The Frying Game

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The Simpsons episode
"The Frying Game"
Episode no. 290
Prod. code DABF16
Orig. Airdate May 19, 2002
Show Runner(s) Al Jean
Writer(s) John Swartzwelder
Director Michael Polcino
Couch gag The family appears as silent film characters, including Homer as Charlie Chaplin
Guest star(s) Carmen Electra as herself
Frances Sternhagen as Mrs. Bellamy
SNPP capsule
Season 13
November 6, 2001 – May 22, 2002
  1. Treehouse of Horror XII
  2. The Parent Rap
  3. Homer the Moe
  4. A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
  5. The Blunder Years
  6. She of Little Faith
  7. Brawl in the Family
  8. Sweets and Sour Marge
  9. Jaws Wired Shut
  10. Half-Decent Proposal
  11. The Bart Wants What It Wants
  12. The Lastest Gun in the West
  13. The Old Man and the Key
  14. Tales from the Public Domain
  15. Blame It on Lisa
  16. Weekend at Burnsie's
  17. Gump Roast
  18. I Am Furious Yellow
  19. The Sweetest Apu
  20. Little Girl in the Big Ten
  21. The Frying Game
  22. Papa's Got a Brand New Badge
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"The Frying Game" is the 21st episode of The Simpsons' thirteenth season.

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Homer has ordered the perfect anniversary gift for Marge: a koi pond for their backyard. This is supposed to help Marge meditate and relax. However, tranquility proves impossible when Homer and Marge discover a screamapillar living in the pond. The screaming caterpillar is an endangered species, so the Simpsons are bound by law to make sure it stays alive. Eventually, Homer gets fed up with the constant needs of the caterpillar, and accidentally squishes it. Although it is still alive, he is convicted of "attempted insecticide and aggravated buggery," and sentenced to community service.

Homer begins delivering Meals on Wheels to an elderly woman, Mrs. Bellamy, who takes a shine to him. However, she begins to take advantage of him as she asks him to do more and more demanding chores around the house. Soon enough, Marge becomes angry and goes to give Mrs. Bellamy a piece of her mind, but the old woman guilts Marge into becoming her personal servant as well. When Mrs. Bellamy turns up dead, Homer and Marge are the prime suspects in the murder, and are arrested after evidence is found against them. They are put on death row to face the electric chair. In a moment of selflessness, Homer confesses to the crime so that Marge can go free. As he is sitting in the electric chair prepared to fry, it is suddenly revealed to Homer that he is on a reality TV show, "Frame Up". The whole thing was just part of an elaborate hidden camera scheme, and the old woman is Carmen Electra in disguise.

[edit] Trivia

  • Buggery, one of the charges Homer is convicted of, is a term from British law that primarily refers to anal sex which was illegal in Britain from the Buggery Act of 1533 until 1861.
  • The Saskatoon acoustic rock duo Sexually Attracted to Fire took their name from the description of the screamapillar in this episode.
  • Near the end of the episode, the Unnamed "Yes" guy, who in this episode portraits a death row guard, answers the phone, and it is the governor. Yes-Guy refers to the governor as "he", though in previous episodes, the governor has been shown to be a woman.

[edit] Cultural references

  • The episode's title refers to the 1992 film The Crying Game.
  • The prison inmate who tells Homer to give him his hands and offers cornbread to a mouse before threatening to kill them is a parody of John Coffey, a character played by Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile, with the character's kind nature being reversed.

[edit] Quotes

  • John Coffey: You want some corn bread, Mr. Jingles? Well you can forget it, because I'm gonna kill you!
  • Moe: We all have that voice in our head telling us to kill. Ya just gotta tune it out. (turns around, closes his eyes and puts his hands on his ears) I've been working on the railroad, all the live-long day! (normal) Ah, that did it.
  • Homer: Man, what a day. I'd kill for a beer.
    Moe (nervously get him a beer): Uh, right away sir.
    Homer: I'd stab for a pickle. (Moe swipes Lenny's pickle) Now, give me some peanuts!
    Moe: Up, bup, bup. Ya didn't say ya'd kill me.
    Homer: I'll kill you if you don't give me any peanuts.
    Moe (does so): Right, I don't want any trouble.
  • Judge Snyder: Does the defense have any closing remarks?
    Gil: Uh, not at this time, your honor.
    Judge Snyder: This is the only time.
    Gil: Oh, uh, then no.
  • Duffman: Duffman's pension has been mismanaged. Oh, yeah!
    Blue Haired Lawyer: Objection. That party hearty attitude is a registered trademark of the Duff corporation.
    Duffman: Whatever happened to fair use?
  • EPA Guy: Why don't I hear any sleep screams?
  • Carmen Electra: Uh, Homer my face is up here.
    Homer: (starting at her chest) I've made my choice.
  • Homer:Oh, I've never been so relieved, relieved 'and angry!'
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