The Simpsons/Homer Defined

Homer Defined
Season 3, Episode 5
Airdate	October 17, 1991
Production Number	8F04
Written by	Howard Gewirtz
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
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The Simpsons — Season Three

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Homer Defined is the fifth episode of the third season of The Simpsons, and the fortieth episode overall.

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Title Sequence

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Trivia

Allusions and References

• Duck and Cover: Principal Skinner remarks that the training seen in the early 1950s civil defense films finally were useful.
• Goldfinger: A scene from the 1964 James Bond movie -- Bond defusing a nuclear bomb with just seconds to spare (as shown on a timer) -- inspires the scene where Homer averts an imminent nuclear explosion at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant with just seven seconds (a timer shows "007") before a catastrophe.
• Search For Tomorrow: Although the long-running soap opera had been cancelled nearly five years earlier, a pun on its name (Search For the Sun) is used for the soap opera that Marge and Maggie are watching.
• Wheel of Fortune: The residents of Springfield Castle turn the channel from a news bulletin (about the crisis at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant) to a channel that happens to be showing the iconic game show. The show breaks to commercial -- where students at Springfield Elementary School were huddled under their desks, certain they were going to die -- and comes back to the Springfield Castle residents watching Wheel and a humorous mis-solve.

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