While researching for an essay, Lisa discovers that Springfield's founding father was actually a murderous thief.While researching for an essay, Lisa discovers that Springfield's founding father was actually a murderous thief.While researching for an essay, Lisa discovers that Springfield's founding father was actually a murderous thief.
Dan Castellaneta
- Man in Film #2
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Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
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Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Man in Film #3
- (voice)
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Harry Shearer
- Film Narrator
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Phil Hartman
- Troy McClure
- (voice)
Marcia Wallace
- Edna Krabappel
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Pamela Hayden
- Milhouse Van Houten
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Tress MacNeille
- Woman in Film
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Maggie Roswell
- Miss Hoover
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Did you know
- TriviaThis episode introduced two new words to the English language, Embiggen and Cromulent. Embiggen was invented by Dan Greaney and Cromulent was invented by David X. Cohen. Since this episode aired, both have entered the English language as valid words: Embiggen is used in string theory, and Cromulent has entered actual dictionaries.
- GoofsIn syndicated reruns on TV, the closed captioning represents Homer's line "Aw, what a gyp" as "Aw, screw that," since "gyp" is a slur upon the Romani people. Yet the spoken line is not redubbed.
- Quotes
Homer: Dig him up. Dig up that corpse. If you really love Jebediah Springfield, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong. Dig up his grave. Pull out his tongue.
Mayor Quimby: Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Best Lisa Simpson Storylines (2016)
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Donald Sutherland -- the other Homer Simpson
This is a dandy example of one of the better Simpsons episodes. I give it a ten.
Lisa takes the fore in this one, doing some Nancy Drew style detective work looking for clues to the history of Springfield.
A bit of trivia: Donald Sutherland, guest star of this episode, once portrayed a character named Homer Simpson. That Homer Simpson was a frustrated and doomed everyman in the film, The Day of the Locust (1975) based on the 1939 Nathaniel West novel of the same name.
No apparent relation to our cartoon dimwit, though only Matt Groening would know for sure. The Day of the Locust is considered a seminal American novel. According to Wikipedia, Groening says in a 1990 interview he got the name for his Homer from that book/film. But then again, Matt's own father was named "Homer" too.
Lisa takes the fore in this one, doing some Nancy Drew style detective work looking for clues to the history of Springfield.
A bit of trivia: Donald Sutherland, guest star of this episode, once portrayed a character named Homer Simpson. That Homer Simpson was a frustrated and doomed everyman in the film, The Day of the Locust (1975) based on the 1939 Nathaniel West novel of the same name.
No apparent relation to our cartoon dimwit, though only Matt Groening would know for sure. The Day of the Locust is considered a seminal American novel. According to Wikipedia, Groening says in a 1990 interview he got the name for his Homer from that book/film. But then again, Matt's own father was named "Homer" too.
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