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"" is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on January 7, 2001, and won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler When the family visits the Sick, Twisted and Totally F***** up Animation Festival, Homer discovers Animotion, a motion capture technology that allows a cartoon character to mimic a human's movements. He likes it so much that he invests the family's life savings in Animotion. However, just after making the investment, the company goes into super-duper bankruptcy. To earn the family's life savings money back, Homer finds a job at a medical testing center. During one experiment, the doctors find what appears to be a crayon lodged in Homer's brain from when he was a child.

After the crayon is removed, Homer's IQ goes up to 105 points (that is, to 5 points above average intelligence), which allows him to form a bond with Lisa. Homer then writes a report on the nuclear plant's safety, which results in the plant's shutting down, and the laying off of all employees. Homer's friends, initially thrilled to have a smarter Homer around, quickly reject him, and Homer is even burned in effigy at Moe's Tavern. Lisa tries to explain that as you get smarter, happiness decreases. Homer decides to put a crayon back in his brain, with the aid of Moe—who says he is an unlicensed surgeon. He arrives home his old self, which initially disappoints Lisa. However, she finds a letter written before the surgery in which Homer explains that he now understands what it is like to be smart like her, and how much he more appreciates her because of it. Instead of being upset over her father's choice to revert, the episode ends with Lisa embracing Homer.

Trivia

• Moe is revealed to be an unlicensed surgeon in his spare time.
• Moe describes the procedure of putting a crayon into Homer's brain via the nasal cavity as "the old crayola oblongata", a malapropism of the part of the brainstem called the medulla oblongata.

Cultural references

• This episode is similar to the novel Flowers for Algernon, and the reverse R, similar in shape but otherwise completely unrelated to the Cyrillic letter Ya (Я), in the title is from that novel's first film adaptation, CHAЯLY.
• The Sick, Twisted, and Totally F***ed Up Animation Festival may be modeled after Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.
• The faux old footage of Itchy & Scratchy advertising for Laramie Cigarettes is likely a reference to the first season of The Flintstones, when commercials aired featuring Fred and Barney enjoying Winston Cigarettes.
• Ozmodiar, a parody of The Great Gazoo from The Flintstones, appears twice during this episode, once after Homer says cartoons don't have to make sense, and once more after Homer all the employees are laid off from the plant.

Quotes

• Phone Announcer: For automated stock prices, please state the company name.
  Homer: Animotion.
  Phone Announcer: Animotion: up one and one-half.
  Homer: (excitedly) Yahoo!
  Phone Announcer: Yahoo!: up six and a quarter.
  Homer: Huh, what is this crap?
  Phone Announcer: Fox Broadcasting: down eight.
  (Homer smiles slyly towards the camera).
• Homer: Now, who's up for a trip to the library tomorrow? Notice I no longer say "liberry" or "tomorry".
• Nelson: Question!
  Homer: Yes, Nelson?
  Nelson: (into his hand) A moron says, "What?"
  Homer: Not being a moron, I wouldn't know. However...(he mumbles inaudibly)
  Nelson: What?
  Homer: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you your moron.
  Nelson: Huh?
  Students: (pointing their fingers at Nelson) Haw-haw!
  
• Homer: Nothing burns like an effigy.
• Homer: (in a backstage bathroom, still wearing a motion capture suit and microphone) Urinal cake eroding...eroding...GONE! (Audience cheers, family in slight embarrassment.)
• Moe: ...and I was a lot happier before I knew Dame Edna was a man! A lot happier!
• 6-year old Homer: (counting the crayons he puts in his nose)...14...15...16. Woo-hoo! I don't feel so good. (sneezes, and all the crayons but one fall out of his nose). I think that's all of them.
• Lisa: Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs.
• Carl: Homer's the guy who rigged up my pants with this special cod piece.
  Homer: Comfy, isn't it?
  Carl: Oh, yeah. It provides the freedom and protection I so sorely need.
• Scientist: We could remove the crayon for you! It could vastly increase your brain power! Or it could possibly kill you.
  Homer: Hmm... increase my killing power eh? Let's do it!
  
• Homer: Come on Marge, we're a team! It's uterUS, not uterYOU.
  
• Lisa: Dad, did you read all those books today?
  Homer: Everything from Hop on Pop to Death Be Not Proud. It's so tragic the way they hopped on pop.
• Homer: Is there no place for a man with a 105 IQ?
• Kent Brockman: Animotion is up an eighth... after plunging seventy five points this morning!
  Homer: Oh, I hope plunging means up, and seventy five means two hundred!
  Kent Brockman: The firm declared super-dooper bankruptcy, which is terrible news for the company's one stockholder, Homer Simpson.
• Lisa: How does a wolf shoot webs?
  Bart: Cartoons don't have to make sense!
  Gazoo: (pops up) Damn straight, Bart!
• Homer: (cudding the shares of stock) Sleep tight My Beloved. You're my ticket out of this hell hole!
  Marge: Homer!
  Homer: I mean... our ticket out of this hell hole.
• Barney: Y'know Homer, I got a great way to make money. I'm a human Guinea Pig.

Homer: You mean like, medical testing?
Barney: Yeah. Medical, military, chewin' stuff.
Moe: Chewin' stuff?
Barney: Yeah, Like you chew on a telephone wire 'til you get a shock.
Moe: Oh, oh right okay.
Homer: Yeah, but arent those experiments dangerous?
Barney: Ah you get a few side affects. (opens shirt revealing ears on chest)
Moe: Are those ears?
Barney: Ow! Not so loud!

• Amelia: Wow a shooting gallery with blindfolds.

Bart: Oops. Amelia: ahhh

See also

• Lisa the Simpson

External links

• "HOMR episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
• "HOMR" at IMDb

Notes

1. SNPP

• The Simpsons episodes, season 12