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Homer at the Bat
P-code: 8F13
Episode Index: 03×17
Writers: John Swartzwelder
Directors: Jim Reardon
Airdate: 20th February, 1992
Guest stars: Jon Lovitz as Aristotle Amadopolis; Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, Darrel Strawberry, Jose Canseco, Mike Scioscia, Steve Sax as themselves; Terry Cashman as the commentator.
Average Fan Rating: 4.0 (186 ratings, 18 reviews)
Plot Guide
Homer joins the power plant softball team, having a secret weapon called ''Wonder Bat.'' He scores lots of home runs and grandslams at every bat. Soon the team plays Shelbyville power plant for the championship. To make sure he wins, Mr. Burns hires Major League Baseball players to secure the win against Shelbyville, giving them jobs at the plant.
All the original power plant players are replaced, Homer being replaced by the Darrel Strawberry. However, nearly all the players suffer misfortunes leading up to the game, and Burns is forced to bring back the original power planbt workers. Strawberry is still on the team though.
At the last ball, Burns switches Strawberry for Homer to ''play the percentages.'' The ball hits Homer in the head, knocking him unconcious, however, it counted as a hit, allowing the man on third to score and Homer wins the Championship.
Memorable Quotes
Carl: Hey, Homer's choking again.
Lenny: Isn't there a first-aid chart around here somewhere?
Carl: Somebody scare him.
Charlie: That's for the hiccups!
Homer: It all started last year during a terrible thunderstorm, when I locked myself out of the house. Sheltering myself with a large piece of sheet metal, I ran for cover under the tallest tree I could find!
Homer: Come here, boy, I want to show you something.
Bart: What's that, a homemade bat?
Homer: It's something very special: a homemade bat.
Bart: Homer, can I get you a beer?
Lisa: No, I want to get him a beer.
Homer: Kids, kids, kids! You can each get me a beer.
Umpire: Okay, let's go over the ground rules. You can't leave first until you chug a beer. Any man scoring has to chug a beer. you have to chug a beer at the top of all odd-numbered innings. Oh, and the fourth inning is the beer inning.
Wiggum: Hey, we know how to play softball!
Homer: I play right field, too.
Darryl: So?
Homer: Well, are you better than me?
Darryl: Well, I've never met you... but yes.
Homer: I don't want you to see me sitting on my worthless butt.
Bart: We've seen it, Dad.
Did You Spot...
- Smithers wears his ID badge even at the baseball field.
- Marge wears a Smilin' Joe Fission cap atop her hairdo.
- The Heimlich Maneuver poster pictures a man choking on a whole lobster.
- A sign at the Springfield Heights Millionaires Club states that you must have more than one million dollars to enter (duh!).
References/Parodies
- Homer makes ''Wonderbat'' from a tree struck by lightning, a la The Natural. Music from this movie is also used several times throughout the episode.
- In the montage of baseball games scene, a few people from the show are sat in the stands.
- The song over the credits parodies Toca Baseball by Terry Cashman.
Season 3 quick links
- Stark Raving Dad
- Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
- When Flanders Failed
- Bart the Murderer
- Homer Defined
- Like Father, Like Clown
- Treehouse of Horror II
- Lisa's Pony
- Saturdays of Thunder
- Flaming Moe's
- Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
- I Married Marge
- Radio Bart
- Lisa the Greek
- Homer Alone
- Bart the Lover
- Homer at the Bat
- Separate Vocations
- Dog of Death
- Colonel Homer
- Black Widower
- The Otto Show
- Bart's Friend Falls in Love
- Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
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