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487 - "The Falcon and the D'ohman"

  • Homer while being kidnapped: "No! Not the middle seat!"
  • Homer's hostage video:
    Homer: Death to America!
    Ukrainian Gangster: Stick to script.
    Homer: Fine.
  • The glimpse of Springfield's Little Ukraine neighborhood, including "Tsarbucks," "Cossacks Fifth Avenue," and "Insane in the Ukraine: Mental Health Services."
  • The play Wayne did for Kim Jong Il during his captivity, the best part is that he seems proud of his work when he watches.
    Actor: Ha ha ha, you[Kim Jong's actor]? You are too benevolent to be our leader.

488 -"Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"

  • The couch gag, which is done by Ren & Stimpy creator himself, John Kricfalusi. As a bonus, the episode itself is done at Rough Draft Studios, which not only does many other Simpsons episodes, but also did a number of Ren & Stimpy's second season, as well as all of the majority of those done after John's firing.
  • Chalmers' flashback to the last time he taught.
  • "If school failed me, does it have to go to Summer Jimbo?"
  • Milhouse throwing the school copying machine out of the window.

491 - "The Food Wife"

  • Homer goes with Bart and Lisa to a video game expo. There is an Angry Birds demonstration where they have a stuffed bird aimed at stuffed pigs. The bird, however, misses the pigs completely, hits an actual construction site, and drops rafters on TNT causing the entire thing to blow-up. Everyone cheers.
  • Homer trying to get Bart and Lisa to the "Funtendo" showroom FPS-style while throwing discs at people, then when he gets hit he restores his health with a slice of pizza.
  • Gordon Ramsay telling Marge that she messed up with involving Homer in the first place, then telling her to get out of his dream, since he stole it away from her, to the point that Gordon himself wakes up in his bed wondering "What the bloody hell was that?!" before Marge wakes up proper.
  • Homer being caught literally in the crossfire between the cops and meth heads.
    Homer: This better be dinner theatre!

492 - "The Book Job"

  • Homer getting taken away by security for sleeping inside the mouth of a dinosaur.
    Homer: It's not against the law to sleep in a Tyrannosaurus head!
    Guard: Sir, you're inside an Allosaurus.
    Homer: I demand to speak to my paleontologist!
    • Even funnier that the head actually does look more like a Tyrannosaurus than an Allosaurus.
  • The entirety of Neil Gaiman in this episode. Especially the end: "I've heisted my way to the best seller list once again...AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ!"
    • Selma tries to stop Moe cutting Neil Gaiman's throat. Moe doesn't care if he wrote The Sandman, he's going down!
    • "CHEESEBURGERS, FRENCH FRIES, I'M ALL OVER THAT PAL"
    • When Lisa switches the backpacks: "I got the idea from every movie ever!"
    • Lisa's seemingly nonstop procrastination, which even spills over into the montage where Homer's Crew is writing their book.
    • During the montage, Neil wakes up the drowsy crew and gives them their drinks...Except for Moe, who he wakes up with a Taser.
  • When the team finds out that their book has been mangled Bart initially wants to just take the money and run. Then Skinner reveals that the epic backstory involving a war between Trolls and Ogres was replaced with a dance off at the vampire prom. Bart promptly tears up the check and declares "let's get our book back."

495 - "Holidays of Future Passed"

  • The montage of Simpsons Christmas cards thirty years into the future:
    • Starting with the second photo, three consecutive pictures show Bart and Lisa pulling Bunny Ears Picture Pranks on each other: Bart pranking Lisa, Lisa pranking an annoyed Bart after going through a growth spurt to be the same height as him, and Bart pranking an annoyed Lisa after he has a growth spurt and becomes the tallest sibling again.
    • One photo has Bart dressed as V from V for Vendetta and Lisa in a Sailor Senshi Send-Up costume for some reason.
    • Bart happily holds a pendant for a state college in one photo. The next photo has a dejected Bart holding a pendant reading "Flunked Out", followed the next year by him looking annoyed about Lisa's private college pendant.
    • The highly strait-laced Lisa apparently Experimented in College, as two Christmas photos in a row show that she brought girlfriends home for the holidays. The second photo shows that Lisa was in a threesome that year, with Bart showing annoyance about getting squeezed between Homer and one of the girlfriends.
    • Maggie discovers a passion for playing the guitar. The year after this happens, Maggie wears a glittery Glam Rock outfit with spiked shoulder pads in the holiday photo, which Marge looks concerned about.
    • Marge and Homer finally lose their patience with Bart's Basement-Dweller status when he's photographed eating junk food on his noticeably trashed side of the family couch, complete with Homer-esque beard. The next picture shows Bart, who has only increased his physical resemblance to his father in the meantime by shaving his head, in the process of getting kicked out by his parents.
    • After Bart leaves, Homer and Marge spend a few Christmases vacationing. These photos include them scuba-diving in a completely submerged New York City and visiting a desertified South Pole on camelback.
    • A Freeze-Frame Bonus on the picture of Lisa's family at the end of the montage reveals that they are the Simpson-Van Houten-Simpsons.
  • Grandpa falls asleep at Thanksgiving and lands face first in a pie topped with whipped cream. When he wakes up, he has a large white beard, which leads to this line.
    Grandpa: I'm Santa? Oh, now I'll never die.
  • Ralph being Chief of Police. He was cloned several times and they keep dying in the same scene.
  • Moe's hasn't changed at all due to how many times it's become a crime scene. The floor is covered in chalk outlines. One of them is Sideshow Bob, with a rake beside him.

496 - "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"

  • In this episode, there is a parody of the bottom marquees of news networks. Highlights include: Obama declares mulligan on first term, Steve Jobs reveals iGhost and Gingrich looks forward to first term, fourth wife.
  • Homer as a spoof of TV conservative talk hosts, primarily Glenn Beck.
  • While being trapped in a delayed flight for 7 hours, Homer grabs the intercom and yells "Don't Tread on pee!" and then lets out a battle-like scream.
  • After jumping onto the drink cart, Homer yells "Why is there moisture between the windows?" as he rants at the airlines.
  • "TINTIN DID NOT SUCKSUCK"

497 - "The D'oh-cial Network"

  • This exchange:
    Lisa: I've created something really popular.
    Homer: And I've created something that created something popular.
    Grandpa: And I created a fat, alcoholic hippo.
    Grandpa: A STUPID, fat alcoholic hippo.
  • The car accidents all across town.
    Carl (head and butt sticking out from front mirror): Somebody call 911!
    Lenny (head and left arm sticking out): I dunno how use my phone on my phone!

499 - "The Daughter Also Rises"

500 - "At Long Last Leave" (the 500th episode)

  • The Chalkboard gag:
    Milhouse writes: Bart's earned a day off.
  • The Stinger:
    [Title Card]
    Thanks for 500 Shows.
    All we ask is that you go out
    and get some fresh air
    before logging on the Internet
    and saying how much this sucked.
  • When Mayor Quimby shows a photo of Homer and friends wrecking the school from "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"":
    Homer: WE WON!!! WE WON!!! (fires Chief Wiggum's gun)
  • Just as the Simpsons are about to be banished:
    Mayor Quimby: Simpson, in accordance with article six, section two of the town charter…
    Homer: Wait! if you banish us, you shall be cursed with a thousand-year drought!
    (Suddenly it starts to rain)
    Homer: I mean a thousand-year flood!
    (Suddenly it stops raining and it's pleasant weather with a rainbow)
    Homer: Doh! I mean a thousand-years of perfect weather.
    Mayor Quimby: Just get out!

501 - "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"

  • Apu attempting to rob the new health store, where Snake works as a cashier.
    Apu: This is a stick-them-up! Because I have a gun, you must stick them up now! Yes, it is loaded, with bullets you put in my chest!

502 - "How I Wet Your Mother"

503 - "Them, Robot"

504 - "Beware My Cheating Bart"

  • When Marge is concerned about Homer not losing any weight in spite of his new treadmill (which he's only using to watch a parody of Lost), Grampa tells her that she shouldn't believe anything Homer tells her and also claims that his son's first word was a lie. We then cut to a flashback of Abe catching toddler Homer after he drew on the walls.
    Abe: Who did this?
    Homer: Mommy!
    Abe: She did? I'm withholding affection without telling her why!

505 - "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"

  • When Bart realizes the cruise is only going to last a week, he rushes out to talk to himself about it. Passing by a sign that says "7:30 - On-deck Soliloquies" with other people having them too.

506 - "The Spy Who Learned Me"

  • Homer becomes a Pungeon Master and talks through the whole spy movie he and Marge go to.
  • After Homer inadvertently ruins date night, the ride home is a bit awkward:
    Homer: (thinking to himself) Oh, man, Marge is pissed. Look at her, flaring her nostrils, drumming her fingers, making small noises like she's yelling at me inside her head.
    Marge: Just take me home!
    Homer: That's What She Said!
    Lenny: (driving by) Another good one!
    Carl (also driving by) You're on fire!
  • Stradivarius Cain, the guy from the spy film, appears out of nowhere:
    Homer: Am I losing my marbles?
    Cain: No, I'm just an illusion caused by the concussion you suffered at the plant.
    Homer: Can I put my hand through you?
    Cain: If you want. (Homer puts his hand through his groin) C'mon, really? Show a little class.
  • It turns out other people's imaginary friends can see Cain. Lenny's is Mr. Hufnpuffalus:
    Hufnpuffalus: Hello, Dr. Cain.
    Cain: Hello, Hufnpuffalus.
    Hufnpuffalus: Sorry I slept with your girlfriend.
    Cain: You did me a favor, man.

507 - "Ned 'N' Edna's Blend"

  • The beginning has a passion play with Homer as the lord and savior, Jesus Christ. As he gets sentenced to be crucified...
    "Jesus": They cannot judge me! Only my father can judge me.
    Abe: Crucify him!
    "Jesus": I'll take you with me, old man!
  • Ned's rap song during the end creidts!

508 - "Lisa Goes Gaga"

  • Everybody partying on the boarding ramp after Lady Gaga missed her flight from putting every last one of her costumes and shoes on the security conveyor belt.

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