Homer the Moe

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The Simpsons episode
"Homer the Moe"
Promotional artowrk featuring guest stars R.E.M.
Episode no. 272
Prod. code CABF20
Orig. airdate November 18, 2001
Show runner(s) Mike Scully
Written by Dana Gould
Directed by Jen Kamerman
Chalkboard “A burp in a jar is not a science project.”
Couch gag A football is thrown in the center of the living room. The Simpsons, dressed as football players, tackle each other for the ball. Maggie squirms out with ball in hand, spikes it, and does a victory dance.
Guest star(s) R.E.M. as themselves.
Season 13
November 6, 2001May 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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Homer the Moe” is the third episode of The Simpsonsthirteenth season. The episode aired on November 18, 2001.

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After Homer tells a bizarre story about Bart digging a hole in the backyard for no reason, Moe complains about the routine at his tavern. Recalling his days at Swigmore University, he decides to return there for some inspiration, and leaves Homer in temporary charge of the bar. At the university, Moe finds his old, dying professor, who advises Moe to improve his situation by modernizing his bar just before his professor drowns himself in the campus lake. Soon, the tavern has been renovated into a swanky nightclub, renamed “M,” with a post-modern decor.

Homer and his bar-buddies Lenny, Carl and Barney find that they do not fit in with the new, affluent crowd, and miss their old tavern experience. Homer decides to convert his garage into a new tavern for himself and his friends. Meanwhile, Moe realizes that he does not fit in with his new clientèle either, and leaves to find Homer. Arriving at the Simpsons’ home, he finds that the new garage bar has quickly become quite popular, and even has the alternative rock band R.E.M. playing. When confronted by Moe with the fact that it is illegal to operate a bar in a private residence, Homer claims that it is in fact a hunting club, citing a law book. Moe consults the book and determines that the club must engage in the sport of hunting. Homer decides that he will hunt for a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, despite Lisa’s objections.

Homer sets out the next day to find a turkey, but Lisa and Moe come up with a plan to stop him; using a whistle that sounds like a cougar, they distract him from his quarry. However, Homer mistakes the whistle for an actual cougar, and shoots Moe in the leg. After he apologizes, the Simpson family, Moe and R.E.M. return to Moe’s tavern, reverted to its original decor, for a Thanksgiving meal of a turkey, made “entirely of tofu and gluten.”

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[edit] Trivia

This episode features the smallest number of main secondary characters ever seen in a Simpsons episode.

[edit] Channel 4 censorship

Channel 4 in Britain edits out three scenes in this episode:

  • The part when the record is stuck and Homer smashes his fist onto the glass of the jukebox, which makes his hand bleed, it is cut when Homer is waving his hand around, splattering excessive amount of blood, yelling "Hemmorage-a-mundo!"
  • The scene at the dinner table where Homer acts like a bartender was edited to remove the part where Homer gives Lisa a cigarette and Lisa coughs and stubs it out on her dinner plate.
  • The part where Moe is talking to two Russian supermodels was edited to remove the model talking about how her penis is falling off due to the Chernobyl accident and Moe thinking that "penis" is a Russian word.

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