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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" .
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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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.
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.
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Seeing as how she's scared of the idea of Hell and what will take you there. What makes this episode dated is the stuff involving the cable stealing. Stealing is wrong, we get it, but they hammer it in really hard to the point that it becomes obnoxious. But the preachiness comes in the form of the "Christan agenda" I see going on. But part of the appeal of why the Simpsons has been such an enduring show, was that it didn't feel like it was specifically made to please people of a certain ethnicity or majority.
It received favorable reviews from critics and became the second episode of The Simpsons to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program . The episode begins in 1200 B.C., where the Jews, having fled Egypt, make a camp at Mount Sinai. A Jew named Homer the Thief steals from an adulterer and idolater. When told "Thou shalt not steal", Homer the Thief says "D'oh". Then the scene forwards to present day, it all having been a dream of Homer Simpson, who was snoozing in the hammock.
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When he wakes up he sees Ned Flanders angrily reject an offer from a dim-witted man to get an illegal cable hook-up for $50, Homer chases after the cable man, who agrees to hook up the Simpsons' television for free. Homer likes the new channels and spends a lot of time watching the television along with his family. Following a Sunday School lesson regarding the existence and nature of Hell, Lisa becomes terrified of violations of the Ten Commandments, the adherence to which she is assured will keep one's soul safe from Hell. She fears that because Homer violated the Eighth Commandment, he will go to Hell when he dies.
Following his conscious, Homer snips the ill-gotten cable, but not before he cuts the wrong wires, plunging his neighborhood into total darkness. A really funny episode from the 2nd series, with some nice deeper messages too, as Lisa/Homer centred episodes tend to. This is an honorable mention for favorite episodes of Season 2. It's true there not much to it, this episode is what you would call one of the shows Christian/Preachy episodes but the execution of it is good as it has subtlety, let alone it's always good seeing Simpsons showing and exercising a moralistic side to them. Free cable proves “even more wonderful” than Homer had dared to hope, but it comes with a heavy moral penalty.
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At Sunday school, Lisa and Bart learn of the unimaginable horrors of Hell. Bart seems pretty jazzed about the whole proposition, especially the part that involves pirates. He seems awfully jazzed about having free reign to say “hell” as well. Lisa disapproves when Homer has cable television installed illegally into their home.
He has a dream about talking to God , and is then quite happy and moved by it. That's not what it's like in "Family guy" where there are characters who openly admit to being a complete athiest and are proud of it, and there have been comments in that show that seem to encourage viewers not to believe. It's because more people in real life are atheists today than than in the 1990s.
The family begins to disintegrate, and our hero can't avoid overstepping his bounds. The best part of the show is a scene from Mt. Sanai as Moses brings down the Ten Commandments. The plotline is simple as the Simpsons inadvertently have Cable illegally. It's understandable as to how each of the Simpsons get seduced by Cable TV. You must realize way before the Streaming, in the 80's and 90's cable was a really big thing. The concept of just having more channels than the usual standard meant more decisions and access to programing you can't always get on your standard channels. Like this little montage we see as to how addictive cable truly is as we see the big dent Homer has made on the couch.
Homer sees a commercial for "The Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out!", a much-anticipated boxing match in which Drederick Tatum will fight for the World Heavyweight Championship. Homer decides to have a party and invites all of his friends to come over and watch the fight. Lisa tries to boycott the party, and this results in Homer making her stay outside on the lawn. Homer’s conscience eventually bothers him, more in the form of his daughter's distress than a moral objection to stealing cable due to a hallucination that he is in prison for stealing cable.
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