After humiliating himself at a town meeting, Homer looks for acceptance in an internet group on the hunt for a missing tortoise and finds something much more sinister.After humiliating himself at a town meeting, Homer looks for acceptance in an internet group on the hunt for a missing tortoise and finds something much more sinister.After humiliating himself at a town meeting, Homer looks for acceptance in an internet group on the hunt for a missing tortoise and finds something much more sinister.
Dan Castellaneta
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Gabbo
- (voice)
- …
Harry Shearer
- Lenny Leonard
- (voice)
- …
Joe Mantegna
- Fat Tony
- (voice)
Jay Pharoah
- Drederick Tatum
- (voice)
Chris Edgerly
- Laughing Crowd
- (voice)
Jonathan Lipow
- Hyenas
- (voice)
- …
Eric Lopez
- Bumblebee Man
- (voice)
Tony Rodriguez
- Julio
- (voice)
Maggie Roswell
- Helen Lovejoy
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCouch Gag: It's a spoof of the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome when you are offline. The Simpsons jump over cactuses. Home gets caught on the last cactus as the rest of the Simpsons make it on to the couch.
- GoofsBart is seen eating paella with shrimp, despite being allergic to shrimp, as seen in Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em (2006).
- Quotes
Homer Simpson: The Internet thinks I'm smart.
- ConnectionsReferences Zookeeper (2011)
- SoundtracksI Don't Know Any History
(uncredited)
Music by Bleeding Fingers Music
Lyrics by Broti Gupta
Performed by Hank Azaria
Featured review
Who greenlights scripts like this?
A terrible start of a new season: Homer whines that he is just stupid and dumb, that everybody is laughing at him, because he is that stupid and dumb ... Seriously? Yes, he's always been doing goofy things, but this is just hateful and mean. If you hate the main character of a show that much, you should not work for it.
Homer is not stupid, he's just written stupid. That's true with this whole episode about "conspiracy theories". They have been an interesting topic during the early years of the internet. While many people lived under the illusion that all things said on the TV were factual and true, it was clear from the very beginning, that everything on the internet could be a lie. Those theories were a good way to exercise your skills in sceptical thinking. What are the arguments, is there any proof, is someone relying on unreliable sources -- those are some of the first questions to differentiate a theorist from a storyteller. While some conspiracy theories turned out to be true, the overwhelming majority were baseless inventions and therefore - mostly - utterly boring.
This episode contains some of the most baseless and boring conspiracy claims ever. There is no misinterpretation of clues, there are no clues. It is not about the validation or falsification of theories, there are no theories. There is a brainstorming session with people coming up with new stories and ideas, and Homer tells them: "There are no bad ideas." That is probably how an editorial meeting at the Simpsons' factory works, nowadays, but it has nothing to do with even the insanest of conspiracy theories. This is just stupid people acting stupid. In the end they are one step away from turning into terrorists. Of course they are.
Today, "conspiracy theorist" is more often than not just a slur against everyone who talks about topics shunned by the mainstream media, regardless of his reasonings, used by people as intellectually challenged as those believing in baseless conspiracy claims. This slandering is basically what this episode is all about and this makes it extremely annoying. It is completely uninspired, stereotyped, lazy writing, unfunny, maligning the characters.
Yes, there are bad, bad, really terrible ideas - and equally bad authors. The Simpsons have big problems. Whoever greenlit this script is one of them.
Homer is not stupid, he's just written stupid. That's true with this whole episode about "conspiracy theories". They have been an interesting topic during the early years of the internet. While many people lived under the illusion that all things said on the TV were factual and true, it was clear from the very beginning, that everything on the internet could be a lie. Those theories were a good way to exercise your skills in sceptical thinking. What are the arguments, is there any proof, is someone relying on unreliable sources -- those are some of the first questions to differentiate a theorist from a storyteller. While some conspiracy theories turned out to be true, the overwhelming majority were baseless inventions and therefore - mostly - utterly boring.
This episode contains some of the most baseless and boring conspiracy claims ever. There is no misinterpretation of clues, there are no clues. It is not about the validation or falsification of theories, there are no theories. There is a brainstorming session with people coming up with new stories and ideas, and Homer tells them: "There are no bad ideas." That is probably how an editorial meeting at the Simpsons' factory works, nowadays, but it has nothing to do with even the insanest of conspiracy theories. This is just stupid people acting stupid. In the end they are one step away from turning into terrorists. Of course they are.
Today, "conspiracy theorist" is more often than not just a slur against everyone who talks about topics shunned by the mainstream media, regardless of his reasonings, used by people as intellectually challenged as those believing in baseless conspiracy claims. This slandering is basically what this episode is all about and this makes it extremely annoying. It is completely uninspired, stereotyped, lazy writing, unfunny, maligning the characters.
Yes, there are bad, bad, really terrible ideas - and equally bad authors. The Simpsons have big problems. Whoever greenlit this script is one of them.
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- Sep 27, 2022
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