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The Simpsons episode
"Mommie Beerest"
Episode no.	342
Prod. code	GABF01
Orig. Airdate	January 30, 2005
Written by	Michael Price
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	The living room collapses into the sands of a desert
Guest star	None
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Season 16 November 7, 2004 – May 15, 2005
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"Mommie Beerest" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Trivia 3 Cultural references 4 Awards

The Simpsons celebrate a brunch at a fancy restaurant to celebrate Homer's finally paying off the mortgage. After Bart and Lisa get in a food fight, Homer goes to Moe's, where the health inspector has come for his regular visit. Since the inspector is a childhood friend of Moe, he gives the bar a clean bill of health (regardless of numerous violations). But he dies upon consuming one of Moe's pickled eggs. The new inspector immediately declares Moe's Tavern to be closed until the violations are cleared up (and the weekly garbage pickup disposes of his predecessor's corpse).

Moe's Tavern is now closed, and the regulars hold an Irish wake on the sidewalk. Homer decides to help Moe reopen the bar by getting a new mortgage for his home, forging Marge's name. She of course becomes the new part-owner (D'oh!). Homer visits a cleaned-up Moe's with Marge running it in order to protect their investment, and suggests Homer just concentrate on the kids. Marge also suggests that Moe's should become an English pub to improve its image. The Nag & Weasel is a success, and Bart and Lisa observe that Marge now spends more time at the establishment than Homer ever did. Homer is worried, but Marge has no problem with it.

Homer and Marge go to a movie together, only to be joined by Moe, and Homer learns from Lenny and Carl that Marge and Moe are having what's called an "emotional affair." Homer is also scared when Marge reminds him for the eleventh time they're planning to attend a bartender convention in Aruba. Homer rushes to the airport, escorted by Chief Wiggum, and gets to the plane as it is about to become airborne—he must save his marriage. Meanwhile, Moe finally gets out his true feelings for his partner that he has hidden in the dark for so long, spurred on by the alarming display he witnesses from the window seat. He tells Marge he loves her and, in a rush, asks her to marry him. Marge is shocked, but before she can answer, a soaking-wet Homer bursts out of the toilet seat in the bathroom and yells at the barkeeper to leave his wife alone. Moe shouts back that Homer doesn't deserve Marge at all since he knows nothing about her: her favorite dish, for example. Homer does admit that he doesn't know much about his own wife, but despite his faults, Marge reassures him that he really is her true love, not the lovestruck bartender.

The threesome arrive in Aruba, where the miserable Moe attempts to drown himself because of his loss, only to be stopped by Marge and Homer. Marge explains to him that he's sweet enough a man to be loved by someone else, if only he's willing to make a few, minor changes. Moe seems to listen, but nevertheless reverts to his original scheme of sharing a hotel room with Marge (he has changed the booking on the sly). To his ultimate chagrin, the barkeeper finds himself forced to share the bed with Homer while Marge settles down on the couch, but suddenly she exclaims: "Who's minding the kids?!". It is revealed that Bart has entered himself, Lisa, and Maggie in a European balloon race, and the closing shot is of several balloons floating over Paris to the strains of "La Vie En Rose."

• This episode was dedicated to the memory of Johnny Carson, who died a week before this episode aired.
• The scene where there's a new computer-animated movie from Dreamworks, Cards, parodies many other computer-animated movies, specifically Dreamworks' Shrek and Shark Tale, in the way that Dreamworks seems to always use big name stars to voice their animated characters. Also, computer animation is used for the first time since the episode "Treehouse of Horror VI".
• This also marks the return of the Itchy & Scratchy Land theme park.
• You can also hear Barney's beautiful singing voice from "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" in this episode.
• During the musical number, Moe's trademark catchphrase "whaaaa!?!" is included in the lyrics.
• On the map in the aircraft, Springfield is shown in the middle of the ocean.
• This episode actually has some of the most noises made by the rarely-speaking barflies Sam and Larry. They both unenthusiastically moan "Ugggh".
• Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer", a possible nod to what Simpsons fans called him during the Scully era (Seasons 9-12)
• Among the mourners seen alongside the regular barflies at the wake: Duffman, Dr. Nick, Kirk Van Houten, Surly Duff and a Leprechaun.
• Luigi, Krusty, Akira and the Sea Captain were seen in the plane. The stewardess could be Cookie Kwan.
• During the food fight between Bart and Lisa during the brunch scene, Lisa throws a shrimp at Bart. However, in the episode Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..., it is revealed that Bart has a shrimp allergy.
• Mayor Quimby is revealed to have a secret (younger) wife and three kids in this episode.

• The title is a play on the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest.
• Over the end credits, Homer and Marge sing Captain & Tennille's song "Love Will Keep Us Together"; this was actually a deleted scene from Co-Dependent's Day.
• In the scene where Homer chases Moe and Marge's plane on the tarmac is a spoof on the Jim Carrey movie Liar, Liar.
• Due to the closure of his bar, Moe tells his patrons to get their beer from a gay bar across the street, "The League of Extra-Horny Gentlemen" (a play on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) from which "Can't Get You out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue is playing. This is a reference to Minogue's status as a gay icon.

• This episode would win writer Michael Price the 2006 WGA Award for writing in animation. It marked the third year in a row a Simpsons episode won the award. No matter what, The Simpsons would have won because all six nominees were Simpsons episodes (also nominated were There's Something About Marrying, The Girl Who Slept Too Little, See Homer Run, Thank God It's Doomsday, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star. (See List of awards won by The Simpsons for more info)