Season 7, Episode 7 “King sized Homer.”
This is a no brainer for my 2020 theme. It centers around homer getting disability and working from home. Not surprisingly, WFH didn’t go well for him.
Immediately hilarious. Homer hiding in the bathroom and screaming hysterically as he is dragged out by some goons. “I’ve never seen anyone so desperate to get out of 5 minutes of calisthenics.” HOMER FAT jokes always make me laugh hard.
Homer tries to get on disability. “Stupidity, ehhhh?”
“Look at it my way, sweetie - all my life I’ve been an obese man trapped in a fat man’s body.”
Dr. Nick “Heyy, did you go to upstairs hollywood medical college too?”
The test for whether homer should eat something to gain weight is if he rubs it on a piece of paper and the grease makes it see through.
Homer thinks he lost weight until he removes his gut from the towel rack. Lmao
He finally hits 300 lbs and achieves his “dream”, “work from home”
Homer sinking all the way into the bed and marge falls on top of him. “Hello honey!” Funnier when you watch the scene.
Homer weighing himself and is just shy of 300. Maggie hands him some playdough and Homer is dismissive, but Bart tells him it’s non toxic. “Oh, that’s a relief!” Homer says as he is already halfway through eating the play “D’oh!” We find out he had the stomach on the towel rack issue again and is actually 315. His giggling after that made me laugh. “Oooh, hoo hoo, oh my, hehe”
They install a remote work terminal in Homer’s living room.
Lmao as he walks into a big and tall, the salesperson notices homer’s girth. “Work, huh? Let me guess, computer programmer? Computer magazine columnist? Something with computers…” I resent this stereotype.
Homer settles on a mumu, probably the funniest visual gag of this entire series.
“8:58, the earliest I’ve ever been to work! Except for all those stupid daylight savings days. Stupid farmers”
at his workstation - “Press any key.” “I don’t see the any key!” as he looks everywhere for the “any” key. This is something I’d do. Calls the pg up key “Pig up.”
“All this computer hacking is making me thirsty!” Presses “tab” expecting tab soda. This whole scene cracked me up.
At the end of a triumphant speech - “AND WHERE’S THAT CAKE?” LOL
He finds out he can just press Y instead of typing out yes. “Hey, ms doesn’t find me sexually attractive anymore, I’ve just tripled my work productivity!”
Eventually figures out he can just type Y repeatedly and get his job done. Quickly gets bored, then the mailman comes. “THE MAIL! THE MAIL IS HERE!” and gets super excited. This one cut a little too deep, I have felt that exact sentiment this year.
Homer hitting the Y key with a broomstick handle as he watches tv reminds me of me at work sometimes trying to hit my keyboard to prevent my computer from sleeping.
He then automates his job with a woodpecker toy that hits the y key repeatedly.
“I just came here to see ‘Honk if you’re horny!’”
“The fingers you have used to dial are too fat”
Burns leading the calisthenics is pretty funny.
Homer stops a core meltdown by falling into a hole and getting stuck.
“You’ve turned a potential chernobyl into a mere 3 mile island!”
“For once dad’s butt prevented the release of toxic gas!”
Visual gag - homer’s dangling naked legs being decontaminated below by guys in hazmat suits.
Ok that’s it for me. Hopefully these picks weren’t too boring.