“My name is Homer, and I’m just here because the court made me come.” – Homer Simpson
“Homer, with our help you’ll never touch a beer again.” – Reverend Lovejoy
“Ahh!” – Homer Simpson
I had a rather exhausting and awful week; but it is at an end now, which means I can sit on my ass and watch TV like a civilized person. In doing so, I noticed something I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before. At his first AA meeting, Homer bails out the window. At his next meeting, there’s this:
That shot is only on screen very briefly before they cut to closeups of Lovejoy reassuring Homer and then Homer confessing that he ate the dirt under the bleachers. But you can see that Homer’s escape window has now been boarded up. Not repaired, just boarded up. Twenty years and Jebus knows how many viewings, and I’m still catching things. Gotta love The Simpsons.
Dead Homer Society 
6 responses to “Friday Evening Cartoons”
That’s amazing, they really paid attention to detail back then.
In Modern Simpsons, they’d probably linger on the shot of the boarded up window, then have Lovejoy explain directly to Homer that it’s boarded up from when he leapt through
There’s even the same grey coat, on a different peg, on the coat rack at the back. Beautiful.
In fact, the only other difference is the absence of Carl, but you can find god knows how many reasons to justify that.
Him and the blue-haired guy too.
That appears to be a blue-haired Lionel Hutz.
Hang in there, baby.