History Recap / TheSimpsonsS1E10HomersNightOut

* BrokenAesop: The episode has the aesop of "Don't objectify women." Not a bad message, but the ''way'' it's conveyed is a sheer mess. Bart receives a toy spy camera and secretly takes a photo of Homer dancing with a stripper at a work party. The picture gets copied and passed around his friends at school and eventually makes its way into the adults' world (essentially it went viral before social media was a thing). Mr. Burns finds it and scolds Homer, claiming that he's making the power plant a hostile workplace for the female employees, even though we don't see anything happen to prove his claim; Marge also finds it and is ''utterly pissed'' and throws him out of the house. When he begs for her forgiveness, she claims that she's upset at him not for dancing with a stripper, but for letting Bart think it's okay to treat women like objects, forcing Homer to track the girl down to have her tell Bart that she's a person with a real name and real goals and interests. Three problems here: 1. She was mad at him ''before'' she knew Bart took the picture; claiming that he set a bad example came across an an excuse to guilt-trip him when in reality she was jealous. 2. At no point was the dancer disrespected at the party. She was hired to perform, and none of the men ever touched her or verbally demeaned her in any way. 3. ''Homer had no idea Bart was there''. If anyone had explaining to do, it was ''Bart'' for sneaking into an adult party where he might not understand the context of what was going on, and taking a photo of people in a compromising position without their consent.

* BellyDancer: Princess Kashmir. She's dressed as a belly dancer for a bachelor party.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot:
** If Marge had kept her temper and jealousy in check, Homer probably would have been able to explain the situation and the lesson would have been less about punishing Homer for "objectifying women" (which he wasn't) and more teaching Bart a lesson about taking photos without consent in places where he shouldn't have been.
** The picture probably wouldn't have gotten such mass circulation if Bart hadn't developed the picture ''at school'' and made copies for his friends who in turn made copies for their friends and so on until it went all the way up to Mr. Burns.

* BorrowedCatchPhrase: When Homer realizes Bart took a photo of him dancing with Princess Kashmir, he prepares to strangle him with his trademark "Why, you little...!" But [[CatchPhraseInterruptus he's interrupted]] by Marge shouting "Why, you big...!" and trying to strangle Homer.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/SamMcMurray as Gulliver Dark. [=McMurray=] had been in the cast of ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' with Castellanata and Kavner, but had been assigned to that shows other animated segment "Dr. N!Godatu" rather than The Simpsons.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Marge had kept her temper and jealousy in check, Homer probably would have been able to explain the situation and the lesson would have been less about punishing Homer for "objectifying women" (which he wasn't) and more teaching Bart a lesson about taking photos without consent in places where he shouldn't have been.
** Also the picture probably wouldn't have gotten such mass circulation if Bart hadn't developed the picture ''at school'' and made copies for his friends who in turn made copies for their friends and so on until it went all the way up to Mr. Burns.

* SpecialGuest: Sam [=McMurray=] as Gulliver Dark.

Episode - 7G10\\
First Aired - 3/25/1990

-->'''Rev. Lovejoy:''' This one has strayed from my own flock. His name...
-->''[close up to the photo]''
-->'''Smithers:''' ''[pull back to Smithers holding the photo]'' Homer Simpson, sir, a low-level employee in sector 7G.

-->'''Mr. Burns:''' Simpson, I'm asking you nicely.
-->'''Homer:''' I really don't know, sir.
-->'''Mr. Burns:''' '''''SIMPSON!!!'''''

* CluelessAesop: The episode has the aesop of "Exotic dancers are people too." Not a bad message, but the ''way'' it's conveyed is a sheer mess. Bart receives a toy spy camera and secretly takes a photo of Homer dancing with a stripper at a coworker's bachelor party. The picture gets copied and passed around his friends at school and eventually makes its way into the adults' world. Mr. Burns finds it and scolds Homer, claiming that he's making the power plant a hostile workplace for the female employees, [[TakeOurWordForIt even though we don't see anything happen to prove his claim]][[note]]on the other hand, [[ForTheEvulz Mr. Burns was probably just looking for an excuse to be a jerk to Homer again]], and it would be hard to make such a charge stick since it happened outside of work[[/note]]; Marge also finds it and is ''utterly pissed'' and throws him out of the house. When he begs for her forgiveness, she claims that she's upset at him not for dancing with a stripper, but for letting Bart think it's okay to treat women like objects, forcing Homer to track the girl down to have her tell Bart that she's a person with a real name and real goals and interests. Three problems here: 1. She was mad at him ''before'' she knew Bart took the picture; claiming that he set a bad example came across an an excuse to guilt-trip him when in reality she was jealous. 2. At no point was the dancer disrespected at the party. She was hired to perform, and none of the men ever touched her or verbally demeaned her in any way. 3. ''Homer had no idea Bart was there.'' If anyone had explaining to do, it was ''Bart'' for sneaking into an adult party where he might not understand the context of what was going on, and taking a photo of people in a compromising position without their consent.

* DoubleStandard: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E9LifeOnTheFastLane the previous episode]], Marge has several dates with a man who makes numerous explicit romantic overtures with her, and she only backs out from sleeping with him while she's driving to a rendezvous to do just that. In this episode, she finds a photo of Homer dancing with a bellydancer at a stag party and acts like he cheated on her, to the point of yelling at him and throwing him out of his own house.

** Lenny is voiced by Creator/HankAzaria (sounding a bit like Moe) and Carl is voiced by Creator/HarryShearer in this episode. They eventually swapped roles.

* HypocriticalHumor: A father scolds his son for possessing the picture. After sending his son to his room, he looks at the picture again with glee, planning to show his co-workers.

* CluelessAesop: The episode has the aesop of "Exotic dancers are people too." Not a bad message, but the ''way'' it's conveyed is a sheer mess. Bart receives a toy spy camera and secretly takes a photo of Homer dancing with a stripper at a work party. The picture gets copied and passed around his friends at school and eventually makes its way into the adults' world. Mr. Burns finds it and scolds Homer, claiming that he's making the power plant a hostile workplace for the female employees, [[TakeOurWordForIt even though we don't see anything happen to prove his claim]][[note]]on the other hand, [[ForTheEvulz Mr. Burns was probably just looking for an excuse to be a jerk to Homer again]][[/note]]; Marge also finds it and is ''utterly pissed'' and throws him out of the house. When he begs for her forgiveness, she claims that she's upset at him not for dancing with a stripper, but for letting Bart think it's okay to treat women like objects, forcing Homer to track the girl down to have her tell Bart that she's a person with a real name and real goals and interests. Three problems here: 1. She was mad at him ''before'' she knew Bart took the picture; claiming that he set a bad example came across an an excuse to guilt-trip him when in reality she was jealous. 2. At no point was the dancer disrespected at the party. She was hired to perform, and none of the men ever touched her or verbally demeaned her in any way. 3. ''Homer had no idea Bart was there.'' If anyone had explaining to do, it was ''Bart'' for sneaking into an adult party where he might not understand the context of what was going on, and taking a photo of people in a compromising position without their consent.

* CluelessAesop: The episode has the aesop of "Exotic dancers are people too." Not a bad message, but the ''way'' it's conveyed is a sheer mess. Bart receives a toy spy camera and secretly takes a photo of Homer dancing with a stripper at a work party. The picture gets copied and passed around his friends at school and eventually makes its way into the adults' world (essentially [[OlderThanTheyThink it went viral before social media was a thing]]). Mr. Burns finds it and scolds Homer, claiming that he's making the power plant a hostile workplace for the female employees, [[TakeOurWordForIt even though we don't see anything happen to prove his claim]][[note]]on the other hand, [[ForTheEvulz Mr. Burns was probably just looking for an excuse to be a jerk to Homer again]][[/note]]; Marge also finds it and is ''utterly pissed'' and throws him out of the house. When he begs for her forgiveness, she claims that she's upset at him not for dancing with a stripper, but for letting Bart think it's okay to treat women like objects, forcing Homer to track the girl down to have her tell Bart that she's a person with a real name and real goals and interests. Three problems here: 1. She was mad at him ''before'' she knew Bart took the picture; claiming that he set a bad example came across an an excuse to guilt-trip him when in reality she was jealous. 2. At no point was the dancer disrespected at the party. She was hired to perform, and none of the men ever touched her or verbally demeaned her in any way. 3. ''Homer had no idea Bart was there.'' If anyone had explaining to do, it was ''Bart'' for sneaking into an adult party where he might not understand the context of what was going on, and taking a photo of people in a compromising position without their consent.

* DoubleStandard: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonss1E9LifeOnTheFastLine the previous episode]], Marge has several dates with a man who makes numerous explicit romantic overtures with her, and she only backs out from sleeping with him while she's driving to a rendezvous to do just that. In this episode, she finds a photo of Homer dancing with a bellydancer at a stag party and acts like he cheated on her, to the point of yelling at him and throwing him out of his own house.