In the beginning of this episode they make fun of books, Lisa wants to go to a release of some fiction book, on the way home she turn over the pages and then throw them out without even reading it. Then when they get home Homer said that that was their portion of books for the year and now you can watch TV but just to 3 am.
When they are watching TV Marge sees a commercial for ballet. Marge decides to go there for tryout because it’s been her dream since she was young. The ballet coach tells her to go home, Lisa goes up to him and yell at him, instinctively he see that Lisa is a natural talent for ballet and tell her to dance for him. At the ballet academy Lisa gets introduced to smoking. The ballerinas smoke because that keeps them thin and good at dancing. Homer finds out about Lisa’s smoking and let Bart follow her around.
This episode included a lot of hidden messages. When Homer caught Lisa smoking he said “I can’t believe how easy it is in this country to get cigarettes” when he said that he fired a round of bullets on a cigarette with a pistol and in his jacket he had two more guns and a Uzi. This was clearly a message about how easy it is to get a gun in America, and not so much about the risks about smoking.
Another hidden message was about how little we read these days. In the beginning of this episode Lisa threw out three books and Homer said that now they can watch TV, but just to 3am. What they wanted to criticize was how much TV we watch these days and with permission from our parents.
I also thought it was interesting to see that Homer and Marge discussed Lisa’s dancing future without even asking what Lisa wanted. Lisa was fulfilling Marge’s ego by dancing ballet. I think that that is common in many homes, that the children in the family do the things that the parents couldn’t do.
söndag 12 april 2009
Homer of Seville
This episode started off with a very good introduction. After Homer ran in to the house they showed the evolution of Homer. He started off as a small germ, and then became a dinosaur, then a monkey, and at least a human being. As a human being they showed his evolution from a hunter to a peasant, then as a British, and finally an American.
As many other episodes this one started in the church, after the hour long preach they competed against the others to be the first one out of there. On their way home, Marge refused to cook, so they decided to eat at a restaurant. The problem was that the lines were too long. After driving by all restaurants they saw a house full of delicious catering food, Marge sneaked in through the basement window. After a while they realized that is was a funeral reception that they had “crashed”. The widows then ask Homer if he can help carrying the coffin to the grave, which he does. When he does that he falls into a empty grave and injures his back badly. Dr. Hibbert tells him that he did something to his voice so if he is lying down he has an amazing voice. He then becomes a big star at the opera.
This was a funny episode where they made fun of groupies, and opera fans. Homer got a lot of groupies who all where 60+. It was also interesting to see that Homer gave up his career as an opera singer. Usually when Homer get some type of success he fumbles it away, but this time he made that decision.
As many other episodes this one started in the church, after the hour long preach they competed against the others to be the first one out of there. On their way home, Marge refused to cook, so they decided to eat at a restaurant. The problem was that the lines were too long. After driving by all restaurants they saw a house full of delicious catering food, Marge sneaked in through the basement window. After a while they realized that is was a funeral reception that they had “crashed”. The widows then ask Homer if he can help carrying the coffin to the grave, which he does. When he does that he falls into a empty grave and injures his back badly. Dr. Hibbert tells him that he did something to his voice so if he is lying down he has an amazing voice. He then becomes a big star at the opera.
This was a funny episode where they made fun of groupies, and opera fans. Homer got a lot of groupies who all where 60+. It was also interesting to see that Homer gave up his career as an opera singer. Usually when Homer get some type of success he fumbles it away, but this time he made that decision.
Private Jet
In the episode "He loves to fly, and he doh's" Season nineteen, Homer saved Mr. Burns life, and as a thanks Mr. Burns brought Homer in his private Jet to Chicago. In the private Jet, Mr. Burns and Homer drank and had first class food all the way. Lionel Richie guest appeared during the flight and sang some songs for Homer, Homer asked if he could sing “Say You, Say Me” for them, but instead of singing “Say” Homer wanted Richie to sing Beer. Of course Richie did that, and when he was done, Homer asked again if he make the whole song just with the beer word, which he also did.
When Homer got back to Springfield he got depressed because he wanted to live like he did for that day, he didn’t want his regular poor/hardworking life back. He wanted richness and a private-jet instead of struggling with bills and flying commercial. Marge arrange so he gets a life coach, which start to work on his self image. The life coach notices that Homer is good at one thing, bowling, so he makes him wear his bowling shoes wherever he goes. This change makes him a whole new person.
It was a interesting episode, with a Homer that I have never seen. His desire for richness and wealth was something new, as well as his desire to become something else, in this case rich. And it’s always nice when they have guest appearances from famous people.
When Homer got back to Springfield he got depressed because he wanted to live like he did for that day, he didn’t want his regular poor/hardworking life back. He wanted richness and a private-jet instead of struggling with bills and flying commercial. Marge arrange so he gets a life coach, which start to work on his self image. The life coach notices that Homer is good at one thing, bowling, so he makes him wear his bowling shoes wherever he goes. This change makes him a whole new person.
It was a interesting episode, with a Homer that I have never seen. His desire for richness and wealth was something new, as well as his desire to become something else, in this case rich. And it’s always nice when they have guest appearances from famous people.
E Pluribus Wiggum
I watched the tenth episode from the nineteenth season “E Pluribus Wiggum”. It started off at the nuclear power plant, Homer, Lenny, and Carl waited for Burns to go home so they could go home as well. When Burns took off Homer went to the fast-food street, he had promised Marge to start on a diet so he wanted to say farewell to all the fast-food there is. He bought tons of food and got a lot of garbage in his car, and then he saw a drive through trash can where he dumped all his garbage. Among the garbage there was an old car battery that started to leek acid. The acid eroded a hole in the gas pipe that supplied all fast-food chains with gas and a huge explosion destroyed all fast-food chains.
Without any fast-food Springfield was in panic. They gathered all inhabitants of Springfield in the town-hall and Homer gave them a preach about the importance of fast-food, Major Quinmy decides to move the primary election to next week, which will make it the first city in America to have the primary elections. America now put Springfield in the centre of attention and the city gets invaded by the media.
No one knows who to vote for, so Homer decides to vote for someone that’s not politically correct, he chooses Ralph Wiggum to be his candidate. Both the democrats and republicans fight to get Ralph over on their side because they don’t have any better option.
This episode was more or less a comic about the primary elections in America. It showed us how the media focus on things that necessarily don’t have anything to do with the elections. It was also an episode that show how some voters (Homer) don’t really care about politics, that they are more interested in a show and a representative that is a character rather than a politician (Ralph).
Without any fast-food Springfield was in panic. They gathered all inhabitants of Springfield in the town-hall and Homer gave them a preach about the importance of fast-food, Major Quinmy decides to move the primary election to next week, which will make it the first city in America to have the primary elections. America now put Springfield in the centre of attention and the city gets invaded by the media.
No one knows who to vote for, so Homer decides to vote for someone that’s not politically correct, he chooses Ralph Wiggum to be his candidate. Both the democrats and republicans fight to get Ralph over on their side because they don’t have any better option.
This episode was more or less a comic about the primary elections in America. It showed us how the media focus on things that necessarily don’t have anything to do with the elections. It was also an episode that show how some voters (Homer) don’t really care about politics, that they are more interested in a show and a representative that is a character rather than a politician (Ralph).
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