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So ironically it shows the numbers 9 and 11 while referencing the Towers and this episode aired four years before the September 11 attacks. The amount of damage of the windows and headlights on Homer's car changes throughout the finale. Homer must travel to New York to get his car back, which is illegally parked at World Trade Center Plaza.
David Silverman was sent to Manhattan to take hundreds of pictures of the city and areas around the World Trade Center. When he returned, Lance Wilder and his team spent time creating new scenes and backgrounds, incorporating small details such as signs and hundreds of extras that would correctly illustrate the city. Oakley and Weinstein were pleased with the final results, and both noted that the buildings, streets, and even elevator cabins were detailed closely to their real life counterparts.
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson - The Simpsons [S09E01]
His satisfaction soon disappears when he is forced to speed off to get his family after an enraged driver takes a potshot at him for holding up traffic. Upon arrival at his car, Homer discovers it has been issued many parking tickets and has been wheel clamped. While waiting for a parking officer to come and remove the clamp, Homer gets given some change by passers and decides to get himself a pizza but doesn't want to leave his car in case he misses the officer. He asks for a street vendor to go and get him a pizza but he tells Homer that he will only sell him khlav kalash , after which Homer purchases from him several cans of crab juice to wash off the taste of khlav kalash from his mouth, and now needs to urinate, but is afraid to leave his car behind.
Ignoring the wheel clamp, he tries to drive away but destroys the car's left front fender. Realising that he will never get out of New York in time with the wheel clamp on his car he steals a jackhammer from a road construction crew and uses it to remove the clamp, but damages the car further as well. Homer eventually gets the boot off and races to Central Park and reunites with his family. They get out of New York before nightfall and while driving back to Springfield, the family reflects on their wonderful time, while Homer's hatred for New York remains as debris from a garbage truck flies through the car's broken windshield and splatters across his face. When Lisa asks if they could visit New York again next year, Homer, still fuming after his experience there, tells her he will think about it.
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When Lisa asks if they can come back to New York, Homer's eye is twitching and he simply says "We'll see, honey. We'll see." as garbage flies from a truck and onto Homer's face. Due to the prominence of the World Trade Center in the plot, the episode was removed from syndication after the September 11 attacks. By 2006, the episode had come back into syndication in some areas; however, parts of the episode were often edited out. One previously such edited item is a scene of two men arguing across Tower 1 and Tower 2, where a man from Tower 2 claims, "They stick all the jerks in Tower 1." Co-executive producer Bill Oakley commented in retrospect that the line was "regrettable". In 2019, a hand-drawn cel from the episode, depicting the two towers, was given to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in what the curator termed a "hilarious and tender" donation. Homer realizes that he needs to reach Central Park to pick up the family and get out of New York before nightfall as he is not prepared to wait until the following day for the officer to return.
The Simpsons season 9 DVD commentary for the episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" . The Simpsons have visited New York City a number of times, most prominently in The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. If you do want to start looking for signs of the decline, I think you could argue that the opening sequence at Moe’s is a little weak; there’s some definite fraying around the edges of the show’s previously impeccable comedy machine.
"The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson"
When the family arrive in New York , Homer tells the family to wait at the bus station while he gets the car, but Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie want to explore the city so Homer goes to the World Trade Center to retrieve his car, but they agree to meet at 5 o'clock in Central Park. He arrives finding his car dumped in the middle of the plaza, full of tickets and a boot on the wheel. Homer tries to pry the boot off with his hands, but a loud bystander tells him he needs to call the phone number on the boot the New York city council to remove it, After the phone call, Homer learns that he needs to wait by his car for a parking officer between the hours of 9 A.M. As well as a declined plea, While he is waiting, he becomes hungry, but cannot leave his car as the boot man may come.
The musical sequence played during the Flushing Meadows segment is a stylistic parody of the piece "Flower Duet" from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. When the traveling bus passes some Hasidic Jews, Bart mistakes them for ZZ Top, and when he visits Mad magazine's offices, he sees Alfred E. Neuman, the Spy vs. Spy characters, and cartoonist Dave Berg. The actor in the musical number "You're Checkin' In" was based on Robert Downey Jr., who was battling a cocaine addiction during the time of the episode creation, just as the character in the musical was. The sequence where Homer races alongside the carriage in Central Park was a reference to a similar scene in the film Ben-Hur.
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The final scene when the family is crossing the George Washington Bridge uses a version of the song "Theme from New York, New York", which continues to play throughout the credits.Several cultural references are made during Homer's flashback to his previous visit to New York City. During the entire flashback, "The Entertainer", a piece made famous by the film The Sting, is played. Writer Ian Maxtone-Graham had brought the piece to the attention of director Jim Reardon and asked him to try to fit the piece into the flashback. A character resembling Woody Allen can be seen during the flashback, pouring trash out of his window onto Homer. When Homer falls into the sewer, he falls down to the underground world of mutants portrayed in the movie C.H.U.D.
When Duffman first arrives at Moe's Tavern, he hands several people cans of beer from his utility belt. In the very next shot, after Barney tells Duffman that he's the designated driver and cannot claim his free bottomless mug of Duff, Duffman's belt is still completely stocked with cans. After the September 11 attacks, the episode was banned from television due to the prominence of the World Trade Center towers.
Even later, while standing at a cross walk and looking at an electronic billboard , a thug pickpockets his wallet, a pigeon steals his hot dog and trash is dumped on him from an apartment denizen resembling Woody Allen. Though it seemed things could not have gotten worse, it did when he picked a banana peel off of his face and accidentally threw it at a pimp resulting in him being chased through the streets and down an alleyway. Homer then made a run for it and tried to escape via a fire exit ladder, only for the ladder to come loose resulting in him falling down into an opened manhole and getting attacked by CHUDs.
"The Principal and the Pauper"The Simpsons List of episodes"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the first episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on September 21, 1997, as the 179th episode of the series. The episode features the Simpson family traveling to Manhattan to recover the family car, which was taken by Barney Gumble and abandoned outside the World Trade Center, where it had been repeatedly posted with parking tickets, and disabled with a parking boot. And I do remember, in one of the frivolous moments of that processing, once thinking that I would never want to see this specific episode again, that it would be too difficult to see even an animated World Trade Center used for comedy. I understand why so much is said about the need to never forget, but there’s something to be said for remembering as well, and this episode achieves the latter. I totally understand why I once never wanted to see this episode again, but I’m glad I’ve moved on to the point where this episode can represent something essentially positive.
Barney, the most unlikely one, draws the black egg and therefore becomes the designated driver for the night. While his friends enjoy their drunken antics, Barney is twitching uncontrollably and is not even sure if he can tolerate having to be sober period much less around everyone else getting drunk. What toleration there was , quickly got destroyed when the Duff van arrives at Moe's (playing the Yello song 'Oh Yeah' so loud it makes Barney's bowl of nuts shake) and Duffman emerges with a bottomless mug of icy cold beer for Barney and the crowd shouts at him to chug. Barney has an outburst, saying that he can't because he is the designated driver. After quickly stating that Duff supports the designated driver program, Duffman remains at the bar to party with the drunks.
Homer's subsequent "D'oh!" echoes across the entire city, reaching his family on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Homer rushes out of the tower and reads the ticket stating that for his "failure to wait by vehicle" he will be fined an additional $250. Infuriated and desperate to rescue his car from the East River before the sun goes down, Homer drives out of the World Trade Center with the boot still on his tire. When he realizes that he won't be able to get very far, he distracts a construction worker and uses his jackhammer to pry the boot off his tire, punching holes in the bodywork, shattering the windows and detonating the airbag in the process. However, it then gets stuck on his foot, so he kicks the front of his car until it comes off. At this point, Homer has completely damaged his car, but nonetheless got the boot off the front of the car leaving him relatively satisfied.
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