History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Homer is attracted to Mindy who has strawberry blonde hair.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As Homer learns, writing something on your hand with regular pen ink won't last long, as human sweat can make it smeared and illegible.
-->'''Homer:''' "Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert."

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Mr. Burns unleashes his [[Film/TheWizardOfOz winged monkeys]] on Homer and Mindy when they ask for room service. Unlike in the film, the monkeys promptly fall out of his window and plummet to their deaths, as monkeys are too heavy to fly with wings that small.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Mr. Burns unleashes his [[Film/TheWizardOfOz winged monkeys]] on Homer and Mindy when they ask for room service. The monkeys promptly fall out of his window and plummet to their deaths, as monkeys are too heavy to fly with wings that small.
** Bart thinks the bullies won't beat him up after he loses his glasses and shoes and is back to normal. They just beat him anyway.

* ForWantOfANail: Homer is shown what would have happened if he married Mindy instead of Marge. Homer and Mindy live in a mansion and are apparently happy and Marge is president!

* FanDisservice: {{Invoked}} when Homer tries to ThinkUnsexyThoughts and imagines Barney Gumble in a bikini. It then becomes {{fanservice}} when he starts thinking of Mindy in a bikini and being blown a kiss.

* FanDisservice: {{Invoked}} when Homer tries to ThinkUnsexyThoughts. It then becomes {{fanservice}} when he starts thinking of Mindy in a bikini and being blown a kiss.

* BusinessTripAdultery: Homer and Mindy are asked to represent Springfield at an energy convention in Capital City. They receive a fully funded night in a hotel and a romantic dinner. When they return to the room, Homer harbours guilt about their relationship, expressing his devout love for Marge. Mindy understands, and they share a kiss. We see Homer and Marge together in the same hotel room sometime later, happy together and confident in their marriage.

** When Mindy and Homer are in his hotel room and she tells him it's up to him to decide what to do, they share a brief kiss. There's a new establishing shot of the building to show that some time has passed and Homer is seen looking up at a lingerie-clad woman visible from the neck down. The woman sits next to him on the bed and her face comes into the frame, revealing herself to be Marge, not Mindy. The way the scene is framed to briefly throw the viewer off pretty much single-handedly led to the more cynical fan theory that Homer really did cheat with Mindy and imagine Marge in her place to cope with the guilt: Marge's lingerie is the same color as the dress Mindy was wearing in the prior scene.

Mindy Simmons, a sexy new employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant proves alarmingly compatible with Homer, who worries that his attraction to her may mean danger for his marriage. Meanwhile, Bart becomes a nerd after being fitted for glasses and prescribed medicated hair salve, orthopedic shoes, and throat spray that makes him sound like Creator/JerryLewis from the original version of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1963}}''.

* AnimationBump: Subtle, but the bellhop's disembodied eyeballs from the last joke of the episode exhibit a lot more squash-and-stretch activity. Justified, in that there's a lot less to draw.

* BadBoss: Mr. Burns as usual. After one employee complains about the events listed under NoOSHACompliance, Mr. Burns send him to the Middle East via suction tube, then hires a refugee to replace him and pays him a salary of one nickel.

-->'''Bellhop''': TV's there...bathroom's there...and there's your king-size bed for...''[wolf-whistles, makes a cat noise, imitates a bed squeaking, purrs, pants, barks, howls, twiddles his lips]'' Hubba hubba!
-->'''Homer''': Stop that! I love my wife and family. All I'm gonna use this bed for is sleeping, eating, and maybe building a little fort.

* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Homer briefly fantasizes Mindy Simmons as this, clamshell and all, with Carl and Lenny as a pair of cherubs accompanying her.

** Homer imagines Mindy as Venus in the painting ''[[Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli The Birth of Venus]]'' by Sandro Botticelli.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Mindy is voiced by Creator/MichellePfeiffer.

* CelebrityStar: Mindy is voiced by Creator/MichellePfeiffer.

-->'''Homer:''' ''(while falling)'' [[CasualDangerDialogue See you tomorrow!]]

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Homer's attraction to Mindy who has strawberry blonde hair.

Episode - 1F07\\
First Aired - 12/9/1993

** Another coworker with a giant hand passes Homer writing down a long essay complaining of jokes about his hand.

* SexSells: [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere One ad]] Homer sees while trying to distract himself with TV features female athletes running [[MaleGaze with a series of close-up shots on their breasts and thighs]], while a breathy female voice says "Just ''do'' it!" He runs out of the room and a confused Marge watches the rest of the ad, which turns out to be a PSA about ringworm self-examination.

* SexSells: [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere One ad]] Homer sees while trying to distract himself with TV features female athletes running [[MaleGaze with a series of close-up shots on their breasts and thighs]], while a breathy female voice says "Just ''do'' it!" He runs out of the room and Marge watched the rest of the ad, which turns out to be a PSA about ringworm self-examination.