LorenzoL

"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"

Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Pamela Hayden, Hank Azaria, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor.
Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean.

Original Airdate: September 24, 2006.

Me007gold

for a second there i thought MC Hammer was going to be a guest voice. dang!

Jason

Tonight on the simpsons, a family member picked out of a hat acquires a random ability. Wow.

GuruTwo

Tonight on family guy, a simpsons plot picked out of a hat serves as tonight's plot. Wow.

clckworang

Anubis2005X

I thought it was really funny tonight!

Michael Ballack

Duel of the Fates made the episode for me.

MrX

"You've waved your nuts in my face for much too long"

Milhouse's reaction to his tears, Homer's model of the roller coaster catching fire, and Duel of the Fates all had me laughing.

Shazam

Wow, Simpsons was great, American Dad was great, Family was great.

slop101

I liked the pathetic mall - every town has one of those.

movieking

I really liked this episode as well. A good balance of storylines that didn't go overboard with either of them.

Chew

Shouldn't there of been some shot or reference to the Leftorium? It's in the Springfield Mall, correct?

Given the overall plot of this episode, it was very appropriate to have "Remington Steele - The Game" in the arcade.

RichardW

Awesome episode. There were so many funny moments in this one.

Snowmaker

Was there a Simpsons episode bashing Wal-Mart-type stores?

It felt more like the Wall-Mart episode of South Park.

LorenzoL

No, the Simpsons did it first.

Seriously, there was a Simpsons episode in which Grampa became a greeter in a Big Box retail similar to Wal-Mart. I don't know whether the Simpsons or South Park episode aired first.

I liked the Duel of the Fates scene.

Shipwreck

The name of the bookstore was Rock Bottom Remainders, which is also the name of the band Matt Groening is in (with Amy Tan, Dave Barry and Stephen King).

"Ooooh, Smiles of Ireland..."

Groucho

Better than the previous two episodes. I enjoyed the Remington Steele parody.

TheMadMonk

I haven't watched it in a while, Family Guy is using plots now?

LorenzoL

BTW, in case you didn't know, this is the last episode of the Simpsons until 11/05/06 because of Baseball playoffs.

CPA-ESQ.

This one was a good episode: loved the "old" mall and the Episode III refrences.

MrX

It was called Sprawl-Mart on the Simpsons

Lateralus

Yeah same thing for AD and FG, it is going to be a long October!

Snowmaker

I saw that as Arrested Development at first.

Son_Of_Zod

Why do they even bother starting Simpsons in September? I mean the use to start it in November with the Halloween episode airing AFTER Halloween. Now they start it in September, show 3 episodes, and then have a month and half of no episodes (because of baseball?)

RichC2

Fox wanted to be different and to start their Fall Season "early". (Started a few years ago when The O.C. debuted like mid summer).