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 The Simpsons 96-100 Deep Space Homer This episode premiered on February 24th 1994. It ran in its usual time slot and was followed by a repeat of The Simpsons. It ran opposite a repeat of Matlock (Missing Persons had been cancelled and the replacement show wouldn't start until the next week), The Winter Olympics and Mad About You. There is no chalkboard gag and the couch gag is a repeat of the really obese guy. Homer is excited because after waiting until everyone else won the mandatory Worker of the Week he is finally due, but is passed over for an inanimate carbon rod. Bart writes "insert brain here" on the back of Homer's head (this joke will come back around). At home Homer almost watches a space launch but Bart unplugs the TV just in time. As ratings, and funding, falls NASA considers telling the public that the space chimps came back super intelligent but one of the monkeys tells them no. NASA decides to send a blue collar slob into space, they plan on doing an ...

 The Simpsons 91-95 $pringfield (or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Legalized Gambling) The title is taken from Dr. Stranglove (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb) and the 1971 film $ This show premiered on December 16th, 1993. It ran in its usual time slot followed by The Sinbad Show. It ran opposite Missing Persons, In The Heat Of The Night and Mad About You. The chalkboard gag is "I will not say Springfield just to get applause" and the couch gag is the family running into each other and shattering on the floor. Homer goes to the restroom and finds a pair of glasses in the toilet. When he puts them on he tries to sound smart, it turns out they belonged to Henry Kissinger who didn't want to admit he dropped them, later Kissinger is injured when he walks into a wall. Burns randomly choses to lay off people at the plant but decides to keep Homer since he's wearing glasses and looks like an egghead. The Springfield economy suffers when Fort Sp...

  The Simpsons 86-90 Treehouse Of Horror IV (The Simpsons Halloween Special IV) This episode premiered on October 28th, 1993. It ran in its usual time slot and was followed by The Sinbad Show. It ran opposite Missing Persons, The Heat Of The Night and Mad About You. The opening sequence is the headstones from the cemetery: Elvis "Accept It" (Both a reference to people claiming Elvis was still alive and the short lived series that ran opposite The Simpsons in their first season), A Balanced Budget (in reference to the U.S. budget fight of 1993), Subtle Political Satire (in reference to the previous headstone), TV Violence (which is shot full of bloody holes). The couch gag is a zombie Simpsons family comes out of a hole and sitting on the couch. In the background is the classic ship painting but now it's sinking and surrounded by sharks. The show starts with Bart narrating like Rod Serling in the Night Gallery series. Marge shows up and tells him to warn people that the sh...

 The Simpsons 81-85 Krusty Gets Kancelled  This episode premiered on May 13th, 1993. It ran in its usual time slot, followed by Martin. It ran opposite Matlock, Knots Landing and Cheers. The chalkboard gag is "I will not charge admission to the bathroom" and the couch gag is a repeat of the snare gag. After the Springfield Squares gets hit by a title wave Homer and Bart see a commercial for Gabbo, there is a media blitz but nobody knows who or what Gabbo is. He turns out to be a ventriloquist doll operated by Arthur Krandal. The new show runs opposite Krusty. When Krusty's ratings slip he tries to do his own doll but the jaw falls off and then he kicks it into the crowd of the terrified children. Krusty tries to bribe the audience with fake money. Quimby uses Gabbo's catchphrase to distract from his corruption. Itchy and Scratchy go to The Gabbo Show so Krusty has to show a Russian cartoon Worker and Parasite from 1959. Krusty gets cancelled, he goes to Johnny Carson ...