Another Simpsons Clip Show

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"Another Simpsons Clip Show"
Homer talking about love.
Episode no.	106
Prod. code	2F33
Orig. airdate	September 25, 1994
Show runner(s)	David Mirkin
Written by	Penny Wise
Directed by	David Silverman
Chalkboard	"I will not use abbrev."
Couch gag	The Simpsons sit on the couch and get crushed by the paper cut-out foot from Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Guest star(s)	Albert Brooks as Jacques Sara Gilbert as Laura Powers Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff Michelle Pfeiffer as Mindy Simmons (all in clips only)
DVD commentary	Matt Groening David Mirkin David Silverman
Season 6 September 4, 1994 – May 21, 1995
"Bart of Darkness" "Lisa's Rival" "Another Simpsons Clip Show" "Itchy & Scratchy Land" "Sideshow Bob Roberts" "Treehouse of Horror V" "Bart's Girlfriend" "Lisa on Ice" "Homer Badman" "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" "Fear of Flying" "Homer the Great" "And Maggie Makes Three" "Bart's Comet" "Homie the Clown" "Bart vs. Australia" "Homer vs. Patty & Selma" "A Star Is Burns" "Lisa's Wedding" "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" "The PTA Disbands" "'Round Springfield" "The Springfield Connection" "Lemon of Troy" "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
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"Another Simpsons Clip Show" is the third episode of The Simpsons' sixth season, which originally aired September 25, 1994. It was written by Jon Vitti (who was credited as Penny Wise), and directed by David Silverman.

Contents 1 Plot 2 References 3 Clips 4 External links

[edit] Plot

Marge is reading The Bridges of Madison County one night and wakes up Homer to ask if he thinks the romance has gone out of their marriage. He grumbles and throws the book into a fireplace which has suddenly appeared in the bedroom (but is actually a clip of Homer tossing a book into a fire from Dog of Death). Marge groans and falls asleep.

In the morning, Marge gets the family together to discuss romance, but they can only come up with vignettes from their failed relationships (and in the parents' case, near-extramarital paramours) in the form of clips from previous episodes. However, Homer saves the day when he brings up how he and Marge got together (in clips from the second season episode "The Way We Was"). Ultimately, the kids do not care and end up watching Itchy & Scratchy while Homer and Marge share another special moment.

[edit] References

• When Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are watching Itchy and Scratchy near the start, Marge says they watch the same shows all the time while Lisa says that the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons are just pasted together from pieces of old episodes (and pointing out that Ren and Stimpy do it all the time). This is a sly joke about the construction of this episode, where the blackboard and couch gags are taken from other episodes, there are clips from past episodes, and the interstitials are actually clips from past episodes that feature the family members talking in the kitchen, all taking the idea of this episode being a clip show to the extreme.
• The episode was generally forced to be produced by 20th Century Fox who wanted another episode; the credited writer Penny Wise (who was actually Jon Vitti) pokes fun at this (from the phrase "Penny wise, pound foolish"). "Mrs. Wise" would be credited as writing a future clip show, "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", which would credit the director as "Pound Foolish", implying a poke at FOX.
• The magazine that Lisa holds up at the end of the episode is called Non-Threatening Boys (from "Radio Bart").
• The episode is referenced in the 1996 song "The First Big Weekend" by the Scottish band, Arab Strap, describing it as "a really good episode about love always ending in tragedy, except of course for Marge and Homer".

• This episode was put together very quickly (note that the production code for this episode is 2F33, the last in the 2F series, yet it aired before any others in this series did), and it is rumoured that the production code in the end credits was originally erroneously listed. On the lone network airing of this episode, the first 3 looks somewhat out of place compared to the other characters; in syndication and the season 6 DVD boxset, the second 3 appears out of place.
• Also Starring Michael Carrington.

[edit] Clips

The clips and the episodes they appeared in, in order of appearance in the clip show:

• "New Kid on the Block": Homer searches for his hot dog while lounging in the kiddie pool.
• "Dog of Death": The book falling into the fireplace is directly lifted from this episode; in the original episode, the book that landed in the fireplace was The Lottery.
• "Homer the Heretic": The Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Flay Me to the Moon".
• "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": "Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What".
• "I Love Lisa": Ned serenading Maude with his reworked version of Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy?".
• "Marge Gets a Job": Smithers dreams about Mr. Burns flying in through the window.
• Montage of prank calls to Moe: Al Coholic ("Some Enchanted Evening"), Jacques Strap ("Moaning Lisa"), I.P. Freeley ("Homer's Odyssey"), Seymour Butts ("One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"), Homer Sexual ("Principal Charming"), Mike Rotch ("Blood Feud"), Amanda Huggenkiss ("New Kid on the Block"), Hugh Jass ("Flaming Moe's"), Ivana Tinkle ("New Kid on the Block"), I'm a Stupid Moron With an Ugly Face and a Big Butt and My Butt Smells and I Like to Kiss My Own Butt ("Treehouse of Horror II").
• Montage of Homer's "mmm..." lines: mmm... chocolate ("So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"); mmm... invisible cola ("Marge on the Lam"); mmm... forbidden donut ("Treehouse of Horror IV"); mmm... sacrilicious ("Homer Loves Flanders"), mmm... snouts ("Dog of Death"); mmm... free goo ("Boy-Scoutz N the Hood"); mmm... something (new).
• "Homer Loves Flanders": Homer kissing Ned repeatedly at the Springfield Atoms football game.
• "Life on the Fast Lane": Marge explains her near-affair with Jacques.
• "The Last Temptation of Homer": Homer explains his near-affair with Mindy Simmons (and tells Marge at the end that Mindy became an alcoholic and lost her job)
• "I Love Lisa": Lisa explains Ralph Wiggum's crush on her.
• "New Kid on the Block": Bart explains his crush on Laura Powers.
• "Black Widower": Sideshow Bob rubbing Selma's feet, muttering, "Soon I will kill you."
• "Lady Bouvier's Lover": Grampa runs in on Mrs. Bouvier's and Mr. Burns' wedding.
• "The Way We Was": Homer finally finds a story about love that doesn't end in heartbreak: how he began his relationship with Marge.
• Montage of Homer and Marge kissing: "Homer's Night Out", "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", "Simpson and Delilah", "I Married Marge" (two clips from this episode), "A Streetcar Named Marge", "$pringfield"
• "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" - many of the scenes of the Simpsons eating are taken from the episode's dinner table scene with new dialogue added in.
• "Krusty Gets Busted" - The scene of the Simpson kids watching Itchy and Scratchy at the beginning is taken from this episode.

[edit] External links

• "Another Simpsons Clip Show" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive

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