S14 E5
Status
Continuing
Next episode
2 years ago
Airs
Sundays 8:00 PM on Disney+

Season 14  "Helter Shelter"  14x5

Aired 21 years ago - Dec 01, 2002

When Homer is injured at work, his compensation is use of a luxury sky box. The family enjoys the luxuries, but Lisa is bored and joins the masses rink side. She gives one of the players some score tying advice and is rewarded with Kozlov's hockey "tree". The stick is mounted in Lisa's room where later that night termites break out of the stick and do much damage to the family home. Until the Russian no-wood-nick termites can be thoroughly exterminated, 6 months from now, the Simpson family is homeless. The family tries a number of options but settle upon trying out for a home where they are required to live like its 1895. They pass the audition and start living the lifestyle. When the "1895 Challenge" sinks in the ratings, the producers try to stir things up by adding Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley. When even that doesn't work, they relocate the house to a river and watch it float downstream. Eventually the house comes to shore and falls apart. Now the family finds themselves without food and shelter as the TV crew eats away. The encounter and tribe of refugees from another reality program and together they fight to return to civilization, where they can find quality scripted television. When even that fails them, they start to entertain themselves.

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He's got an opening the size of Red Square.
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They've already told the skybox fans who's gonna win.
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Your sister getting something nice doesn't hurt you in any way.
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What you've got here are Russian No-wood-niks.
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Uh, that was boring. Let's get a hotel.
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- What? - Heresy.
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Hey, Simpsons.
#13
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Ha-ha-ha. That's the sound of the pelota hitting the fronton.
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I'm chairing a meeting of the Galactic U.N.
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1895? Forget it.
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I'm Mitch Hartwell, creator of The 1895 Challenge.
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...and the dogs pooping and nobody scooping and the:
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They go to pieces over nothing.
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Welcome to your home for the next six months.
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Yeah. Those golden curls are to die for.
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Behind this door, you'll find the one piece...
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Finally. I'm no longer a slave to the Gillette corporation.
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Less, less, less.
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Urkel-O's. Delicious but forbidden.
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Maybe I could wuther your heights?
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- All right. - Let's see what we've got here.
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Other people have to confess too, you know.
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Yeah. I can't wait to see which one of them dies first.
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And soon, I will marry...
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We bring in the biggest, most famous star from a '70s sitcom...
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The essence of drama is conflict.
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Turn to channel 24.
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Unless there was a red sticker that said sign here.
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When you put your T-shirt on backwards?
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Is it so gosh-darn hard...
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No, Homer, no! That's our only way home.
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