The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular
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"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons
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Introduction
Announcer: Live, from the Springfield Civic Auditorium—it's The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular!(trumpet fanfare; Troy McClure enters)
Troy McClure: Hello, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such Fox network specials as Alien Nose Job and Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show. Tonight, we're here to honor America's favorite non-prehistoric cartoon family. You'll see long-lost footage, never-before-seen material from your favorite episodes, old favorites you can't see in syndication. (showing clips from previous episodes) So join me, won't you, for The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular.
Opening credits
The normal medium-length credits appear (the kind that features only the chalkboard and couch), except it says "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular! - 23% New Footage".Blackboard
Bart writes "I will only do this once a year."Couch gag montage
Instead of one couch gag, the episode has a montage of couch gags:- There's a giant brown slug.
- The family runs off the edge of the frame, and back to the frame.
- The show's entire cast joins the family in front of the couch.
- The family, sitting on the couch, is very small.
- Santa's Little Helper growls on the couch and scares the family.
- The family sits on the couch, only to be squashed like bugs by a human foot, a la the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- Maggie is the largest, and Homer is the smallest.
- The family runs to the couch in a parody of M. C. Escher's Relativity.
- The family chases the couch and back wall down a long, portal-type hallway.
- The family swims to the couch.
- The couch gag is black and white, and the family enters in Mickey Mouse gloves.
- The family forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number.
Synopsis
Troy McClure hosts this episode, which looks back at the show and also offers never-before-seen outtakes. Also in the episode, many questions fans often ask finally have their answer revealed. It also takes a look at who Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon are. Groening is portrayed as a Southern patriot who wields a gun, is bald, and has an eye patch (he ends up shooting the camera placed in his office for the audience to see him), Brooks is seen as Rich Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly, and Simon's appearance resembles Howard Hughes. It is also revealed that, according to McClure, Homer's original name in The Simpsons was "Captain Wacky".In the episode, Troy McClure also shows other clips from the Ullman shorts, including the first The Tracey Ullman Show short, "Good Night". The episode also offers an alternate endings to Part Two of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", most of which consisted of random characters shooting Mr. Burns, followed by a more elaborate ending where Smithers is revealed to be the assailant. Over the end, Troy McClure leaves the viewers with what the theatre's audience came to see: hardcore nudity, with a montage of scenes of nudity on The Simpsons playing over the end credits.
Answers to questions revealed
An announcer for the show, asking questions, reveals these questions:- Question: In the opening credits, what does the cash register say when Maggie is scanned?
Answer: The cash register says "NRA4EVER", just one of the hundreds of radical right-wing messages inserted into every show by creator Matt Groening. - Question: Which popular Simpsons characters have died in the past year?
Answer: If you said Bleeding Gums Murphy and Dr. Marvin Monroe, you are wrong. They were never popular. (It was later revealed that Marvin Monroe had been sick until he was spotted at Marge's book signing.)
- Question: I think Homer gets stupider every year ("That's not a question professor!").
Answer: Troy allows the viewers to decide this for themselves by showing clips of Homer doing stupid things from "Blood Feud" (Season 2), "Flaming Moe's" (Season 3), "Marge vs. the Monorail" (Season 4), "Deep Space Homer" (Season 5), and "Treehouse of Horror V" (Season 6),. - Question: How does Matt Groening find the time to write and draw an entire Simpsons episode every week?
Answer: "Groening: Get outta my office! (shoots at the interviewers)"
Real Answer: "Of course, what Matt meant to say (according to his attorneys) is that he couldn't possibly do it alone. And he insisted that we make time to acknowledge the hard work of everyone who makes The Simpsons possible." This is followed by a very quick shot of a lot of names. - Question: What is the real deal with Mr. Burns' assistant Smithers (you know what I'm talking about)?
Answer: After showing clips from the episodes "Rosebud", "Dog of Death", "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", and "Marge Gets a Job" (all of which hint at Smithers' sexual orientation) Troy McClure concludes that Smithers is Mr. Burns' assistant, in his early 40s, is unmarried, and currently resides in Springfield.
Selected outtakes
- (From "Krusty Gets Kancelled")
Krusty: Watch my show. I will send you this book featuring me in a variety of sexually explicit positions. (he is dragged off the set) What? Hey! It's not really me! I used a stunt butt! (later, he looks dejected)
Man #1: Krusty, we're from the network. Uh, we have some bad news. I'm afraid your show's been cancelled.
Krusty: Oh, I thought this would happen. I just hope you replace me with something as educational and uplifting as I tried to be.
Man #2: Actually, it's a hemorrhoid commercial starring Claude Akins (in the Latinamerican dubbed version is a documentary about hemorrhoid hosted by Paco de Lucia).
Krusty: Can I play hemorrhoid sufferer number one? Ooh! Oh, that hurts! Ow! Oh, is there no relief?
Man #1: I don't think so. (they start to leave)
Krusty: How about one of the "after" guys? Aah. Ooh, that's better. I can ride a bike again.
Man #1: Sorry. - (From "$pringfield")
Blofeld: 20. Your move, Mr. Bond.
James Bond: I'll take a hit, dealer. (Homer gives him a card) Joker! You were supposed to take those out of the deck!
Homer: Oh, sorry, here's another one.
James Bond: What's this card? "Rules for Drawing Stud Poker"?
Blofeld: What a pity, Mr. Bond! (Oddjob and Jaws throw Bond out of the casino)
James Bond: But...but it's Homer's fault! I didn't lose! I never lose! Well, at least tell me the details of your plot for world domination.
Blofeld: (laughs) I'm not going to fall for that one again. - (From "Mother Simpson")
Mother Simpson:Homer...you don't have to wolf down that 25-year old candy, just to make me happy.
Homer:But it won't make you unhappy, right? Ooo, spacefood sticks, I wish I had these on my mission to space. Hey Mom, did you know I was blasted into space.
Mother: Yes Homer, it was national news...so...do you still work for N.A.S.A.?
Homer:No, I work at the Nuclear Power Plant.
Mother: Oh Homer...
Homer: Well, you'll be happy to know I don't work very hard. - (From "Treehouse of Horror IV")
Marge: Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers...ooh! Lionel Hutz! "Case won in 30 minutes or your pizza's free." Hmm.
Bart: I'd sell my soul for a Formula 1 racing car.
Devil Flanders: Heh heh heh, that can be arranged.
Bart: Changed my mind. Sorry. (The Devil Flanders vanishes) Cool!
Marge: Bart! Stop pestering Satan!
(after the trial)
Lizzie Borden: Your Honor, we find that Homer Simpson's soul is legally the property of Marge Simpson and not of the devil.
Devil Flanders: Oh.
Bart and Lisa: Yay!
Lionel Hutz: Well, I didn't win. Here's your pizza.
Marge: But we did win!
Lionel Hutz: That's OK. The box is empty. - (From "Homer and Apu")
Apu: I'm hoping you enjoy this movie. It made every Indian critic's Top 400 list.
Woman: (singing) Love love love love love! I'm in love with lovely Johnny.
(An Indian man breaks through a window and curses in Hindi at three sitting men. They all start dancing)
Bart: This movie you rented sucks.
Homer: No, it doesn't. It's funny. Their clothes are different from my clothes. (laughs) Look at what they're wearing. (laughs more) - (From "Burns' Heir")
Homer: Bart! You're coming home with me!
Bart: But I wanna stay with Burns!
Burns: You heard the boy. Now vammose or else!
Homer: Or else what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?! Do your worst!
Burns: "My worst", eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.(in the Latinamerican dubbed version, Burns says Lorenzo Lamas instead of Richard Simmons).
(a door open and said robot walks out)
Simmons: Come on, big boy! Shake that butter off those buns.
(a speaker pops out of its head and plays "Shake Your Booty")
Homer: Aah! (runs away)
(Simmons bot comes to Burns)
Simmons: Come on, come on, girls! Shake, shake, shake!
Burns: Smithers, it's out of control!
Smithers: I'll take him out, Sir!
(cocks shotgun, blasts it in the head, but the hole closes up a la T-1000 and the dancing resumes)
Simmons: (slowing down) Shake, shake, shake! Shake, shake, shake! Shake, shake, shake...
Smithers: His ass is gonna blow!
(they all run in the house, and the robot explodes, its head landing far away)''
Trivia
- The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
- Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
- The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Matt Groening, is the average amount of money spent on caring for a baby.
- This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music" insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
- April 191987 is the date that the Simpsons first appeared as a short on "The Tracey Ullman Show"
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