Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
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"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" is the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on April 9, 2000.
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[edit] Plot
After watching a video of his birthday party, Barney sees he is a hideous drunk, and he promises to get sober. At first, he finds sustaining sobriety tough, but he finds his way to an AA meeting with Homer's help. Meanwhile, to get their picture on the cover of the new phone book, Bart and Lisa decide to enter an amateur photo contest. In the closet, they find an old camera and start to take snapshots.
Barney makes plans to change his life now that he is clean and sober. The Springfield Flight School is his first stop, where he takes helicopter-flying lessons. Barney gives Homer a ride in the helicopter a few lessons later. While in the air, they get into a big disagreement which troubles their relationship.
Bart and Lisa are taking pictures atop Mt. Springfield when Bart starts a forest fire by carelessly discarding a hot flashbulb. The children are in imminent danger, and Barney and Homer must band together to save them. They hop into the helicopter, but Barney is so nervous, he does not think he can do it sober. When a Duff beer truck comes to a sudden stop, spilling its contents in front of a weakening Barney, Homer refuses to let him give up on sobriety and drinks an entire six-pack in his place. Together, Barney and a drunken Homer save the kids. The next day, at the Simpson house, Marge tells the kids that the new phone books are here, and they have Bart and Lisa's picture on the front cover. Bart and Lisa come down, only to realise that the picture on one of the phone books is not the one of the fire on Mt. Springfield; it is actually a photo of baby Bart and Lisa nude on the toilet, causing them to scream in embarrassment. Marge says that the shot was actually in the film on the camera, and that since she had taken it, she won the prize for them. Bart and Lisa, after knowing that they will be the laughingstock of the entire town, happily hug their mother. Meanwhile, Barney's confidence and his relationship with Homer are restored, and he looks forward to an alcohol-free future, although he is now addicted to double-tall mocha lattés. And meanwhile, outside his tavern, Moe says that no-one escapes him, implying either he has (likely) spiked Barney's lattés, or that he has now gone into the coffee business, as he is seen with a pushcart with an umbrella that reads "Moe's".
[edit] Trivia
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- Moe's home address, according to mail coming through the slot, is 57 Walnut Street, Springfield, USA.
- Things seen in the Simpson's closet include:
- The Mr. Plow jacket from "Mr. Plow"
- Grampa's Emmy award from "The Front", which Lisa and Bart kept after Grampa made his speech on how disgusting and violent "Itchy and Scratchy" is and got booed off the stage.
- Homer's first annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence from "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?".
- Homer's space helmet from "Deep Space Homer"
- The town crier hat and bell from "Lisa the Iconoclast" (even though they belonged to Ned Flanders)
- Homer's boxing gloves from "The Homer They Fall"
- Either Bart's or Lisa's hockey stick from "Lisa on Ice"
- The waterskiis from "When You Dish Upon a Star"
- The toy fire truck (or, at least, a replacement for it) from "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
- The Civil War figurine/flask from "Homer's Phobia"
- The Mr. Sparkle box from "In Marge We Trust"
- The golf club from "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
- A Nero's Palace coffee mug from "Viva Ned Flanders"
- When Lenny says that the police car door has been on Barney a while, it can not have been more than a week, as he clearly does not have it at the birthday party.
- The camera Bart and Lisa use is modeled after the Diana camera.
- People at the AA meeting (besides Homer and Barney) include Lindsay Naegle (the generic businesswoman/TV executive), Gil, Kirk Van Houten, Rainier Wolfcastle, Susan (the woman from the country club who insulted Marge's fashion sense in Scenes from a Class Struggle in Springfield), and Bernice Hibbert (who was revealed to be an alcoholic in such episodes as Duffless [when she was shown watching the car crash movie at traffic school] and Homer vs. the 18th Amendment [when she was shown passed out on the floor along with Homer, Moe, and Barney when Prohibition was reinstated]).
- It has been revealed in DVD commentaries for previous episodes that some people on the staff hated Barney because he was always drunk. By contrast, some fans didn't like this episode because they felt that making Barney sober changed his personality.
[edit] Audio vs. Closed Captioning
- When Homer and Bart go on their "Trash Night" adventure and Homer sees the tiki statue, he says, "Look what the Hawaiian restaurant threw out," but the closed captions say, "The Hawaiian restaurant closed down."
- When Rainier Wolfcastle says, "I'm playing a fat secret agent," the closed captioning reads, "Go away or I'll eat your camera!"
[edit] Cultural references
- The episode title references Days of Wine and Roses.
- The She-Hulk shown in the episode is blond, while the real She-Hulk has greenish hair.
- The chalkboard ("I was not touched 'there' by an angel"), is a reference to CBS' TV series Touched by an Angel and "touched 'there'" is a euphemism used in association with children being sexually molested.
- At one point, Homer says, "Get out of my dreams and into my car." This is the exact title of the 1988 hit song by Billy Ocean.
[edit] External links
- "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
- "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" at the Internet Movie Database
