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	TV.com Forums - Worst episodes
		Thats what's so great about Homers character is that most of the time he can't be bothered to do anything, andwhen he does do somethinghe does it wrong and screws it up.
		Homer punished Bart in that episode because he's supposed to be a real person, not "Captain Wacky".
		The fact that Homer wasn't the same idiotic oaf that he is now in every episode is what made the show good.
	www.tv.com /the-simpsons/show/146/worst-episodes/topic/256-835577/msgs.html?page=6 (3746 words)

	Last Exit To Springfield >> Episode Guide >> Season 8
		Homer's strategy is to take the punches until the opponent wears himself out, then when they are down to give them a nudge.
		Homer and Marge are so impressed that they ask her to babysit Bart while they attend the Squidport gala.
		Homer and Marge enroll Bart in a military academy as punishment.
	www.lardlad.com /assets/episodes/season8.shtml (3255 words)

	Homer's Phobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Homer's Phobia" is the Emmy Award-winning 15th episode of The Simpsons' eighth season, aired on February 16, 1997.
		Homer refuses to see a new family friend after he finds out the shocking truth that the friend is gay.
		Homer then takes him to see a steel mill's muscle-bound workforce, only to find that the factory is entirely staffed by flamboyantly gay workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homer's_Phobia (1485 words)

	Springfield Weekly
		And there's no fundamental necessity for it, plot-wise; Homer gets through the entire story not realizing what Hank is up to, and the episode could have filled time in the third act with further family tensions and concluded in a respectable fashion, still retaining a lot of its humor and a wonderful main plot arc.
		Homer and Bart home alone in this episode is funny, entertaining, and intelligently mocking of men in a way that so many Homer-Bart pairings aren't, and pretty much every bit with Homer in this episode works perfectly.
		"Homer's Phobia" is an episode that is worthy of the golden days of the show.
	www.duffgardens.net /?go=reviews/8 (2465 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Throughout the episode, Homer struggles with the thought that his son, Bart, may become gay after his continuous contact with the homosexual character, John.
		Homer actually treats John quite rude for the mere fact that he is gay.
		Homer new that if word got out that he had danced with a gay, then he would suffer embarrassment and not be accepted as an equal.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~zmcmahon/classes/w131/simpsons1.doc (825 words)

	Coors Field: more than just the air up there? (home stadium
		The Rockies entered the weekend with a.349 batting average at home, with 6004 runs, 137 homers and 576 RBIs.
		On the road, they are batting.226 with 282 runs, 68 homers and 263 RBIs.
		It's this innuendo and bloated statistical advantage at Coors Field that ruined Dante Bichette's shot at the MVP award last award, and now it is doing the same to Ellis Burks.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18704800.html (1575 words)

	Simpsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Initially, Homer is fearful that others will find out he has befriended a gay man, presumably because this would stigmatize him, so he refuses to go with John and the family on a tour of the sights of Springfield.
		Homer is further convinced of such influence when he sees Bart begin to behave like John—that is, behave in what appears to be a "gay" manner.
		Homer is thus a stand-in for all of the homophobic individuals in our culture who believe that homosexuality is a contagious "disease." I think that what the show intends to illustrate with this episode is the speciousness of believing that one can "catch" gayness or learn to be gay according to proximity.
	www.rlc.dcccd.edu /annex/COMM/english/mah8420/GaySimpsons.htm (6119 words)

	Homer's Enemy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This only fuels Grimes' ire toward Homer as he witnesses how a person like Homer is able to own a large house, meet various world celebrities (such as President Ford), been into outer space, eat lobsters (which the Simpsons were cooking for the dinner), and have a family and a Grammy Award.
		Homer Simpson is one of the most popular characters in TV history, yet if people were forced to work alongside him--a disgusting, lazy, annoying man who has everything handed to him--they would most likely hate him.
		It shows pictures of Homer's adventures - his trip in space, meeting Gerald Ford, on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins, and even his Grammy Award--and yet Homer is meant to be an ordinary, average joe with a low-paying job.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homer's_Enemy (1030 words)

	The Pinstripe Press
		At the plate, the "Dynamic Duo" of Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco combined for 76 homers and Rickey Henderson led the AL with 65 stolen bases and finished as runner-up for the AL batting title with a.325 average and 28 bombs.
		Candy Maldonado (whose leadoff homer in the 4th had broken the 1-1 tie) hastily retreated toward the wall and made a spectacular, extended grab for the 2nd out of the inning.
		Despite surrendering eight homers during the regular season, closer Mark Wohlers was given the call in the eighth by Bobby Cox to finish the job for the Braves.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/pinstripepress/WorldSeries1990.htm (7402 words)

	The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Fantasy: Fantasy
		Mix in a.290 batting average, around 20 steals and a half-dozen homers, and owners are once again looking at a serviceable, mid- to late-round source of steals.
		After cranking 26 first-half homers, he was traded to Texas, where he went on to play in one of the game's top hitters' parks and raise his batting average to an even.300.
		Having launched a mere 12 career homers in his seven-year big-league career, Pierre likely won't be negatively affected by a move to spacious Dodger Stadium.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/fantasy/mlb_fantasy_columns.jsp?story=moves0607 (11725 words)

	Welcome to The Simpsons.com
		Homer, Moe and Barney take Bart hunting but wind up stuck in a reindeer stampede that nearly kills them.
		The only person who can save them is John, who has the decency to overlook Homer's prejudice and come to his rescue.
		Safe and sound, Homer thanks John profusely and says it's okay for Bart to be whoever he wants to be.
	www.thesimpsons.com /episode_guide/0815.htm (144 words)

	BBC - Cult - The Simpsons: Season Eight Episode Guide - Homer's Phobia
		Premise: When Homer realises that Bart's new friend, camp antiques dealer John, is gay, he begins to fear for Bart's sexual orientation and sets out to ensure his son is a 'real' man.
		There is a poster for the movie Clank Clank You're Dead, and Homer's record collection includes records by the New Christy Minstrels, Loony Laura, The Wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson and Ballads of the Green Berets by S/Sgt Barry Sadler.
		Homage: Homer and John dance to I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) by Alicia Bridges, a 1978 hit, while the Steel Mill guys bop along to Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now), a 1990 hit for C and C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season8/page15.shtml (313 words)

	Baseball America - Ask BA
		After hitting 17 homers in each of his first two full seasons, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2000 draft has just totaled that number over the last two.
		Dubois is going to have to hope Dusty Baker overcomes his phobia of playing non-veterans with the Cubs, while Hawpe has to contend with Todd Helton at first base in Colorado.
		Espinosa (.257/.362/.430, 18 homers, 48 RBIs, 17 steals in 127 games) is having the best season of his pro career, but he's still not living up to the tools that made him a Reds first-round pick in 2000.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/columnists/askba04sept.html (8069 words)

	The Simpsons: Homer's Phobia - TV.com
		Homer does not understand why grown men would enjoy such things, but he gets in a conversation with John, the antique dealer "with a difference" who works there.
		Homer thinks John is great, but Marge tells him that he is gay.
		Homer is homophobic, so he decides that he hates John, but the rest of the family continues to hang out with John.
	www.tv.com /the-simpsons/homers-phobia/episode/1453/summary.html (696 words)

	Battle between East and West
		BACK ON THE BICYCLE: The Giants are returning to Florida, where reliever John Johnstone allowed a game-ending homer to Cliff Floyd on April 6.
		ETC.: The teams combined for 15 homers in the three-game series, a record for the Diamondbacks' ballpark.
		Four of Bill Mueller's 20 career homers were hit here.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/04/24/SPORTS11415.dtl&type=printable (357 words)

	The Simpsons! - MousePad
		"Homer's Phobia": Homer doesn't know quite what to think when he discovers that his new friend is gay.
		"Homer the Great": Homer is discovered to be the "Chosen One", the prophesized leader of the secret club, the Stonecutters.
		Homer: Let that be a lesson to you, sweetie.
	mousepad.mouseplanet.com /showthread.php?t=333 (1925 words)

	Phillies Drop 10,000th Game, Philadelphia Becomes Losingest Team In Professional Sports - CBS News
		Pujols hit a two-run shot in the fifth that was followed by Chris Duncan's 17th of the year for a 6-0 lead.
		Philadelphia broke up the shutout in the ninth when Michael Bourn hit his first major league homer and Chase Utley added an RBI double.
		Greg Luzinski (1970-1980) hit 223 homers for the Phillies and was the starting left fielder for the 1980 World Series team.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2007/07/15/sportsline/main3060026.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._3060026 (1095 words)

	Your biggest phobia - No Homers Club
		My phobias include getting shot or killed in some other ways while walking on the street.
		I recently developed a weird phobia of poltergeist after watching some weird video in one particular joke site.
		While not a phobia, I have a similar thing with needles or any sharp object slowly piercing flesh.
	www.nohomers.net /showthread.php?p=1661164#post1661164 (1141 words)

	AskMen.com - Simpsons
		Homer ultimately accepts John as a friend, and the episode brilliantly yet discreetly teaches a lesson in tolerance.
		Homer attends the Annual Chili Cook-Off and, confident in his ability to consume anything, digests several dangerously hot peppers (prepared by Chief Wiggum), whose side effects include hallucinogenic visions.
		What ensues is a journey of self-discovery as Homer looks for his soul mate after having a conversation with a talking coyote (guest star Johnny Cash) during his dream-like state.
	uk.askmen.com /toys/top_10_60/64_top_10_list.html (838 words)

	Dave Kingman \| BaseballLibrary.com
		His average dropped to.198 in 1983; with Oakland in 1984, his 35 homers, career-high 118 RBI, and.268 average won him AL Comeback Player of the Year honors.
		Willie Stargell has a pair of homers for the Pirates to go over the 100 RBI mark.
		Bobby Meacham has two homers, including the game winner in the 8th, to back Dave Righetti's relief win.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/K/Kingman_Dave.stm (1845 words)

	ESPNMAG.com - Peace, love and Barry
		In the fifth, with runners on first and second and nobody out, an emboldened Finley threw the same pitch -- shoulder-high, out of the zone, in on the hands.
		Somehow, in a near miracle of timing, strength and quickness, he managed to keep his hands above the ball and turn it into a 450-foot, three-run, splashdown homer.
		With four homers and 9 RBIs in his first nine games this October, Bonds is clearly not the same guy who previously professed a desire to ride shotgun in the postseason.
	espn.go.com /magazine/vol5no22bonds.html (1522 words)

	CNNSI.com - Inside Game - John Donovan - Baseball Viewpoint - CNNSI.com's John Donovan: Wimping out on walks - ...
		Bonds is stuck again -- stuck still -- at 69 homers, one short of Mark McGwire's three-year-old record.
		Of the four strikes, he let one go by, missed one, fouled back one and smacked the other for the single.
		So what should have been the crowning moment on a Hall of Fame career -- last week, some optimistic fools were thinking 75 homers were in Bonds' reach -- is quickly degenerating into something that could end up nothing short of shameful.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/john_donovan/news/2001/10/03/bonds_wed (673 words)

	The Official Site of The San Diego Padres: News: San Diego Padres News
		The date is March 7, and the last two times that date has rolled around Nevin has gotten hurt -- dislocating his shoulder in 2003 and doing it to a slightly lesser degree in 2004.
		He smoked a ball to center for a sacrifice fly in the first and hit the Padres' first homer of the spring with a towering shot to left in the seventh.
		He made Sunday's game a little longer by tying the game with a solo homer in the ninth.
	sandiego.padres.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050306&content_id=958968&vkey=spt2005news&fext=.jsp&c_id=sd (1182 words)

	Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » The 10 Best Simpsons Endings Of All Time
		Through all of Homer’s on-and-off parenting skills throughout the run of the show (and within even this episode), he is never exposed to be more tender and lovable than at the very end of this flashback episode, which also might be my favorite overall episode of all time.
		the one where homer’s spit is still warm and he vows to live every day to the fullest and it ends with him watching bowling and eating a packet of chips with some mundane commentary in the background.
		The ending where she has to go back into hiding and leaves Homer sitting on the hood of his car looking into the desert was one of the few moments on TV that caused me to tear up.
	www.bestweekever.tv /2007/07/20/the-10-best-simpsons-endings-of-all-time (7730 words)

	Arch City Pundit
		That means Pujols hit homers in four straight plate appearances, the first Cardinal to do so (Stan Musial hit HRs in four straight at-bats, but there were walks in between official at bats).
		The four homers in four straight plate appearances marked the 20th time the feat had been accomplished.
		I still have the social phobia, and very occasionally small bouts of depression, but I’m much better than I was then, at least when it comes to the depression.
	archcitypundit.com (3953 words)

	fear of alien phobia
		Sleepwalking Vivid nightmares Panic attacks Alien phobia Restlessness Worry and rumination.
		alien phobia fear boom i ma cosmic forever song cradleoffear souls cradl horror who...
		The term phobia, which comes from the Ancient Greek word for fear (, fobos), denotes...
	www.phobiarelief.com /phobia/fear-of-alien-phobia.php (225 words)

	PlanetOut News: 'Simpsons' takes on same-sex marriage
		While Smithers was the favorite with odds of 1,200,037-1, there were other candidates worth noting, including Carl, Homer's co-worker at the plant who is inseparable from co-worker Lenny.
		The prime-time animated series won an Emmy for an 11th season episode called "Homer's Phobia," in which Homer worries that a gay antiques dealer is making his son, Bart, gay.
		TV Tome, an online site of television information, claims "Homer's Phobia" was the most controversial episode in the show's history, causing thousands of complaint letters to flood the network and its stations.
	www.planetout.com /news/article-print.html?2004/07/28/3 (432 words)

	Last Exit To Springfield - Simpsons Quotes - Homer's Phobia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These were banned in all 50 states [they fly off his feet and hit Homer]
		Homer: Maybe that thing is a hunk-of-junk, but look at what you're selling.
		Homer: That's a good start, lets get you a pack.
	www.lardlad.com /assets/quotes/season8/phobia.shtml (249 words)

	The Simpson Family episodes
		Homer - Marge - Bart - Lisa - Whole Family
		Seeing as the show is named after the family, it is reasonable that all of he episodes center around at least one of them, so I decided to put the links to their episodes in another file.
		Here is where I stuffed all the episodes which predominantly include Homer, Bart, Marge and Lisa, because I didn't think it was wise to put them all in the 'Springfield's people' page.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/m_e_harris_uk/family.htm (203 words)

	Dodge City Gunslingers (FEBL)
		She homered in the 2nd inning, tripled in the 4th and doubled in the 6th, all off of Irwin R. Schyster.
		She hit a double in the 4th inning, a triple in the 5th, a monster 440-foot solo homer in the 6th and then completed the cycle in the 8th inning with a single of C-Back's reliever Jose Pais.
		Selene is coming off a season in which she hit.313 with 32 homers and 113 RBI and 114 runs scored.
	members.cox.net /~bcramer2/gunslingers.html (6047 words)

	1997 World Series by Baseball Almanac
		The Cleveland Indians had lost the Series in '95 (against the Atlanta Braves), but had regrouped to retake the American League for their fifth championship title.
		As Hernandez returned for Game 5, he faced six of his rival's counterparts (led by Hershiser) and prevailed over them all in an 8-7 decision that was won in the final inning.
		Both Alou and Alomar added additional homers to their stats as the heavily outnumbered Hernandez bested the Indians rotation permitting only nine hits to their combined fifteen.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/yr1997ws.shtml (824 words)

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