Mommie Beerest
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| The Simpsons episode | |
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| "Mommie Beerest" | |
| Image:GABF01.jpg | |
| Episode no. | 342 |
| Prod. code | GABF01 |
| Orig. airdate | January 30, 2005 |
| Show runner(s) | Al Jean |
| Written by | Michael Price |
| Directed by | Mark Kirkland |
| Couch gag | The living room is made of sand. The family, looking haggard and dehydrated, crawls in, but end up lying under the desert sun when the living room collapses. |
| Season 16 November 7 2004 – May 15 2005 | |
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"Mommie Beerest" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season.
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[edit] Synopsis
The Simpsons celebrate a brunch at a fancy restaurant to celebrate Homer's finally paying off the mortgage. After Bart and Lisa get in a food fight, Homer goes to Moe's, where the health inspector has come for his regular visit. Since the inspector is a childhood friend of Moe, he gives the bar a clean bill of health (regardless of numerous violations). But he dies upon consuming one of Moe's pickled eggs. The new inspector immediately declares Moe's Tavern to be closed until the violations are cleared up (and the weekly garbage pickup disposes of his predecessor's corpse).
Moe's Tavern is now closed, and the regulars hold an Irish wake on the sidewalk. Homer decides to help Moe reopen the bar by getting a new mortgage for his home, forging Marge's name. She then becomes the new co-owner. Homer visits a cleaned-up Moe's with Marge running it in order to protect their investment, and suggests Homer just concentrate on the kids. Marge also suggests that Moe's should become an English pub to improve its image. The Nag & Weasel is a success, and Bart and Lisa observe that Marge now spends more time at the establishment than Homer ever did. Homer is worried, but Marge has no problem with it.
Homer and Marge go to a movie together, only to be joined by Moe, and Homer learns from Lenny and Carl that Marge and Moe are having what's called an "emotional affair." Homer is also scared when Marge reminds him for the eleventh time they are planning to attend a bartender convention in Aruba. Homer rushes to the airport, escorted by Chief Wiggum, and gets to the plane as it is about to become airborne—he must save his marriage. Meanwhile, Moe finally gets out his true feelings for his partner that he has hidden in the dark for so long, spurred on by the alarming display he witnesses from the window seat. He tells Marge he loves her and, in a rush, asks her to marry him. Marge is shocked, but before she can answer, a soaking-wet Homer bursts out of the toilet seat in the bathroom and yells at the barkeeper to leave his wife alone. Moe shouts back that Homer does not deserve Marge at all since he knows nothing about her: her favorite dish, for example. Homer does admit that he does not know much about his own wife, but despite his faults, Marge reassures him that he really is her true love, not the lovestruck bartender.
The threesome arrive in Aruba, where the miserable Moe attempts to drown himself because of his loss, only to be stopped by Marge and Homer. Marge explains to him that he is sweet enough a man to be loved by someone else, if only he is willing to make a few, minor changes. Moe seems to listen, but nevertheless reverts to his original scheme of sharing a hotel room with Marge (he has changed the booking on the sly). To his ultimate chagrin, the barkeeper finds himself forced to share the bed with Homer while Marge settles down on the couch, but suddenly she exclaims: "Who's watching the kids?!". It is revealed that Bart has entered himself, Lisa, and Maggie in a European balloon race, and the closing shot is of several balloons floating over Paris to the strains of "La Vie En Rose."
[edit] Dedication
This episode was dedicated to the memory of Johnny Carson, who died a week before this episode aired.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title is a play on the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest.
- Over the end credits, Homer and Marge sing Captain & Tennille's song "Love Will Keep Us Together"; this was actually a deleted scene from Co-Dependent's Day.
- In the scene where Homer chases Moe and Marge's plane on the tarmac is a spoof on the Jim Carrey movie Liar, Liar.
- Due to the closure of his bar, Moe tells his patrons to get their beer from a gay bar across the street, "The League of Extra-Horny Gentlemen" (a play on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) from which "Can't Get You out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue is playing. This is a reference to Minogue's status as a gay icon.
- The scene where there's a new computer-animated movie from Dreamworks, Cards, parodies many other computer-animated movies, specifically Dreamworks' Shrek, Shark Tale, and Pixar's numerous highly-successful films (including Cars, originally scripted by 1998), in the way that Dreamworks seems to always use big name stars to voice their animated characters. It also parodies animated films that have titles that are simply the names of the races of the characters in the film (Robots, Cars, Antz, ect.) Also, computer animation is used again, but by now was less expensive and easier to create.
- When Homer makes a puck of his lips to kiss Marge, she goes away and Homer instead uses the puck of his lips to play the trombone where he plays Greensleeves.
[edit] Awards
- This episode would win writer Michael Price the 2006 WGA Award for writing in animation. It marked the third year in a row a Simpsons episode won the award. No matter what, The Simpsons would have won because all six nominees were Simpsons episodes (also nominated were There's Something About Marrying, The Girl Who Slept Too Little, See Homer Run, Thank God It's Doomsday, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star. (See List of awards won by The Simpsons for more info)
[edit] Reception
10.0 million people originally watched this episode.
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