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"D'oh-in In the Wind" is the sixth episode from the tenth season of The Simpsons.

Synopsis

After appearing in a short promo for Mr. Burns and the Nuclear Power Plant, Homer realizes that he doesn't know what his middle name is (He's always just used the initial "J." before). Grampa takes Homer to a commune where Homer's mother lived "after life with me became a living Hell," as Abe puts it. They meet Seth and Munchie, (George Carlin and Martin Mull) two hippies who knew Homer's mom back in the '60s. Homer finds out that his mother painted a mural on Seth & Munchie's barn, and dedicated it to him using his full name: Homer Jay Simpson.

Being around his mother's old lifestyle makes Homer want to become a hippie so badly that he starts wearing a poncho everywhere (one that used to belong to his mom) and otherwise acts in stereotypical hippie fashion. He puts his feet on the table, calls Marge a 'narc', and even lounges nude on the front lawn, much to Maude Flanders' horror. Seth and Munchie befriend Homer and are glad that he has "gone granola."

Homer is shocked to learn that Seth & Munchie are actually the owners of a massively profitable organic juice company. He convinces them to duck out for a freak-out, but upon returning they find that Homer's frisbee damaged their machinery and ruined their shipment. Seth & Munchie kick Homer out.

Feeling guilty, Homer raids their garden and sends out a new shipment of juice. Unfortunately, Homer used the vegetables from Seth & Munchie's "personal" garden (full of items like peyote and marijuana) and before long the whole town is under the influence. The cops come for Seth & Munchie and Homer gets shot in the head with a flower. Everything returns to normal at the end, except for Homer, who has to wait four to six weeks for the flower to fall out. When Homer asks if he can trim the leaves so he can watch TV, Dr. Hibbert replies, "I'm a doctor, not a gardener."

Trivia

• One of this episode's guest stars is George Carlin. In a previous episode, Krusty the Clown is told he's being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television."
• While Ned Flanders is driving, he has a hallucination where he sees the Grateful Dead Dancing Bears: Melody and Verse with the Skeleton who says "Mornin' Ned". They are followed by the Marching Hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall marching down the road and the Rolling Stones' "Lips & Tongue" which ask him to "Pucker up Ned". Series creator Matt Groening has admitted to being a huge Floyd and Stones fan.
• Seth and Munchie bear striking resemblances to George Carlin and Martin Mull.
• The title is similar to Bendin' in the Wind, an episode of Futurama.

Cultural references

• The title is a play on Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind".
• The psychedelic version of the Simpsons theme that appears at the end of the episode is performed by Yo La Tengo.
• The chalkboard gag, "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is", refers to a deposition made by Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.
• At the end of the credits Homer mutters "I buried Flanders," spoofing the "Paul is Dead" theory, in fact; the music in the end credits is a knock-off of The Beatles's "Tomorrow Never Knows".
• The song played while Homer does his midnight harvest is Time of the Season by The Zombies, while the song that plays while the town is tripping is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Other songs in the episode include Incense and Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock and Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.
• The scene where Abe and Jasper are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head.
• Seth and Munchie's dog, Ginsberg, is named after the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
• The end title for Mr. Burns' promo for the the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An Alan Smithee Film".
• Grampa and Jasper after drinking the "juice" that Homer had made makes them act like Beavis and Butthead.

Quotations

• Burns: Well, let's see what I packed for myself today. One bouillon cube, one Concord grape, one Philly cheesesteak, and a jar of garlic pickles. (he laughs, trying to open the jar) No one will want to kiss me after these, eh, Smithers?
  Smithers: It's their loss, sir.

• Homer: Homer Simpson does not lie twice on the same form. He never has, and he never will.
  Marge: You lied dozens of times on our mortgage application.
  Homer: Yeah, but they were all part of a single ball of lies.

• Young Abe: (at Woodstock, booing Jimi Hendrix) Boo! Bring on Sha Na Na!

• Lisa: Dad, your feet are really close to my potatos.
  Homer: You can't like, own a potato, man. It's one of Mother Earth's creatures!

• Abe: If I'd have left it up to your mother, you'd have ended up in a hell-hole like this, just lying around, never working, without a care in your head, full of long, luxurious, hippie hair.
  (Homer, drifting away into a daydream, imagines two hippie chicks combing his long hair, as he plucks at a sitar in a meadow full of flowers)
  Hippie Chick #1: Oh, Homer J., how do you keep your hair so rich and full?
  Homer: Lather, rinse, and repeat. Always repeat.
  Hippie Chick #2: Homer J., will you teach us to make love?
  
  Homer: Wow. I could have lived like that?

• Homer: Wow, look at this place! There's a pond for skinny dipping, a tire for skinny swinging . . . I can actually feel the good vibrations. (he leans his hand into a beehive.). slowly, as if not in pain Ouuuuuucccchhhhh.

• Homer (chanting, after Marge to take off her bra): Free the Sprinigfield Two, Marge! Free the Springfield Two!

• Homer: Hi, Marge! We're freaking out squares!
  Marge: Oh, lord.
  Homer: What's in your brand-new bag, mama?
  Marge: Oh, it's that pair of Dockers you wanted. Forty-eight waist with the balloon seat, right? (Seth and Munchie laugh.)
  Homer: Marge, not in front of the hippies.

• Lou (feeling the effects of Homers batch of Garden Blast): The electric yellow has got me by the brain banana!

• Wiggum (tasting the Garden Blast): My god, it's nothing but carrots and peyote!
  Eddie: Damn longhairs never learn, Chief.
  Wiggum: It's time for an old-fashined, hippie ass-whomping!

• Homer: We're making a stand! A freaky stand! You can smash this drug barn all you want, but first you'll have to smash our heads open like ripe melons!
  Munchie: This man does not represent us.

• Bart: Why don't you just pull it out? (of the flower embedded in Homer's forehead)
  Dr. Hibbert: I'm a doctor, not a gardener.
  Homer: Can't you just prune some of the leaves so I can watch TV?
  Dr. Hibbert: What did I just say?

External links

• "D'oh-in in the Wind" at IMDb

• The Simpsons episodes, season 10