Helter Shelter
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| Episode Number | 296 |
| Production Code | DABF21 |
| Original Airdate | December 1, 2002 |
| Chalkboard Gag | "Milhouse did not test cootie positive" |
| Couch Gag | Kid Pix couch gag |
| Special Guest Voices | David Lander as Squiggy Larry Holmes as Himself |
| Written By | Brian Pollack and Mert Rich |
| Directed By | Mark Kirkland |
"Helter Shelter" is the fifth episode of Season 14. It first aired December 1, 2002. The episode was written by Brian Pollack and Mert Rich and Mark Kirkland directed. David Lander guest starred as Squiggy and Larry Holmes as himself.
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When Homer is injured at work, his compensation is the use of a luxury sky box at a Hockey Rink (though they originally thought it was basketball, and along with everyone else going into the stadium showed disipointement bordering on horror at the realisation).
The family enjoys the luxuries, but Lisa finds his families superior attitudes disgraceful and joins the masses rink side. She gives one of the Russian players some score tying advice and is rewarded with a goal for the Ice-O-Topes and one of their players, 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, which would take 6 months, the Simpson family is homeless.
Ajoutée par PatTag2659The family faced various hardships at first and were arguing with each other, much to the delight of the viewers who enjoyed the families misery and pain. However, they soon cooperate with each other and start living an ideal 19th Century life, which the viewers find boring resulting in plummeting ratings. When "The 1895 Challenge" sinks in the ratings, the producers try to make the family stir things up by adding Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley. When even that doesn't work they deliberatly make the family miserable again, relocating the house to a river and watch it float downstream.
Eventually the house comes to shore and falls apart. The family finds themselves without food and shelter and the TV crew refuses to help them as they are not alowed to interfer with the reality of the show, stuffing their faces with gourmet meals and saying to burn the leftovers while the family starve in front of them. They encounter a native tribe that are actually a band of refugees from another reality program that was abandonned when they stopped degrading themselves, and together they fight the TV crew and producers and return to civilization, where they can find quality scripted television. When even that fails them, they start to entertain themselves by watching Homer fail at using the hose.
