Line #6 Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo


1	'''Original air date:''' 4/13/2003
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3	'''Production code:''' EABF-12
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5	After Homer finds a letter and a video revealing that Marge only married Homer because he got her pregnant, Homer moves out (again) and finds himself in Springfield's gayborhood, living with two homosexual roommates.
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7	!! Tropes:
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9	* AsHimself: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
10	* BaitAndSwitchSilhouette: After his brief stay at Bachelor Arms, Homer walks through the neighborhood and sees what appears to be Marge through a second-story window. He contemplates going to meet whoever it is up there until the figure is revealed to be Ned Flanders with a towel wrapped around his head.
11	-->'''Ned:''' Uh, Homer, I think you want your house, next door.\
12	'''Homer:''' Stupid Flanders with his misleading silhouette.
13	* BigBeautifulMan: One of the residents of the gay neighborhood refers to Homer as a [[TheBear bear]] and growls flirtatiously at him.
14	* BlackComedy: When Homer temporarily moves to Bachelor Arms, a "3 Days Without a Suicide" sign is shown. A gunshot is heard and the counter resets to zero.
15	* BlatantLies:
16	** Homer runs into Smithers in the gay neighborhood while walking through the streets. Smithers immediately tries to deny his presence, saying he got lost on his way to the "big monster truck show". His claim isn't helped when a trolley of Smithers' gay associates passes by, prompting them to ask if Homer is the "Mr. Burns he's always talking about".
17	** When Chief Wiggum catches Moe dumping Homer at the hospital with alcohol poisoning and demands an explanation, Moe claims Homer was drinking "at Harrigan's Pub down the street".
18	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The fight between Homer and Marge has valid points on both sides. Homer's understandably upset when he finds Marge's angry letter after their night out and that she had a doctor's appointment because she was pregnant and believed she only married him because of that and secretly hates him. Marge doesn't do much to dissuade this perspective. Although she is right that Homer has more than a few flaws that annoy her, she refuses to apologise for upsetting Homer and hurting his feelings out of trying to hold the moral high ground.
19	* BrainBleach: A lesbian patron is grossed out by Homer's dancing and remarks it "makes her even more lesbian".
20	* TheCameo: Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which he {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s during the credits.
21	* CampGay: Julio and a few one-scene residents.
22	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Hans Moleman apparently attended a gay club while under the impression that it was his army reunion. A burly man in revealing military garb picks him up, but Moleman assumes he's an actual Colonel.
23	* ContinuityNod:
24	** When Lenny and Carl are looking for Homer and find him busy at home, they ask, "Is he Poochie again?"
25	** Homer's Pin Pals and Mr. Plow outfits are seen in his closet.
26	* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Marge did this when Homer was in the hospital with alcohol poisoning not long before she found out she was pregnant with Bart. Good thing, too--a security video Dr. Hibbert kept of the night in question winds up reassuring Homer that she really did love him.
27	* FullyAutomaticClipShow: The credits, set to Weird Al's parody of "Jack and Diane", shows clips from the episode. However, they also include a deleted scene of Marge managing to lift the fridge and cleaning underneath it.
28	* GranolaGirl: Mentioned as Julio and Grady prefer Homer over "that girl who wrote 'Mother Earth' as a reference".
29	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The family works on a jigsaw piece, but they can't find the last piece. While Homer is searching, he comes across Marge's memory chest, and finds a note from the opening night of Moe's Tavern -- Marge was very unhappy and nearly left Homer, causing him to wonder if she still loves him. He leaves the house and winds up in a gay neighborhood, starting the main plot.
30	* HollywoodBoardGames: Homer is definitely not the brightest bulb. Therefore, it's just like him to mistake his family trying to get him to stop drinking for a fun game of ''Pictionary''. Mind you, what they show him is a drawing of himself drunk out of his brains and surrounded by his crying family. Bart has to tell him they were StagingAnIntervention.
31	* HypocriticalHumor: At lunchtime, Nelson sees Bart sorting puzzle pieces, assumes that he's so poor he has to eat cardboard, and laughs at him. Then he proceeds to eat a drywall sandwich.
32	* {{Jerkass}}:
33	** Moe forcefeeds Homer so much booze until he gets alcohol poisoning to stop him from realizing he has alcohol problems.
34	** Patty and Selma are [[ObnoxiousInlaws on fine form]]; Marge mentions they're trying to get a legal bill passed to have Homer kicked out of Springfield.
35	-->'''Homer:''' Marge, did I ruin your life?\
36	'''Marge:''' Oh, is this about that billboard my sisters put up? ''(opens the bedroom curtains to reveal an animated billboard outside, alternating between the words "Homer out of Springfield -- Vote Yes on 104", and Patty and Selma kicking Homer in the backside by a "Leaving Springfield" sign)''\
37	'''Homer:''' No. The voters will decide that in November.
38	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Grady kisses Homer near the end of the episode, reassuring him that he'll have no trouble finding his special someone, Homer pauses for a minute, realizes that Grady has feelings for him, and jumps out the window shortly afterward.
39	-->'''Homer:''' Wow... Wow, I never realized you felt about me that way. We should really take some time to talk and... ''(Homer jumps out the window and flees)'' I'd just end up hurting you! ''(Grady looks down, crestfallen)''
40	* ShameAccusation: Homer discovers an old message from Marge written the night Moe's Tavern opened, chastising him for drinking so much that he made an ass of himself and then got taken to the hospital. This makes Homer feel that she'd always been ashamed of him and go on a trial separation.
41	--->'''Marge:''' Homer, I'm sorry you saw that, but I was very upset that night.
42	--->'''Homer:''' Quit changing the subject. How do you feel about me ''right now?''
43	--->'''Marge:''' Well, I love you, of course. But a lot of things you do still drive me crazy.
44	--->'''Homer:''' So you mean, our whole marriage, you've just been resenting me behind my back?!
45	--->'''Marge:''' ...A little bit, yeah.
46	* ShoutOut:
47	** When Maggie grimaces at Homer's remark that the jigsaw puzzle which he and the family just completed is his greatest accomplishment, he responds with "Prove me wrong, [[Film/{{Clerks}} Silent Bob]]!"
48	** Julio is loosely based on Agador Spartacus, Creator/HankAzaria's character in ''Film/TheBirdcage'', down to Hank giving him the same voice.
49	** When Julio criticizes the fruit bowls Grady made for breakfast, Homer calls him "[[Series/ILoveLucy Picky Ricardo]]".
50	* SongParody: Music/WeirdAlYankovic, the king of this trope, performs one of Music/JohnMellencamp's "Jack and Dianne" called "Homer and Marge."
51	* SuddenNameChange: Casa Nova from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E6AMilhouseDivided A Milhouse Divided]]" makes a reappearance, except it's now called Bachelor Arms.
52	* TakeThat: An in-universe example:
53	--> '''Homer:''' You guys don't have a gay time machine, do you?\
54	'''Julio:''' Yeah, it's called Grady's shoe closet.\
55	'''Grady:''' Hey, Julio... ouch.
56	** Also Homer mentions that him without Marge is like "David Spade without Chris Farley- alone and useless".
57	** Homer asks Weird Al if he got the song parodies he sent them and which one he liked better. Al said they were both the same, to which Homer, under his breath, says, "Yeah, like you and Creator/AllanSherman."
58	* TimeSkip: The episode ends with a skip to a future when Dr. Hibbert is an elderly man watching tape recordings from cameras he used to set at his workplace to figure out if the nurse was stealing sponges. Upon watching the one where Homer and Marge reconcile, he finally learns that she was indeed stealing sponges.
59	--> '''Dr. Hibbert:''' [[BrickJoke She WAS stealing sponges! I knew it!]]
60	* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: [[https://frinkiac.com/gif/S14E17/175550/177010/ Homer gets these]] when he hallucinates Lenny as a giant jigsaw piece.

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