Gump Roast
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“Gump Roast” is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. The episode aired on April 21, 2002.
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[edit] Plot
Homer is on a park bench, telling a story that Chief Wiggum isn’t interested in, but he builds interest when Homer uses flashbacks (clips from previous episodes) to help him tell the story.
The family then arrives to take him to the Friars’ Club, where is roasted by Krusty the Clown and other prominent citizens of Springfield. Among those roasting him are Bart and Lisa, Grampa and Agnes Skinner, and, Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders in a Smothers Brothers-like act, and even Mr. Burns. The roasters utilize more clips from previous episodes.
Soon, Kang and Kodos arrive at the roast and declare that humans are stupid, as demonstrated by more clips. However, when they probe Maggie's mind (via more clips), they find something on Earth that makes it worth sparing: celebrities.
The episode ends with a song, “They’ll Never Stop the Simpsons,” sung by Dan Castellaneta. The song recounts additional past plots, possible future plots, and an apology for airing this episode as a clip show.
[edit] Trivia
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- This is the second episode outside the Halloween episodes that Kang and Kodos appear together in. The other is “Behind the Laughter.” However, one of them also appeared in an alien lineup in “The Springfield Files”.
- Midway through the episode, there is a clip from the episode, "I am Furious Yellow". "Gump Roast" was actually aired before this episode.
- When Homer reminisces about his car one of the clips shows Homer driving Moes car.
[edit] Cultural references
- The opening act spoofs Forrest Gump including the falling feather. The episode's title is also a reference to the movie.
- During the opening act, Moe impersonates Austin Powers and Dr. Hibbert impersonates Darth Vader. Both are arrested because of an ordinance that banned impersonations of movie characters, although Homer is not arrested for his impersonation of Forrest Gump.
- When Mr. Burns steps toward the podium, The Imperial March (Darth Vader's song) is heard.
- In this episode Kang asserts that the Earth was created 5,000 years ago by God, and Kang and Kodos then make the sign of the Cross. This is an apparently satirical reference to Young Earth Creationism.
- At the beginning of the clip show song, there is a picture of Homer jumping the shark, which is a slang term that describes when a television show has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause a sudden decline in quality. The term is a reference to an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie actually jumped a shark on water skis similarly to how Homer is shown.
- Agnes Skinner wears the same dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000.
- The song sung at the end is a take-off on Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start The Fire."
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