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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" .
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.
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The episode finished second in its timeslot to The Cosby Show, which aired at the same time on NBC and had a Nielsen rating of 16.8. Lisa additionally opposes other examples of common thievery all around her. She even convinces Marge to pay the cost on two grapes she sampled in a grocery store. Lisa pays a visit to Reverend Lovejoy at church, where he suggests that Lisa cannot turn her father in to the police for the illegal hook-up, since she must continue to "Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother", according to the Fifth Commandment. He instead encourages Lisa to not watch anything on Homer's cable hook-up, setting a good example that he hopes others will follow.
It was also nominated in the "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special" category. Homer becomes the most popular person in town, when he gets an illegal cable hookup. But Lisa doesn't approve and fears that Homer will go to hell for violating the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal"). The episode was produced at a time when illegal cable hookups were becoming commonplace in many homes. The scene in which Homer stands in front of and is struck by the cable man's truck resembles a scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest.
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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.
Eventually Homer's conscience bothers him and he begrudgingly chooses not to watch the fight, dragging Bart outside with him. When his friends leave, Homer hesitantly cuts the cable hookup over Bart's objections. This episode is not terrible as it is preachy, dated and systematic of a much bigger problem with the early seasons of The Simpsons. First off, it's ironic that Lisa would go on to become a Buddhist later in the shows run.
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Homer sits the match out and when it is over, he hesitantly cuts his cable hookup, despite Bart's objection. He accidentally cuts the electricity to all of Springfield in his random wire-cutting, before finally cutting the cable wire, abruptly ending the episode with static showing onscreen. The first scene is Homer dreaming on the hammock that he is a Hebrew in the time of Moses, breaking one of the Ten Commandments by stealing.
I will say that it feels like this and a few others that would come later on, that it felt like it was playing up agenda and need to scare people into religion. There has always been this very naïve and straw man esque belief that people who are religious aren't in anyway morally sound or have any kind of ethics. That is very naive and far fetch thinking, since there are plenty of people who are indeed very religious, but they aren't ethical, kind, or morally sound, instead it becomes all about being egoistical, manipulative, selfish, and criminal. Point is, you can still be morally sound and have ethics, and concepts of right and wrong, without being religious, otherwise we still be living in that flashback sequence we saw at mount Sinai. But this episode feels like a very preachy, and strawman-based argument with really no nuance or the like.
It shows that there are some consequences when it comes to stealing cable. In this episode, "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment," Lisa is shocked that Homer stole cable and in order to protest, she refuses to watch the cable and even protests a big boxing match that Homer and all his friends were going to watch. In its original broadcast, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" received a Nielsen rating of 15.2, finishing 25th the week it aired.
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.
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.
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.
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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