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Unfortunately, Homer's views on an ideal car were much different than that of an average American. Despite the many objections of Herb's employees, Herb encouraged Homer to follow his instincts in creating a car that American consumers would want to buy. Homer took charge of the project after Herb encouraged him to obey his gut when it came to what kind of car he wanted. During Herb Powell's rant upon learning the price tag about how he was ruined, Homer was seen sheepishly grinning, implying that even he knew he had screwed up immensely. When The Simpsons were driving back to Springfield, Bart told a dejected Homer he thought it was pretty cool. Homer is embarrassed to drive a woman's car , and is sectioned for wearing a pink shirt ("Stark Raving Dad"), yet a pink car is fine.
Among those roasting him are his children, Bart and Lisa, and his boss Mr. Burns who tries to warn the people of Springfield of Homer's incompetence which, much to his dismay, they think is a joke. The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.In the video game The Simpsons Road Rage, The Homer is unlocked after all 10 missions are completed successfully. The vehicle is driven by Homer, but is harder to handle than his Pink Sedan, and is more of a trophy than an actually useful car like the Bandit and Hover Car. When selected, Homer will be heard saying "Let's see, the sticker price is... $82,000?!" along with an audible crowd gasp and the horn playing "La Cucaracha" as the car is displayed. The episode was directed by Mark Kirkland and written by Dan Castellaneta and his wife Deb Lacusta. The plot idea came about when Simpsons cast members were on hiatus following a payment dispute.
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In the episode, Homer Simpson is honored by the townspeople at a Friars' Club Roast, until it is interrupted by Kang and Kodos. All German rental cars have a sticker attached, but only for the German LEZs. Your problems only start if you wish to use the car to visit a country other than Germany, especially France. The opening scene, which shows Homer sitting on a bench holding a box of chocolates, is a reference to the movie Forrest Gump.
Considering it's normal to have yellow skin and blue hair, maybe pink cars have no social stigma. ―Homer Simpson"The Homer" (also known as "The Car Built for Homer") was an infamous concept car that yielded disastrous financial results for the company that produced it, Powell Motors. It received, along with a new episode of Malcolm in the Middle, a 5.7 rating among adult viewers between ages 18 and 49, meaning it was seen by 5.7% of the population in said demographic.
Baby You Can't Drive My Car
Here's our list of over 80 products, trends, apps, and photos that caught our eye. Ridiculously huge engines haven't disappeared—note the 707-horsepower Challenger SRT Dodge unloaded on us this week—but growing concern for avoiding actual Armageddon has pushed auto engineering in the other direction. Now we have fuel-saving systems that disengage cylinders at lower speeds, turn of the engine at idle, or make cars go silent altogether. The auto industry has gotten more and more careful about putting kids as old as 12 in child and booster seats, but the focus there is safety, not keeping them quiet. Automakers have stuck with standard noises , but today's steering wheels do have multiple spots to hit for the horn.
A real-life version of the car was made in June 2013 for the 24 Hours of LeMons race. The car also features gigantic cupholders, which actually became a feature on many cars in the 1990s onward. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business, science to design. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. Here’s our ultimate list of nearly 100 items, from monitors and desks to webcams and chairs.
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This is the fifth and, so far, the last clip show The Simpsons has produced; instead, the series implements at least one "trilogy episode" each season. When first broadcast, "Gump Roast" received a 5.7 rating and was watched by 12.2 million viewers, making it the 16th most watched television show of the night. However, following its release on DVD and Blu-ray, the episode received negative reviews from critics. "I Am Furious "The Simpsons List of episodes"Gump Roast" is the seventeenth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 21, 2002.
Homer Simpson sits on a park bench holding a box of chocolates, when Chief Wiggum appears to arrest him for impersonating a movie character. Homer tells Wiggum a story that he is not interested in at first, but becomes more intrigued when Homer uses flashbacks to help him tell the story. The Simpson family then arrives to take Homer to the Friars' Club, where he is roasted by Krusty the Clown and other prominent citizens of Springfield.
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After an accident, Homer tells his mechanic, Junior, that he wants his car fixed with "quality GM parts," possibly indicating the car is a GM product. Homer's Mechanic states that Homer's car was built in Croatia, made from Soviet tanks. Irritated by this news, Homer calls Junior "Mr. Sasswrench", a play on words of "Mr. Goodwrench", another GM reference. But it's too big to be a European car, unless it was designed to be shipped over to the States like the Delorean. In the opening theme song, Homer seems to have a three-door coupe without an aerial, dent or license plate. The Pink Sedan is one of two automobiles belonging to the Simpson family.
To see how The Homer stacks up against today's offerings, let's run through its highlight features and what we actually have today. In the 1991 episode, Homer’s father Abe reveals he had another son by a carnival worker, whom he put up for adoption. After some haphazard research, Homer finds Herb Powell, his half-brother and the head of a successful major automotive company in Detroit (a fact that shows the episode’s age a bit). “O Brother, Where Art Thou” introduces us to Homer’s half-brother Herbert Powell , the product of a one-night stand between Abe Simpson and a traveling carnival worker. The episode ends with the song "They'll Never Stop the Simpsons", which recounts additional past plots, possible future plots, and an apology for airing this clip show.
It is damaged by Bart in the episode "The Heartbroke Kid" when a severely-overweight Bart goes through the opening sequence. When he lands on the car as it pulls into the driveway, instead of harmlessly bouncing off it onto the ground, his sheer weight crushes it in the middle, ejecting Homer in the process. In one episode Homer sold the car to Cleveland and got an electric car instead. There are three horns, as Homer claims that "you can never find a horn when you're mad." The three horns play the song "La Cucaracha."
In some episodes, the car is shown to have power windows, but in others it has manual crank windows. After Barney was forced to stay sober during a binge-drinking party at Moe's, he had some kind of breakdown and left the car illegally parked at the former World Trade Center in New York. Homer attempted to recover it legally, but eventually lost patience and attempted to drive it with a boot still on the wheel before removing it with a jackhammer, severely damaging the car in the process. The pink sedan is one of the map markers that can be selected for Garmin GPS devices and is listed as the "Homer".
Discover the stars who skyrocketed on IMDb’s STARmeter chart this year, and explore more of the Best of 2022; including top trailers, posters, and photos. A self-driving car company comes to Springfield, poaching all of the power plant employees with their fun work environment. In most episodes, the car has an AM/FM stereo with an 8-track player; In one of the newer episodes, it has a modern stereo with a CD player and digital tuning.
These characters normally only appear in Halloween episodes, however since "Gump Roast" is a clip show and therefore not in The Simpsons canon, Kang and Kodos were included in the episode. Since "Gump Roast", there has not been any more clip shows of The Simpsons. Jean stated in the DVD commentary for the episode, that since the show now produces "trilogy episodes" each season after season 13, making a clip show would be unnecessary. Thanks to Homer's dislike of the cars Herb's company was creating, Herb decided his company needed a new car that would appeal to the "average" American.
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