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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Homer literally says something among this line. After staying home while others go to church he chuckles: ''Everybody is stupid, but me.''
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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Homer literally says something among along this line. After staying home while others go to church he chuckles: ''Everybody is stupid, but me.''
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-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Homer, God didn't burn your house down. But he was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbours, be they Christian ''[gestures to Flanders]'', Jew ''[gestures to Krusty]'', or ''[pauses]'' ...[[AndTheRest miscellaneous]] ''[gestures to Apu]''!
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-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Homer, God didn't burn your house down. But he was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbours, neighbors, be they Christian ''[gestures to Flanders]'', Jew ''[gestures to Krusty]'', or ''[pauses]'' ...[[AndTheRest miscellaneous]] ''[gestures to Apu]''!
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* HeroicDog: Subverted with Santa's Little Helper. As the house is on fire, Homer is asleep on the couch, Santa's Little Helper takes a candy bar from his pocket and escapes.
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* HeroicDog: Subverted {{Subverted}} with Santa's Little Helper. As the house is on fire, Homer is asleep on the couch, Santa's Little Helper takes a candy bar from his pocket and escapes.
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-->'''Homer''': He appeared before me in a dream, and I knew that was special because I usually dream about naked...Marge.
* NutritionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with waffle batter, liquid smoke, and heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter after burning the waffle iron (which would explain why, in the Treehouse of Horror story where Lisa creates a mini-universe, Lisa grumbles, "That waffle iron's been in the shop forever"). Currently provides the page image.
* NutritionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with waffle batter, liquid smoke, and heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter after burning the waffle iron (which would explain why, in the Treehouse of Horror story where Lisa creates a mini-universe, Lisa grumbles, "That waffle iron's been in the shop forever"). Currently provides the page image.
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-->'''Homer''': He appeared before me in a dream, and I knew that was special because I usually dream about naked... Marge.
* NutritionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with waffle batter, liquid smoke, and heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter after burning the waffle iron (which would explain why, in the Treehouse of Horror story where Lisa creates a mini-universe, Lisagrumbles, grumbles "That waffle iron's been in the shop forever"). Currently provides the page image.
* NutritionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with waffle batter, liquid smoke, and heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter after burning the waffle iron (which would explain why, in the Treehouse of Horror story where Lisa creates a mini-universe, Lisa
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** Lovejoy is surprisingly competent here; he usually cares very little about the congregation, and knows almost nothing about the bible.
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** The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is nod to ''Film/RiskyBusiness''.
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** The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is a nod to ''Film/RiskyBusiness''.
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* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview with Creator/LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
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* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview with Creator/LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, grumbles "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
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* WordOfGod: The writers thought that when the episode aired, the end would be immediately followed by a Fox promo (rather than just the credits). The idea was that the viewers would be pissed off by having a revelation from God being cut off by a promo.
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. [[ExactWords He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].awake.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: Marge in this episode. Apparently, she's ''so'' religiously dedicated that she ''will'' insistently go to church [[ViolationOfCommonSense even in the middle of a bone-chilling blizzard]].
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* HonorBeforeReason: Marge in this episode. Apparently, she's ''so'' religiously dedicated that she ''will'' insistently go to church [[ViolationOfCommonSense [[TooDumbToLive even in the middle of a bone-chilling blizzard]].blizzard]].
** RealityEnsues: Which results in the car stalling in the church parking lot and thus Marge and the kids having to walk all the way home ''through'' the aforementioned blizzard.
** RealityEnsues: Which results in the car stalling in the church parking lot and thus Marge and the kids having to walk all the way home ''through'' the aforementioned blizzard.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Marge in this episode. Apparently, she's ''so'' religiously dedicated that she ''will'' insistently go to church [[ViolationOfCommonSense even in the middle of a bone-chilling blizzard]].
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** The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is nod to ''RiskyBusiness''.
** Flanders' rescue of Homer is inspired by ''{{Backdraft}}'', particularly the floor collapsing under him.
* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview with LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
** ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966. LorneMichaels wouldn't be famous until 1975, with ''SaturdayNightLive'' (unless the interview was about Lorne being a burgeoning new talent on the comedy scene, since Lorne did do comedy writing before he hit it big with ''SNL'').
** Flanders' rescue of Homer is inspired by ''{{Backdraft}}'', particularly the floor collapsing under him.
* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview with LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
** ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966. LorneMichaels wouldn't be famous until 1975, with ''SaturdayNightLive'' (unless the interview was about Lorne being a burgeoning new talent on the comedy scene, since Lorne did do comedy writing before he hit it big with ''SNL'').
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** The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is nod to ''RiskyBusiness''.
''Film/RiskyBusiness''.
**Flanders' Flanders's rescue of Homer is inspired by ''{{Backdraft}}'', ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'', particularly the floor collapsing under him.
* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview withLorneMichaels Creator/LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
** ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966.LorneMichaels Creator/LorneMichaels wouldn't be famous until 1975, with ''SaturdayNightLive'' ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (unless the interview was about Lorne being a burgeoning new talent on the comedy scene, since Lorne did do comedy writing before he hit it big with ''SNL'').
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** ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966.
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Homer skips church for a Sunday due to the blistering cold weather and has such a great time, he decides to forgo it in favor of his own religion.
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Homer skips church for a Sunday due to the blistering cold weather and has such a great time, he decides to forgo it mainstream religion in favor of his own religion.
beliefs.
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** Lovejoy is surprisingly competent here; he usually cares very little about the congregation, and knows almost nothing about the bible.
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* NutritionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter. Currently provides the page image.
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Homer skips church for a Sunday and loves the experience so much he decides to forgo it altogether.
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Seriously, does every article about religion need to have a rant about the Family Guy episode \'\'All Dogs Go To Heaven\'\'?
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Homer literally says something among this line. After staying home while others go to church he chuckles: ''Everybody is stupid, but me.''
* ReligionIsWrong: Homer wonders: ''What if we have the wrong religion? Then we just make God angrier every Sunday.''
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Marge Simpson
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Marge Simpson
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.Simpson.
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.
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* NutricionalNightmare: Homer's "moon waffle", made with heaping handfuls of caramel and wrapped around a stick of butter. Currently provides the page image.
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* ColdSnapColdSnap: The episode opens on a cold Sunday morning, so cold there's a ''polar bear'' outside the Simpson's yard. This spurs Homer to stay inside, while Marge and the kids freeze in church due to its furnace not working, and the door freezing shut keeps people from leaving after the service.
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* OverTheShoulderCarry: How Ned rescues Homer from the fire.
* OverTheShoulderCarry: How Ned rescues Homer from the fire.
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** ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966. LorneMichaels wouldn't be famous until 1975, with ''SaturdayNightLive'' (unless the interview was about Lorne being a burgeoning new talent on the comedy scene, since Lorne did do comedy writing before he hit it big with ''SNL'').
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**ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ''Playdude'' Homer is reading is from 1966. LorneMichaels wouldn't be famous until 1975, with ''SaturdayNightLive'' (unless the interview was about Lorne being a burgeoning new talent on the comedy scene, since Lorne did do comedy writing before he hit it big with ''SNL'').
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* DreamSequence DreamSequence: How Homer meets God. The writers had to frame it this way because they were afraid people would complain about Homer actually meeting God outside of his dreams. According to the writers, it made Homer look like he was narcoleptic.
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* IReadItForTheArticles: Homer reads a copy of ''Playdude'' while his family is at church, and he actually ''is'' reading the articles!
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* IReadItForTheArticles: Homer reads a copy of ''Playdude'' while his family is at church, and he actually ''is'' reading the articles!articles (though he does turn the page when he finds out the article is an interview with LorneMichaels).
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* BadassAdorable: Apu's nephew Jamshed makes his [[OneSceneWonder first and only appearance]] in this episode, and he manages to be this. Within seconds of Apu leaving, Jamshed draws a shotgun and aims it at the bullies, who were already in mid-theft.
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This episode is notable for two reasons: One, it was the first episode produced by Creator/FilmRoman as opposed to KlaskyCsupo, and two, it was also the first episode animated overseas by Creator/RoughDraftStudios, which would be a major contributor to the series and is still working on the show to this day.
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This episode is notable for two reasons: One, it was the first episode produced by Creator/FilmRoman as opposed to KlaskyCsupo, Creator/KlaskyCsupo, and two, it was also the first episode animated overseas by Creator/RoughDraftStudios, which would be a major contributor to the series and is still working on the show to this day.
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This episode is notable for two reasons: One, it was the first episode produced by FilmRomanProductions Creator/FilmRoman as opposed to KlaskyCsupo, and two, it was also the first episode animated overseas by Creator/RoughDraftStudios, which would be a major contributor to the series and is still working on the show to this day.
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This episode is notable for two reasons: One, it was the first episode produced by Creator/FilmRomanProductions FilmRomanProductions as opposed to Creator/KlaskyCsupo, KlaskyCsupo, and two, it was also the first episode animated overseas by Creator/RoughDraftStudios, which would be a major contributor to the series and is still working on the show to this day.
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* RiskyBusinessDance: Though Homer dances to "Who Wears Short Shorts" instead of "Old Time Rock and Roll".
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* ColdSnap
* ConvenientEscapeBoat: The Flanders family is chasing Homer in their car, so Homer heads to Springfield Harbor. He drives off a pier, landing on a garbage barge. The Flanders' hit the brakes, almost falling into the water. Homer waves back at them, then asks the captain where the barge is headed. "To Garbage Island," he replies. This is apparently a reference to the film ''White Lightning''.
* CrisisOfFaith: Near the end where Homer is rescued from his burning house by Flanders and a multi-faith volunteer fire brigade.
-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Homer, God didn't burn your house down. But he was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbours, be they Christian ''[gestures to Flanders]'', Jew ''[gestures to Krusty]'', or ''[pauses]'' ...[[AndTheRest miscellaneous]] ''[gestures to Apu]''!
-->'''Apu:''' Hindu! There are seven hundred million of us!
-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Aw, that's super!
* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: Happened twice. Homer strolls his garden serenely and animals flock to him. Cut to later, when they're still flocking around him while he's taking a shower, and he asks "Guys, can you give me five minutes?"
* DreamSequence
* ConvenientEscapeBoat: The Flanders family is chasing Homer in their car, so Homer heads to Springfield Harbor. He drives off a pier, landing on a garbage barge. The Flanders' hit the brakes, almost falling into the water. Homer waves back at them, then asks the captain where the barge is headed. "To Garbage Island," he replies. This is apparently a reference to the film ''White Lightning''.
* CrisisOfFaith: Near the end where Homer is rescued from his burning house by Flanders and a multi-faith volunteer fire brigade.
-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Homer, God didn't burn your house down. But he was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbours, be they Christian ''[gestures to Flanders]'', Jew ''[gestures to Krusty]'', or ''[pauses]'' ...[[AndTheRest miscellaneous]] ''[gestures to Apu]''!
-->'''Apu:''' Hindu! There are seven hundred million of us!
-->'''Reverend Lovejoy:''' Aw, that's super!
* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: Happened twice. Homer strolls his garden serenely and animals flock to him. Cut to later, when they're still flocking around him while he's taking a shower, and he asks "Guys, can you give me five minutes?"
* DreamSequence
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* ShoutOut: Flanders' HeroicDog: Subverted with Santa's Little Helper. As the house is on fire, Homer is asleep on the couch, Santa's Little Helper takes a candy bar from his pocket and escapes.
* IReadItForTheArticles: Homer reads a copy of ''Playdude'' while his family is at church, and he actually ''is'' reading the articles!
* InsuranceFraud: Homer tries to exaggerate the value of the loss after the house burns down:
-->'''Insurance agent''': Any valuables in the house?
-->'''Homer''': Well, the Picasso, my collection of classic cars...
-->'''Insurance agent''': Sorry, this policy only covers actual losses, not made-up stuff.
-->'''Homer''': [miffed] Well that's just great!
* InterruptedByTheEnd: At the end of the episode, Homer convinces God to tell him the meaning of life as they stroll through Heaven together. God gets as far as "The meaning of life is—" before the credits cut Him off.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Homer tells Reverend Lovejoy that God spoke to him in a dream:
-->'''Homer''': He appeared before me in a dream, and I knew that was special because I usually dream about naked...Marge.
* OverTheShoulderCarry
* QuoteToQuoteCombat: A delightful scene when the reverend is trying to recover a lost sheep and Homer attempts a random and [[LameComeback failed comeback]].
-->'''Lovejoy''': Homer, I'd like you to remember Matthew 7:26. "The foolish man who built his house upon the sand."\\
'''Homer''': [pointing a finger] And you remember... ''(thinks)'' Matthew... 21:17.\\
'''Reverend Lovejoy''': ''(confused)'' "And he left them and went out of the city, into Bethany, and he lodged there?"\\
'''Homer''': Yeah. Think about it.
* ShaggyFrogStory: "Kids, let me tell you about another so-called wicked guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn't always do what other people thought was right. [[JesusChrist And that man's name was]]... I forget. But the point is... I forget that, too. Marge, you know what I'm talking about. He used to drive that blue car?"
* ShoutOut:
**The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is nod to ''RiskyBusiness''.
**Flanders' rescue of Homer is inspired by ''{{Backdraft}}'', particularly the floor collapsing under him.
* IReadItForTheArticles: Homer reads a copy of ''Playdude'' while his family is at church, and he actually ''is'' reading the articles!
* InsuranceFraud: Homer tries to exaggerate the value of the loss after the house burns down:
-->'''Insurance agent''': Any valuables in the house?
-->'''Homer''': Well, the Picasso, my collection of classic cars...
-->'''Insurance agent''': Sorry, this policy only covers actual losses, not made-up stuff.
-->'''Homer''': [miffed] Well that's just great!
* InterruptedByTheEnd: At the end of the episode, Homer convinces God to tell him the meaning of life as they stroll through Heaven together. God gets as far as "The meaning of life is—" before the credits cut Him off.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Homer tells Reverend Lovejoy that God spoke to him in a dream:
-->'''Homer''': He appeared before me in a dream, and I knew that was special because I usually dream about naked...Marge.
* OverTheShoulderCarry
* QuoteToQuoteCombat: A delightful scene when the reverend is trying to recover a lost sheep and Homer attempts a random and [[LameComeback failed comeback]].
-->'''Lovejoy''': Homer, I'd like you to remember Matthew 7:26. "The foolish man who built his house upon the sand."\\
'''Homer''': [pointing a finger] And you remember... ''(thinks)'' Matthew... 21:17.\\
'''Reverend Lovejoy''': ''(confused)'' "And he left them and went out of the city, into Bethany, and he lodged there?"\\
'''Homer''': Yeah. Think about it.
* ShaggyFrogStory: "Kids, let me tell you about another so-called wicked guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn't always do what other people thought was right. [[JesusChrist And that man's name was]]... I forget. But the point is... I forget that, too. Marge, you know what I'm talking about. He used to drive that blue car?"
* ShoutOut:
**The scene where Homer [[RiskyBusinessDance dances]] in his underwear to the song "Short Shorts" is nod to ''RiskyBusiness''.
**Flanders' rescue of Homer is inspired by ''{{Backdraft}}'', particularly the floor collapsing under him.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Marge Simpson
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].awake]].
* WordOfGod: The writers thought that when the episode aired, the end would be immediately followed by a Fox promo (rather than just the credits). The idea was that the viewers would be pissed off by having a revelation from God being cut off by a promo.
* WordOfGod: The writers thought that when the episode aired, the end would be immediately followed by a Fox promo (rather than just the credits). The idea was that the viewers would be pissed off by having a revelation from God being cut off by a promo.
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* EpicFail: Flanders tries to rescue Homer from the burning house by tossing a mattress on the lawn and praying that Homer hits the mattress instead of the ground. Homer ends up bouncing off the mattress and back in the burning house.
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* TakeThat: Homer drools over an interview with LorneMichaels in an issue of ''Playdude'', then grumbles, "Wait, that's no good!" and turns the page.
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.
* ValuesDissonance, ValuesResonance, and SocietyMarchesOn: This episode will have an odd reception these days. On the one hand, Homer does make some good points about choosing not to follow religion and come up with a belief system of one's own that's just as good. On the other hand, the ending where Homer gets rescued by a Christian (Flanders), a Jew (Krusty), and a Hindu (Apu) and decides to go back to organized religion will put off a lot of people who are atheist, agnostic, or are religiously lapsed. Then again, the episode was ''made'' to make fun of both the devout, "Church every Sunday" religious types and those who aren't. It's not aggressively one-sided like ''Family Guy'''s "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" was.
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Episode - 9F01\\
First Aired - 10/8/1992
First Aired - 10/8/1992
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Homer skips church for a Sunday and loves the experience so much he decides to forgo it altogether.
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].
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* WillNotTellALie: At the end, Homer announced [[spoiler:he'd be at church next Sunday. He was. He simply didn't say he'd stay awake]].
