Faith Off

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The Simpsons episode
"Faith Off"
Episode no. 237
Prod. code BABF06
Orig. Airdate January 16, 2000
Writer(s) Frank Mula
Director Nancy Kruse
Chalkboard "I will stop 'phoning it in'."
Couch gag Sigmund Freud sits on a chair next to the couch, and Homer, sitting on the couch, burst into tears and says, "Oh! Doctor, I'm crazy!"
Guest star(s) Don Cheadle as Brother Faith
SNPP capsule
Season 11
September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000
  1. Beyond Blunderdome
  2. Brother's Little Helper
  3. Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
  4. Treehouse of Horror X
  5. E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
  6. Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
  7. Eight Misbehavin'
  8. Take My Wife, Sleaze
  9. Grift of the Magi
  10. Little Big Mom
  11. Faith Off
  12. The Mansion Family
  13. Saddlesore Galactica
  14. Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
  15. Missionary: Impossible
  16. Pygmoelian
  17. Bart to the Future
  18. Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
  19. Kill the Alligator and Run
  20. Last Tap Dance in Springfield
  21. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
  22. Behind the Laughter
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"Faith Off" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' eleventh season. The episode aired on January 16, 2000.

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[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Homer visits Springfield University (from "Homer Goes to College") to pull a prank on Dean Bobby Peterson with his old nerd friends, Benjamin, Doug, and Gary. Homer tries to put a bucket filled with glue on the Dean's head, but the bucket gets stuck on Homer's head, and he cannot get it off. The family attends a religious revival, hosted by a faith healer named Brother Faith, and Bart pulls the bucket off Homer's head. Brother Faith considers this act a sign that Bart has the "gift" of healing. Lisa is skeptical and attempts to use reason to explain that the sun heated the metal bucket, allowing Bart to pull it off. Undaunted, Bart becomes a faith healer, pulls miracles of his own, and even forms his own church where he heals Springfield's residents.

The church is cut short, however, when Milhouse is run down after he mistakes an oncoming truck for a dog. Bart had "healed" him of his myopia during his revival meeting by knocking his glasses off his face. Subsequently, Bart decides to end his career as a faith healer. Meanwhile, Homer prepares for Springfield University's homecoming football game by building a float that he has fashioned out of flowers he has stolen from Ned Flanders. At the game, everyone (including the family) cheers for S.U.'s football team's star player, a kicker named Lubchenko. Homer gets drunk and forgets he has made a float to celebrate SU. He crowd surfs down to the playing field, and runs to his float. Unfortunately, the other floats have left the field and the players have come back on. Homer drives his float over the leg of Lubchenko, horribly wounding him. Fat Tony threatens to kill Homer with an ice pick if Lubchenko doesn't return to the game. Homer convinces Bart to try and heal the kicker. Bart prays to God to help him heal the kicker. With his team down by 2 points, Lubchenko returns to the game and kicks the winning field goal, losing his leg in the process. Bart announces at the end of the game that he doesn't have special powers and is not a healer.

[edit] Trivia

  • The episode's Dean Peterson doesn't seem to be the same Dean Peterson Homer ran over during a prank in "Homer Goes to College", although the security guards' dialogue implies that he is.
  • In two episodes in a row, Homer Sings "Aloha Oe": in "Little Big Mom" when receives a treatment in the electric needle hut, and in this episode, while he shows Lisa his animated drawings of Moe doing the hula in a grass skirt, however, it´s actually "Aloha Moe, Aloha Moe!".
  • A similar plot is used in an episode of South Park aired six month later, Probably.

[edit] Cultural references

  • The college football announcer is fashioned after Keith Jackson, who laces his commentary with colorful homespun sayings like "Whoa, Nellie!"


[edit] Songs

[edit] Brother Faith's Song

Now let's heart it
For the Holy Spirit.
No need to fear it.
Just revere it!
He works in Heaven.
That's 24/7. (That's right.)
Check the Bible. (Yeah.)
John 2:11! (Jump back!)

[edit] Testify

  • Bart:
    I was a sinner a real bad kid,
    what thou shall not I shall did.
    Neighbor's cat I tried to neuter,
    took a whiz on the school's computer.
  • Sherri&Terri:
    He took a whiz oh yes he did!
  • Bart:
    But now I changed, you can't deny, so come on up and testify!!!
  • Sherri&Terri:
    Testify, testify. come on up and testify!
  • Grampa Simpson: My hip's misbehavin' (Bart kicks his cane away)
  • Sherri&Terri:
    Testify!
  • Patty:
    Got a nicotine cravin' (Bart smacks the cig out her mouth)
  • Sherri&Terri: Testify!
  • Prof. Frink:
    There's a cramp in my glavin (Bart Kicks him in the back)
  • Bart:
    Testify!
  • Crowd:
    Testify! Testify!
  • Milhouse: My glasses make me look like a geek! (Bart tosses Milhouse's glasses away.)
  • Bart: Now you'll get the girls you seek!
  • Sherri&Terri: We'll see you at Makeout Creek!
  • Crowd: Bart's the boy of the hour.
    He's got the power
    So raise your voice and don't be shy,
    Tes-ti...Tes-ti...
  • Bart&Crowd: Tes-ti-fy!
  • Crowd: Testify, testify, come on up and testify!
  • (After the revival)
  • Milhouse:
    Thank you Bart for fixing my vision.
    Now I see with total precision.
  • Bart: (Spoken) Song's over Milhouse, but you're welcome.

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