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This is first and only episode to have two audio commentaries on commentary 1 was Bill Oakley, Josh Westein and Jim Reardon and on commentary 2 was Ian Maxtone-Graham and Dan Casnetta It's possible that Ian wanted to discuss the episode but wasn't available for the main audio commentary. This is one of several episodes with a title in the style of a court case. ("Homer vs. Dignity", "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", etc.) However, Homer's name is listed second in this one when it is normally first. The writers on the DVD commentary have mentioned how dated this episode has become following 9/11, and regret using the "jerks in Tower One" line. On the front cover of the magazine, the text says "New York $9", the Twin Towers look like the number 11.
For one thing, today’s episode was a holdover from the previous, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein-run production block, making it an honorary season eight episode. And, well, if we’re going to talk about why “The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson” is notorious in Simpsons lore, it isn’t as the first episode of the post-Golden Age. A new heavily edited version of "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is airing in syndication. All references to Homer's wrecked car parked at the World Trade Center, including shots of the towers and verbal references, are badly cut out.
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson/References
The musical sequence played during the Flushing Meadows segment is a stylistic parody of the piece "Flower Duet" from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. When the traveling bus passes some Hasidic Jews, Bart mistakes them for ZZ Top, and when he visits Mad magazine's offices, he sees Alfred E. Neuman, the Spy vs. Spy characters, and cartoonist Dave Berg. The actor in the musical number "You're Checkin' In" was based on Robert Downey Jr., who was battling a cocaine addiction during the time of the episode creation, just as the character in the musical was. The sequence where Homer races alongside the carriage in Central Park was a reference to a similar scene in the film Ben-Hur.
When the family arrive in New York , Homer tells the family to wait at the bus station while he gets the car, but Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie want to explore the city so Homer goes to the World Trade Center to retrieve his car, but they agree to meet at 5 o'clock in Central Park. He arrives finding his car dumped in the middle of the plaza, full of tickets and a boot on the wheel. Homer tries to pry the boot off with his hands, but a loud bystander tells him he needs to call the phone number on the boot the New York city council to remove it, After the phone call, Homer learns that he needs to wait by his car for a parking officer between the hours of 9 A.M. As well as a declined plea, While he is waiting, he becomes hungry, but cannot leave his car as the boot man may come.
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Bart leaves the group to visit the offices of Mad magazine, and is in awe when he sees Alfred E. Neuman. The family attends a Broadway musical about the Betty Ford Clinic, and then takes a carriage through Central Park to where they are planning to meet Homer. But, Moe tells Homer to face it that the car is gone and Barney's never coming back. Because, he arrives in the trunk of a limousine, completely hungover with bloodshot eyes, discolored skin and most of his motor skills absent. Homer furiously demands to know what Barney did with his car, but Barney tells him he has no recollection of any events that happened over the last two months (except for "giving a guest lecture at Villanova ... or maybe it was a street corner!"). Homer then rides angrily off on a scooter to pick Bart and Lisa up from school, although not before making clear to Barney that him needing to pick up his kids on time is the only reason why he did not beat Barney up in revenge for losing his car.
Even later, while standing at a cross walk and looking at an electronic billboard , a thug pickpockets his wallet, a pigeon steals his hot dog and trash is dumped on him from an apartment denizen resembling Woody Allen. Though it seemed things could not have gotten worse, it did when he picked a banana peel off of his face and accidentally threw it at a pimp resulting in him being chased through the streets and down an alleyway. Homer then made a run for it and tried to escape via a fire exit ladder, only for the ladder to come loose resulting in him falling down into an opened manhole and getting attacked by CHUDs.
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New York is colossal enough for a person to look in one direction and see the world’s most iconic skyline—a skyline that will never look quite right again, as this episode sadly, inadvertently underlines— and look in the other direction to see bags of medical waste flying towards one’s face. Having been declared the designated driver for the evening, Barney isn't able to join in his friends' drunken escapades. Even worse for poor Barney, the Duff party he had won in a contest chose that evening to show up. One man tells Homer that "they stick all the jerks in Tower 1." However, he is actually in Tower 1 , which had the antenna mentioned above. In this, the ninth season premiere, Homer's car is illegally parked in New York City next to the World Trade Center and Homer is forced to take his family there to retrieve it.
At Moe's Tavern, Moe informs Homer and his friends that one of them must be a designated driver, and Barney loses the choosing draw. After Barney drives the drunken men home in Homer's car, Homer allows him to use it to drive himself home, expecting Barney to return it the following morning. Two months later, Barney returns to Moe's Tavern, unable to recall where he left the car. Homer later receives a letter from the New York City government, which informs him that his car has been found parked in the World Trade Center plaza and will be destroyed (by being "thrown into the East River at your expense") if not picked up in 72 hours. Homer reveals to the family that he had once been to New York before when he was 17 years old, and had a horrible experience.
"The Principal and the Pauper"The Simpsons List of episodes"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the first episode of the ninth season of The Simpsons. In this episode, the Simpson family travels to New York City to get back their family car, which had been taken by Homer's friend Barney Gumble after a night out and left in the World Trade Center plaza. While his family tours the city, Homer goes through problems while trying to get back the car. When Moe's "evening rush" comes into the bar one night, he tells his customers that they are responsible for 91% of all traffic accidents in Springfield so they will now have to choose designated drivers to prevent any more accidents. This prompts Moe to hold a pickled egg drawing to see who will stay sober and be the designated driver.
It’s hard to put a finger on exactly, hence why I’m keeping this in the strays, but it just feels like the show is straining a bit to justify Barney disappearing with the car. That said, Moe’s belief that the pope is picked using an egg-based system is more than worth the price of admission, not to mention the pivotal introduction of Duffman. At the end of the episode, during Homer's Twitchy Eye moment mentioned below, Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" begins playing and continues over the credits. As Homer is infuriated by the radio tunes playing, he kicks and breaks the radio. But when he's trying to get his car boot off, the radio has fixed itself.
He quickly gets back into the lift and races back to the ground before racing from the South Tower to the North Tower and then races up in the lift to the top of the tower, instantly feeling much much better after urinating. Unfortunately for Homer while he is in the rest room the officer arrives and Homer seeing him issue another ticket as no one was present lets out an extremely loud DOH. To his extreme frustration this now adds a further $250 dollars to the fine that he needs to pay. Meanwhile, the rest of the family tours the Statue of Liberty, Little Italy, Chinatown, and the Empire State Building.
The context of this episode made it feel appropriate; that’s actually I think the first time I’ve really written about September 11 in even a small way, and it was good to have a chance to look at that day through this rather unlikely lens. But most of these background gags really are in the background, without the usual quick establishing shot that might allow more casual viewers to pick up on the gag. In contrast, places like Port Authority, the Statue of Liberty, and the World Trade Center plaza are rendered more or less accurately.
Due to the central plot being a dilemma that Homer has at the World Trade Center, the episode didn't air in the United States for a long time. After an appropriate amount of time passed, some stations began to air the episode again. The episode remained in somewhat constant syndication in Australia, with regular reruns playing on the Cable Channel FOX8 and it currently airs uncut on Channel 11 . The episode was also kept in regular syndication in Canada, airing on Global, Omni 2 and CBC. Ian Jones and Steve Williams, writers for British review website Off the Telly, claimed that the episode "ditched all pretence of a plot and went flat out for individual, unconnected sight gags and vignettes".
Driven to the brink of insanity by his appointed status as designated driver, Barney Gumble drives to downtown Manhattan in Homer's car, leaving it there. But when the family journeys to New York to retrieve their car, Homer faces a one-on-one showdown with the dreaded boot. Ken Keeler, who wrote the lyrics for the "You're Checkin' In" musical number, spent two hours in a room alone to write the song.
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