" Last Exit to Springfield " is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season The Simpsons '. It was originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 11, 1993. The plot revolves around Homer Simpson becoming the president of the Nuclear Union nuclear trade union and leading factory workers in a strike to get their dental treatment plan. back.
"Last Exit to Springfield" was directed by Mark Kirkland and was the last episode written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky. This episode contains several cultural references and guest stars. Joyce Brothers as herself. "Last Exit to Springfield" gained wide recognition from fans and critics and has often been cited as one of the best episodes of the entire series.
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Plot
Mr Burns sat in his office waiting for the union leader, who disappeared mysteriously after promising to clean up the union, so they could discuss the proposed union contract. When researching the contract, Mr. Burns became disgusted with union demands and recalled the simpler times in which dissatisfied workers were simply silenced in coke ovens. Mr. Burns then decided to take the union, and revoke their dental treatment plan.
Meanwhile, in Painless Dentistry, Simpson's children check their teeth. Found Lisa needs braces. When Marge informs Homer, he tells her not to worry about the fees, since the guild has won a dental plan during the previous strike. Then, at a meeting of local chapters of the International Jazz Fellowship, Pastry Chefs and Nuclear Technicians, Carl announced that the latest contract requires the union to hand over their dental plans in exchange for free beer kegs for their meetings. Homer gradually understands that handing over their dental treatment plan will require him to pay Lisa's braces and jump into action, reminding everyone how their dental plans have helped them all.
Carl proposed Homer to be the new union president and he was soon picked by an almost unanimous vote. Bpk. Burns sees Homer in a hidden camera, and is intimidated by his energies. Bpk. Burns invited Homer to his office with the intention of bribing him, but Homer misrepresented his sarcasm. Burns as a sexual advancement. Homer quickly stood up, saying he did not go for "shenanigans back door" and was soon gone, a series of events that set ideas in Mr. Burns's mind that Homer was honest and not mortal.
Bpk. Burns sent the hired thugs to Simpson's house to bring Homer back to Mr. Burns's Ward to negotiate. While Mr. Burns set the agenda for discussion, Homer was hit by the urgent need to use the restroom. Homer asked Mr. Burns where the washroom and soon left, making Mr. Burns concluded that Homer is a formidable negotiator who does not want to hear it. At a later union meeting, Homer tried to resign, tired of meeting Mr. Burns. Unions misunderstood his irritation, and the members almost unanimously decided to attack. Mr. Burns was unaffected by the strike and tried several methods to break it down, but failed. In an edition of the talk show of Kent Brockman Smartline , Mr. Burns is left to be a nagging revelation and he threatens a terrible event if the strike is not completed.
Then, Mr. Burns and Smithers marched to a secret room at the Power Station and turned off the electricity for the entire city. The strikers did not lose hope and started singing. Mr. Burns, convinced he had destroyed the spirit of the union, stepped out on his balcony to hear their reactions but was disarmed by their unity and optimism. Mr. Burns eventually met with Homer to agree to their demands on one condition: that Homer resign as union president. Homer celebrated wildly, leading Mr. Burns to finally realize that Homer is not the "brilliant tactical expert" he thinks. With the Simpson family insured again, Lisa gets the perfect new buffer and she, Simpson's family, and the dentist get together and laugh.
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Production
The idea for this episode came from Mike Reiss, who thought it would be funny if the factory went on strike. The episode authors, Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, will then add the dental plan aspect of the plot. During the production of this episode, the ABC camera crew was allowed into the rewriting room, which Al Jean said he regretted because they were working on the stage, and they came out because it was not too funny.
The producers initially asked Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood to vote for the dentist, Dr. Wolfe, but they both rejected the role. Anthony Perkins was then asked to fulfill the role and he agreed, but died before the role could be recorded. In the end, the role goes to Simpsons regular Hank Azaria. In addition, the original panelist on Smartline should be O. J. Simpson, but he refused, much to the relief of the authors when Simpson was later tried for murder.
Cultural reference
The title of this episode is a tribute to Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel. Last Exit to Brooklyn , a subplot involving corruption and the fall of trade union leaders during the strike. The union's president's body is seen buried beneath the football pitch, a tribute to the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa and his alleged funeral at New Jersey's Giants Stadium. Mr. Clothes Burns in flashback to his childhood is based on Buster Brown. Homer's imagination of organized crime life is based on Don Fanucci's first appearance at The Godfather Part II, receiving donuts rather than necklaces and oranges.
Lisa has an induced oxide hallucination that echoes the movie The Beatles Yellow Submarine , which Al Jean says should be changed slightly for legal reasons. This includes renaming short sequences to "submersible purple"; Paul McCartney calls it "Lisa in the Sky", while George Harrison notes "no diamonds". The scene where Lisa acquired her terrible toothpeakers, laughed madly and smashed her mirror based on a scene from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie where Jack Napier found his transformation into the Joker.
When Homer is escorted by thugs hired into what appears to be Burns-headed conservatories, a Burns-headed bird sits in front of the screen, which then flies away. This is a reference to the parrot in Citizen Kane . This episode featured incidental music, a sample of "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams played by Lisa at the request of Lenny. Before Mr. Burns shut off power to the city in response to the strike, he said, "From the heart of Hell, I stabbed you" which is a reference to the curse of Captain Ahab, from Moby-Dick's novel. The worker's resistance to power outages, and Mr. Burns's response, is a parody of How Grinch Stole Christmas . In 2017, Lenny's request that Lisa "now do Classical Gas" became an internet meme.
Reception
In its original broadcast, "Last Exit to Springfield" was ranked 19th for the week of March 8-14, 1993, with a Nielsen 13.7 rating, equivalent to about 12.8 million households viewing. It was the highest rated event on Fox's network that week, beating COPS .
This episode is generally classed as one of the best of all time and is on a number of Top 10 lists; The BBC stated it was "often referred to as the best episode of the show". An Entertainment Weekly article from January 2003 that revisited the top 25 episodes of the series chose this episode as the show's biggest episode, saying "this episode is almost flawless, the product of the series at the peak of its creative power - when satire it's fierce and relevant "and" stuff from syndicated legend: Brilliant down-face burns Homer Simpson's homemade kingpin Homer Simpson is facing his own brain ( DENTAL PLAN!/Lisa needs braces! ); Grampa rambles on wearing onions on his belt. Last Exit is a noble symphony of high and low, a sarcastic shootout at a union. "In his book, Planet Simpson >, Chris Turner calls it the best episode of the series, saying "Episode 9F15 from The Simpsons should be taught in school, in history, economics, social lessons, literature and art classes. It's perfect ". He also calls it "the funniest half hour in TV history", and gives a complete analysis of the episodes, just criticizing the blackboard and joke couch. He stated that he chose the best episode before the Entertainment Weekly ' list was published.
In 2003, to celebrate the 300th episode of the event, USA Today published the top 10 selected by The Simpsons Archive webmaster, who had this episode in the first place. The BBC website says, "This nice episode contains some of our favorite sequences... A classic, and the most famous series' expedition to the surrealists - up to this point." MSNBC, which lists this episode as their favorite, stated, "This is an episode that every geek should always read word for word." Michael Moran from The Times puts this episode as the sixth best in show history.
Director Mark Kirkland regards this episode as one of the most surreal episodes he is working on because it has many stories crammed into it, many parodies, and contains some visual sequences. Al Jean also called this one of the "craziest" episodes. The Homer line "uh... Yes" after being asked if he found the bathroom is one of Jay Simpson's favorite jokes. The episode parody Batman was named the 30th largest movie reference in show history by Total Film .
The scene in the episode where Mr. Burns shows his room with a thousand monkeys working on a thousand typewriters, a reference to the infinite monkey theorem, has inspired real-life experiments about the theorem. This episode has been the subject of study for sociology courses at the University of California Berkeley, where it is used to "examine the issue of production and acceptance of cultural objects, in this case, a satirical cartoon show", and to find out what it is "trying to give know audiences about the major aspects of American society, and, to a lesser extent, about other societies. "
Throughout the episode, Lisa was seen playing guitar and singing alongside the power plant workers. The song, named Union Strike Folk Song and originally written by Jeff Martin, has been adapted and sung for actual protests in Argentina in 2017, especially during the controversy between employees of the ClarÃÆ'n Group and CEO HÃÆ' Â © ctor Magnetto.
References
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External links
- "Last Exit to Springfield" at The Simpsons.com
- "Last Exit to Springfield episode capsule". Simpsons Archive .
- "Last Exit to Springfield" on IMDb
- "Last Exit to Springfield" on TV.com
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