Watching “The Simpsons” on Channel TEN! The Episode is called “Mother Simpson“.
PLOT:
On a beautiful Saturday morning, Mr. Burns has all of his employees clean up a highway maintained by his company and Homer fakes his death so that he does not have to work. The next day, news of Homer’s “death” spreads, and soon Marge orders Homer to go to the Springfield Hall of Records to get the whole “misunderstanding” sorted out. While sorting out the problem, Homer gets into an argument with a clerk who claims that Homer’s mom is still alive, in spite of Homer’s belief that she died while he was young. Homer decides to visit what he believes is his mom’s grave, only to discover that it belongs to Walt Whitman. Nearby, he sees his own grave and falls into it. A woman approaches and chastises Homer for falling into her son’s grave. Homer begins to retort, but suddenly realizes that the woman is his mom, Mona Simpson and the two have an emotional reunion after 27 years apart.
Homer takes his mom home to meet the family, which causes quite a stir. She bonds with Lisa, being on the same intellectual level. While the two are sitting on the front steps, a police car drives by and Mona runs inside the house, making Lisa a little suspicious. She shares her suspicions with Bart, who had raided Mona’s purse and found several driver’s licenses with different names, causing Lisa to wonder whether Mona is a con artist. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge are wondering why his mother left him for 27 years and the two decide to confront Mona. The whole family questions Mona and she finally decides to explain why she left Homer.
In a flashback to the 1960s, Mona is a housewife who still lives with Grampa. One night after putting Homer to bed, she becomes radicalized by Joe Namath‘s hair during the telecast of Super Bowl III and joins a group of hippies who protest Mr. Burns’s germ warfare laboratory. They detonate an “antibiotic bomb” inside the lab, killing all the germs and subsequently also curing lab security guard Clancy Wiggum‘s asthma. Angry about the destruction of his “precious germs”, Burns runs to the lab, but is trampled by the fleeing hippies. When Mona goes back to help him, Burns manages to identify her as one of the perpetrators of the deed, forcing Mona to go into hiding. Upon hearing about these events, Homer wonders why Mona never sent any messages. Mona insists that she sent care packages every week, so she and Homer head to the post office to claim the undelivered packages. At the post office, Burns recognizes her and calls the FBI, who send Bill Gannon and Joe Friday of Dragnet fame.
The FBI and Burns manage to track Mona down through a cab driver, a gravedigger and Patty and Selma. They invade the Simpson home, but Homer and Mona manage to escape thanks to a tip from Wiggum, who is grateful to Mona for curing his asthma.
Mona is once again forced to go into hiding and she and Homer say goodbye to each other. After Mona is driven away, Homer sits on his car and watches the stars.
Couch Gag: Snowball II is scared off by a bowling alley pinsetter. The Simpsons are set onto the couch like bowling pins.
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Homer reunites with his mother.
Homer and his mom in a flashback to the 1960s.
Homer watches the stars after saying goodbye to his mother.
Bill Gannon and Joe Friday of Dragnet both appear in the episode.
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