So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
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| "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" | |
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| Episode no. | 77 |
| Prod. code | 9F17 |
| Orig. Airdate | April 1, 1993 |
| Show Runner(s) | Al Jean & Mike Reiss |
| Writer(s) | Jon Vitti |
| Director(s) | Carlos Baeza |
| Chalkboard | "No one is interested in my underpants" |
| Couch gag | The family members' heads are on the wrong bodies |
| DVD commentary by | Matt Groening Al Jean Mike Reiss Jon Vitti Jeffrey Lynch |
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| Season 4 September 24, 1992 – May 13, 1993 |
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"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" is the 18th episode of The Simpsons' fourth season.
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[edit] Synopsis
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).
[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.
- 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 Kang and Kodos (and Homer being so heavy that he nearly causes the ship to crash). This was the first 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] Episodes Used
The clips in this flashback episode came from the following episodes (in order):
- Homer at the Bat
- Lisa's Pony x3
- Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
- There's No Disgrace Like Home
- Bart the Daredevil
- Dog of Death x2
- The Call of the Simpsons
- Treehouse of Horror
- Life on the Fast Lane
- Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
- One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish x2
- Bart's Friend Falls in Love
- Bart the General
- Three Men and a Comic Book
[edit] External links
- "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
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