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Homer invites his friends from the power plant, as well as Apu, Moe and Barney to watch "The Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out!", on the pay-per-view movie channel The Blockbuster Channel. (Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers come as well.) Meanwhile, Bart has set up posters on the back door for his showing of the adult-only channel "Top Hat Entertainment" for 50 cents , but is caught a few seconds later by Homer. Homer's conscience eventually bothers him, more so in the form of his daughter's distress than a moral objection to stealing cable, and he gives in to Lisa's protests, begrudgingly choosing not to watch the bout. Bart, on the other hand, plans to go back to watch the fight, but Homer forces him to stay in his room.
However, after the cable man offers to sell him a stolen car stereo and attempts to break into Ned's house, Homer barricades his windows in fear. Bart one evening discovers a porn channel called "Top Hat Entertainment" and despite fear of punishment from Homer who unfortunately spots him watching it, Homer lets Bart off with a warning telling him not to watch the channel again. Bart pretends to agree to this and behind Homer's back charges the neighborhood children 50 cents to watch the cable porn channel, but just as it begins Homer catches him and sends him to his room as punishment.
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Seasons are the mainstream episodes, the seasons that were the best and the most comfortingly familiar and the funniest. This is a morality tale with Homer being comically guilt-tripped by Lisa over breaking the law in what feels like a trivial way most people in Springfield. In The Gospel According to The Simpsons, Mark I. Pinsky writes that the episode has "the structure of an exquisitely crafted twenty-two minute sermon". The episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program . Another is the Boxing promo where one of the boxers dramatically dedicates a fight to his late Manager. And then there is this Mike Tyson like character that does the same and of course it results in the cliched prefight roundness.
He tells her that watching television will cost her nothing but "her soul". She fears that because Homer violated the Eighth Commandment (thus "Thou Shalt Not Steal" according to the division by the Anglican and Reformed Churches), he will go to Hell when he passes on. She additionally opposes other examples of common and harmless thievery, including her mother's tasting of grapes in a grocery store which she has not paid for. After seeing other examples of common thievery everywhere, Lisa visits Reverend Lovejoy. He dissuades Lisa from reporting her father's illegal cable hookup to the police since the Fifth Commandment states one must "honor thy father and thy mother", but instead advises her to lead by example and refuse to watch programs via the cable hookup. Marge pleads with Homer to either cut the cable or pay for it, but he refuses.
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The episode was written by freelance writer Steve Pepoon and directed by Rich Moore. It is based on the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal"). The episode marks the debut of Troy McClure, who was voiced by Phil Hartman and based on the typical "washed up" Hollywood actor. "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"The Simpsons episodeLisa hallucinates what Hell is like because she fears her family is violating the Eighth Commandment ("thou shalt not steal") by watching stolen cable television. "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" was written by freelance writer Steve Pepoon and directed by Rich Moore.
Despite the satire, I found this episode to be pretty comical and surely I was laughing a lot. This episode provides the perfect opportunity for The Simpsons to satirize cable programming. This episode also helped establish the moral code existing within the show for years to come. This episode makes us question our every day actions and how we justify them. As its title suggests, “Homer Vs. Lisa And The 8th Commandment” is a morality play and not a particularly subtle one. In a dynamic that would play out countless times over the course of the show’s endless run, Homer does the wrong thing, Lisa calls him on it, and Homer ultimately decides to do the right thing even at his own detriment.
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We open in the time of Moses, where Homer the Thief is distraught to receive the commandment “Thou shalt not steal.” In the present, a cable installer offers to sell Homer an illegal hookup. Later, in Sunday school, Lisa is alarmed to learn that stealing can cost you your soul, while on the ride home from church, Bart is amused to repeat the word “hell” again and again. Lisa grows more concerned when she observes stealing in everyday life, like Marge eating grapes in the supermarket. Concerned for her family’s soul, she vows to no longer watch Homer’s illegal cable, no matter how enticing the shows are. Homer invites all his friends over to watch an exciting heavyweight fight, but the sight of Lisa staring mournfully from the front yard robs him of his joy. He joins Lisa and, when the fight is over, climbs the utility pole (despite Bart’s entreaties) and cuts off the cable.
Despite the family's enjoyment of the new channels, Lisa becomes suspicious that they are stealing cable. Meanwhile, Bart manages to tune into a sexually explicit adult movie channel, and Homer invites his friends over to watch a boxing match, but Lisa's protest gets to him. After observing Ned Flanders reject an offer to get an illegal cable hookup, Homer chases after the cable man and wants to be hooked up for free. He likes the new channels he gets, which the family watches with him. At home, Lisa imagines her house melting, and the devil sits at their couch with them.
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Though of course you know that the cable party is over once Lisa and Bart learn about Hell and the "Ten Commandments" I don't blame Lisa for being really scared, the concept of Hell, as a Christian myself I don't doubt nor deny its existence. Whether any of you believe it or not one thing is always certain, everyone that violates Ethics in one fashion, or another eventually suffers the consequences. The Simpsons season 2 DVD commentary for the episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" .
In addition to McClure, Hartman also provided the voice of the cable guy. The character Drederick Tatum, one of the boxers in the boxing match Homer and his friends watch, also makes his first appearance on the show in this episode. His physical appearance was based on the American boxer Mike Tyson, and he was named after a real boxer Simpsons writer George Meyer had seen. Homer invites his co-workers and bar buddies to watch Drederick Tatum fight for the World Heavyweight Championship during a cable-TV boxing match. Unfortunately for Homer Mr Burns also finds out and decides to attend the gathering to watch the match. When Lisa announces she will boycott the screening, Homer banishes her to the lawn, where she is joined by Marge and Maggie.
In a joke about Mr. Burns' age, Burns recalls watching a bare-knuckle match between Gentleman Jim Corbett and "an Eskimo fellow." The films that are watched by the family on the new cable are Jaws, Die Hard, and Wall Street. There are a lot of funny moments, from the beginning of the episode seeing "The Ten Commandments" read off, it was cool seeing Phil Hartman doing his Charlton Heston impersonation. But what really made that scene funny was seeing each of the specific sinners night completely ruined from each commandment read, all I can say to that is serves them right.
Some of the verbal humor as usual is funny, clever, and memorable. One scene is when Bart says the word Hell a lot and he brings up a good point on the usage of the word and then Marge completely contradicts herself to get Bart to stop using the word and we see only a look of confusion in Bart and Lisa after she says it. Homer gets a crooked cable guy to install free cable in the Simpson home, and as a result, Lisa faces an ethical crisis over her family's stealing. Though he’s able to buy and sell the sum of humanity many times over, he inexplicably prefers to endure the sights, sounds, and smells of his fellow man, but only while watching a spirited round of fisticuffs. The thirteenth episode in the second season of the Simpsons takes a great look at religion and the use of cable, which was popular back in the day. It has some memorable cultural references like the Ten Commandments and films like Jaws and Wall Street.
As always, Lisa is the angel on The Simpsons’ shoulder, Homer is the demon , and everything works out all right in the end. Wracked by guilt, Homer leaves the room and announces to his family that immediately after the fight, he is cutting the cable wire. Sitting outside with Lisa, Homer agonizes while everyone else enjoys one of the best fights ever televised.
"Principal Charming"The Simpsons List of episodes"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. The 26th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 7, 1991. Despite the family's enjoyment of the new channels, Lisa suspects they are stealing cable.
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