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The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
P-code: CABF02
Episode Index: 12×06
Writers: John Swartzwelder
Directors: Mark Kirkland
Airdate: 3rd December, 2000
Guest stars: Patrick McGoohan as Number Six
Average Fan Rating: 3.7 (95 ratings, 10 reviews)
Plot Guide
(Full synopsis not yet completed)
Under the alias Mr. X, Homer creates a web site full of damaging gossip about the townspeople. However, he soon stumbles upon a terrible government secret.
Memorable Quotes
Homer: Computer, kill Flanders!
Flanders: Did I hear my name? My ears are burning.
Homer: (to computer) Good start! Now finish the job!
Flander: Okay, you're busy. Catch ya later, computater!
Homer: Aw, five thousand dollars for a computer, and it can't handle a simple assignment!
Marge: Once you get used to the drugging,this isn't a bad place!
Comic Book Guy: What's this? Stolen funds, pothole money used for swimming pool? There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!
Agnes: Seymour, are you looking at naked ladies?
Skinner: No, mother!
Agnes: You sissy!
Number 6: They keep us here because we know to much. Number 27 knows how to turn water into gasoline. Number 12 knows the deadly secret behind Tic Tacs, and I invented a bottomless peanut bag.
Homer: Don't worry, head. The computer will do our thinking now.
Nelson: Hey Mr. X, I got a tip for you. In science class they're dissecting frozen hobos, and I have bindles to prove it.
Did You Spot...
- Hans Moleman is trapped under the floorboards at Moe's.
- Anti-escape orb is recycled parody of "The Prisoner" from "The Joy of Sect" (see below)
- On Homer's first web page are bells, clocks, toasters, mouths, inchworms and a Dancing Jesus.
References/Parodies
- The whole third act is parody on popular TV show "The Prisoner" (1968/1969). Patrick McGoohan stars in this episode as Number 6, his character from the original show.
Season 12 quick links
- A Tale of Two Springfields
- Treehouse of Horror XI
- Insane Clown Poppy
- Lisa the Tree Hugger
- Homer vs. Dignity
- The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
- The Great Money Caper
- Skinner's Sense of Snow
- HOMR
- Pokey Mom
- Worst Episode Ever
- Tennis the Menace
- Day of the Jackanapes
- New Kids on the Blecch
- Hungry, Hungry Homer
- Bye Bye Nerdie
- Simpson Safari
- Trilogy of Error
- I'm Goin' to Praiseland
- Children of a Lesser Clod
- Simpsons Tall Tales
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