3/27/11

This episodes starts with Mr. Burns in a hot air balloon and homer saves him and offers him a reward and sends him to the Stadium. The Stadium has everything, and they attend the game where they sit behind the team and Bart is deemed party pooper and starts to tickle him and Bart wets himself and Bart is devastated. Bart’s pants wetting makes news and Marge and Homer argue about Homer taking classes on fathering.  Homer mentions at counseling that he strangles Bart and the Dr. is very concerned and the next week Homer has a one on one with the Dr. where they role play with Homer as Bart and is continually strangled and sees that what he has been doing  to Bart is wrong. Homer asks Bart to irritate him so he can show his restraint, Bart does as he asked and when Homer can’t bring himself to strangle Bart, he realizes he has the advantage and he uses it to the full power. Homer has nightmares of Bart controlling him; the nightmares were portrayed through movies like Precious.   When Marge gets a call from school that Bart is out of control and this makes Marge go to seek help for Bart who is out of control due to the fact that Homer no longer strangles him. Bart however takes advantage yet again of the therapy and shows no care for his father. When the therapist chokes Bart and Homer saves him they are able to bond over the situation.

3/20/11

During this episode Cheech and Chong are coming back to Springfield for a reunion tour and Homer is ecstatic about the situation, When Bart asks who Cheech and Chong are Homer replies that they were the Bevis and Butthead of their time and Bart is still clueless Homer states he has failed as a parent. They attended the show in the Springfield, however Chong wants to branch out and leaves stage and the act, Homer goes to the stage in order to save the rest of the show seeing as he knows all the lines and Cheech asks for him to be the new Chong and goes on tour. They Change the act to Cheech and Chunk. Homer’s only concern is the drugs and getting high. While Cheech goes longing for a new Chong, however he states he needs someone open minded, he picks the principle. Marge however finds out that the cat lady is a hoarder, when their dog runs off. While she is sent to see Cats on Broadway Marge and a team clean out her house. However it triggers the hoarder in Marge and she then fills her house, Later they get. Homer is upset when Cheech takes him to a museum instead of doing drugs as a reward, and Chong’s comedy show fails. Homer begins to see that the Cheech and Chong show is actually different from actual life, and works to get Cheech and Chong back together and it becomes a hit and they learn to work things out. Then Bart who plays Puck from  Midsummer’s Night Dream explains that things are now set straight and everything is back to the way it was.

3/13/11

In this Simpson’s episode Lisa and Bart’s class go on a field trip to the Danville dessert park, while there Bart and his friends venture off and end up daring each other into the abandoned gold mine. Lisa on the other hand ventures off in another direction completely on her own, she finds herself being attacked by to scorpions but when she stumbles into a small meadow of flowers the scorpions stop their attack interested in this Lisa takes the flowers and the scorpions back home with her and starts on a project using the flowers. Homers father moves in with the family and because he is grumpy he begins to causes problems. When Homes on er sees what Lisa’s spray made of the flowers she found in the Danville dessert  is doing for the scorpions he uses it on his father and gets positive results. Lisa is upset that her father is using her creation and flushes the rest of the spray down the toilet. When a company hears of the chemical that was used on Homer’s father they ask for a sample that can be taken from Homer’s father’s sweat. The formula and is put into pill form which Bart sells and causes the older grumpy grandparents to be happy. However the side effects cause the eyeballs to pop out of their socket. When the elders see the way the younger generation is acting when things go wrong they are reminded why they are grumpy towards their kids and grandchildren. When they were younger they had to work for everything while this generation needs everything handed to them. The grandparents learn that by being grumpy and on the case of their grandchildren to remind them  that they have to work hard if they want things and not everything was handed out just because someone complained about it.

Simpson's episode 2/27/11

                With the New Year always comes new obstacles and failures, and for Homer it seems to be failure. After Homer is awakened from a drunken slumber, he attempts to clean up from the night before by bringing  out the trash. Here he is served with several tickets for the new laws that have been put in place and to be carried out at the start of the year. To Homer’s disappointment he has earned $1,000 dollars in reparation to the government and is looking for a way out.  In hopes of bribing someone to rid him of his tickets, he is caught and arrested. Homer is then sentenced to 10 years in prison. However he learns that if he helps the cops catch a mob boss called “fat Tony” his time will be reduced. Homer does just this; he goes undercover and gets an "in" with the mob boss and earning all of his trust allowing him to share what he considers “special moments” with Homer. Homer begins to realize that he feels close to this mobster and actually doesn’t want to hurt him or betray him because unlike the cops, “fat Tony” isn’t using him... he actually trusts in Homer.  When Tony brings Homer with him to do a deal, the cops bust Tony who ends up dying and Homer is really hurt by this. Later “fat Tony’s” cousin “fit Tony” finds Homer and plans to kill him.  Seeing how Homer felt about his cousin changes his mind and spares Homer.  “Fit Tony” takes over the Springfield mob and eventually due to stress becomes the next “fat Tony”. Homer goes back to his regular life and finds that things are fine the way they are and that he is happy with the family that he has.