Homer Defined

Season 3, Episode 5, Aired

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Homer inadvertently saves the nuclear power plant from a meltdown and becomes an unlikely hero. Meanwhile, Milhouse's mother forbids him from hanging out with Bart.
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  • Perfect

    10
    "Perfect"
    By jmbsonic555, Oct 17, 2011
    Homer inadvertently saves the nuclear power plant from a meltdown and becomes an unlikely hero. Meanwhile, Milhouse's mother forbids him from hanging out with Bart.
    overall, this episode was a perfect addition to season 3 and deserves a ten out of ten from me
    PERFECT!!

  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 15, 2010
    in this ep of the simpsons homer save the nucler power plant after a disaster almost happend. everyone thinks homer is a big hero but homer is about the only that thinks its luck . and milhouse is having a party thing is bart is not invited becasuse his mother thinkgs he is a bad influince and bart trys to get her approval but things keep messing up for bart. and magic johson johson is in this ep and refers to lucky break as pulling a homer. this was a good ep i thought and magic johson was cool to see in this epmoreless

  • homer lucky

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    By futuramarama, Apr 06, 2010
    the plant is about to be blown, but homer miraculously saves the day. but... how? He randomly hit a button and it just so happens to be the right one. Now everyone thinks he is a hero, but nobody knows the truth about how he got so lucky. In the end everyone finds out the truth.

    a good episode, somewhat weak but it was an overall strong offering. it had a lot of funny moments, including the ending, and it had a nice plot. My overall grade is a B+ because as i said, it was somewhat weak in partsmoreless

  • "Pulling a Homer"- (lol)

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    By titiembe, Mar 18, 2008
    Getting lucky despite idiocy or something like that was the defintion I think, lol. I liked how the entire episode Homer is shown in the dictionary with several definitons by his head... so basically Homer gets really lucky by saving Springfield from a nuclear meltdown, but is exposed that it was luck the second time around. Also, Bart is not allowed to play with Millhouse because of his mom, but in the end after Marge had a talk with Millhouse's mom they can see each other again. So overall this episode had it's funny moments and I think it will always be a Simpson best.moreless

  • Way better than last week's episode

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    By Iverson82094, Jan 29, 2008
    At the Power Plant, Homer falls asleep, unaware that a nuclear meltdown has begun and he is responsible. Only he can stop it and all of Springfield is reliable. With only seconds to go, he presses a random button and stops the meltdown. He is hailed a hero, and given the position of employee of the month. The owner of the Shelbyville Plant is impressed with Homer so much that he asks him to perform a speech to his workers. Homer knows what happened was a fraud. At the speech, Homer is lost for words, but is saved by the bell when another meltdown occurs. Again, it is up to Homer to stop it, but everybody is watching him. Again, he pushes a random button, and the meltdown is stopped. Homer's true colours are revealled, it was just a lucky guess.moreless
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    • (Homer saves Shelbyville power plant after performing "Eenie, meenie, miney, mo" as before) Aristotle Amadopolis: Thank you, Homer, for saving my plant... (becomes angry, throws down his sunglasses) ...with that idiotic rhyming!!! Do you even know what button you pushed?!? Homer: Sure! Mo!
    • Mr. Burns: Oh "meltdown". That's one of those annoying buzz words. We prefer to call it an un-requested fission surplus.
    • Otto: Bye little dudes. Don't learn anything I wouldn't learn!

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    • The first Simpsons episode to outsource the animation production to Anivision in Korea. Anivision would animate several Simpsons episodes from this season up until Season 10, after which, Akom and Rough Draft become the main overseas animation studios for The Simpsons.
    • In the premiere of this episode, there are two lines by Bart and Mr. Burns, which respectively are "Bad influence, my ass!" and "I had better kiss my sorry butt goodbye." The censors apparently got complaints from the "Mothers Against" groups, so in all of the repeats on FOX, the words were swapped. That is, from then on, Mr. Burns said "I had better kiss my sorry ass goodbye," and Bart's line was now, "Bad influence, my butt!" In syndication, however, the lines have returned to normal. The DVD has both scenes intact, but with the words reversed.
    • Howard Gewirtz was brought in by Jim Brooks as a freelance writer for Season 3. This is the only episode he has written for the series.

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