Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...

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The Simpsons episode
"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."
Episode no.	381
Prod. code	HABF20
Orig. Airdate	September 24, 2006
Writer(s)	Matt Warburton
Director	Mike B. Anderson and Ralph Sosa
Couch gag	We see a vending machine with the family and several other characters inside of it instead of candy. Ralph walks up and orders Homer, bites off his head and walks away.
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Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em... is the third episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons. It aired on September 24, 2006.

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Simpsons take a trip to a dying mall. Several stores, such as J.C. Penney, are abandoned and others are run down. Marge and Homer shop at a discount book outlet. Hoping to see a new side to Homer, Marge convinces him to buy a refined collection of carpentry books. To Marge's dismay, the books only gather dust until she accidentally breaks a nightstand and uses the books to fix it herself. Soon Marge is hammering together everything from birdfeeders to doghouses and it isn't long before she decides to transform her new skills into a full-fledged business. Unfortunately, the residents of Springfield don't trust a handywoman to make repairs, so Marge hires Homer to pose as a "front" while she handles the real work.

Meanwhile, Bart finds out that peanuts are no longer allowed at Springfield Elementary because someone suffers from an allergy. But this loss becomes his treasure when he finds out that the allergy belongs to his nemesis, the one and only Principal Skinner. He uses a peanut tied to a rod to control Skinner and the school. When the principal is forced into a humiliating act at the comic book store, Comic Book Guy compares Skinner's allergy to Kryptonite. Hoping to find Bart's "Kryptonite" Skinner breaks into the hospital to look at Bart's medical records. He discovers that Bart is allergic to shrimp and ties it to a pole similar to Bart's. In a parody of a lightsaber duel from the Star Wars prequel trilogy (the music playing is Duel of the Fates) they fight through the city until they enter a Thai food factory, in Little Bangkok, where they fall into a vat of Peanut Shrimp and both suffer from severe allergic reactions.

As Marge becomes more annoyed by the credit Homer is getting for her work, Homer is hired to rebuild a wooden rollercoaster. When Marge refuses, Homer is forced to work alone and is unsuccessful. At the unveiling of the rollercoaster, its faults are obvious. Lisa begs Homer to reveal the truth, but his ego gets the better of him and he gets on the deadly ride. In order to save her husband Marge swiftly repairs the damaged track. Grateful, Homer reveals who really did all the work. Unfortunately the rollercoaster collapses on him.

In the end, Homer is sent to the hospital where he and Marge reconcile. Bart and Skinner are in the same room and continue their feud by throwing peanuts and shrimp at each other.

[edit] Trivia

The Video games at “Captain Blip’s Zapateria" are:
- Click Clack (Dig-Dug)
- Unipede (Centipede)
- Remington Steele: The Game
- Rocky III vs. Clara Peller
- Space-Tac-Toe
- Polybius
- Triangle Wars (Asteroids)
The bookstore at the mall is called Rock Bottom Remainders, which is also the name of a band composed of famous authors, including Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
The book "The How, Why, and Huh? Book of Weather" appears on a bookcase in the background of the Rock Bottom Remainders bookstore. Lisa consulted this book in "Hurricane Neddy" to discover that a hurricane was heading for Springfield. Other books for sale in this store include "Drink Your Own Blood and Save!" (recommended by Oprah Winfrey) and "The Kansas City Royals: Forever Champions".
Marge crafted out The Simpsons 20th Century Fox logo and the famous American home, Fallingwater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, appearing as a mail box.
Skinner and Mr. Muntz share an affliction.
The title of the episode is a play on MC Hammer's 1990 album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em.
While Homer is riding the rollercoaster, he is wearing white gloves, but in some of the shots he can be seen without them, also while Homer is riding from left-to-right, the Zoominator logo is reversed, meaning that the drawing was finished for right-to-left use and simply mirrored for left-to-right use.