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442 - "Homer the Whopper"

• The glaring continuity errors in the finished Everyman movie. Homer had to get into shape for the role of "Everyman", only to relapse into overeating after his personal trainer left him for another client, resulting in him being fat in half of the shots and muscular in the other half. One scene has him jump of a building to attack a villain in slow-motion...and he's inexplicably eating a sandwich during this scene. Lenny compares the ruination of the experience to "kissing a girl, and she burps".
• Comic Book Guy shoots down all the Hollywood executives castings for Everyman on the grounds that he needs to actually be an everyman: "a dumpy, unappealing loser". And then in walks Homer.
  Homer: Can you help me out? I need change for a dollar. Oh, I also need a dollar...
  Comic Book Guy: You! Are! ACCEPTABLE!
  Homer: Great! You wanna see me naked?
  Executive: Oh, there's no nudity in this movie.
  Homer: What movie?

445 - "Treehouse of Horror XX"

B - Don't Have A Cow, Mankind

• Homer is totally an excellent sneaker.
  Homer: (to Bart, whispering) Now remember, no loud noises...
  (He and Bart try to get to the car without attracting munchers, when Homer suddenly feels a breeze)
  Homer: (loudly) Oh man, that breeze feels good!
  (The munchers immediately hear Homer and charge towards the house)
• When the munchers attack the Simpsons' house.
  Homer: To the panic room!
  Marge: We don't have a panic room!
  Homer: To the panic room store!

C - There's No Business Like Moe Business

• The whole thing is depicted as an in-universe stage musical, all the violence being fake (though, in the case of Homer's Body Horror situation, rather realistic).
• While Homer is trapped impaled on Moe's distiller (causing his blood to end up in the beer, which Moe takes advantage of as it makes Marge more willing to see him as her lover), he convinces Marge that Homer left her. How? By telling her that he came out of the closet. Homer proceeds to sing a flashy musical number about wanting to have sex with men from around the world. It's as hilarious as it sounds.
• Afterward, Moe tries to milk some more blood out of Homer, he's promptly reminded that Homer just did that musical number and has to get back into costume. Moe is left awkwardly improvising as Homer gets his make-up on.
• Homer "killing" Moe (by tossing an obviously fake dummy around).
• Doubling as a heartwarming moment, this exchange after the aforementioned "killing" of Moe.
  Homer: Will you still love a man who's part-beer?
  Marge: I always have. (kisses him)

446 - "The Devil Wears Nada"

• During Homer and Marge's attempt to play a romantic "love dice" game:
  Homer: Lick ... eyes! Umm, I'll try again... Spank ... hair? What the...? Whisper into ... ass?! Ohhh, this game sucks!
• Marge tries to get Homer in the mood by showing her breasts, but this only causes Homer to hallucinate Marge's boobs as a pair of Carl's heads on Marge's chest barking orders at him.
  Homer: Leave me alone, you two! (sobs hysterically)

450 - "Thursdays with Abie"

• The subplot revolves around Bart taking care of Larry the Lamb, a stuffed animal his class has to take home and care for. Bart hates the thing, which leads to this exchange:
  (Bart is swinging Larry around while Santa's Little Helper bites it)
  Bart: That's it boy, go for the nards!
  Lisa: Bart! (grabs Larry) If you don't want him, give him to me.
  Bart: How come you never act like this when I'm cruel to real animals?
  Lisa: I do, it enrages me!
  Bart: I thought you Hindus were supposed to love everybody.
  Lisa: (angrily) I'm a FREAKING BUDDHIST!!
  • Likewise, the main story, filled with Cassandra truths, brick jokes, ironic and meaningful echoes, laced with a heaping helping of good, old-fashioned shout-outs to make any elderly viewer laugh. One exchange in particular takes place during Abe's reminiscing of being a shoe-shiner on the platform for the Tinsletown (a.k.a. Hollywood) express. As the train pulls in, out steps the usual parodies of classic actors like Fatty Arbuckle, the Three Stooges, and Paul Muni (who, apparently, always looked like Frankenstein, even in real life), and Abbot and Costello. Abe looks up, realizes that he's shining the shoes of Clark Gable, and this exchange takes place:
  Young Abraham: (excitedly) Clark Gable!
  Gable: That's right! Perhaps you've seen my brief yet memorable appearance in Du Barry, Woman of Passion?
  Young Abraham: (excitedly) I sure have, Mr. Gable! Say, why haven't you been in any good pictures yet?
  Gable: I'm not sure. Maybe the right role just hasn't come along yet. Say, what's that you're reading?
  Young Abraham: Oh, this? It's just Gone with the Wind. It's got a boring romance story, and only one swear word, but not a very good one. Here, you can have it.
  Gable: (curiosity raised) Gone With The Wind, eh? Let's see... (flips through pages) Garbage, garbage, my line, garbage, my line, garbage, garbage, my line, epic war plot, fancy dresses, Yes! I can do this! (closes book, hops on train) (shouting) Thanks, kid! Don't tell this to another soul for about 60 years!

453 - "Boy Meets Curl"

• As Homer, Marge, Principal Skinner, and Agnes Skinner go to the National Curling Trials, the National Curly Trials occurs nearby.
  Moe (Szyslak): Oh, wiseguys eh? (slaps a long line of Curly impersonators)

454 - "The Color Yellow"

• Lisa's outrage at her ancestors being a bunch of scoundrels.
  Homer: Yeah, the Simpson family is a long line of horse thieves, deadbeats, horse beats, dead thieves, and even a few alcoholics.
• When Lisa vows to find a good ancestor even if she has to "go all the way back to Adam and Eve", Grampa remembers Adam and Eve Simpson, otherwise known and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• To back up Homer's claim to "quit while you're ahead", Marge remarks the time she and Homer walked out of Carrie (1976) after the title character was crowned prom queen to pretend the movie had a happy ending.
• Homer coerces Grampa into revealing his secrets (by fiddling with the thermostat), with unexpected results:-
  Grampa: D-day's 6th June, repeat 6th June. Allied forces will on the beaches in the following order- Sword, Gold, Juno, Utah, Omaha... Are you writing this down, Fritz?
• When the family finds out that one of their ancestors who they thought were slave owners married their freed slave, thus making them 1/64 black.
  Bart: So that's why I'm so cool.
  Lisa: And that's my jazz is so smooth.
  Homer: And that's why I earn less than my white coworkers!

455 - "Postcards from the Wedge"

• Homer's attempt to stop Bart from being distracted from his homework by watching Pokémon: drawing all over the screen.
• The school almost collapses from the underground subway's tremor. Then, it completely gets destroyed by the flagpole. Nelson and Mrs. Krabappel high-five to this.
• Then following the scene:
  Marge: Mister, you are grounded!
  Homer: And no TV!
  Marge: And I'm taking all the exciting colors out of your crayons!

456 - "Stealing First Base"

• The scene in which after Bart's earlier kissing of a girl lands the school in trouble, the school declares itself an 'Affection Free Environment'. An informational play is carried out with Skinner and Willie acting as Bart and the girl respectively, and the two of them, rather uneagerly, kissing each other.◊ When everyone in the assembly hall starts laughing at this, Superintendent Chalmers steps in and threatens to make them keep kissing until the kids stop laughing. Needless to say it doesn't stop.
• The part when Lisa thinks she's in a dream after getting an F, imitates an alarm clock sound to get herself to wake up, and tries to fly, but falls.

457 - "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"

• Just about everything Jakob the tour guide (voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen) says.
• When Homer and Ned are visiting Jesus' tomb.
  Homer: It's so nice and cool in the tomb of the unknown savior.
  Ned: Unknown!? He's the tomb of the most famous man who ever lived!
  Homer: Porky Pig?
  Ned: PORKY PIG'S NOT A MAN, HE'S A PIG! AND HE'S NOT EVEN A REAL PIG!
  Homer: But he is buried here, right?
  • Followed by Ned getting angry at Homer that all the pictures on his camera are funny soda labels and proceeds to delete all the pictures on it. Then Homer reminds him that it's actually his camera.
• Homer having a vision of meeting VeggieTales expies and starts weeping. The expies could do nothing but stare at each other awkwardly.

458 - "American History X-cellent"

• Burns is relieved that his first cellmate is a fellow white-collar criminal, until...
  Burns' First Cellmate: Hiya, pal! I guess we're just two white-collar criminals.
  Mr. Burns: Oh, thank God. I thought you might be hardened tattooed criminal.
  Burns' First Cellmate: Nah, they don't turn out too many of those at Dartmouth.
  Mr. Burns: Dartmouth? Guard, get me away from this brute! Get me out this instant!
  Burns' First Cellmate: Got my master's at Virginia, the public Ivy.
  Mr. Burns: Guard!!
• Burns' illiterate cellmate becoming a born-again Christian based off what he sees as an image of Jesus Christ on a book cover...but it happens to be Charles Manson on the cover of Helter Skelter.

459 - "Chief of Hearts"

• Chief Wiggum throwing away Krusty's red nose.
  Krusty: There was cocaine in there! I won't last an hour!

460 - "The Squirt and the Whale"

• The occasional blackouts causing discontent in the family, but top mention goes to Homer falling asleep on a sawmill table during a blackout before the light comes backs on and his head is barely seen getting sawed. He's seen in the next scene with no injuries, miraculously enough.

461 - "To Surveil with Love"

• As soon as Homer walks out of Moe's bar to get away from Flanders' surveillance camera, it starts hailing.
• Bart mooning Ned to experiment where the cameras can't see.
• The party with the blind spot.
• Everyone acting legal when Marge was coming.
• When Ned is shown he can use the cameras to speak to misbehaving folks as well as watch them.
  Shauna: I'm not making out with you with someone watching.
  Jimbo: C'mon, it's just a voice.
  Shauna: Don't push it, Kearny.
  Jimbo: I'm Jimbo.
  Shauna: Great. Make me look easy in front of the voice.
  Jimbo: But you are easy. Don't be ashamed of what you are!

464 - "Judge Me Tender"

• When Moe tries to sit during the dog competition, while everyone puts their stuff on their adjacent seats to exclude Moe, Agnes just burns the next chair.
• The Running Gag of Lisa invading people's imagine spots to sell band candy.
• Moe judging the stitching contest;
  Moe: This is terrible! I've seen better stitching on a baseball glove!
  Dr. Nick: Can I have another corpse?
  Dr. Hibbert: Uh, they weren't corpses.
  Dr. Nick: Uh-oh!
• Mr. Burns, out of all people, says that Moe is the meanest man in Springfield.
• Ralph Wiggum, of all people, unleashing a volatile speech on Moe:
  Ralph: He's a-(cue a huge amount of bleeps covering his speech)!

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