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Homerazzi
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"Homerazzi" is the sixteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons, which originally aired March 25, 2007. It was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed Matthew Nastuk. Guest starring J.K. Simmons as the Tabloid editor, Betty White as Herself and Jon Lovitz as Enrico Irritazio.
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The episode opens on Homer's birthday. Homer attempts to blow out the candles but to no avail and asks whether theses candles are the trick candles that he can't blow out. Bart says that it is the opposite. Marge asks whether Homer is tired from doing nothing at all which he responds yes. He blows at the cake for three hours and sets fire to his party hat when he falls asleep from exhaustion, the Springfield fire department must save the Simpson home from peril for the sixth time that month. Marge is inspired to purchase a fireproof safe to protect the family's most precious valuables, where each family member gets to put one special thing inside there. Marge, the family photo album; Homer, the cologne he wore when he and Marge went on their first date; Lisa, an electric Malibu Stacy car; Bart, a walking Krusty doll. When they lock the safe, Bart's doll was on, which walks into the car, turns on the car headlight batteries, heats the cologne, which makes steam come out of the safe. Homer recites the events which Lisa responds that's crazy, then the safe explodes. Refusing to accept the tragedy, Marge decides to restage all of the family's photographs, and when a celebrity dating scandal is captured in the background of one of their photos, the Simpsons strike tabloid gold. Tasting success and seeing money to be made, Homer takes to the streets as one of the paparazzi.
Overnight, Homer becomes Springfield's most valued photographer, and he appears unstoppable. However, when he crashes Rainier Wolfcastle's wedding, Rainier swears revenge while his bride scolds, "You promised me one day where you wouldn't swear revenge on somebody!" he responds, "Promise revoked." The subjects who've been humiliated in his photos band together to seek revenge against Homer by taking humiliating pictures of him. Following his fall from grace, Homer gives up the business and recalls his failure to Moe. Moe tells him to go on and gives him a camera which he was going to use to take pictures of naked ladies in the girl's room. Spurred by Moe and the sounds of a celebrity party across the street Homer runs off to take many more. As Homer leaves, two sexy women walk in and ask Moe whether he has a lady's room as they need to switch bras and thongs. Moe curses and breaks a beer bottle. Homer takes even more incriminating photos of the assembled group, several including Milhouse kissing Paris Texan, Drederick Tatum picking his nose, Sideshow Mel eating the American Flag, Mayor Quimby dressed as a baby, and others. As Rainier asks how they can stop the photos from making the papers, Homer agrees not to publish them in exchange for treating the public with more respect and not taking their fans for granted.
Rainier invites them to a BQ party on his ship. Marge asks Rainier to look at a screenplay she wrote called "Mrs. Mom". Rainer says that he doesn't read read unsolicited scripts, but then makes the film himself, crediting himself as the writer. Marge sighs in the end quoting, "Well, at least it got made." and walks off with Homer.
- The full-length opening sequence and Couch Gag ran for over 2 min 20 sec.
- This episode marked the return of several guest stars; it is the ninth appearance of Jon Lovitz and the second of J.K. Simmons and Betty White. J.K. Simmons had previously guest-starred in "Moe'N'a Lisa", playing another editor. In both episodes his character was a parody of his J. Jonah Jameson from the Spider-Man movies, though the one in this episode bears less of a physical resemblance to Jameson.
- Attending Wolfcastle's meeting: Bumblebee Man, Mayor Joe Quimby, Arthur Crandall with Gabbo, the Rich Texan, Krusty, Captain Lance Murdock, Rainer Wolfcastle, Duffman, Drederick Tatum, Kent Brockman, Lurleen Lumpkin, Sideshow Mel, and Sara Sloane.
- Homer's birthday may be a reference to the show being 20 years old this year (as the Happy 1987 banner in the party photos montage shows).
- The title is a reference to the word "paparazzi".
- The couch gag is a parody of Disney's Fantasia's "Rite of Spring" segment. (Fish escaping from water after being attacked, Stegosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus battle, the Agnes Skinner pterodactyl resembling the Disney ones.) The Lisa Stegosaurus roars like Godzilla.
- The "Happy 1987" restaged picture shows Homer, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie as they were from the Tracey Ullman Show.
- The song played at Rainer Wolfcastle's wedding is Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D".
- When the family reenact the Star Trek: Voyager series finale party, Lenny is dressed as Seven of Nine and Dr. Hibbert is dressed as Tuvok. The music played is actually closer to that of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- When Homer arrives on the island by helicopter, the music and scene are references to Jurassic Park.
- The scandal about "Duffman" dating a woman when he's supposed to be in a committed gay relationship could be an obscure reference to the Japanese comedian "Hard Gay" whom people thought were gay and then married the swimsuit model Anna Suzuki.
