Homer the Smithers
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"Homer the Smithers" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons
Synopsis
After a company night out to the Springfield drag races Smithers fails to protect Mr. Burns from a drunken Lenny. Though he tries to make amends the next day, Smithers tries and fails to drown himself. Burns suggests that he take a vacation. Smithers purposely chooses Homer to be his replacement due to his incompetence. However, Homer fails to work to the specifications of Burns' rigid orders, and Burns continually berates Homer. In his rage, Homer punches Burns.Homer goes to apologize, but is turned away by Burns out of fear. With no one around, Burns learns to do everything himself. Smithers returns and is fired, as he is no longer needed. Homer tries to help him in a scheme to get his job back, but it backfires. After Homer and Smithers engage in a fist fight, Burns is pushed out a window and is injured. Smithers then gets his job back to care for Burns.
Trivia
- Smithers appears to take his vacation at a gay resort. There are several clues to this, including the fact that there are only men seen in the dance club, and that he drives a speedboat pulling along a pyramid of men in pink speedos. He also makes a point of his reluctance to bring Mr. Burns any pictures of his vacation. Many fans of the show believe that the resort is the real gay holiday resort Fire Island.
- At the end of the episode, Mr. Smithers is feeding Mr. Burns peanuts, and Mr. Burns opens his mouth and makes a clicking noise, like in A Clockwork Orange when Alex is being fed by the Minister of the Interior.
- Homer is punched in the stomach, which traps the assailant's hand within the fat. This of course was modeled after the T-800 punches the T-1000's head only to be trapped by the liquid metal machine in the movie, Terminator 2.
Quotes
- Burns: (while driving and wrecking everything in his path) Beep! Beep! Out of my way! I'm a motorist!
Chief Wiggum: That's some nice reckless driving, Mr. B. - Burns: I'll have my lunch now. I'll have a single pillow of shredded wheat, some steamed toast, and a dodo egg.
Homer: But I think the dodo went extin--.
Burns: Get cracking! Answer my phone messages, install a computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills!
Homer: Uh huh, uh huh. Um, could you repeat the part where you said about, umm, the things?...... The things? - Homer: Here are your messages. (reading answering machine messages) "You have thirty minutes to move your car", "You have ten minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have thirty minutes to pick up your cube". (phone rings and Homer answers) Hello, Mr. Burns' office.
Burns: Is it about my cube? - Mrs. Burns: (answering phone) Whot?
Smithers: Hello, Mrs. Burns? This is Waylon Smithers. I have your son Montgomery on the line.
Mrs. Burns: That improvident lackwit? Always too busy stridin' about his atom mill to call his own mother. I'll give him what-fors 'till he cries brassafrax! - Smithers: I've got to find a replacement that won't outshine me. Perhaps if I search the employee evaluations for the word (types) "Incompetent".
Computer reports: 714 matches found
Smithers: 714 names? Better be more specific. (keeps typing) "Lazy", "clumsy", "dim-witted", "monstrously ugly".
Computer searches, then reports: 714 matches found
Smithers: Oh, nuts to this, I'll just go get Homer Simpson.
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