Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

Season 7, Episode 3, Aired
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After a series of misadventures, the Simpson children are put in the custody of Ned and Maude Flanders. Learning that none of the children have been baptized, Ned sets up a baptism - which Homer and Marge thwart just in time.
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  • The simpson kids are in a foster home

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    By fenway98, Jan 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    Due to a series of mis communications, child services comes to The simpsons house and takes the kids away to a foster home. Whats even worse is that their foster family is The Flanders. Bart and Lisa cant eat any good food, cant watch itchy and scratchy, or do anything fun. When Ned finds out they have never been baptised, he decieds to baptise them, but homer stops him before its too late, although is he baptised himself.

    This was a great episode with a sweet ending. I loved Homer and Cletus in this episode. "I love you Pa!, "I love you too Cletus!"

    Overall Grade: 100%/A+++moreless

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  • Bart, Maggie, and Lisa become Flanders. Was Homer controlled by the devil?? LOL

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    By Iverson82094, Aug 15, 2010 Report Abuse
    When Bart is sent home from school with head lice and Lisa loses her shoes, Marge and Homer are accused of being negligent parents and their kids are taken away by the bureaucratic do-gooders at the Child Protection Agency. As (bad) luck would have it, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are placed in the foster care of the Flanders family. While their kids must endure 5 PM bedtimes, Flanders-style nachos, and endless games of Biblical Bombardment, Homer and Marge must attend a special class for bad parents. Ned treats Bart, Lisa and especially Maggie with love and kindness, until he discovers that none of them have been baptized. After a fainting jag, Ned shores up the energy and the righteousness to baptize the kids himself. As Ned leads his new flock to the edge of the river for their baptisms, Homer and Marge, newly graduated from bad parent school, rush to the scene to stop him. Homer sees what is about to happen and dives into the river to prevent Ned from pouring Holy Water on Bart. When the Holy Water hits Homer, it burns his flesh and bubbles up. Bart, however, is saved from salvation and the Simpson family is reunited.moreless

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  • Life with the Flanders

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    By futuramarama, Jul 02, 2010 Report Abuse
    After homer and Marge are deemed negligent parents, bart, lisa and maggie are forced to live somewhere else; with the flanders. Now, Marge and Homer need to get deemed better parents or face the consequences, while Bart, Lisa and Maggie may be getting baptized from Flanders.

    A funny episode and also quite sad at some places. It has a very unique and interesting plot and was handled in a funny manner. Overall, a great offering from the season known as seven, my overall grade for this episode is an A+, just an all around, funny, good, fun episode, I thinkmoreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 20, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of the simpsons home and marge take a trip and bart and lisa and maggie are taken away becasue the insidents start to happen like bart plays a prank and they think he has lice and lisa loses her shoes and it looks like she has no shoes and is not taken care of . and lisa was doing a projec that required old news papers and so when the foster care came to vist they saw all that stuff around the house and other things so they took the kids and sent them to live with the flanders next store and marge and homer had to go through a program to see i they were good parents .and so bart and lisa find it borning living there and they are about to be batised when homer and marge come home and they go to were they are about to batised and they save them. and maggie goes marge for a hug. this was a good epmoreless

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  • After a series of unfortunate incidents, the Simpsons kids are placed in the care of Ned and Maude Flanders. The Flanders soon discover that the Simpson kids were never baptised and they organise a baptismal, which Homer and Marge stop just in timemoreless

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    By Scottstopher28, Jun 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This was an okay episode, but very much like 'Radioactive Man', it lacked in funny parts, which is why I have rated it as average. The best parts are when bart makes his 'newspaper report' for todd and when Homer and Marge are taking their parental classes. This episode is also good in the way of changing the emotions of the viewer, like when the Simpson kids are taken, the viewer is sad, and when Maggie begins to forget Homer and Marge, the viewer is worried, and when the family are reunited, the viewer is happy again. Whereas most Simpson episodes are made purely for the comedy pleasure of the viewer. This episode was also good for anyone who wants to see the Flanders family in their best light.moreless

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    • The statue of the man riding a horse says "Swartzwelder," which is the name of one of The Simpsons' writers. Edit
    • We learn that Maggie's real name is Margaret. Edit
    • Ned's bumper sticker: "I (heart) Your Kids" Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: No one wants to hear from my armpits. Couch Gag: A Brady Bunch style screen (where it's divided in nine spaces) with Lisa, Marge, and Grampa along the top, Maggie, the couch, and Bart in the middle, and Snowball II, Homer, and SLH along the bottom. At the last minute, everyone except Grampa (who's sleeping) runs out of their frames and onto the couch. Edit

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    • Bart: Remember how Mom used to microwave our underwear on cold days? Lisa: Or how Dad used to call the radio station with fake traffic tips? Edit
    • Marge: Oh, Maggie, you're a Simpson again. (Maggie belches) Edit
    • Reverend Lovejoy: Oh Lord, why do you hate my trains? Edit

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    • I Got You, Babe The lullaby Ned and Maude sing to Maggie is a parody of "I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher. Edit
    • Batman When Child Protective Services are called, the swirling badge, music, and flames from the exhaust pipe are a reference to the classic 60's Batman series. Edit
    • Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! The title of the Itchy & Scratchy episode, "Foster Pussycat Kill! Kill!" is a reference to the 1966 film Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!. Edit

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