Love is a many strangled thing

In this week's episode, Love is a many strangled thing, the episode starts with Mr. Burns riding a hot air balloon with Mr. Smithers. Carl, Lenny, and Homer decide that they want to try and shoot down the balloon where Homer succeeds in hitting it down after multiple attempts. Mr. Burn misinterpreted Homer's act of foolishness as an act of kindness and rewards him with tickets to a football game. At the game, Homer tickles Bart on the jumbo tron and Bart pees himself. After being humiliated in front of everyone, Bart gets upset and Homer is later scolded by Marge. Marge tells Homer he need to be a better father and she enrolls him in a parenting class. Homer tells the class about how he sometimes strangles Bart where the Doctor is shocked to hear this. Soon after, Homer is given a private session with Kareem Abdul Jabar who shows Homer how it feels like to be strangled by someone bigger then him. After experiencing how it feels, Homer promises never to strangle Bart again. Bart discovers that Homer will not beat him anymore so Bart takes advantage of this and misbehaves more. Marge decides to step in and tries to get Bart help from the doctor. She finds him under a bridge, homeless, but still desires that he helps her family. Homer and Bart go through a series of exercises where the doctor eventually strangles Bart. Due to this, Homer and Bart bonded over the whole incident and got closer. This episode stressed the importance of familial relationships and how a family should grow together to love and respect each other. Without that respect, a family may fall apart.

The full monty

In this episode, the full Monty, the episode begins with a meeting of representatives that tried to make up a fake disease in order to cause panic for Springfield. They offer people a limited supply of vaccine which Mr. Burns steals for himself while running over the rest of the other available vaccines. After Mr. Burns steals the vaccines, he soon learns that he only has 6 weeks to live due to a various amount of illnesses. After being distraught by the towns lack of sympathy, Mr. Burns attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. He somehow manages to survive the jump with some amnesia. Bart soon finds Mr. Burns in the wilderness and hides him in the Simpson residence. When Homer, Marge, and the rest of Springfield discover Mr. Burns' whereabouts, they all decide to get revenge on how he treated them over the years.  When Lisa takes Mr. Burns back to his mansion, he turns into his old, mean self and decides to put a dome over the town to get revenge over those who treated him poorly.In the end of the episode, Mr. Burns is escorted by Mr. Smithers in one of his helicopters. Viewers learn that Smithers initially thought that Mr. Burns was dead so he spent the time working for Dick Cheney. This episode ultimately showed how the media is able to control society by scaring them. The episode also shows how valuable it is to be nice to others. Usually, hate follows hate and when others are treated poorly, they think it's acceptable to treat others poorly as well - it's a vicious circle as they say. 

3.13

In this week's episode, A Midsummer's Nice Dream, the plot mainly focused on the infamous duo, Cheech and Chong. In the episode, they return for a reunion show that the Simpson family, specifically homer, is exited to watch watch. During the skits, Cheech and Chong get into an argument where Chong refuses to continue with the show because everyone already knows the lines and he thinks the material is old. As a result of their altercation, Chong leaves and Homer ends the show with Cheech. After the show, Cheech and Chong to go their own ways. Homer teams up with Cheech while Principal Skinner  joins Chong. Homer soon realizes the harsh reality that working with Cheech would not just be fun and games. Meanwhile, Santa's little helper runs away and gets into the cat lady's house where Marge and Lisa go to fetch him. While in the cat lady's house, Marge discovers that she is a hoarder and decides to help her out. By cleaning out the cat lady's house, Marge eventually takes a fancy towards the deed and picks up her own hoarding addiction. In the end, Homer gets the cat lady to convince Marge to stop her hoarding. Eventually Cheech and Chong get back together and all is well in the town of springfield. I think this episode was trying to show two things. I think it wanted to aware the audience of how detrimental some addictions are and how it can really affect someones future. The other thing the episode was trying to show is how you shouldn't let your pride get in the way of your relationship with others. I guess what I ultimately got from this episode is that you should avoid things that you should get addicted to such as weed, or bad habits in order to live a better life.

Simpsons episode 3.6

In this Simpson's episode, Lisa and her class go on a field trip to the Springfield Desert state park. As her life is being threatened by scorpions, Lisa discovers the soothing effect of a certain flower on her attackers. She takes the scorpions and the flowers home where she eventually makes a serum. Meanwhile, Abe (Homers dad) gets kicked out of the retirement home and goes to live with Homer and the family. Abe presents the family with a problem as he is very grumpy and complains a lot. In an act of desperation to resolve their family issue, Homer drugs Abe with Lisa's serum where it successfully sedates and calms him.  Lisa is alarmed by this and flushes the drugs  down toilet and tells her grandpa of what was done. Abe was not mad at all as he said it made him happy and that people liked him more.  Once Abe goes off the drug, a doctor examines him and wants to replicate the drug. Bart takes the drugs and sells them to the town's elderly. Despite a happier Springfield, one of the side effects of Lisa's drug is that your eyeballs fall out if you take the drug! The old people find themselves outside of the pharmaceutical building where they want to thank the doctor despite the negative effects of the drugs. Eventually the manufacturer decides to stop making the drug. At the end of the episode Homer destroys his car while the old people fix it. This episode illustrates the effects of drugs and how the younger generations get stupid as time goes on. One of the sad things in this life is that when I look around, it seems kind of true.

Simpsons episode 2.27

In this week's episode, homer is sent to jail and sentenced to 10 years in prison after he is stopped by the police and given a series of tickets. Despite his awful situation, he is offered an opportunity to absolve himself which involved him working as an undercover mole for Fat Tony and his mob under the name "Nicky bluepants". Homer accepts this job and is given task by fat tony in order to gain his trust. One of the scenes involves Tony telling homer to burn down Moe's where he coincidentally finds Moe's bar already in flames. In one of the last scenes of the episode, Fat Tony and Homer find themselves on a dock waiting for weapons. Eventually Homer informs Tony that he is working as a spy giving him a heart attack leading to his death. Homer mourns greatly over his death showing the audience that Homer really did care. As the episode continues, Homer runs into Fat Tony's cousin, Fit Tony. Fit tony spares Homers life after hearing about how much he cared about Fat Tony. Eventually, Fit Tony turns into Fat Tony, and life goes on.


In this episode, One can gain a better understanding of how relationships work. Relationships are built on trust, respect, and love among other important values. Sometimes these values can be faked, sometimes they can be lost, but as Homer learns, the truth can be a devastating thing. Over time scars will heal, and life will go on. 

Simpsons episode 2.20

The episode started with a typical itchy and scratchy short. Shortly after, the family is greeted by Herman Melville who brings the family with good news regarding bart's short film "angry dad," telling them that he wants to make it a movie. Homer and Bart find themselves in the production studio where everyone is excited to meet them. Homer is offered the job as voice of angry dad as the original actor quit because he wasn't paid. After the first screening, it turns out everyone hated it. Lisa proposes that they should turn the movie into a short film where it turns out to be a hit! During many award ceremonies, Homer is the one who accepts all the awards while Bart is overshadowed by homer's unnecessary thank-you speeches. Bart soon after gets an Oscar nominee where he fails to inform homer in order to get his time in the spotlight. The episode closes with Bart delivering a sentimental speech addressing the collaborative efforts of film making. The last scene depicts homer and Bart so generously distributing the Oscar among the crew.

Overall, I thought the episode was just "OK." It had its moments but seemed to be filled with a lot of unnecessary filler animation. Examples of this is when they would show the satirical shorts of other movies. One of the things I find interesting is how Matt Groening is able to use real movies and real people in the show. Hopefully next weeks episode will be better.