Homer the Heretic
- Episode aired Oct 8, 1992
- TV-14
- 30m
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8.9/10
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After attributing a relaxing Sunday to his skipping church, Homer vows to never attend service again, and forms his own religion to justify his behavior.After attributing a relaxing Sunday to his skipping church, Homer vows to never attend service again, and forms his own religion to justify his behavior.After attributing a relaxing Sunday to his skipping church, Homer vows to never attend service again, and forms his own religion to justify his behavior.
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Dan Castellaneta
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Moe Howard
- (voice)
- …
Harry Shearer
- Rev. Lovejoy
- (voice)
- …
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first episode where the animation was produced by Film Roman Productions. Up until this point, Film Roman Productions had mostly worked on Garfield and Friends (1988) and Bobby's World (1990) episodes, and were not used to the speed with which this series was produced. However, they quickly adjusted. Film Roman Productions went on to do the animation for the rest of the series, including The Simpsons Movie (2007), up to Season 28's Havana Wild Weekend (2016). Previously, the animation was produced by Klasky-Csupo, and as of 2016 is produced at Fox Television Animation. (Now 20th Television Animation)
- GoofsWhen we see God he has five fingers for the majority of the episode, but in the last scene, where Homer questions the meaning of life, God only has four fingers.
- Quotes
Rev. Lovejoy: No Homer, God didn't burn your house down, but he was working in the hearts of your friends be they Christian, Jew, or... miscellaneous.
Apu: Hindu. There are seven hundred million of us.
Rev. Lovejoy: Aww, that's super.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Simpsons: Another Simpsons Clip Show (1994)
Featured review
Could this be the best day of my life?
I had forgotten this was a season 4 episode, there's something about the sensibilities of it, the humanism, that has carried over from season 3. Except unlike season 3, it's laugh out loud hilarious from start to finish.
Homer rips his pants and so decides to not go to church, setting off a series of events which really don't have a lesson or a theme, despite the show really leaning into the subtext that it will (with a joke at the end by Homer to tie up that bow). There's too many great gags and sequences to name them all, though Homer's unconscious body bouncing off the mattress and back through the bay window is probably my personal favorite.
I also appreciate that the show really emphasizes that the Simpsons are strongly Christian as a family, especially Marge, which is part of what makes this whole show work. They are that culturally conservative, "good" American family, that people in 1990 were still fetishizing because they couldn't tolerate the 60s and 70s actually happening. It mattered that the Simpsons were this, or else they couldn't satirize it.
Homer rips his pants and so decides to not go to church, setting off a series of events which really don't have a lesson or a theme, despite the show really leaning into the subtext that it will (with a joke at the end by Homer to tie up that bow). There's too many great gags and sequences to name them all, though Homer's unconscious body bouncing off the mattress and back through the bay window is probably my personal favorite.
I also appreciate that the show really emphasizes that the Simpsons are strongly Christian as a family, especially Marge, which is part of what makes this whole show work. They are that culturally conservative, "good" American family, that people in 1990 were still fetishizing because they couldn't tolerate the 60s and 70s actually happening. It mattered that the Simpsons were this, or else they couldn't satirize it.
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- frankelee
- Apr 21, 2022
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