Homer Loves Flanders

Season 5, Episode 16, Aired
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Homer reluctantly goes to a football game with Ned. After Ned shows Homer a good time, they become close friends. Little to Homer's realization, Ned actually starts to have negative feelings toward him.
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  • superb

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    By futuramarama, Aug 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    what i liked- Ned's dream about him hating homer, and him telling maude that he thinks he hates homer, and then we see homer say to marge that he thinks he hates someone (name escapes me), Homer running after the Flanders' car, the ending of the episode, the end of act 1 where Lenny and Carl are talking about homer's car thinking it is a 'robot car', Ned starting to dislike Homer, amongst other things.
    good episode. it's not a perfect episode but it definitely is an enjoyable way to spend a half hour of your time, and like pretty much everything from season 5, you're sure to laugh a lot. B- or so as my final grade, i think is fairmoreless

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  • Homer and Flanders are friends... for a little while.

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    By Sami5118, Jul 15, 2011 Report Abuse
    Homer decides to be friends with Flanders after he finds out that Flanders has tickets to a football game that he wants to go to. After Flanders lets him go with him, Homer decides to be friends with him, and it works; for a while until Flanders gets sick of Homer hanging around and disrupting his family. They have a fight and in the end, everything is back to normal with Homer hating Flanders and Flanders still trying to be nice to him. Overall, I think it was a pretty decent episode. 9/10moreless

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  • Funny, but somewhat off I think

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    By Southparkfa, Jun 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this episode, Homer can't buy tickets to the Baseball game, but luckily Ned has 2 tickets to the game. Homer, at first reluctantly, agrees to go with Flanders. He has such a great time, that he begins spending more and more time with Ned and his family, putting them all on the edge. Eventually, Homer speeds through Ned's community service, and making Ned look like a loser, until the whole town hates him. There are some very funny scenes in this episode, like the Simpsons and the Flanders reactions to each other, but what I really hated about this episode was the ending. He just ends like that, was a stupid move on the part of the writers. Overall, it's a good episode, but it's somewhat off. 8/10 Bmoreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 18, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of the simpsons show homer is invited by ned flanders to a football game and he even gets the game ball from ned flanders. but during the game homer started to spill bear and go crazy and yell duering the game. and act obnixius. which made ned flanders hate homer even more. then he normal did. but during the second part of the ep things went back to normal i thought between homer and ned they went back the way things was homer not spending time with ned and taking his tools with out asking . this was a good epmoreless

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  • The pigskin classic

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    By meatboys, Aug 30, 2008 Report Abuse
    Homer reluctantly goes to a football game with Ned. After Ned shows Homer a good time, they become close friends. Little to Homer's realization, Ned actually starts to have negative feelings toward him.

    My absolute all-time favorite part of this episode is the part where Ned and Homer are exiting the stadium and homer yells to Lenny and carl saying
    "This is Ned flanders, my best friend" Lenny: What did he say? Carl: I don't now, something about being gay

    Lol
    One of the funniest parts of this great episode is when the church busdrives by Ned and they start saying he's hacked up on goofballs, Ha-ha
    and of course, when homer is in church he shouts out "Hey Ned, I got us some kick-ass seats"

    In church... Rofl
    In conclusion my final rating is 9.5 Very good episodemoreless

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    • In this episode Homer's car is green instead of purple, like his old car from high school. Edit
    • The shelter that Ned and Homer go to is called "Helter Shelter," the same as the title to an episode in the 14th season. Edit
    • In America version of this episode, Homer wakes up from a bad dream and says that he thinks he hates Ted Koppel. In the Mexican version, he wakes up from the bad dream and says he hates Michael Jackson. Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: I am not delightfully saucy. Couch Gag: There are two couches and the family splits in half and sits on couches. Edit

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    • Lisa: Dad and Ned Flanders friends? Hah! What's next? A's on Bart's report card? (She, Marge and Bart laugh together) Bart: (Stops laughing) Hey! Edit
    • Marge: Homey, I'm very proud of you, but don't you think you're spending too much time with Ned? Your family needs you too. Homer: Oh, of course you'd say something like that, Marge. You've hated Ned for years! In fact, you wanted to bash his head in with a pipe. Marge: That was you! Homer: Love, Marge. Don't hate... love. Edit
    • Marge: Honey, I'm so glad you're ho-- Homer: Can't talk, seeing Flanders. Later, sex. Edit

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    • Texas Tower Massacre Ned Flanders has a dream in which he is standing atop a tower, picking off random people with an assault rifle. This is obviously alluding to Charles Whitman's part in what has become known as the Texas Tower Massacre. Whitman killed fourteen and injured dozens when he went on a ninety minute shooting rampage from the Tower of the University of Texas. Edit
    • Village People Homers song, "Nacho, nacho man. I want to be a nacho man..." is a parody of the famous Village People song "Macho Man." Edit

    • Terminator 2 Homer sprints after Flanders' car with the golf clubs is from the 1991 film Terminator 2.

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