Line #23 Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E2HowISpentMyStrummerVacation


1	'''Original air date:''' 11/10/2002
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3	'''Production code:''' DABF-22
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5	After confessing on a hidden-camera show that he hates how boring his life is now that he's married and has children, Homer is sent to a rock-and-roll fantasy camp.
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7	This episode's executive producer was Mike Scully (showrunner of seasons 9-12).
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9	!!This episode contains examples of:
10	* AccidentalPublicConfession: Homer was unaware he was on a hidden-camera show.
11	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: As Marge drives Homer around, she says he's being taken to a place where he'll no longer complain about his family. They pass by a mental institution, a slaughter house and Santa's Village. Homer finds the village to be the scariest option.
12	* BaitAndSwitch: One scene features a line of men waiting for their turns to use the men's lounge and it seems Homer will use his pass to enter ahead of them. He instead enters the ''ladies' ''lounge and showing his pass makes the ladies cease their protests.
13	* CameoCluster: Homer goes to a rock music camp where the counselors include The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and Lenny Kravitz.
14	* CityShoutOuts: {{Discussed}} by Mick Jagger, who advises the rock star wannabes that they always have to compliment the city they are playing in.
15	-->'''[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]]:''' And no matter where you are, you always say 'It's the wildest town in the whole damn world'.\
16	'''Chief Wiggum:''' So, when you said it in Springfield last year, you didn't mean it?\
17	'''Jagger:''' (''pausing'') Yeah, sure I did, but only because Springfield really ''is'' the wildest town in the whole damn world!\
18	(''everyone cheers'')
19	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
20	** When Homer reads a note from Marge, he wonders who she is until he reads the surname Simpson.
21	** After watching himself say a lot of unflattering things about his family on TV, Homer bemoans the fact that they took off ''Monkey Trauma Center'' for this.
22	* ComicalOverreacting: Homer's reaction to having to return home from the rock-and-roll camp is to have a full-on temper tantrum and start crying like a baby.
23	* CouldntFindALighter: Keith uses the flames the stage devil spouts to light his cigarette.
24	* DamnedByFaintPraise:
25	-->'''Marge:''' So, I'm just some babe who sunk her claws into you?\
26	'''Homer:''' (meekly) A ''hot'' babe...\
27	'''Marge:''' (furious) Oooooh!
28	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Homer does it twice in the course of three sentences: "My dream has been shattered into shards of a broken dream. I was so close to being a rock star... but now, there's a chance it might not happen. I'll just have to settle for being a fat, bald, fat nothing."
29	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When Homer tries to explain himself after his appearance on ''Taxicab Conversations''.
30	--> '''Lisa''': Have you always resented us, Dad?\
31	'''Homer''': Oh, I don't resent you, sweetheart. What I was trying to say, and maybe I didn't use the right words was that marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail. But as coffins go-\
32	'''Lisa''': Please don't say any more!
33	* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode to be produced with traditional cel animation. "Helter Shelter", which aired three weeks later, would be the last cel-animated episode to air.
34	* IRejectYourReality: Homer refuses to believe that the camp was only for a week, and would rather spend the rest of his life there, causing him to bawl like a baby as his entire family tries to take him home.
35	* InternalDeconstruction: Homer's drunken rant at the beginning of the episode is one towards the earlier episodes that explained how the Simpsons family came to be. While Homer loves his family, he had to abandon his future prospects and get a job he hates in order to provide for Marge and Bart, and when he was finally able to quit the nuclear plant and get his dream job at the bowling alley instead, Maggie's sudden conception forced him to give that up and go back to the plant. While he's willing to endure a lot for their sakes, Homer admits he still has some lingering bitterness over how he's pretty much had to dedicate his entire life to them and hasn't been able to follow his own dreams.
36	* InVinoVeritas: The rest of the Simpsons take this for granted when they see Homer's drunk conversation with the cab driver and are at first touched when he talks about how much he loves coming home to them. Then they're disgusted when he veers into his resentments.
37	* JerkassHasAPoint: Discussed. While Marge and the kids were upset on how tactless Homer's conversation was, they did concede that he does sacrifice a lot by working at a job he hates and doing things with the family that they like but he doesn't so as a show of thanks, took him to a week long rock camp for him to enjoy on his own.
38	* LogoJoke: This was one of the episodes that repeated characters' lines for the Gracie Films logo.
39	-->'''Mick Jagger:''' ''[[SayMyName Simpsooooon]]!''
40	* ParentalFavoritism: Homer calls Bart his favorite for being the only one willing to pretend to believe his BlatantLies.
41	* ShoutOut: ''Taxicab Conversations'' is a spoof of the real-life show ''Taxicab Confessions''.
42	* SpecialGuest: Plenty of 'em: Music/ElvisCostello, Music/MickJagger, Music/KeithRichards, Music/TomPetty, [[Music/StrayCats Brian Setzer]], and Music/LennyKravitz all star [[AsHimself as themselves]].
43	* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Marge assumes Homer was just pretending he didn't remember appearing at Taxicab Conversations to surprise the family, he plays along.
44	* ThereAreNoRules: Subverted:
45	--> '''Mick Jagger''': And remember rule number one, there are no rules. (''group cheers'') Rule number two, no outside food. (''group groans'')
46	* ToadLicking: Homer resorts to licking the toads in a pet shop in an attempt to intoxicate himself after being kicked out of Moe's Tavern.
47	--> '''Squeaky-Voiced Teen''': Are you gonna buy those toads or just lick them?
48	* ToiletHumour: Marge tells Homer that thanks to his bender, she had to call in sick for him:
49	--> '''Marge''': I had to tell Mr. Burns you had violent diarrhea.\
50	'''Homer''': (''embarrassed'') Oh... couldn't you think of a less embarrassing excuse?\
51	'''Marge''': But you ''did'' have violent diarrhea! (''to Bart and Lisa'') Nobody open the hall closet until I say it's okay.
52	* VerbalBackspace:
53	--> '''Mick Jagger''': And no matter where you are, always say it's the wildest town in the whole damn world.\
54	'''Wiggum''': So when you said it in Springfield last year, you didn't mean it?\
55	'''Mick Jagger''': ...Yeah, sure I did. But only because Springfield really ''is'' the wildest town in the whole damn world!\
56	''(group cheers)''\
57	'''Homer''': Springfield!
58	* WaxingLyrical: During Tom Petty's lyrics lesson:
59	-->'''Homer:''' Rock songs are supposed to be about drinking and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment getting drunk]] and [[RuleOfThree boozing it up]].\
60	'''Apu:''' And [[Music/ZZTop girls that have legs and know how to use them]].\
61	'''Otto:''' And why [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Drive_55 I can't drive 55]]!
62	** Again when Homer doesn't want to leave rock and roll fantasy camp:
63	--> '''Mick Jagger''': Cheer up, Homer. [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand It's only rock and roll camp.]]\
64	'''Homer''': [[Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll But I like it!]]
65	* WouldHurtAChild: Whomever Bart owes money to threatened to break his legs.
66	* YankTheDogsChain: On ''Taxicab Conversations'', Homer's asked about his family:
67	--> '''Homer on TV''': Can't imagine my life without them.\
68	'''Marge''': Oh, you big fooler. Pretending not to remember so you could surprise us.\
69	'''Homer''': Yeah, I'm pretty great.\
70	'''Homer on TV''': At the end of a hard day there's no better feeling than coming home to the people that you love.\
71	'''Marge''': Oh, Homie.\
72	'''Lisa''': That is so sweet.\
73	'''Bart''': I had no idea, Dad. I just assumed with all the stranglings, you know...\
74	'''Homer''': That my family isn't the center of my universe? Are you nuts?\

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