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3	'''Original air date:''' 11/15/1998
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5	'''Production code:''' AABF-02
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7	After starring in an instructional video for the nuclear plant, Homer discovers while filling out his Screen Actors' Guild form that he doesn't know what the "J" in his middle name means, so Homer goes to a hippie commune (headed by two hippies turned businessmen named Seth and Munchie), finds his answer on a mural his mom painted -- and decides to be as free and wild as the hippies of the 1960s were.
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9	!!This episode provides examples of...
10	* AbusiveParents: Abe, of course. He basically said that it was Mona's job to name and love Homer while he was only in it for the spanking. In the flashback at Woodstock, he not only was prepared to spank Homer for dancing naked but look for a recruitment booth to send him off to [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] despite him being no older than maybe ten.
11	* AlanSmithee: In-universe, it is the pseudonym Burns uses for his director credit on the terrible instructional video Homer, Lenny and Carl act in.
12	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Homer, per usual. When Bart and Lisa see him outside their school with the hippies, Bart prays that he won't walk in to no avail.
13	* AnachronismStew: Homer attempts to be helpful in the "hippie freak-out" ... by playing "Uptown Girl", a song made in ''1983''. Then again, it is PlayedForLaughs.
14	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Abe is shown booing Music/JimiHendrix while waiting for Music/ShaNaNa to perform at Woodstock. In reality, Hendrix performed far after Sha Na Na did, as he was the headliner. [[UnreliableNarrator But this being Abe...]]
15	* BadBadActing: Homer, Lenny and Carl stink of this in the commercial. Bonus points for Homer, as he attempted to finish it.
16	-->'''Homer:''' For all those reasons and more, let us choose an [[{{Pun}} electrifying]] career in [[{{Beat}} ...]] Line?\
17	'''Burns:''' Nuclear power.\
18	'''Homer:''' ''(Imitating Burns)'' Nuclear power.
19	* BaitAndSwitch: Homer is shot by the police in the climax; [[https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E06/6TIMRnMpCQebj7c6JDojp5awes4=.gif the next shot is of the cemetery ... followed quickly by a pan right to the hospital, where Homer is being treated for being shot in the head with the flower he put in one of the cops' guns.]]
20	* BrainBleach: Maude proclaims her eyes "soiled" after she sees Homer lying naked on his couch ... on his front lawn.
21	* CelebrityParadox: Creator/GeorgeCarlin voices Munchie, one of Mona's hippie friends. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E15HomieTheClown Homie the Clown]]," Krusty got in trouble with Carlin for stealing his "Seven Dirty Words" routine.
22	* ChekhovsGun: Homer plays with an old frisbee as part of his hippie shtick. He tosses it into the air in celebration when Seth and Munchie humor him by going on an "old-time freak-out" with him. While they're out, it somehow gets into their factory and jams the juicing mechanism.
23	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
24	** When Seth and Munchie say that Mona Simpson was "a demon in the sack", Abe obliviously confirms it, thinking they only must have heard that about her.
25	** It's announced on the news that Seth and Munchie's inability to supply the ordered amount of juice was caused by a "half-witted oaf". Homer is glad that they decided to blame it on "an oaf" but he still feels guilty.
26	* ComicBookTime: The 1992 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" showed a young Homer listening to music instead of paying attention to the moon landing, while this episode shows an even younger Homer attending Woodstock, which took place a few weeks later.
27	* CouchGag: The family sits, and a safety bar lowers over their laps before the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster.
28	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Homer finds his full name on a mural painted by Mona with a shrub covering most of the middle name and moves it aside dramatically for TheReveal.
29	-->"From this moment forth, I will be known as Homer...''Jay'' Simpson!"
30	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: While embracing the hippie lifestyle, Homer stops wearing shoes, to the point that the soles of his feet have visibly blackened, which he attributes to "walking through pretty much anything."
31	* ExtremeDoormat: Implied by Skinner's response to the hippies' proclamation of "this conformity factory [Springfield Elementary, as] ''closed''."
32	-->"Fifteen years of loyal service and this is how they tell me?"
33	* {{Flashback}}: To 1969, where Abe and Homer went to UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}.
34	* FutureMeScaresMe: ''Even the painting of Past Homer'' isn't pleased with Present Homer:
35	-->'''Past Homer:''' How could you let me turn into ''you?''
36	-->'''Present Homer:''' Bu-bu-but the poncho...
37	-->'''Past Homer (mockingly):''' "Bu-bu-but the poncho." Hit the road, square.
38	* {{Hypocrite}}:
39	** Munchie calls out Homer for his hypocrisy when he berates him and Seth for having jobs.
40	--->'''Homer:''' You guys are total sellouts!\
41	'''Munchie:''' Wait. Don't you work for a nuclear power plant?
42	** Later, when the police come to bust the "drug mill," Homer extolls the hippie ideals of "freedom, love, and peace" just after behaving rather aggressively towards them.
43	* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Parodied when Homer ends up in the hospital with a flower embedded in his forehead.
44	-->'''Bart:''' Why don't you just pull it out?\
45	'''Dr. Hibbert:''' ''(Laughing)'' I'm a doctor, not a gardener!\
46	'''Homer:''' Can't you just prune some of the leaves so I can watch TV?\
47	'''Hibbert:''' ''(Dead serious)'' What did I just say?
48	* ImAHumanitarian: Implied with Mr. Burns, who refuses Smithers' offer to send out for some Chinese (food) because "those people are all gristle."
49	* InsaneTrollLogic: When Bart suggests to Homer the idea of making up a middle name for his actor form, Homer refuses and says that he would never lie twice on the same form (after he already made up a fake film credit). When Marge responds that Homer made dozens of lies on their mortgage application, he claims that each lie formed part of "a single ball of lies."
50	* LiteralMetaphor: Munchie says that, in a way, the '60s ended the day they sold their hippie bus ... which occurred on December 31, 1969.
51	* MushroomSamba: A good chunk of the town gets unintentionally stoned, and we see Groundskeeper Willie, Ned Flanders, and Barney fall victim to this (although [[StartXToStopX Barney starts up another]] MushroomSamba to stop the first using beer to summon a friendlier {{pink elephant\|s}} hallucination).
52	* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Until this episode, the viewers didn't know what the "J" in Homer J. Simpson was for.[[note]]It was originally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel]].[[/note]] It was a mystery even for Homer. Actually, even Abe didn't know.
53	-->"How should I know? It was your mother's job to name you and love you and such. I was mainly in it for the spanking."
54	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Homer tries so hard to be this, but his dialogue is TotallyRadical and he doesn't make much of an impact.
55	* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: After Homer ruins Seth and Munchie's juice shipment:
56	-->'''Kent Brockman:''' And, in business news, Groovy Grove Juice Corporation has announced it will miss delivery on its third-quarter shipment. A spokesman attributed the production shutdown to a half-witted oaf.\
57	'''Homer:''' Aww, it was sweet of those guys to blame an oaf. But really, it was my fault.
58	* OhCrap: Seth and Munchie's realisation that Homer used their "personal vegetables" to complete the juice order.
59	* PassingJudgment: {{Inverted}} when Homer becomes a hippie and decides to defy the establishment. Acting out of his mind while driving in his car, he passes Krusty the Clown, who is at that moment riding a unicycle pulled by his pet monkey... and calls ''them'' weirdos.
60	* ReallyGetsAround: Let's just say that Mona Simpson was, as Abe ''and'' Munchie puts it, "a demon in the sack".
61	* TheReveal: Homer J. Simpson's middle name is Jay.
62	* RunningGag: Homer using "Uptown Girl" by Music/BillyJoel as his hippie anthem.
63	* ShoutOut:
64	** While stoned, Abe and Jasper laugh like WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead.
65	** As he gets stoned, Ned sees Music/TheGratefulDead's dancing bears and skeletons, the Music/PinkFloyd [[Music/TheWall marching hammers]], followed by Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}' lips and tongue saying "Pucker up, Ned!"
66	** When Homer sings "Uptown Girl" during the credits, he replaces the last line with "I buried Flanders", a reference to how the "Paul Is Dead" urban legend/conspiracy theory, which claims that Music/PaulMcCartney of Music/TheBeatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a lookalike, has among their "clues" that Music/JohnLennon says "I buried Paul" in the final section of "Strawberry Fields Forever."[[note]]Lennon said that the words were actually "Cranberry sauce".[[/note]]
67	* SoundtrackDissonance: Invoked in-universe with Homer's mix tape, as he plays [[Music/BillyJoel "Uptown Girl"]] during the freak-out.
68	* SpecialGuest: Creator/MartinMull and Creator/GeorgeCarlin as Seth and Munchie.
69	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Abe describes Mona as "a demon in the sack." Munchie uses the exact same phrase to describe her later.
70	-->'''Abe:''' ''(chortling)'' Aww. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You heard about that, eh?]]
71	* SummonBiggerFish: Barney beats his juice hallucination by drinking beer to call on a pink elephant to kill it.
72	* TakeThat: Marge claims that the power plant recruitment film, filled with BadBadActing and StylisticSuck, was still better than Music/BarbraStreisand's latest movie.
73	* TotallyRadical: Homer's hippie slang, which he learns in part from an old tape featuring Creator/BobHope and Creator/PhyllisDiller.
74	* TroubledProduction: [[invoked]]The film Burns made to advertise the Plant had script problems from day one. Namely that none of the actors even read the script.
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76	-->''Uptown girl...''\
77	''She's my uptown girl...''\
78	''I know that I'm in love...''\
79	''With an uptown girl...''\

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