroom.
Marge: Kids, from now on, I don't want you touching anything in the house!
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