When a cat burglar begins to rob everyone in Springfield, Homer is appointed head vigilante. Of course, he is utterly incompetent. We get some good movie parody here. At one point Homer rides and atom bomb waving a cowboy hat like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. At the end we have all the townsfolk looking for a buried treasure, ala It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Good work.
6 Reviews
Cue-ball
snoozejonc10 September 2022
Springfield is terrorised by a cat burger and Homer forms a vigilante mob.
This is a very strong episode with good comedy and memorable character moments.
There is a good plot that gives numerous opportunities for funny dialogue and sight gags. The townsfolk's mob mentality and media's fondness for stirring up fear are lampooned humorously.
Homer is used to great effect as ever being the central focus of all buffoonery. His loutishness and stupidity are perfect for the role. Grampa Simpson is amongst the other characters well used. Sam Neil's Malloy is an excellent guest character and David Niven tribute.
For me it's an 8.5/10 but I round upwards.
This is a very strong episode with good comedy and memorable character moments.
There is a good plot that gives numerous opportunities for funny dialogue and sight gags. The townsfolk's mob mentality and media's fondness for stirring up fear are lampooned humorously.
Homer is used to great effect as ever being the central focus of all buffoonery. His loutishness and stupidity are perfect for the role. Grampa Simpson is amongst the other characters well used. Sam Neil's Malloy is an excellent guest character and David Niven tribute.
For me it's an 8.5/10 but I round upwards.
Crimebusted
hellraiser713 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Warning do not read unless seen episode.
This episode is another honorable mention. It's just funny straightforward plot as we see Homer and company are forming a pose to hunt down the cat burglar. What really powers the episode is it's just chalk full of so many funny scenes as well as reference jokes.
Really liked seeing Chief Wigum and his incompetence, from the first part where he rearranges the pins to form an arrow which is sort of a parody on the cliché in most detective shows where on a map the pins would reveal a pattern, it's just funny how they react once it's done. Another of course was where the Chief has the sent of the cat burglar and he has an attack dog nearby, guess who the attack dog attacks.
One of my favorite scenes with Homer's posie is a small scene where they run into a guy that is playing a sax and ask a simple question, the guy gives a dumb answer and then they chase him down and probably afterward beat the hell out of him. All I can say is serves the guy right for steeling someone else's sax. My first favorite reference is the "Dr. Strangelove" scene, where Homer has a fantasy of bombing beatniks. It's funny seeing how determined Homer wants to bomb them I guess he hates them too, but it's also funny when we see a beatnik circle and the leader of it is just chanting some sort of non sensical poetry, I honestly have no idea what the hell the guy is saying as it's just a jumbo of random words.
Second one of course is a short one on "Dragnet" which was cool as I watch that show on "Nick at Nite" when I was a kid. I really loved how both Homer and Skinner both talked fast and straight forward which is what both Joe and Bill did a lot on that show. But the part that really cracked me up is when we heard a little of that them and both Skinner and Homer each had the serious looks on their faces and were both nodding rapidly, yeah that happened a lot in that show too.
Will Homer and his crimefighters catch the cat burglar, you'll just have to wait and find out, however knowing Homer he doesn't have a chance in hell.
Rating: 4 stars
This episode is another honorable mention. It's just funny straightforward plot as we see Homer and company are forming a pose to hunt down the cat burglar. What really powers the episode is it's just chalk full of so many funny scenes as well as reference jokes.
Really liked seeing Chief Wigum and his incompetence, from the first part where he rearranges the pins to form an arrow which is sort of a parody on the cliché in most detective shows where on a map the pins would reveal a pattern, it's just funny how they react once it's done. Another of course was where the Chief has the sent of the cat burglar and he has an attack dog nearby, guess who the attack dog attacks.
One of my favorite scenes with Homer's posie is a small scene where they run into a guy that is playing a sax and ask a simple question, the guy gives a dumb answer and then they chase him down and probably afterward beat the hell out of him. All I can say is serves the guy right for steeling someone else's sax. My first favorite reference is the "Dr. Strangelove" scene, where Homer has a fantasy of bombing beatniks. It's funny seeing how determined Homer wants to bomb them I guess he hates them too, but it's also funny when we see a beatnik circle and the leader of it is just chanting some sort of non sensical poetry, I honestly have no idea what the hell the guy is saying as it's just a jumbo of random words.
Second one of course is a short one on "Dragnet" which was cool as I watch that show on "Nick at Nite" when I was a kid. I really loved how both Homer and Skinner both talked fast and straight forward which is what both Joe and Bill did a lot on that show. But the part that really cracked me up is when we heard a little of that them and both Skinner and Homer each had the serious looks on their faces and were both nodding rapidly, yeah that happened a lot in that show too.
Will Homer and his crimefighters catch the cat burglar, you'll just have to wait and find out, however knowing Homer he doesn't have a chance in hell.
Rating: 4 stars
Homer the Vigilante
sailerflorian-6931926 January 2021
Sam Neill guest stars
safenoe26 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Sam Neill, who was in Jurassic Park, The Omen 3 and Then There Were None, guest stars as Molloy, a suave thief who is the last person Homer would suspect as the criminal on the loose. Anyway, Homer the Vigilante is a fun episode from season five, and by now The Simpsons is the go to sitcom for celebrities, and so much so, that three of the Beatles made guest appearances as themselves, which is ironic because in the Beatles animation series from the 1960s, they didn't bother to voice themselves init. Anyway, watch Homer the Vigilante because it's from a time when The Simpsons was at its peak init.
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