Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly Doodily
- Episode aired Oct 1, 1995
- TV-14
- 30m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
3.2K
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Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids, who are sent to live at the Flanders' house.Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids, who are sent to live at the Flanders' house.Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids, who are sent to live at the Flanders' house.
Dan Castellaneta
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Soccer Kid
- (voice)
- …
Harry Shearer
- Bentley Salesman
- (voice)
- …
Joan Kenley
- Woman on Phone
- (voice)
Marcia Wallace
- Edna Krabappel
- (voice)
Pamela Hayden
- Milhouse Van Houten
- (voice)
- …
Tress MacNeille
- Agent #2
- (voice)
- …
Maggie Roswell
- All is well
- (voice)
- …
Frank Welker
- Monkey
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Bart and Lisa are in bed at seven o'clock, and Lisa opens the blinds, you can see a previous version of Bart playing baseball outside.
- GoofsHomer and Marge are ordered to stay at least 100 feet from their children while they are in foster care, but the Flanders residence is right next door and not necessarily 100 feet away.
- Quotes
Reverend Lovejoy: Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
- Alternate versionsIn the original airing of the episode on Oct 1, 1995: "Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly-Doodly", when Milhouse was telling Bart where he got a monkey from, he says "We bought this wicker basket from Pier One, and we found him passed out inside." In all syndicated airings of the show, the store name of 'Pier One' in that line has been replaced with "Trader Pete's". One can clearly see how the new words do not match with the animation. (However, in the UK, where Pier One isn't recognized, they air the original version.)
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Simpsons: Gump Roast (2002)
Featured review
Ironically Enough, the Simpsons Are Getting Flanderized
I've been watching all the 'Golden Age' seasons mixed together, so it is a little funny watching Homer the Heretic and then watching this episode right after. This episode is pretty funny, not top notch for The Simpsons, but full of gags I've remembered for decades. "Pwincipal Skwinner, Ah need sum soos," "illegal overhand fashion," "b*tch, b*tch, b*tch," "son, let's stop all the fussin' and the feudin'," have all stuck in my memory since 1995.
But I didn't really love this episode at the time, and I still don't. Season 7 is the first season where the show began to lose its voice, and the child protective services plot, while ridiculous and light hearted, just isn't quite right. And then the ending where the kids weren't baptized just sank the story for me. The Simpsons were satirizing the sacred cow of mid-century Americana by being that sanitized TV family living in that sanitized TV town, except screwing it up constantly. What they weren't was what your Boomer mother thought they were.
And for the weekly church going Simpsons to not have baptized their children? The most banal of American religious acts that even people who barely consider themselves Christian do? And to have Marge of all people act outraged at the idea? Who are these people? It's not just unmaking the characters from the seasons when they were at their best, it's missing the point of who they are and what the show is. If they wanted to contrast Marge and Homer from the Flanderisseses they should have thought harder and come up with something a lot less lazy than this.
But I didn't really love this episode at the time, and I still don't. Season 7 is the first season where the show began to lose its voice, and the child protective services plot, while ridiculous and light hearted, just isn't quite right. And then the ending where the kids weren't baptized just sank the story for me. The Simpsons were satirizing the sacred cow of mid-century Americana by being that sanitized TV family living in that sanitized TV town, except screwing it up constantly. What they weren't was what your Boomer mother thought they were.
And for the weekly church going Simpsons to not have baptized their children? The most banal of American religious acts that even people who barely consider themselves Christian do? And to have Marge of all people act outraged at the idea? Who are these people? It's not just unmaking the characters from the seasons when they were at their best, it's missing the point of who they are and what the show is. If they wanted to contrast Marge and Homer from the Flanderisseses they should have thought harder and come up with something a lot less lazy than this.
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- frankelee
- Apr 22, 2022
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