HIGH TIMES AHEAD FOR HOMER SIMPSON & PALS

August 16, 2001 provided by pagesix.com

HIGH TIMES AHEAD FOR HOMER SIMPSON & PALS By BILL HOFFMANN

"The Simpsons" is getting ready to really push the envelope this season -with Homer getting hooked on marijuana.

The smash Fox sitcom will also take potshots in parodies of the Harry Potter books and the movies "Erin Brockovich" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Executive Producer Al Jean told the Cinescape Web site that "The Simpsons," coming up on its 13th season, will definitely allow Homer and Bart to let their hair down.

"In one episode, Jane Kaczmarek of 'Malcolm in the Middle' plays a judge who punishes Bart by shackling him to Homer," Jean said.

"In another, Homer gets his jaw wired shut and it makes him into a really decent, wonderful human being.

Then "there's a show where Homer gets addicted to medicinal marijuana, and one where Bart creates an Internet cartoon based on Homer, who becomes a laughingstock all over the world.

"And we have a show where Marge finds out that the sugar producers are trying to illegally pump sugar into all the Springfield food, and it's like 'Erin Brockovich.'"

Jean said Halloween will feature a special episode in which the Simpsons get a computer to run all of their home appliances.

"The computer develops a crush on Marge and wants to kill Homer. In the same episode, there's a Harry Potter satire timed to the movie," he said.

Jean also said the new season will continue the show's tradition of using celebrity guests.

Visiting stars will include Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Richard Gere, Pierce Brosnan, Dennis Weaver and Jon Lovitz.

nice "Internet King" wrote in message news:[email]...

I have a "best episode ever" feeling... I'm gonna rip some creamy white bong hits before and during that episode.

Sweepings Fist : It's not just a noun, it's a verb.

*Please note* -- I have a tendency to post while stoned. Apologies in advance.

doesnt sound particularly thrilling to me....sounds like they're plugging it in a desperate 'please still like us' manner....

the guest stars are rubbish! i've never even heard of half of them

some of the episode synopses sound slightly intriguing but not enough to make an episode out of...Homer on dope? big deal, they've touched on that before with the hallucinogenic chillis and his hippy regression...

ah, it still should be fun.

Julia Lous-Dreyfus, is Elein from Seinfeld, Pierse Browsman is James Bond, Richard Gere is that guy from Preety Woman, with some bad rumors suroanding him, Dennis Weaver I don't know, and Jon lovitz, is the guy who was in the Critic. Yes they touched the topic before, and it was realy funny, but imagine homer doing the dope thing, I would think it would be like another bear baron. It's going to be hillarious.

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Dennis Weaver had a show called 'McCloud' in the 70s. He was a cop from Texas I think, and was transferred to some big city. Most shows ended with him riding a horse through the city catching the crooks. It's believable <cough>

Gumby wrote:

He was also in 'Duel.' The film best known for being Steven Speilberg's directorial debut.

John

"Steve Mannion" wrote in message news:...

Wow, jumping on the band wagon early, are we?

i've been on the wagon for a good while now in fact...but i realised how cold and cynical i sounded there judging things before i've even seen them...i guess i'm just bored of the show and should leave it at that...i'll never get bored of the repeats though, sigh...

steve m

'the football! his groin! it works on so many levels!'

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I can just see the Richard Gere/Nibbles jokes. He'll be doing more than chewing through Skinner's ball sack. Sincerely, Little Girl

Internet King wrote in message news:...

Yeah, I remember "2001: A Space Odyssey". A bunch of hippie astronauts smoking pot while they flew through the universe. "Erin Brokovich", a movie about a woman exhibitionist who likes to show off her cleavage. Who is going to be the exhibitionist in the Simpsons episode? Krabapple?

Homer is going to let his hair down! Both of them? All right!

Didn't Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis do this in a movie once?

I liked it better the first time when they called it "Silence of the Lambs".

More laughable than our current President? G-d only knows what he is addicted to!

No, it sounds like "Dr. Strangelove", where they were pumping Fluoride into the drinking water. Destroying our precious bodily fluids, they were.

Some sort of micro-electronic Oedipus complex?

Yeah, half these guys will have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from the "Help Save Tony Orlando's House" telethon to appear on the Simpsons.

Aaron Hirshberg