The Simpsons 111-115

Lisa On Ice

This episode premiered on November 13th, 1994. Its lead in program was The X-Files and was followed by a repeat of The Simpsons. It ran opposite Lois and Clark, Murder, She Wrote, and seaQuest DSV.

The chalkboard gag is "I will not dissect things unless instructed" and the couch gag is the family bounces off the couch and crashes into the ceiling, with just their feet dangling down. 

Channel 6 has the Action News which features multiple explosions in their opening and Kent Brockman excitedly reading stories, even the boring stuff. Bart is excited because the weatherman is calling for a "Killer" snow storm the next day and it means no school, however when Lisa wakes him up by hitting him with a snowball he runs outside to a sunny day. Just as he's called on to give his book report, which he hadn't done, Skinner calls a school assembly to tell the kids he's created the academic alert system. Each student will be given a card when they are failing a subject. Everyone is shocked when Lisa gets an academic warning card, she's failing gym. The coach offers to pass Lisa if she joins a Pee Wee team. Bart is the star of his hockey team and Lisa gets jealous, so he pelts her with garbage but she blocks it all so Apu recruits her to be his new goalie. Lisa imagines being sworn in as President until someone reveals that she flunked 2nd grade gym class, instead they sentence her to Monster Island, it's really a peninsula, so she plays hockey. After her team's first victory Lisa is rewarded with being able to ride in the front seat setting off a rivalry between her and Bart. To compete Bart decides to become better at school, but still gets all the answers wrong. When the bullies are beating up Bart, for wasting the teacher's time, Lisa saves him and the whole school laughs at him. To get revenge Bart tears the head of Mr. Honeybunny, however it was his cherished childhood toy. After breaking up a fight Marge tells Lisa and Bart that they aren't in competition with each other, just then Homer shows up to tell them that their two teams will be playing each other, in direct competition. Wiggums releases the prisoners to see the game. Moe drops by to say hi and check out the kids for betting purposes, he calls Marge "Blanch". Homer asks Marge which kid she likes best. When she won't tell him he says that she can't like Maggie the best, she never did nothing for nobody, just then she catches a beer bottle heading at Homer. The game comes down to a penalty shot by Bart against goalie Lisa, they both flash back on better times and decide to end the game in a draw. The spectators riot.

When giving the Action Report! Kent Brockman says "Reagan dyes (implying 'dies')...his hair, in Garry Trudeau's new musical review." This was based on a real musical, Trudeau created a show called Rap Master Ronnie in which Ronald Reagan tries to connect with  Black voters through rap music.

The students at Springfield Elementary named the auditorium the Butt-Head Memorial Auditorium. Beavis and Butt-Head had premiered on MTV's Liquid Televisions two years earlier and became a regular series in 1993.

Dolf (is this the first time they called this character by his name?) writes a memo on his Apple Newton. "Beat Up Martin" but the device converts it to "Eat up Martha". This was a common problem with the new technology and why the Newton was discontinued in 1998, however it did eventually lead to the iPad. Kerney throws the Newton and hits Martin in the head. 

Ralph upon getting an academic warning card says "Me fail English, that's unpossible". This is a phrase I use when I do something wrong. 

The academic warning card reads "Imaegtsiad tsnhoji namreb, ninul nosilla toi easlnpoxit alne tilodivad at saeonarf trauts." 

Springfield Youth Center "Building unrealistic hopes since 1966"

Lisa tries out for two teams, first basketball but bounces the ball with her face and pops the only volleyball with her hair and since it was the only one the team is cancelled. 

The hockey teams, The Mighty Pigs coached by Wiggums (this is a reference to the movie The Mighty Ducks and the slang term for the police), the Kiwk-E-Mart Gougers, coached by Apu and Sanjay. 

Homer's beer at the hockey rink, 44oz Big Lush. (this is a reference to 7/11's Big Gulp)

Monsters on Monster Island. Mothra, Gamera and Godzilla. 

Continuity error, Lisa and Bart are on opposing teams but for some reason he's at the Gouger's victory party at Apu's apartment. 

When Moe comes to check out the kids for betting purposes he tells The Simpsons that he's $64,000 in debt to the mob and they're going to take his thumbs. This is a reference to the movie The Pope of Greenwich Village.

Krusty does a horrible rendition of the National Anthem. This is a reference to Roseanne Barr singing at the Padres game in 1990.

Sign at the hockey rink: Moe's Bar, The 70's are back so let's drink like it. Hey Kids! Menthol Moose says "Smoke Laramie's" (this is a Joe Camel reference)

Homer Badman

This episode premiered on November 27th 1994. It ran in its usual time slot and opposite the regular programming except for Before They Were Stars on ABC

The chalkboard gag is "I will not whittle hall passes out of soap" and the couch gag is as they get to the couch the wall drops back and they chase it down a long passageway. 

Homer has two tickets to the candy industry trade show. He takes Marge because she's big enough to carry the candy he plans to hide in her special pocket lined overcoat. Marge hires Ashly Grant to babysit, she's a grad student working on Women's studies. She manipulates Bart with the video game Disemboweler IV. Professor Frink invents the sourest of lemon balls, 77-X-42, it has to be kept in a magnetic field. When it disappears they cut to Homer who's face is puckered inward. There is a Wax Lip booth, the worst of the Halloween "candy". Homer needs a distraction to steal the Gummi Venus de Milo, just then one of Marge's pockets explodes. When they are fleeing the candy convention Homer mixes a can of Buzz cola and Pop Rocks and throws it at the crowd where it explodes just as he leaps in the air action movie style. When they get home Homer is upset to discover the Gummi de Milo is missing but he has to take the babysitter home. When she gets out of the car he sees it stuck to her pants so he grabs it off and she thinks he's trying to grab her. The next day Grant shows up with protesters, Homer is relieved because he thought it was the candy convention. Homer goes to outside to explain to the protesters what happened but just then his robe blows open and he's going commando. Homer prays for help from God and the phone rings, "Hello Homer this is God...frey Jones" The show Rock Bottom does an interview with Homer but they obviously edit it to make him look like a pervert. "Dramatization, may not have happened". After the show Homer imagines a new life under the sea. Homer claims nothing every blows over for him, just then a news helicopter tries to land and blows over his car. Sally Jessie Raphael appears on her talk show where a weeping woman is talking about how she never met Homer Simpson. Gentle Ben also has a talk show. Fox Night At The Movies has the film Homer S, Portrait of an ass grabber staring Dennis Franz, the actor did his own voice over. Moe, Barney, Apu, Carl and Dr. Hibbert show up as Homer's true friends, and then offer to sell their stories to the press for $10,000. Lisa suggests Homer go on Public Access TV to tell his side of the story (This was 11 years before YouTube went on the internet). On his show Homer talks about not liking old timey bikes, one of them shows up and kicks him in the face. Willy shows up with a video he recorded of Homer, his hobby is spying on people. When Rock Bottom runs their correction Lisa says "There's you dad!" although it isn't shown on the episode. Rock Bottom then does an expose on Willie and his secret video tapes. The show ends with Homer hugging the TV and vowing to never fight again.

The couch gag is based on the movie Time Bandits where they push on the bedroom wall and it turn into a dimensional portal hallway that they use to escape God. 

Bart picked the bits out of his cereal leaving only the marshmallows. You can buy a bag of just marshmallows from Amazon these days.

The candy trade show tickets were hidden in every millionth Krusty Klump Bar and Krusty Klump Bar with almonds. This is a reference to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. 

Homer is in a hurry to get to the trade show to get pictures with the two surviving Musketeers, this is a reference to the Three Musketeers bar. 

Dated reference: Ashley Grant has a Nintendo style video cartridge. 

Community Center: Welcome Candy Convention Room 1, also Candy-Shaped Rat Poison Convention Room 11.

The announcer at the convention pages Mr. Goodbar to the front desk, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". This is in reference to the candy and the 1977 movie. 

Jolly Gummibears, They Hibernate In Your Colon

Various gummi candies, Bears, Calves Heads, Jaw Breakers, The Gummi Venus de Milo. 

Homer making a bomb out of cola and pop rocks is a reference to the urban myth that the kid who played Mikey on the Life cereal commercials (John Gilchrist) died after his stomach exploded when he mixed the two. It was also 5 years before the first Mentos and Diet Coke experiment on The Late Show with David Letterman. 

When Homer is explaining sexual harassment to Bart he talks about a postcard Grandpa sent them from Florida with an alligator biting a woman's butt. When Bart asks about the Coppertone ad of the dog pulling off the girl's swimsuit Homer calls it a grey area. 

Protest signs: You Pinch We Lynch, Homer Bad Man, Hands off, Homer is a Pig, Touch a butt, go to jail, Thou Shalt Not Grab. 

Homer goes on the show Rock Bottom, this is a reference to the show Hard Copy with Barry Nolan. The show was often called out for its questionable use of editing. 

Homer's living under the sea fantasy is a take on the musical number from The Little Mermaid (1989) except Homer eats all the fish.

"Simpson Scandal Update, Homer sleeps nude in an oxygen tent." This is a reference to when Michal Jackson was photographed in an oxygen chamber and the tabloids claimed he slept there to maintain his youthful appearance.

The talk show Ben is a reference to the TV show Gentle Ben about a tamed bear.

TV shows Homer watches, Late Night With David Letterman who lists him as his #1 reference he's running into the ground. Bumblebee Man being pinched and claiming Homer molested him, in Spanish. He switches over to Evening At The Improv who still shows 80's reruns. 

Grandpa's flag has 49 stars because he refuses to acknowledge Missouri. The US flag had 49 stars for 7 months in 1959 between the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states. (The flags on the top of the buildings at Disneyland have 49 stars since they are no longer considered official flags and the park doesn't have to take them down until they wear out, plus Disneyland opened between the statehoods of Alaska and Hawaii)

Homer says the Wags have named him Father Goose. Wags is a slang term for the Wives And Girlfriends of Sportsmen.

Rock Bottom's corrections:

'Peoples' Choice Award" is America's greatest honor (at that point The Simpsons had won 2 People's Choice awards, they would go on to win 8 more)

Styrofoam is not made from kittens.

The UFO was a paper plate

The nerds on the internet are not geeks

The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself. 

The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod (self aware joke)

Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice for Yosemite Sam

If you are reading this you have no life

Roy Rogers was not buried inside his horse

The other UFO was an upside down salad spinner

Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything

Mr. Dershowits did not literally have four eyes

Our viewers are not pathetic, sexless food tubes

Audrey Hepburn never weighted 400 pounds

The "Cheers" gang is not a real gang (Cheers ran opposite The Simpsons when they were on Thursday nights)

Salt water does not "chase the thirsties away"

Licking an electric outlet will not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger (Original US episodes of the show ran in syndication in the US from 1993 to 1995)

Cats do not eventually turn into dogs

Bullets do not bounce off fat guys

Recycling does not deplete the ozone

Everything is 10% fruit juice

The flesh eating virus does not hide in ice cream

Janet Reno is evil (running Simpsons joke)

V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline (Bart comments on this one)

Ted Koppel is a robot (Homer comments on this one)

Women aren't from Venus, Men aren't from Mars (a reference to the 1992 book)

Fleiss does floss (This is in reference to Heidi Fleiss aka the Hollywood Madam who had rather large teeth)

Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedures (former VP)

Bart is bad to the bone (self aware joke)

Godfrey Jones' wife is cheating on him (Rock Bottom host)

The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing tournaments (at this point two out of the three surviving members had appeared on The Simpsons)

The "Bug" on your TV screen can see into your home (a bug is the logo stations would put at the bottom of the screen)

Everyone on TV is better than you

The people writing this have no life (self aware joke)

Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacies 

This episode premiered on December 4th 1994. The lead in show was Encounters: The Hidden Truth (a program about UFOs) and was followed by a rerun of The Simpsons. It ran opposite Lois and Clark, Murder, She Wrote and the movie The Fisher King. 

The chalkboard gag is "My homework was not stolen by a one armed man" and the couch gag is the family running by the couch as a repeated background goes by. 

Marge and Homer are having "snuggling" problems. They go to the book store to find something on relationships but to hide from the kids they grab Tanks of the Third Reich and Mapplethorp. Marge buys a book on tape by Paul Harvey. Lisa buys a book by Peter Ueberroth for 99¢ and an Al Gore book, Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow. Bart buys Unidentified Flying Outrage. Lisa calls UFO government coverups a paranoid fantasy but when they scan the books the X-File music starts to play, however it's just alerting Al Gore that someone bought his book, he turns on Celebration by Kool and the Gang. Marge and Homer's attempt several suggestions from Paul Harvey's relationship book on tape but get stuck when they try to take a bath together and then whey they try a romance hotel the only room available is a couple of cots in the utility closet. Mayor Quimby is at the love hotel and staying in the Caveman Room. After a failed night they throw the sex tape out the car window and run it over. While taking him home Grandpa offers to cure Homer's sex problems and mixes him up a tonic his father invented when he was trying to create a cheap alternative to holy water. Homer drinks it, rushes home, sends the kids to the movies and he and Marge "snuggle". Homer and Grandpa go into the traveling medicine business. Homer fails to attract customers so Abe does an old fashion snake oil pitch. All the adults disappear and Bart claims it's because of UFOs. During their show Abe picks a volunteer from the audience, Homer. When he claims to have never seen Homer before someone points out that his face is on the bottle, they have to flee. The kids have a fight over why the adults are acting so weird, Bart says it's UFOs and Milhouse says it's a government conspiracy. Lisa tries to point out that they are grasping at the easiest explanation and tells them that the adults could all be reverse vampires. Abe and Homer come across the old family farm. When Homer and Abe have a fight Abe calls Homer an accident and gets kicked out of the car. The kids come to an agreement, The Rand corporation, in association with the saucer people and the reverse vampires are conspiring to make adults go to be early to eliminate the meal of dinner. After the falling out with Abe Homer deicides to devote more time to the kids, which doesn't go well. Meanwhile Abe recruits Barney to help him sell the tonic however he shows up drunk. Both Homer and Abe show up at the old farm house. Homer realizes that Able dressed up as Santa but he sets the house on fire with the photo. Meanwhile Abe throws a bottle of tonic in the fire place and sets the rest of the place on fire. They reconcile and decide to roll in the dirt to put out the fire together. 

The chalkboard gag in this show is a reference to the TV series and movie The Fugitive and the couch gag is a reference to the repeated backgrounds in cartoons, this one relates to the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons. 

Homer and Marge are watching the Thou$and door movie, Goodtime Slim, Uncle Doobie and the Great Frisco Freak-out starring Troy McClure. This is a reference to the low budget movies of the 1970's.

Books! Books! And Additional Books! Today's special: Michener $1.99/lb. James Michener was known for his lengthy novels with a lot of historical information. Sign on the stair "Still More Books" with an arrow pointing upwards.

Books on the shelf: Weigth Loss Through L'amorous Sex, Bordello Repair Vol I, Bork On Sex, How to seduce your lousy, lazy husband, Kama Sutra, Kosher Erotic Cakes. 

Homer grabs a photography book of Maplethorp. He was best known for his homoerotic photos and pissing off Jessie Helms from beyond the grave. (Robert Mapplethorp died from AIDS in 1989)

The Simpsons buy the audiobook Mr. and Mrs. Erotic America by Paul Harvey. 

Aphrodite Inn Fantasy Rooms & Conference Center. Fantasy Rooms: Arabian Nights, Pharaoh's Room (with the vibrating sarcophagus), Caveman Room, Safari Room, Camelot Room, and the Utility Room where Homer and Marge wind up. 

Grandpa tries to guess what's wrong with Marge. He says flu, protein deficiency, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (this is the longest word in the English language and refers to lung problems associated with inhaling ash and dust), and finally unsatisfying sex life?

When Homer is snuggling with Marge we see a train going in a tunnel, a rocket ship taking off and hot dogs falling off a conveyer belt. It's the kids at the Film Footage Festival. Comicbook Guy and Herman are in the audience. 

Homer and Abe set up a table at the mall selling Simpson & Son Revitalizing Tonic. Homemade medicine $1.00

Professor Frink tries Abe's tonic and turns into the cool guy from The Nutty Professor (The 1963 Jerry Lewis version)

Places Grandpa plans to sell his tonic, Frigid Falls, Mount Seldom, Lake Flaccid. 

Now Entering Spittle County, Birthplace of the Loogie. (Spittle County was first seen in the episode Colonel Homer)

When Homer and Abe are fleeing the townsfolk Foggy Mountain Breakdown is playing. As soon as Homer turns it off the people give up. This is a reference the movie Bonnie And Clyde.

The Simpson family TV was the Radiation King, Homer's shadow is on the wall behind it in reference to the people who were vaporized at Hiroshima. (There was an urban myth that you could get radiation poisoning from TV's back in the 50's and 60's. It's been modernized to cell phones)

Continuity error. In the episode Lisa's First Words Homer says Abe won his house in a 50's crooked game show but in this episode they still lived on the farm up until 1963.

While watching TV Homer sees JFK give a flippant remark instead of an answer to "Helen". This is in reference to Helen Thomas who covered the White House briefings from 1960 until 2011.

Homer's mother is seen in this episode, at least her legs are. 

When Homer talks like JFK and his mother says one day Homer could be President Abe points out there is a whole system set up to keep people like him from becoming President. This was often quoted during the Trump years. 

When Milhouse spells out the kid's theory on why their parents are acting so odd he says "we're through the looking glass people". This is a reference to the 1991 film JFK, which in turn was making a reference to Alice Through The Looking Glass novel.

Fear Of Flying

This episode first aired on December 18th, 1994. Its lead in show was Encounters: The Hidden Truth and it was followed by Life With Louie (an animated sitcom based on the comedy of Louie Anderson). The program ran opposite Lois And Clark, Murder, She Wrote and seaQuest DSV.

The chalkboard gag is "Ralph won't "morph" if you squeeze him hard enough" and the couch gag is a repeat of the circus acts. (this was the first full intro that started at the nuclear plant, included Homer and the rod, the grocery store checkout, the band room scene, the people on the street and the background characters, in a long time)

Lenny asks Moe if he has change for a $5, when he opens the register a cobra pops out and bites him. Barney then asks if Moe wants to smell his flower, when Moe bends down Barney sets his apron on fire. Homer unscrews the lid on the sugar jar and everyone gets mad. The bar crowd vote to ban Homer from Moe's for life. Moe takes Homer's favorite song "It's Raining Men" out of the jukebox and throws it out the window, it hits a passing Smithers who is rather happy to get it, just another clue about his sexuality. The family tries to cheer up Homer but only convince him to go find a new bar. Homer goes to a classy bar but they politely ask him to leave, he then goes to Cheers but when Woody tries to cut off Norm he breaks a bottle and goes crazy so Homer runs away. Homer goes to a Lesbian bar but leaves when there isn't a proper fire exit. Guy Incognito shows up at Moe's but they beat him up and throw him out in the street, just as the real Homer walks by. Homer goes to The Little Black Box at the airport but it's a Pilots Only bar so he pretends to be one. A guy shows up and says they need an emergency pilot to fly to the Windy City. Homer accidentally retracts the landing gear and crashes the plane. To keep him quiet the airline gives Homer free tickets for the family, except for Alaska and Hawaii. The airline oversold the flight so Bart and Lisa get upgraded to first class. Marge has a panic attack and the family gets kicked off the plane. Marge's breakdown continues at home where she wants the dog and cat to get married and bakes everything in site. She then reshingles the house. Lisa wants Marge to go to therapy but instead Homer has her call a radio psychic who tells her she'll die a horrible horrible death. Homer goes to the video store because Dear Abby says films about air travel can calm your fears, he rents disaster films. When Marge goes to the psychiatrist she flashes back on a fellow student telling her the Monkeys don't write their own songs or play their own instruments. Marge says her father was a pilot but when she has a repressed memory she sees her father as a steward. She also remembers her grandmother doing the "here comes the airplane" with her food and poking her in the eye, and then her toy pedal airplane catching on fire. She also remembers being chased by a biplane. When the psychiatrist brings up Homer he busts into the office and drags Marge out because all he wanted was to be able to get her onto an airplane. When Marge thanks the doctor she says she'll always think of Lowenstein, the psychiatrist's name is Zweig. When Marge finally gets on the plane Homer is explaining the sounds of the plane as they try to take off and crash into the water. 

Moe has a collection of Hirschfeld characters of the bar regulars. Sam, the guy with the glasses and hat, Lenny, Larry, the guy with the big nose, Barney, Homer and Carl. The wall is called Mount Lushmore. 

The cast of Cheers, Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Rhea Pearlman, John Ratzenberger, and George Wendt do their voice overs for the show. Ironically Frasier Crane is seen in the bar but doesn't speak, he's played by Simpson regular Kelsey Grammer (Sideshow Bob)

The airline where Homer causes the accident is called Quasi-Clown Airlines. 

Homer is tired of hoagies and wants to try a sub, a footlong, a grinder. 

After they get kicked off the plane they get the feeling they forgot something, cut to Abe doing the Home Alone shout. 

Homer's fear is sock puppets.

VHS Village, Formerly The Beta Barn. Today it would be a Starbucks.

The air travel videos Homer rents, Hero (a Dustin Hoffman comedy about a plane crash), Fearless (A Jeff Bridges movie about a guy who thinks he's immortal after walking away from a plane crash), Alive (about the rugby team that crashes in the Andes and has to resort to cannibalism to survive)

Springfield Psychiatric Center "Because there may not be bugs on you"

Bart sees Principal Skinner at the psychiatrist office. When he tries to hide he holds up Principal's World magazine that has his photo on the cover. 

Marge dreams about being on Lost In Space, Homer is Dr. Smith, Lisa is the Robot. The family then leaves her behind while she calls for her father.

When Marge is having repressed memories she remembers being chased by a biplane that was shooting at her and her mother. This is a parody of the plane scene in North by Northwest. 

When Marge leaves the psychiatrist's office she says when the wind blows she'll alway hear the name Lowenstein. This is a line from the movie Prince Of Tides. The movie was first referenced in the episode Selma's Choice when Marge remembers summers at her aunts house but it turns out that she's remembering a scene from the movie.

Ann Bancroft does the voice of Dr. Zweig.

In Lisa's Substitute Marge says No little girl can be happy unless she has faith in her daddy. This episode was about Marge being ashamed of her father. Was that a bit of foreshadowing?

This was the last episode of 1994. Only 30 more years to go. Now on to 1995.

Homer The Great

This episode premiered on January 8th, 1995. Its lead in show was Get Smart (an attempted reboot of the classic series starring Andy Dick. Thankfully it was cancelled after 7 episodes) The show was followed by House of Buggin' (a short lived sketch comedy series starring John Leguizamo and Luis Guzman). The episode ran opposite Lois and Clark, Murder, She Wrote and Earth 2

The chalkboard gag is "Adding 'Just Kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the principal" (paying attention pundits?) and the couch gag is M.C Escher's Relativity, the family runs in on different planes. (Escher's work was first used in the episode Brush With Greatness)

First the Simpsons have a leak that the plumber claims will take three weeks to fix and then Homer gets stuck in traffic. When he finally gets to work he's parked on the other side of the fence from his house. When he reaches the building he finds that Lenny and Carl have social spaces. He asks how they got such great parking Lenny says "it's a secret" and Carl tells him "Shut up" Homer breaks his crappy chair at work and goes to ask Carl and Lenny for help fixing it, only to discover they have vibrating chairs. When he asks how they got them it's a repeat of the previous conversation. Carl and Lenny use their secret rings to get free sodas from the vending machine, when Homer asks about them about bowling that night they say they have better things to do. Homer asks them what and Lenny says "it's a secret" however Carl has just taken a big drink so Homer says "Shut up". Homer decides to follow Lenny and Carl even though Marge says she doesn't want him doing that again. To follow them Homer hangs a can of yellow paint off the back of their car so it drips as they drive, making a dashed yellow line. At their secret meeting place Homer spies on everyone by laying on the skylight but crashes through and is caught, and has to pay the ultimate price, getting tossed out. Homer wants to get into the Stonecutters, after Lenny accidentally reveals the name, the only two ways to join are to be the son of a member or save one of their lives, so Homer knocks Lenny's sandwich on the floor to save him from cholesterol. Homer remembers back to his youth when his friends create the "No Homers Club" when he points out that they let in Homer Glumplet they say "No HomerS" Homer starts talking about how he wish he was a member and Grandpa keeps trying to tell them he's a Stonecutter. When Homer joins he has to go through the initiation, they do the falling off a building gag but Homer crashed through the floor and really falls. He goes through multiple paddling. It turns out the plumber is a Stonecutter and fixes the pipe. Homer also has access to a secret tunnel to work but still has to park next to the fence, however they gave him roller blades and a vibrating chair. It turns out the Stonecutters are just a bunch of drinkers, pretty much like all other social clubs. When the Stonecutters serve ribs for their 1500th anniversary Homer uses the sacred parchment as a bib and gets kicked out, until they see his birthmark and declare him the Chosen One. As such the members make sure Homer wins at everything including bowling, pool and poker, he soon gets bored with the special treatment, Lisa convinces him to turn the organization into a service club. The Stonecutters open a daycare center and paint over a building covered in the word "Graffiti", although the paint the building sky blue causing a helicopter to crash into it. Instead of their first plan,  killing Homer, the Stonecutters change their name to the No Homers, they still let in Homer Glumpet. Homer goes back to the Stonecutters hall where he tries to reenact civil war battles with monkeys. Marge reminds Homer that he's a member of a very exclusive club, the Family Simpson, which has just 5 members and two have special rings. At the end Homer has to go through a paddling ritual.

When the plumber is visiting the Aztec head is still in the basement. He also has a beeper, so 20th century.

Stern Lecture Plumbing "I told you not to flush that"

Artie Pie makes an appearance after his traffic helicopter crashed and blocks traffic.

The Simpsons started playing fast and loose with the location of the house. In this episode it's right next to the really really big parking lot for the power plant.

When Lenny is talking about eggs and the dangers of cholesterol Homer says the egg council has gotten to him, and just then a guy in an egg costume tries to run away. (In the 90's there were a series of commercials about the healthy benefits of eggs) The Egg Advisory Council was first mentioned in the episode Burns' Heir.

Homer's Revenge List:

Bill Of Rights

Grandpa

Fat Free Lard

Gravity

Emmys

Darwin

H2Whoa! (Another reference to the episode Brush With Greatness)

God

Soloflex

The Boy

Stern Lecture Plumbing 

Econ-Save (the manufacturers of his broken chair)

Stonecutter Members: Lenny, Carl, Skinner, Dr. Hibbert, Moe, Wiggums, Herman, Grandpa Abe, Sideshow Mel, Krusty, Mr. Burns, Number One, Kirk Van Houten, Mr. Largo (the school band teacher), Kent Brockman, Mayor Quimby, Willie, a Martian, Mr. Smithers, Steve Gutenberg, Jasper, Leopold (the guy who angrily introduces people), Barney, The Egg Council Guy.

Stonecutter World Council, Orville Redenbacher, Jack Nicholson, Mr. T and George Bush sr. 

Grandpa's clubs, Stonecutter, Elk, Mason, Communist Party, President of the Gay And Lesbian Alliance (couldn't get away with that joke today)

The Stonecutter spanking  rituals including The Unblinking Eye, as seen on the dollar bill, The Crossing of the Desert, and the Wreck of the Hesperus (A poem by Longfellow), finally the Paddling Of The Swollen Ass With Paddles. 

The Stonecutter oath, "If I reveal the secrets of the Stonecutters may my stomach become bloated, and my head be plucked of all but three hairs". Moe thinks Homer should take a different oath. 

Homer is #908 in the Stonecutters ranking. 

Homer reads Secret World History. At the signing of the Declaration of Independence they party like it was 1799 (Prince reference)

When Homer becomes the Chosen One his introduction is a take on the 1987 movie The Last Emperor. 

This episode features the song "We Do". One of the better original Simpsons songs. It mentions how they make Steve Gutenberg a star. At the time he had been in the popular Police Academy franchise and the movies Cocoon and the Three Men series. 

Moe gets stuck in a slide at a daycare center, another reference to the episode A Bush With Greatness. 

Number One was voiced by Patrick Stewart who had starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation and called his second in command Number Two.

We've reached episode 115, most shows never make it this far however in the world of Simpsons we are only 1/7th the way through, so far.