Homer Goes to College
- Episode aired Oct 14, 1993
- TV-14
- 30m
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8.6/10
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When a surprise inspection of the nuclear power plant reveals that Homer is not qualified to do his job, he is forced to go to college.When a surprise inspection of the nuclear power plant reveals that Homer is not qualified to do his job, he is forced to go to college.When a surprise inspection of the nuclear power plant reveals that Homer is not qualified to do his job, he is forced to go to college.
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Dan Castellaneta
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Inspector #2
- (voice)
- …
Harry Shearer
- Mr. Burns
- (voice)
- …
Maggie Roswell
- Power Plant Voice
- (voice)
- …
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- TriviaDan Castellaneta inadvertently misspelled "smart" as "S-M-R-T" when Homer sang "I am so smart", and ad-libbed "I mean S-M-A-R-T". The writers found this much funnier and used the take.
- GoofsHomer is denied entry from several colleges before going to Springfield University thanks to Mr. Burns pulling strings. In reality almost all colleges and universities in the United States will just automatically enroll adults, typically ages 22 and over, into a Bachelor's degree program without the application process that recent high school students go through (SAT, ACT, application essay, letters of recommendation, etc). Homer could've just gone to the Admission's office directly and enrolled automatically into college.
- Alternate versionsIn the episode "Homer Goes to College", Marge sees that Homer has made a bookcase out of cinderblocks and wood. She tells him "Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase", to which he explains "Yeah, but this is what they're doing on campus. Besides, it isn't costing us: I swiped the cinderblocks from a construction site". Cut to the construction site where a worker informs the foreman that four cinderblocks are missing and the foreman says "There'll be no hospital, then. I'll tell the children." In the syndicated reruns, the scene at the construction site is deleted and the joke is left without a punchline.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Springfield's Most Wanted (1995)
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Funny funny Homer
Homer was ridiculously funny in "Homer goes to college". First, his little "accident" at the nuclear plan byt. Him glowing in green radiation looking fierce and determined, "must destroy mankind!", (then looks at his watch), " ooh, lunch time", (quickly shakes off radiation then walks happy and casually). I always found that one hilarious. Same with numerous other gags and funny quirks of Homer's throughout the episode such as his picture on his college application joke, him singing "I am so smart, s m r t, I mean s m a r t", then lighting his high school diploma on fire, Homer laughing at the college professor dropping his notes and everyone looking at him all stupified, then the professor making a more intellectual joke and Homer looking all stupified while the rest of the class is laughing. And there's Homer's idea of college being divided into two groups of people, jocks and nerds. An obvious reference to the " Revenge of the nerds" movies. Then Homer watching "School of hard knockers", that was funny too. Then Homer at his first day at college saying " if movies has taught me anything, it's the fault of the bitter, crusty old dean", then he sees his dean who acts all cool and easygoing, the exact opposite of the dean in "School of hard knockers". Then Homer making friends with nerdlings. Then the gag with Homer and his nerdling friends kidnapping a rival college's mascot pig and Richard Nixon's connection to it. Classic. This episode was very funny and was made during the great first 8 years of the Simpsons before the show started to go downhill and lose it's quality.
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- richspenc
- Feb 6, 2016
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