C.E.D'oh

"C.E.D'oh"
The Simpsons episode
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Episode no.	Season 14
Directed by	Mike B. Anderson
Written by	Dana Gould
Original air dates	March 16, 2003
Episode features
Couch gag	The family enters the living room in flip book animation. The camera pulls, revealing a human holding the flip book.

"C.E. D'oh" is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons' fourteenth season. The episode aired on March 16, 2003.

Synopsis

Marge has problems adjusting to lovemaking with Homer, who leaves the house. He sees a billboard for a school offering extension courses. He goes to the school and attempts to take a course on stripping for his wife, which Dr. Hibbert teaches, but is kicked out until he ends up in the Successmanship 101 class. The class teaches Homer how people can succeed in the workplace. It gives Homer inspiration, and he investigates problems at the power plant, so he develops solutions to the problem—all of which are rejected by Mr. Burns, without reading them. This angers Homer after overhearing Burns admit that the plant's real owner is a canary to protect Burns from responsibility for any wrongdoing by the power plant. Homer, with Bart's help, devises a plan to overthrow Burns by releasing the bird from the plant to the Canary Islands. After the bird is released, he tells Mr. Burns that inspectors are here to check the condition of the plant. Out of panic, Mr. Burns, who is unable to find his canary, names Homer the new owner. Homer reveals that it was all a ruse: there are no inspectors; and he had tricked Mr. Burns. As Homer's first act during his brief tenure as the plant's owner, he fires Mr. Burns.

However, problems ensue when Homer is in charge of the plant. He has less time to do things with the family, much to their disappointment. He is forced to lay off employees at the plant, making himself quite unpopular there. He has to listen to the plant's woes from his analysts, while on vacation. One night, Mr. Burns visits Homer and shows him the people who he has missed. He makes Homer understand how much he has missed his family. So Homer decides to quit as the owner and give back ownership to Burns. However, Burns already has plans to take back ownership of the plant and drugs Homer. He then manages to cart an unconscious Homer to the cemetery, where he wants to encase him in the wall of a crypt. Unfortunately for Burns, he is too weak to carry each brick from the cart to the intended wall. By the time he manages to finish a couple of layers, it's daytime. Homer wakes up and steps easily over the few layers of bricks that Mr. Burns had painstakingly managed to cement in place. He tells Burns that the power plant is his again and walks away. The next time we see Homer, he is having a barbeque with his family and loving it.

Trivia

• When Burns reveals that the canary is the legal owner of the power plant, he unravels a chart of the plant hierarchy in which the canary is at the top. Homer is at the very bottom of the chart, just below the Inanimate Carbon Rod. Frank Grimes' picture is also shown, but it is crossed out.
• At the barbeque, there's a banner that says "HOMER'S 305th EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL BBQ". However, this is Episode 306.

Cultural references

• The scene where Burns attempts to trap Homer in the crypt is a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado".
• The scene in the Successmanship 101 class is a parody of a famous scene from the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.

Quotes

• Lenny: I say, Phantom Menace sucked more!
  Carl: I say, Attack of the Clones sucked more!
• Homer: Please don't talk to me, Marge. I had to lay off 27 robots. Don't tell me they can't cry!
• Woman: I'll go over the year-end profit forecast if you'll stop looking at my boobs.
  Homer: No deal.
• Marge (wakes up to noise Homer is making): What's all that ruckus?
  Homer: It's the sound of a go-getter at work, Marge. Look, I installed a key hook so you'll always know where your keys are.
  Marge: Oh, that's so sweet. I was tired of putting my keys in that bowl, like a caveman (moves keys from bowl to hook).
  Homer: I've finally harnessed the awesome power of the hook. Well, time for work.
  (Homer puts his hat on (taking it from a hook), gets his donut (from a hook) and puts it in his pocket, kisses Maggie and puts her on a hook. He tips his hat then leaves.)
• Lisa: I got a gold star today in English for my exposé paper on toxic materials in gold star adhesive.
• Homer"Check and Mate, now King me."
• Mr. Burns: So, the caterpillar has emerged from its cocoon as a shark with a gun for a mouth.
• Homer: Mr. Burns' reign of terror is over! (crowd cheers) Today begins my reign of terrr.... (crowd gets nervous) ..rific management!
  Lenny: I thought he was gonna say "terror".
  Carl: I don't think he was going that way.
• Smithers: I would like to buy some (quietly) drugs.
  Dealer: DRUGS! EVERYTHING HERE IS DRUGS! BANANA MADE OF DRUGS! MONKEY MADE OF DRUGS! LOOK, WHOLE MARKET, MADE OF DRUGS.
  Smithers: [picks up brick] I'd like to buy this.
  Dealer: Only American money. (whispered) Our money made of drugs.

• Mr Burns: (on Smithers being imprisoned for buying drugs) I've never seen a man take to a Turkish prison so quickly.