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Dude, Where's My Ranch? ranks 200,790 out of all 115,118 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com.

The Simpsons fans have written a total of 7 reviews of Dude, Where's My Ranch?.

Air Date

Sunday April 27, 2003

Production Code

EABF13

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• In one airing of this episode, the scene where Homer says "A lot can happen when your head is turned" and then Marge points to where Cookie's grave is cut. edit »
• When Moe catches, then captures David Byrne on his car, he is next to the Simpsons and David Byrne's now unoccupied car. After he passes the hospital and closes the car top, there are no cars around him, not even Byrne's driver-less car. edit »

• Indian Man: (About the blocked river) It was dammed by our natural enemy, the beaver.
  Marge: Why don't you just chase the beavers away?
  Indian Man: The beaver is also our god. In retrospect, it was a poor decision. edit »
• Homer: Look at those city slickers with their stupid fur coats and pointy hats!
  Marge: Homer, those are elk.
  Homer: I still hate them. (yelling) Go back to Pittsburgh! edit »
• Lisa: Mom, why are you talking like that?
  Marge: (With a Southern accent) Don't rightly know. I just soaked up the lingo like a biscuit in a bucket full of gravy. (In her normal voice) I'll stop now. edit »
• Bart: I'll show how we get on a horse where I come from. Daddy, I need upsies! edit »
• Simpson Family: (singing) Walking in a Winter Wonderland.
  Mr Burns: Exquisite. Just exquisite. Makes me wish I hadn't released the hounds.
  (Dogs chase the Simpson Family)
  Simpson Family: Aaaahhh!!! (screaming and running away)
  Smithers: Should I call them off sir?
  Mr. Burns: No, no. It's their Christmas, too. edit »
• Everybody Hates Ned Flanders song lyrics:
  
  Homer: Everybody in the USA,
  Hates their stupid neighbor,
  He's Flanders and he's really, really lame...
  Flanders tried to wreck my song,
  His views on birth control are wrong,
  I hate his guts and Flanders is his name.
  
  Lenny/Carl/Homer: F-L-A-N-R-D-S,
  Homer: He's the man that I hate best,
  I'd like to see his house go up in flames.
  
  Lenny/Carl: F-L-A,
  Homer: His name is Ned!
  Lenny/Carl: E-R-S,
  Homer: That's a stupid name!
  He's worse than Frankenstein or Dr. No.
  
  David Byrne: You can't upset him even slightly,
  He just smiles and nods politely,
  Then goes home and worships nightly,
  His Leftorium, is an emporium, of woe!
  
  Lenny/Carl: F-L-A,
  Homer: Don't yell at Ned!
  Lenny/Carl: D-E-R,
  Homer: His wife is dead!
  Everybody hates that stupid jerk!
  
  David Byrne: Springfield rocks with Homer's joyous loathing,
  Filling clubs with angry Valentinos,
  You don't have to move your feet,
  Just hate Flanders to the disco beat.
  Homer/Byrne: He's your perky, peppy, nightmare neighborino!
  If you despise polite left-handers,
  Homer/Byrne/Flanders: Then I doubt you'll like Ned Flanders
  Or his creepy little offspring, Rod and Todd.
  Todd: That's us!
  Rod: Hooray!
  
  Audience: F-L-A,
  Apu: His name is Ned,
  Audience: E-R-S,
  Apu: He is so white bread,
  Choir: A smiling moustache geek who walks with God! edit »
• Indian: (checking her mail) Treaty, treaty, treaty, bill, treaty, Peace Pipe Aficionado magazine... edit »
• Lisa: (grabbing Bart) Come with me, did something terrible, need your help!
  Bart: Don't really care, caught up in the moment. edit »
• Bart: Hey, let's see if Dad's song is finally off the air! (turns radio on)
  Radio Guy: Coming up next, Springfield's latest one hit wonder "The Moe Szyslak Connection" Produced by David Byrne!
  Moe: (on radio) Moe Moe Moe! How do you like me, how do like me? Moe Moe Moe! Why don't you like me? Nobody likes me.
  Marge: (Turns off radio) Eh, we can spend another week at the ranch!
  Homer (with the car on its back wheels like a horse)YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAH!!! HOOHOO! (Car bangs down) Ohhh, that can't be good for the struts! edit »
• Homer: Uh oh! We forgot to empty the minibar!
  (beavers open minibar and go out of control, one opens a deck of cards)
  Homer: That's a 17 dollar deck of cards!
  Bart: Let it go, dad.
  (Beavers get more out of control, one is gnawing on a Toblerone, the other is gnawing a camera. The flash flashes and you see a drunk looking beaver's eye.) edit »
• Homer: NOOOOOO! I wanted to die choking on food! edit »
• Clara: You know, there are more important things in this world than boys and wh--(sees Bart) hello handsome!
  Bart: What's up, cootie breath? edit »
• Homer: (Singing) Christmas in December! Wow wow wow! Give me tons of presents! Now now now! edit »
• Cookie: (to a chicken tied up to a stump) Free range my ass! edit »
• Homer: (about his overplayed song on the radio) I've come to hate my own creation! Now I know how God feels! edit »
• Texan: I have some sad news for y'all. After this dance I'm headin' to jail. One of my stray bullets hit a Texas ranger, but I'll be back in six months! YEHAWW (shoots guns in the air) Blanks. They just don't feel the same. edit »
• Carl: David Byrne?
  Moe: Singer, artist, composer, director, Talking Head…
  David Byrne: And I used wrestle under the name 'El Diablo'.
  Lenny: I thought that Philip Glass?
  David Byrne: Yeah, he wishes. edit »
• Cookie: A dance? A DANCE?! (starts whooping and dancing around) Phew. I'm pooped. I'm going to bed. BED?! (starts whooping and dancing around again) edit »
• Dude Ranch brochure: Peace. Quiet. Chili. edit »
• Marge: That was a delicious meal, Cookie. What do we do with our garbage?
  Cookie: Just leave it for Cleanie.
  (Cleanie creeps out and picks up the trash in a bag)
  Cleanie: (clutching the bag) My Precious. Gollum! edit »
• Lisa: Sister? You mean she's not your girlfriend?
  Luke: Hell no! They outlawed that in this state two years ago! edit »
• Marg: Homie, I'm worried about how fast our kids are growing up.
  Homer: It's the beef hormones and the fluorescent lights. What are you gonna do?
  Marge: But they're already acting like teenagers. Lisa's with that boy, and look at Maggie…
  (Maggie is listening to "Oops I Did It Again" while dancing like Britney Spears) edit »
• Homer: So long, suckers!
  (The rope around Homer's neck breaks and the beavers start attacking Homer)
  Homer: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! STOP SHOVING! The little one isn't getting any.
  (The small beaver attacks Homer)
  Homer: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! edit »

• This episode was nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song, "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders". edit »
• This episode won the 2004 Annie Award for Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production. edit »
• Blackboard Joke: None.
  Couch Gag: The family mimes their way into the living and then mime sitting on a couch that isn't there. edit »

• Gabby Hayes
  When Lisa is reading a Let's Go Home magazine while the family is horseback riding, Bart calls her "Crabby Hayes", referencing actor George "Gabby" Hayes, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. edit »
• Flipper
  When searching for Clara the rabbit on the cliff makes a sound much like the sounds that the dolphin "Flipper" would make from the television series Flipper. edit »
• William Shatner
  William Shatner's cover of Homer's song about Ned Flanders is a a reference to William's "unique" interpretation of Elton John's hit "Rocket Man". edit »
• Andrea True Connection
  The song Moe records, titled "Moe Moe Moe", is a takeoff of the Andrea True Connection disco hit "More More More". edit »
• Maggie imitates the dance moves of Britney Spears. While dancing to the pop star's "Oops...I Did It Again" she holds up a can of Buzz Cola. This is similar to Britney's Pepsi Cola commercial. edit »
• Moe: Have you ever seen the movie Misery?
  David: Actually no.
  Moe: Then this will be all new to you.
  This comment made by Moe to David Byrne after David injures himself by falling from the hood of his car (while driving) into Moe's car, is a reference to a Stephen King novel in which a famous writer has a car crash, and is rescued by one of his greatest fans. The fan nurses him in her house, but the writer soon finds out that he is held hostage by the fan. She is enraged because the writer has killed her favorite character (named Misery Chastain, hence the title Misery) and she demands that he write a new novel and bring the character back to life. Misery was made into a movie starring Kathy Bates and James Caan. Moe does a similar thing by taking care of David Byrne and later getting him to give Moe his own record deal (i.e. Moe moe moe!). edit »
• Homer: When Homer plots against the beavers on a map with figurines
  This joke refers to Bill Murray's character in 1980 film "Caddyshack." His mumbling, incoherent strategy to defeat the beavers is a parody of Murray's plots against the gopher in his greenskeeper shack. edit »
• Cleanie: "My Precious"
  The character of Cleanie acts just like the character of Gollum from the recent "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. In addition, Andy Serkis who performed the role of Gollum in those films provides the voice for Cleanie. edit »
• The title of the episode refers to the 2000 film Dude, Where's My Car? edit »