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7F02: Simpson And Delilah
Airdate: 18 October 1990
Writer: Jon Vitti
Director: Rich Moore
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Homer discovers a hair growth formula named Dimoxinil. The problem is, he can't afford it. Homer cheats his employer's heath insurance policy to make the company pay for it. Applying the new formula, Homer wakes up with a full head of hair. Marge likes the new Homer, and Mr Burns even recognizes him and promotes him. Homer hires an assistant named Karl. With Karl's help, Homer impresses Burns and scores the key to the executive washroom. Smithers gets jealous, and snoops though Homer's files and finds the insurance claim. Karl takes the blame for doctoring the claim, and is fired, leaving Homer working by himself. Bart breaks the bottle of Dimoxinil leaving homer a bald man again. He gives a speech to his executives but without hair, nobody takes him seriously. Burns demotes him to his old position.
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7F04: Treehouse Of Horror I
Airdate: 24 October 1990
Writer: John Swartzwelder, Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, Sam Simon
Director: Wes Archer, Rich Moore, David Silverman
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Bad Dream House: The family moves into an old haunted house. The walls ooze blood and talk, and even posesses the family to kill each other.
Hungry Are The Damned: The Simpsons are abducted by aliens. Lisa thinks they abducted them so they could eat them, but they were really going to send them to a planet and treat them like gods. The aliens feelings are hurt, and they let the family go.
The Raven: Lisa reads Edgar Allan Poe's tale of horror, As Homer listens, he visualizes himself as the narrator, Marge as Lenore, and Bart as the Raven.
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7F05: Dancin' Homer
Airdate: 8 November 1990
Writer: Ken Levine and David Isaacs
Director: Mark Kirkland
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Homer recounts his brush with fame to his friends at Moes Tavern. The story unfolds. The family attends the baseball gathering held by the Nuclear Power Plant. Burns, of all people, sits next to Homer. To Homer's surprise, Burns buy's Homer a few drinks. Soon, Homer is drunk. With the Isotopes down by three runs, Homer excites the crowd with an impromptu dance and rallies the team to victory. The Isotopes manager gets Homer a job as the team mascot. He accepts, and leads the team on a winning streak. Homer is soon offered a job with the Capital City Capitals. The Simpsons sell everything and move to the big city. On his first night as team mascot, his small-town routine flops before the big city crowd and he is fired. Homer is happy because the folks at Moes were not interested in his failure, but hearing his adventures.
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7F07: Bart Vs. Thanksgiving
Airdate: 22 November 1990
Writer: George Meyer
Director: David Silverman
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
The Simpsons and Bouvier flock gather at the Simpsons household for a thanksgiving dinner. Lisa plans on unveiling her centerpiece at the dinner. Bart complains the centerpiece is in the place where the turkey should go. The two fight and the centerpiece ends up roasting on an open fire. Furious, Lisa runs upstairs crying, and Bart is sent to his room. Feeling mistreated, Bart runs away. Felling cold and hungry he finds a homeless shelter and eats their thanksgiving dinner. Kent brockmen interviews Bart and puts him on the news, while at home the family is watching him. Bart eventually wanders back home, but instead of going in to apologize, he goes up on the roof. He hears Lisa crying and too, pulls her up onto the roof. When Bart realizes what he done was wrong, he apologizes while Marge and Homer look on.
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7F06: Bart The Daredevil
Airdate: 6 December 1990
Writer: Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky
Director: Wes Archer
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
While at a Truckasaurus show, Bart is enthralled with the stunts of fearless daredevil Captain Lance Murdock. When one of his stunts goes wrong, he is sent to hospital. Dispite all this, Bart wants to become a daredevil, so he performs skateboard tricks in front of his friends. He hurts himself and is sent to hospital where Dr. Hibbert gives him a safety lecture. However, he sees Lance Murdock in the hospital, who encourages him to give it a go. With his encouragement, Bart plans on jumping Springfield Gorge. Homer concludes that the only way he can stop Bart is to perform the stunt himself to show him how dangerous it is. Bart knows that Homer will die, so he pulls out of the stunt. Homer accidentaly steps on the board and unwantingly performs the stunt.. falling down the gorge, but still lives on.
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7F11: One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
Airdate: 24 January 1991
Writer: Neil Scovell
Director: Wes Archer
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
While at the Happy Sumo Seafood restaraunt, Homer orders a Sushi delicacy. The food was prepared improperly, which can often be fatal. Homer goes to the hospital where Dr. Hibbert tells him he has 24 hours to live. With not much time left to spare, Homer creates a list of things for him to do before he dies. Homer falls asleep in his chair in front of the window while listening to the Bible on tape, expecting to never awake. The next morning, Marge holds his lifeless body, but notices his drool is still warm. Homer squirms and discovers he's still alive, and the family celebrate.
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7F12: The Way We Was
Airdate: 31 January 1991
Writer: Al Jean, Mike Reiss and Sam Simon
Director: David Silverman
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
The story takes place back in 1974, the year Homer and Marge first met. They both land themselves in detention and take a seat next to each other. To impress Marge, Homer signs up for the debate team, and asks Marge to tutor him in French, just so that he can spend more time with her. Homer asks her to the prom, and she accepts, but then finds out Homers little scheme and they have an argument. Artie Ziff then asks her to the prom, and she accepts. Meanwhile, Homer thinks Marge is still going with him, not paying attention to what their argument meant. He ends up going to the prom alone. On the way home, Artie tries to make love to Marge. She demands to be taken home. On the way home, she sees Homer walking on the side of the road, alone. When she gets home she grabs her car and picks him up, realizing he was the one for her all along.
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7F15: Principal Charming
Airdate: 14 February 1991
Writer: David Stern
Director: Mark Kirkland
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Selma, feeling lonely, decides she wants a husband. Marge sends Homer on a hunt for the perfect man, and he picks Principal Skinner. Skinner arrives at the Simpsons house, and Homer unknowingly introduces him to Patty, instead of Selma. Skinner falls in love at first sight, and the two start dating, leaving Selma in more despair than ever. When Selma discovers that Skinner plans on asking Patty to marry him, she starts dating the only guy left... Barney. Patty sees Selma's emotional despair and turns down Seymour's proposal. Both couples break up.
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7F16: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Airdate: 21 February 1991
Writer: Jeff Martin
Director: Wes Archer
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Grampa suffers a mild heart attack, and revealls to Homer that he has a half brother, produced from a one night stand. He tracks down his brother, Herb Powell, who lives in Detroit. They arrive at his house, which turns out to be a mansion. Herb is a millionaire, owning a huge car company. Herb sees Homer as the typical American, so he lets him design a car for all the "Homer Simpsons" out there. Homer's car is a total flop. Herb loses his business and is forced to give up all of his posessions. He leaves on a bus, and the episode ends. Little do we know that Herb's story is not over...
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7F17: Old Money
Airdate: 28 March 1991
Writer: Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky
Director: David Silverman
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Abe meets a lady named Bea Simmons at his retirement home. After a few days, the two fall in love, leading up to her birthday in Sunday. He prepares for the event, but instead, Homer grabs him, chucks him in the car and they take him to the Discount Lion Safari. Grampa returns home to rest, and discovers that while he was out, Beatrice passed away. Her will says that Abe inherits her fortune of 100 thousand dollars. Bea appears as a ghost and tells him to use the money to help those in need. Homer stops Abe from gambling the money away, and he decides that the money should be spent on refurbishing the reirement home.
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7F20: The War Of The Simpsons
Airdate: 2 May 1991
Writer: John Swartzwelder
Director: Mark Kirkland
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Marge and Homer throw a party, but when Homer gets drunk and starts making a pass at Maude Flanders, telling off strangers, and stumbling over furniture, Marge signs up for a weekend retreat of marriage counselling hosted by Rev. Lovejoy. Homer finds out that the retreat will be held at Catfish Lake. Being the selfish person he is, he packs his fishing gear, hoping to catch the legendary catfish, the General Sherman. Marge discovers Homer planned to go fishing over fixing their marriage. Homer takes a walk instead. On his walk, he picks up an abandoned fishing pole which yanks and pulls him along the pier into a rowboat and onto the lake, the General Sherman being on the other end. Marge sees Homer from the cabin window and is disappointed. Homer catches the trophy fish, but Marge tells him that their marriage is in serious trouble if he values a fish more than her. To proove his love, he throws the fish back into the water and Marge forgives him.
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7F21: Three Men And A Comic Book
Airdate: 9 May 1991
Writer: Jeff Martin
Director: Wes Archer
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon |
Bart finds the first issue of Radioactive Man at the Androids Dungeon sale table for $100. He doesn't have that money she he gets a job doing odd jobs for Mrs. Glick, a friend of Marge's. He's given only 50 cents for his hard work. Bart takes his $35 to the comic book store to buy the comic. At the store, Milhouse and Martin also want to buy the book, and if they add all their money together, it will equal to $100. They buy the comic book and spend the night in Bart's treehouse. Martin stirs in the middle of the night, so Bart and Milhouse tie him up, thinking he was trying to take off with the book. Bart and Milhouse start to fight and the storm whisks the comic book into the air. Milhouse is being held by Bart off the edge of the Treehouse by his sleeve. If he lets go, Milhouse will die. But the comic book is also next to him. Bart decides to save Milhouse, the comic book flies off and is hit by lightning, leaving them with nothing.
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The Episodes
[7F03]
- Bart
Get's An 'F'
[7F02] - Simpson
And Delilah
[7F04] - Treehouse
Of Horror I
[7F01] - 2
Cars In Garage & 3 Eyes On Fish
[7F05] - Dancin'
Homer
[7F08] - Dead
Putting Society
[7F07] - Bart
Vs. Thanksgiving
[7F06] - Bart
The Daredevil
[7F09] - Itchy
And Scratchy And Marge
[7F10] - Bart
Gets Hit By A Car
[7F11] - 1
Fish, 2 Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish
[7F12] - The
Way We Was
[7F13] - Homer
Vs Lisa & 8th Commandment
[7F15] - Principal
Charming
[7F16] - Oh
Brother, Where Art Thou?
[7F14] - Bart's
Dog Gets An F
[7F17] - Old
Money
[7F18] - Brush
With Greatness
[7F19] - Lisa's
Substitute
[7F20] - The
War Of The Simpsons
[7F21] - Three
Men And A Comic Book
[7F22] - Blood
Feud
Matt Groening Says:
Twenty-two jam-packed episodes of malicious cartoon frivolity
that helped make 1990 and 1991 such entertaining and annoying years.
This is when full-blown Simpsons mania hit America, and millions
of thoughtful young people across the land were either wearing or
selling bootleg Bart Simpson T-shirts.
The wild success of the TV
show, along with every product that had Bart's leering face slapped
on it, would have been daunting had we been able to look up from
our drawing tables. But everyone who worked on The Simpsons was so
consumed with the making of the weekly cartoon that we were able
to maintain the exhaustion and worry and carefully nursed bitterness
that lies behind all successful Hollywood extravaganzas. If the first
season was a series of wild experiments that succeeded beyond our
dreams, the second season was a nonstop workathon that was redeemed
by the knowledge we were amusing and irritating so many people.
Many
of the shows from this season remain among my all-time favorites.
I'm particularly fond of Bart's pride in getting a grade of D-minus
at the end of "Bart
Gets an F"; the debut of the ever-slobbering Kang and Kodos in the
first of our annual Treehouse of Horror episodes; Homer almost making
it across Springfield Gorge on Bart's skateboard; Mr. Burns taking
a reluctant bite of Blinky; the three-eyed fish; Maggie bonking Homer
with a mallet after watching an Itchy & scratchy a cartoon; Bart
going to Hell in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"' and the flashback scene
in "The way We Was", when Homer catches his first glimpse of Marge
in high school (she was hot).
So put on a ratty old Simpsons T-shirt,
grab a bowlful of heavily-salted snack treats, and sink into the
couch for a marathon of Simpsons classics.
If you look carefully, you can see actual drops of blood, sweat and
tears on many of the animation cels. Enjoy!
Your pal
Matt Groening
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