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The Simpsons Season 21 Episode 16

The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed

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AIRED: 3/28/10

Ned Flanders invites the Simpsons to come along on a church retreat to Jerusalem. While there, Homer fails to grasp the importance of the city until a crazy tour guide takes them around the city and opens Homer's eyes.

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The Simpsons go to Israel

4.0

By fsaenz0125, Mar 23, 2012

Ned Flanders invites the Simpsons to come along on a church retreat to Jerusalem. While there, Homer fails to grasp the importance of the city until a crazy tour guide takes them around the city and opens Homer's eyes. I liked/laughed at most famous person in the world gag, Krusty in the strip club, The bleeping from the tour guide, Flanders yelling about Porky Pig, and maybe one more. The rest, however, was boring. To be honest, that tour guide was really annoying. Everything from him (aside the bleeped lines) were not that funny in my opinion. This explains a lot of negative reviews at nohomers,com. Overall, a poor episode of the Simpsons. 4/10moreless
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The simpsons go to israel.

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By calum27, Oct 03, 2011

This was terrible. It was the worst episode i have ever seen of the simpsons. Compare this episode to one from say season 6 and you will see why. In fact this was awful for season 21 standards. The episode opened at some random meeting and flanders (who was really anoying in this episode) asked the simpsons to come with. This episode had a very limited amount of funny jokes. They were cringeworthy too. The tour guide was an idiot. He screeched, you could not make out what he said and was the most unfunny character ever.

You know an episode has serious problems when they think it's funny to have the tour guides daughter kick bart in the crotch numerous times. This was the most unfunny thing i have ever seen in the show. It was actually just a stupid attempt to fill time.

Then homer thought he was the messiah. They could have done something with this but did not. They then thought it would be hilarious to ruin the idea by having agnes(who by the way appears to be in almost every episode these days) and dr hibbert have it too. Stupid.

Then they gave us a very unwelcome scene where lisa kicked bart in the crotch. The writers are idiots. Can any male actually laugh at that? Then they closed the episode with a very unfunny mall joke.

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simpsons has stooped to the lowest level possible

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By BenelBarak, Oct 03, 2011

one of the most racist things ive ever seen (and ive seen a white supremecist rally), i was actually disgusted to watch this, the only funny part was homers rant over going to a country with no pork and a desert with no casino, but as the show progressed the purpose seemed to be to shove as many negative israeli stereotypes in the episode as possible, such as the little girls comment "Without groin kicking, its not krav maga"

for frak sake, arent half the writers on the show meant to be jewish? how can they possibly think that episode was appropriatemoreless
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Simpsons in Israel.

7.5

By Sami5118, Mar 30, 2011

Ned Flanders invites the Simpsons to come along on a church retreat to Jerusalem. While there, Homer fails to grasp the importance of the city until a crazy tour guide takes them around the city and opens Homer's eyes.

The only funny part of the ep was at the beginning when Homer was on the slip and slide thing. Flanders was talking to Lovejoy and he said " I sense a but coming..." and then Homer yells, " Here comes the butt!" and goes crashing through the fence. That was probably the funniest part of the episode and one of the very few funny things about this episode.

Overall it was not that funny and I think that they could have done better, so I would give this ep a C-.moreless
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The Simpsons re going to Israel!!!

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By doguineta, Mar 30, 2011

Homer interruptes Ned's bible group and then later invites the family to Isreal. Homer "Sure, I want to go to a war zone on a city with no pork in a desert with no casinos"

At Isreal, the tour guide was not funny, his voice was awful, and his daughter or something kicking Bart on the groin wasn't funny. Just Bart's : "You don't fight like a girl or a Milhouse" wqas. Then we have a tour and Homer, fed up, escapes on a camel into the desert. Of cousre Ned goes to save him. Back in the hotel, after a veggie-epiphany, he thinks he is the messiah - and tries to unite all faiths by making them realize that they all love chicken. This felt like a little rushed and none to fresh and it wasn't very good in "Trip episode" Standartsmoreless
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Dan Castellaneta	Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others
Julie Kavner	Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier
Nancy Cartwright	Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others
Yeardley Smith	Lisa Simpson
Hank Azaria	Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others
Harry Shearer	Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others

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Sacha Baron Cohen	Jacob	Guest Star
Yael Naim	Doreet	Guest Star
Pamela Hayden	Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others	Recurring Role
Tress MacNeille	Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others	Recurring Role
Maggie Roswell	Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and others	Recurring Role

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- Bart's aliases mentioned in this episode:
  
  Sart Bimpson
  Sargeant Spitwad
  Mucous Membrane
  Mommy's Special Little Guy
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- As Homer sings "I am so thirsty" in the desert, he does it to the tune of the theme song to Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
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- Homer mentions stupidflanders.org. A domain lookup shows it is owned by FOX.
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NOTES (1)
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- Show Title: Ralph hanging on to a runaway kite in the sky.
  Billboard Gag: None.
  Blackboard Joke: None.
  Couch Gag: The family crawl on the floor wearing leashes by handlers as if they're in a dog show. Bart is declared the winner, Homer attacks him, and Bart bites him back in dog-like fashion.
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- Lawrence Of Arabia
  The music that plays as Homer rides a camel across the desert is from the 1962 movie Lawrence Of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole.
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- Fiddler on the Roof
  The scene in Jerusalem where the man plays the violin on the roof is an illusion to the famous musical Fiddler on the Roof about the Jewish milkman Tevye and his family.
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- Veggie Tales
  In Homer's vision in the desert he sees a tomato, a carrot, cucumber. Parodies of Larry the cucumber, Bob the tomato and Laura the carrot from Veggie Tales.
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- Transformers
  The movie Ned Flanders is watching is Reformers, a parody of the 2007 movie Transformers.
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- The Greatest Story Ever Told
  The title of this episode is a play on the title of 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told based on the life of Jesus Christ.
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