Maximum Homerdrive
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"Maximum Homerdrive" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons
Synopsis
Lisa announces she is going to protest a new steakhouse which allows its customers to kill their own steak, which is called "The Slaughter House". The family, sans Lisa, eats there, and Homer enters a challenge with a friendly truck driver named Red Barclay. The challenge Homer and Red enter revolves around who will eat the "Sirloin A Lot", a 16-pound (7.25 kg) steak. Homer loses the challenge to Red, who ironically dies after winning. After losing, Homer finishes Red's last delivery and brings Bart along with him. Staying home are Lisa and Marge, who go to a doorbell store and buy a doorbell that they install themselves, which plays The Carpenters's song, "Close to You". However, the new doorbell starts to malfunction.
Meanwhile, Homer, in the truck, discovers a secret overnight: the truck drives by itself with its Autodrive system. He talks it over with other drivers, who inform him that he should not mention anything about the truck driving by itself. The truck's Autodrive system also helps keep itself safe. To demonstrate the system, Homer and Bart go out on the hood, until an angry mob of truckers get in a showdown with Homer, and he survives. Homer and Bart finish the shipment by taking it to Atlanta, but there is no way for them to get home until they take a freight train full of napalm back to Springfield. Back at the Simpson house, the doorbell's tune grows annoying until the doorbell store's mascot, Senor Ding-Dong, uses his whip to silence the noise from the doorbell.
Quotes
- Marge: It's time we opened up a can of whoop-tushie on this situation!
- Señor Ding-Dong: If you ever need me, just ring!
- Homer: Wait. There's a place like that in Springfield? Then, why are we eating this crap? C'mon, everybody. We're going to the Slaughterhouse.
Marge: You didn't need to knock the food on the floor.
Homer Didn't I?
- Homer: Wait, is this the biggest steak you've got, 72 oz.? I thought this was supposed to be a steakhouse. Not a little girly, underpantsy, pink doily, tea party place."
- Homer: Oh yeah, I need something that will keep me awake, alert and reckless all night long.
Store Owner: Well, Congress is racing back to Washington to outlaw these (pulls out "Stimu-Crank" bottle from beneath the counter. Homer grabs bottle and downs contents)
Shop Owner: Hey, You can't take that many pep pills at once.
Homer: No problem. I'll balance it out with a bottle of sleeping pills.
- Homer (jumping into cab of truck) Heeheeheeokaywe'reallsetlet'sputpedaltometal! (pulls away in truck) I wholeheartedlyagreeohmanI'mreallywiredthisisabigmistake-(progressively slower) Oh, here...comes...the...sleeping...pills...*quickly*PEPPILLSPERKINGUPAGAIN!
- Burns (choosing a cow to kill): I'll have that cow. (waiter kills cow) Oh, didn't put much of a fight. I'll have that cow. (waiter kills another cow) Hmm. Why don't you pick a cow for me? (waiter, annoyed, kills another cow) On second thought, I'll just have a glass of milk...from that cow. (a white cow makes a surprised noise. The waiter kills the cow)
- Bart: I think I read somewhere that cows like being killed.
- Homer: 10-4, dead buddy.
- Chief Wiggum: All right, Chimey-this time, the bell tolls for thee!
- Homer: What's happening to me? There's still food, but I don't want to eat it. I've become everything I've ever hated.
- Bart: Dad, they're trying to kill us!
Homer: Oh, why do all my trips end like this?
- Homer: We'll get through that barrier somehow. Old Blinky here will find a way. [Drives at towards barricade.]
Autodrive: I'm afraid I can't let you do this, Red. The risk is unacceptable.
Homer: (annoyed) I'm not Red, I'm Homer!
Autodrive: (panicky) Gotta go! (parachutes out of the car)
Trivia
- The episode title is a reference to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive, based off of King's short story "Trucks." The film features Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson).
- The trucker code list consists of;
- *(10-33) Actual bear in Air.
- *(10-34) Can't unchain wallet.
- *(10-35) Hot enough for ya?.
- *(10-36) Ghost truck on highway.
- *(10-37) Ask me about my grandchildren.
- *(10-38) Outsider blabbing about auto-drive system.
- *(10-39) I love you gay buddy.
- *(10-40) Taxes due.
- The movie Homer and Bart watch at the drive-in, is a play on the 1989 movie Dan Castellaneta was in himself, "The thing that ate everybody".
- Homer is revealed to have sold his family's tools in exchange for M&M's. According to Marge, this isn't the first time.
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