Meh, I got it done while I was getting ready. Out the door now.
It’s a classic and a fan favorite and I’m surprised it hasn’t been picked yet:
“Homer Goes to College”
Another of Homer’s Wacky Adventures, this one written by Conan O’Brien and spurred on by, as Homer puts it, “I’m gonna lose my job just because I’m dangerously unqualified!” After somehow causing a nuclear accident in a test simulator with no nuclear material, Homer has to go back to college and pass nuclear physics 101 to get certified and keep his job. Homer, naturally, takes all his ideas from campus life from 80s Animal House knockoffs, and tries to live that college life accordingly, even dragging his hopelessly nerdy tutors into the mix (and, of course, getting them expelled).
Let me just list some of the great gags:
- Bee-guarding (including “The bee bit my bottom and now my bottom’s big!”)
- “The box! The box!”
- School of Hard Knockers with Corey Masterson
- Burns giving someone the beating of his life
- Homer spiking the punch
- The dean being a chill guy and Homer being unable to process this information
- Homer causing a nuclear accident at the school (“In there, guys.” “Thanks, Homer.”)
- “Hello, dean? You’re a stupid-head!”
- “Mr. Simpson? Gary spilled his ear medicine.”
- “I have to go to the bathroom.” “You just went!” “Yeah, but someone knocked on the door so I couldn’t go.”
- “WHOA! They’ll NEVER let us show that again!”
- “Hello, that sounds like a pig fainting!”
- “And then we roll him up in a carpet and throw him off a bridge! Hee-hee!”
- “Should we correct for wind resistance?” WHACK “Uh-oh.”
- “Well, dean, I’m really sorry for the running-you-over prank.”
- “Let’s just say I had some help from a little magic box.” “You changed your grades with a computer?”
- The closing montage of Homer and the nerds par-ty-ing down
Check out this article from Dead Homers Society detailing some of the delightful animation choices this show used to do at its best.
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