Homer as a womanizer
| Episode of the series The Simpsons | |||
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| title | Homer as a womanizer | ||
| Original title | Homer's Night Out | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | approx. 22 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 1, episode 10 10th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | March 25, 1990 on FOX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
October 25, 1991 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Rich Moore | ||
| script | Jon Vitti | ||
| Guest appearance (s) | |||
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Homer as a womanizer ( English original title: Homer's Night Out ) is the tenth episode of the first season of the American cartoon series The Simpsons .
action
Bart buys a “spy camera” from a catalog that arrives six months later. With this he photographs many embarrassing things - often unintentionally by his family. One day he, Marge, Lisa and Maggie go to a restaurant to spend some time together. Meanwhile, Homer and his colleagues are in the same restaurant one room down to celebrate a friend's bachelorette party . As a surprise for him, the belly dancer Princess Kashmir appears and asks Homer for a dance. As they dance happily together on a table, Bart accidentally discovers the event room and photographs Homer and Princess Kashmir with his spy camera.
Days later, Bart gives his friend Milhouse a copy of the photo, and it spreads throughout the school. After all, it gets around town until it sees Marge too. On the evening of the same day Homer arrives at home unsuspecting and is sent away because of the photo. That night Homer stayed with his friend Barney .
The next day, Marge asked Homer to take Bart to the belly dancer in the photo so that Bart could get to know her and realize that she too had feelings. Together they drive to her workplace and talk to her. During the conversation, however, their show begins, which is why Homer is in the middle of it. Since the singer recognizes him as a dancer in the popular photo, Homer enthusiastically joins the show. Suddenly, however, he stops the performance and gives a speech in which he explains that one should be respectful of women. Marge happens to be there too, listening to his speech, which is why she forgives him.
production
The episode Homer the Womanizer was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Rich Moore. Barney's apartment, where Homer spends one night when Marge throws him out of the house, is based in part on an apartment shared by Jim Reardon , Rich Moore, and other animators on the series in college. One of the strip clubs Homer and Bart visit while trying to find Princess Kashmir is based on the Seventh Veil strip club in Los Angeles , California . Performers went around Hollywood photographing strip clubs for inspiration for the interior of one such club. The character designers created over 50 different showgirl costumes for the scene in which Homer appears on such a show.
reception
The first broadcast of Homer's Night Out ended the Nielsen Ratings for the week of March 19-25, 1990 with a rating of 16.9 in 14th place. This made it the second highest rated show on Fox that week.
The episode received generally positive reviews. In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 4 out of 5 and named it one of his favorite episodes of the first season. He added, “This episode lets us see that Homer really loves Marge, without having to stamp her outrageously sentimentality. It's weird, goofy, and fun between Mr. Burns' desire for Homer to teach him the way to a woman's heart and Bart's actions with the spy camera. Does anyone remember when every Simpsons commercial had the text '[Mom! Bart takes a picture of his bum again!] '. "Colin Jacobson wrote," The concept of Marge's anger at Homer was getting old, but this episode managed to be reasonably entertaining. It was fun to see Homer treated like a party god, and this made for some lovely moments. The overall level of quality remained good throughout the episode, but it didn't go up to great heights. "David Packard said in a review of The Simpsons Gone Wild DVD , which featured this episode:" This episode shows some of the awkward animation and dubbing, which is widespread in the first season episodes. That aspect isn't an issue for me, in fact, I'm pretty much enjoying the first season as it shows off the show's early efforts to get its legs moving from its origins to The Tracey Ullman Show . The problem I have with this episode is that it isn't particularly funny. I giggled a few times, but the episode doesn't have the boisterous gags and sly humor of the two subsequent episodes. "
Web links
- Homer's Night Out in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homer's Night Out on The Simpsons.com
- Entry of Homer as a womanizer on Simpsonspedia.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Homer's Night Out In: BBC.co.uk . Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Rich Moore . (2001). DVD commentary for the episode "Homer as a Womanizer". In: The Simpsons: The Complete Season One [DVD]. 20th Century Fox .
- ↑ Richmond, Ray: Old Man and the Sea 'sinks NBC's competition , The Orange County Register. March 28, 1990, p. L12.
- ↑ Grelck, David B .: The Complete First Season . WDBGProductions. September 25, 2001. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved on September 15, 2011.
- ^ Colin Jacobson: The Simpsons: The Complete First Season (1990) . DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved August 29, 2008.
- ↑ The Simpsons - Gone Wild . Amazon.com . Retrieved September 2, 2008.
- ^ Judge David Packard: DVD Verdict Review - The Simpsons Gone Wild . DVD Verdict. December 8, 2004. Archived from the original on May 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 31, 2008.
