Category: Stuck at Home(r)

20.1 Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes After an arrest, Homer becomes a bounty hunter and partners with Ned to bring in criminals. Marge gets a job at a bakery, only to learn it specializes in erotic shaped baked goods. I always enjoy Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Gloria, Joe Mantegna is reliable as Fat Tony and Marge’s… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 20

18.1 The Mook, the Chef, His Wife and Her Homer When Fat Tony is sidelined by a mob hit, Bart and Homer take over his “waste management” business: extorting Moe, Krusty, etc. Their brief reign ends when Fat Tony’s less than ambitious son proves his moxie and poisons the rival gang. This funny episode is… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 18

17.1 The Bonfire of the Manatees After a fight with Homer, Marge contemplates an affair with marine biologist, Caleb Thorn (Alec Baldwin). I like Baldwin, but this is one of the worst episodes of the season. There aren’t enough jokes to overcome this retread of an idea. 17.2 The Girl Who Slept Too Little After… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 17

16.1 Treehouse of Horror XV In “The Ned Zone,” Ned acquires the power to foresee how people will die. When he sees himself murdering Homer, he tries to avoid it, but fate will not let him. In “Four Beheadings and a Funeral,” Bart and Lisa are a detective team in the 19th century who try… Continue reading Stuck at Homer(r): Season 16

15.1 Treehouse of Horror XIV The fourteenth edition of the Simpsons annual tradition is one of the better ones. In the first segment, Homer takes on the role of Grim Reaper, but balks at killing Marge. In the second, Professor Frink wins a Nobel Prize and, while dealing with his long gestating daddy issues, briefly… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 15

14.1 Treehouse of Horror XIII Another excellent installment in the venerable Treehouse series. In the first segment, Homer clones himself with predictably disastrous results (a funnier version of Multiplicity). In the second, undead outlaws Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Kaiser Wilhelm(!) take over Springfield. While the final segment is a delightfully absurd take on… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 14

13.1 Treehouse of Horror XII I enjoyed this rendition of the annual tradition because of the second segment: “House of Whacks.” A robot house (Pierce Brosnan) falls in love with Marge and schemes to eliminate Homer from the picture. I love Pierce and I love the parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Hex and the… Continue reading Stuck at Homer(r): Season 13

12.1 Treehouse of Horror XI The show continued its momentum from the end of season eleven in one of the better Treehouse episodes. The first segment, a parody of the Bill Cosby vehicle Ghost Dad, is harder to watch now because of what the ensuing twenty years did to Cosby’s reputation, but still works. The… Continue reading Stuck at Home(r): Season 12