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"Faith Off" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' eleventh season. The episode aired on January 16, 2000.

Synopsis

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Homer visits Springfield University (from "Homer Goes to College") to pull a prank on Dean Bobby Peterson with his old nerd friends, Benjamin, Doug, and Gary. Homer tries to put a bucket filled with glue on the Dean's head, but the bucket gets stuck on Homer's head, and he cannot get it off. The family attends a religious revival, hosted by a faith healer named Brother Faith, and Bart pulls the bucket off Homer's head. Brother Faith considers this act a sign that Bart has the "gift" of healing. Lisa is skeptical and attempts to use reason to explain that the sun heated the metal bucket, allowing Bart to pull it off. Undaunted, Bart becomes a faith healer, pulls miracles of his own, and even forms his own church where he heals Springfield's residents.

The church is cut short, however, when Milhouse is run down after he mistakes an oncoming truck for a dog. Bart had "healed" him of his myopia during his revival meeting by knocking his glasses off his face. Subsequently, Bart decides to end his career as a faith healer. Meanwhile, Homer prepares for Springfield University's homecoming football game by building a float that he has fashioned out of flowers he has stolen from Ned Flanders. At the game, everyone (including the family) cheers for S.U.'s football team's star player, a kicker named Lubchenko. Homer gets drunk and forgets he has made a float to celebrate SU. He crowd surfs down to the playing field, and runs to his float. Unfortunately, the other floats have left the field and the players have come back on. Homer drives his float over the leg of Lubchenko, horribly wounding him. Fat Tony threatens to kill Homer with an ice pick if Lubchenko doesn't return to the game. Homer convinces Bart to try and heal the kicker. Bart prays to God to help him heal the kicker. With his team down by 2 points, Lubchenko returns to the game and kicks the winning field goal, losing his leg in the process. Bart announces at the end of the game that he doesn't have special powers and is not a healer.

Trivia

• The episode's Dean Peterson isn't the same Dean Peterson Homer ran over during a prank in "Homer Goes to College".
• In two episodes in a row, Homer Sings "Aloha Oe": in "Little Big Mom" when receives a treatment in the electric needle hut, and in this episode, while he shows Lisa his animated drawings of Moe doing the hula in a grass skirt.
• A similar plot is used in an episode of South Park aired six month later, Probably.

Cultural references

• The Springfield U players are called the Nittany Tide, an amalgam of Penn State's Nittany Lions and University of Alabama's Crimson Tide.

• The college football announcer is fashioned after Keith Jackson, who laces his commentary with colorful homespun sayings like "Whoa, Nellie!"

• The title spoofs the name of the John Woo film, Face/Off, starring Nicholas Cage and John Travolta.

Quotes

• Ralph: (after Bart hits him on the head, several coins fall out of Ralph's nose) My milk money! (milk falls out) And my milk!

• Reverend Lovejoy: Perhaps it's time to fight razzle with dazzle. (he plays his guitar) Mi... Michael, row...row... row the boat...
  (the guitar makes a bad squeaking noise)
  Todd: Is he killing that guitar, Daddy?
  Ned: Yes, son.

• Benjamin: That Dean is going to get an indignant e-mail!
  Doug: You should do it in bold red letters.
  Gary: My computer has 512 shades of red.

• Doug: I've been working on a program that will download porn one million times faster.
  Marge: Why would someone need all that porn?
  Homer: (drooling) Oh, a million times faster.

• Homer (after he thinks he has rammed the dean with the bucket): Who's the dean now!?!

• Homer (after the bucket is finally removed): I see the light...IT BURNS!!!

• Lisa Do they have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?
  Homer: I think the veal might have died of loneliness.

• Marge Oh, he should have his leg insured by Lloyds of London.
  Homer(drunkenly) Oh, you just know what everyone should do, don't you Marge?

• Bart: Why won't anybody listen to me? I AM NOT A HEALER!
  Dr. Hibbert Fine. More money for me!

• Homer: Springfield A&M? That's a cow college!
  Lenny (proudly): You're just saying that because it was founded by a cow.

• Homer: I hate Springfield U. so much!
  Lisa: You went to Springfield U. You hate A&M.
  Homer: So much!

Songs

Brother Faith's Song

Now let's heart it
For the Holy Spirit.
No need to fear it.
Just revere it!
He works in Heaven.
That's 24/7. (That's right.)
Check the Bible. (Yeah.)
John 2:11! (Jump back!)

Testify

• Bart:
  I was a sinner a real bad kid,
  what thou shall not I shall did.
  Neighbor's cat I tried to neuter,
  took a whiz on the school's computer.

• Sherri&Terri:
  He took a whiz oh yes he did!

• Bart:
  But now I changed, you can't deny, so come on up and testify!!!

• Sherri&Terri:
  Testify, testify. come on up and testify!

• Grampa Simpson: My hip's misbehavin' (Bart kicks his cane away)

• Sherri&Terri:
  Testify!

• Patty:
  Got a nicotine cravin' (Bart smacks the cig out her mouth)

• Sherri&Terri: Testify!

• Prof. Frink:
  There's a cramp in my glavin (Bart Kicks him in the back)

• Bart:
  Testify!

• Crowd:
  Testify! Testify!

• Milhouse: My glasses make me look like a geek! (Bart tosses Milhouse's glasses away.)

• Bart: Now you'll get the girls you seek!

• Sherri&Terri: We'll see you at Makeout Creek!

• Crowd: Bart's the boy of the hour.
  He's got the power
  So raise your voice and don't be shy,
  Tes-ti...Tes-ti...

• Bart&Crowd: Tes-ti-fy!

• Crowd: Testify, testify, come on up and testify!

• (After the revival)

• Milhouse:
  Thank you Bart for fixing my vision.
  Now I see with total precision.

• Bart: (Spoken) Song's over Milhouse, but you're welcome.

External links

• "Faith Off episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
• "Faith Off" at IMDb

• The Simpsons episodes, season 11