Go Big or Go Homer
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| "Go Big or Go Homer" | |
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 31 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Matthew Faughnan |
| Written by | John Frink |
| Production code | YABF21 |
| Original air date | October 6, 2019 |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Go Big or Go Homer" is the 2nd episode of the thirty-first season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 664th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on October 6, 2019. The writer was John Frink.
Plot
At the Power Plant, it's Lenny's birthday. The workers prepared a surprise party chipping in $5 each, but Mr. Burns entered just before Lenny did, signed the wish card in giant text and not chip in, giving Lenny the happy birthday and ruining the surprise, making Homer angry the whole party.
The family then were removing the snow from their front garden, and Homer kept complaining to them too, and when Marge consoled him and made him calm, he had a vision of Burns' signature impaling Marge's chest, just before waking up from what was really a nightmare.
The next day, he confronted Burns on the fact and Burns easily chipped in, but when Smithers finds out, he informsed Homer that the skin thichener medication he's using makes him uncontrollably decent. For that Homer is demoted to supervisor of the interns.
When the interns started making fun of Homer, Mike Wegman stood up and defended him, demanding respect for him and asked him to be his mentor. The family goes to Costington's to dress him for being a mentor and Homer was so proud, even though his being fat causes people to laugh at him when his pants fell to the floor.
Homer took him to his workstation, and Mike reveals he's 35, and when Homer askec him why he wanted a job of a 20 year old he said he wanted to follow the steps of his hero. Homer invited him for dinner to show his family his new pupil and how he admired him.
Mike brought his pregnant wife Maurine to the dinner and Bart started disrespecting Homer and Mike started insulting him leaving the whole table with mouth open, except Lisa that was laughing hard at the insults and Bart choking. Marge proceeded to kick them out of the house afterwards. In bed, Marge proposes Homer to help Mike grow up.
Homer proceeded to push Mike over his project of creating "Mike's slices", a new way of producing pizza and ask Burns to be the investor, but when Burns started insulting Homer, Mike lost it again, getting shot by Burns old shotgun.
At home, Homer revealed to Mike he was not the mentor he thought he was and the accidents that happen were his fault, but that pushed Mike further, and he comes back with a Mike's Slices food truck, with money to buy it he loaned from Fat Tony.
When Mike lost the bet he did to repay Fat Tony, they excape to the Auto Yard, the food truck graveyard, but Tony found them. When Tony smelled the slices, he took them for the rest of his guys, and Mike suggested taking bets on the truck too. The food truck was parked then outside the Power Plant for purposes, including selling weed. In the end, Tony congratulates Homer on being a great mentor.
Reception
Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C+ stating, ”Last week’s Simpsons Season 31 premiere wasn’t great, but it at least had guest star John Mulaney on hand to liven things up a bit. The effortless allure of being part of The Simpsons’ legacy continues to attract guests in ‘Go Big or Go Homer,’ the season’s second outing, although like the character he plays, voice actor Michael Rapaport wears out his welcome a lot sooner".[1]
References
- ^ Perkins, Dennis (October 6, 2019). "Homer finds a fan and winds up mentoring a real jerk on The Simpsons". Avclub.com. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
